We're poised to experience a repeat of last year and supposedly a La Niña next year.

These damn investors and MBB consultants put a bug in managements' ear that costs must be cut everywhere while mindlessly sabotaging core profit centers and essential infrastructure in myriad indirect ways.

KE = ½ m v^2. Moon 3.8e28 J

Tsar Bomba 4e17 J

PS: End NCLBA. It was an abject failure mandated by know-nothing, arrogant neocons who went on an ideological crusade to squander resources and harm education with their "help".

PS: Forgive me viewing the child abuse "identification" system as inept and often wrong. I recall disclosing to a teacher how my father was an abusive narcissist and horribly cruel to my mother and myself in ways that didn't leave physical marks, yet nothing was done. Around age 16, I called the police on him because he held me down to my bed and choked me to unconsciousness for not mowing the lawn, but he talked his way out of it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/waney_squier_i_believed_in_shaken_... (Waney Squier, 2017)

PS: I would ask: "What kind of biscuits? Do they have low glycemic and high satiety indexes?"

At least in software craftsmanship, experts are best identified working with others. It appears to be an irreducible process that cannot be pantomimed with trivia-based interviews or formulaic problems. Acting in an arrogant fashion or looking smart has zero correlation with performance, but it can fool some people some of the time who lack subject matter expertise.