Nah, if you make it to 30, your life expectancy goes way up. Life expectancy includes infant deaths and whatnot, so it goes up as you age.

When I look up life expectancy for myself, it projects I’ll live into my 90s.

But they probably should, no? It would be interesting to get a combined weight of the passenger and all luggage and factor that in to the price. If a flight is relatively empty, all prices should be the same, but as it nears capacity, it should absolutely be a factor.

Unfortunately, people are very sensitive about their weight and there would be a massive uproar if any airline did it.

Raising rates seems to do two things to housing:

• encourage targeting luxury housing - if you’re rich, prices aren’t as important
• encourage selling to larger landlords - more apartments, fewer condos/townhouses

Builders are still going to build, they just need to target people who can afford the higher prices.

Sure, which is why I try to get multiple sources.

The problem with countries like China (and probably Russia) is that their governments can directly interfere with news reporting. That’s possible to an extent in western countries, but it’s a lot less likely to happen without journalists making a big fuss because of our cultural and legal freedoms of the press.

I’m hesitant to believe anything when I have a single source, and I’m more hesitant if multiple sources are from the friendly countries where the governments have direct control over the media.

Who do you think would have a good reason to misrepresent the truth? China and Russia getting away with trade without US involvement is good for China and Russia, so it benefits them to state that even if that’s not exactly what’s going on.

In this case it makes a ton of sense given the sanctions against Russia, but I do try to look for independent verification of any large story when the only source has interests in misrepresenting the truth.