Funny, but a few centuries after Chaucer. The punch line at the end is worth the wait.

From 2004-2006 or so, Facebook was pretty much for college students and others with a college email address. This meant most early users were born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s.

That tracks.

Just how hazardous are these chemicals?

Some things, like lead and mercury, are considered hazardous in any measurable amount. That still begs the question: What if the amount of the material in my body is so low that it's infeasible to measure? Is it reasonable to extrapolate "down to near zero" and assume it's hazardous, or is it more reasonable to say "we don't know if it's hazardous or not at those too-low-to-detect levels"? I strongly suspect that as you get really close to zero, say, 1 molecule (or atom, or ion) per 100kg of body mass, the hazard is practically zero and not worth worrying about.

For the ones that are "safe at the lowest detectable levels," does the average person have enough in their body to be above the "probably not safe" or "definitely not safe" levels?

The answer of course will be different for each chemical.

The problem in this case was a stolen credential that was left usable for an extended period of time. Near-line storage alone would've only been a small "bump in the road" for this particular leak, assuming the person knew enough to ask for all the data to be loaded from near-line storage before stealing it.

Things like building-access-codes don't need to be kept on a "live" database. If a customer places an order, the key-access-code for that specific customer can be copied from nearline storage to "live" storage well before delivery, then deleted after delivery is complete.

This way, if the "live" database is completely compromised, only the relatively-few customers who have pending or very-recently-delivered items will have their key-access-code data stolen.

A similar principle can apply to the customer's contact and billing information and for that matter all information not needed to login in: only have it available to the "live" system when it's needed.

If a customer decides he wants to review his account information, give him a screen that says something like "it will take 5 minutes to retreive your data" then put a count-down timer in the corner of the web page. Use that 5 minutes to load the data from nearline storage.

I'm placing my bets on the sharks. They have lasers. Pew! Pew! Pewpewpew!

As far as tariffs go, Trump telling the rest of the world they should learn to live without America may be the best thing for the rest of the world, long-term. Sure, there is short- and medium-term pain, but imagine it's 2060 and the rest of the world has weaned itself from any dependence on America. Imagine a Trump-like President trying to tell the rest of the world what to do. Imagine the rest of the world shugging its collective shoulders.

Is that troy ounce, avoirdupois ounce, or hockey-puck ounce?

The latter is defined as 1/6th the weight of a standard NHL hockey puck, exactly.

Linguistic humor, English spelling reform
Source: An old chestnut. In its globalized incarnation below, via Steven Gearhart.

First, there's no absolute proof that Kissinger said this. But he had decades to refute it but didn't, so let's assume he did.

In any case, context is critical.

Here's the quote in context, (words attributed to Kissinger in bold) from snopes.com:

It's good to have a second engine but it sure sounds like Gecko isn't long for this world.

Yes, to avoid having to fill the position again when either they get someone "too good to be true at a low pay" who isn't what he seems or when they get someone "too good to be true at low pay" who is but who leaves when a much-better/market-value offer comes along.

If the term "honor graduates" is being used as "compared to each other" then yeah, anything over 10-15% is by definition bull.

If, on the other hand, it's an objective comparison against all 18-year-olds in the city/county/state/country graduating from high school that term as measured by independent, objective measurements (say, by scoring in the top 10% of a rigorous state test or a rigorous college-entrance exam), then it could be legit claim as long as it was clear how the term was being used.

Imagine a school system that invited its top-5% of 8th grade students to go to an intensive high-quality college-prep/early-college high school. I would expect nearly all of this elite school's graduates to be "honor graduates" when compared with every other high school graduate in the district.

Agree my recipes are the best, OR ELSE!

For some careers, these tests exist, either in the form of professional certifications or professional licenses or early-career pre-full-license tests like the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.

For lawyers, there's the state bar exams.