Coffee nerd James Hoffman has a good video on an issue that crops up a lot on StatsChat — totals vs means/rates — though in his case it’s about shorter vs longer espresso shots for making flat white/cappucino.
From Axios: foreigners don’t seem to be visiting the US as much — this is more interesting than it sounds, since a lot of the dip must be short-notice cancellations, which are relatively difficult/expensive.
According to the NZ Herald, Elon Musk wants zero tariffs between the US and Europe. The story doesn’t point out that was very close to the situation a week ago (eg, according to economist Justin Wolfers.)
Friday’s rain pushed the Auckland dam water levels up nearly four percentage points (conveniently, the total storage is close to 100 GL, so 1 GL is about 1 percentage point), which was bit more than a third of the deficit from average. While we’re being nitpicky, that should be 9.99% below, not “-9.99% below”
