> If the fossil fuel industry has a stranglehold on public policy then why am I being spammed with phone calls about subsidies for putting solar panels on my roof?

Fact 1: YOU are getting phone calls because THE CALLER can EARN MONEY by selling something (solar panels or whatnot) directly to YOU.

Fact 2: One of the reasons that Exxon Mobil, BP or Equinor is not calling you is because do not have enough money to buy anything they sell directly.

Report it three times to the U.S. Fire Administration at FEMA? It was all over the news, why should they file a report? Everyone in the world knew that the fire escape was blocked and unusable, except the FEMA. That sounds like a problem at FEMA, not the building owner. It's not a concern to you that nobody at the FEMA reads the news?

Do you agree that the above argument is stupid?

What? Are you suggesting that users should have the right to consume content that is not blessed by Apple and forced to be paid for to be available? Outrageous!

You did not answer my question. Given the event that a scumbag grifter gets put to prison, your reaction is to rant against women. Why? What needs do you have unmet that triggers that?

What do you need?

> Voting rights for prisoners is the dumbest fucking thing imaginable.

So according to your logic Nelson Mandela should never have had the right to vote, right?

> Since when do prisoners have any rights to privacy. ?

Since forever. The punishment by putting someone in prison is the temporary removal of their freedom. That's it. Any prisoner still deserve humane treatment and human rights, including privacy.

The podcast Behind the bastards had an episode about him recently. An inportant factor to his downfall was that he pissed of a wealthy neighbour.

And the FTX "organisation" was run with so little control and oversight that one of the guys working in the business of finacial damage control, having worked on the Enron case among other cases earlier, said he had never seen anything as bad as this before. I highly recommend listening to the episode (and the whole podcast).

The podcast Behind the bastards had an episode about him recently. An inportant factor to his downfall was that he pissed of a wealthy neighbour.

And the FTX "organisation" was run with so little control and oversight that one of the guys working in the business of finacial damage control, having worked on the Enron case among other cases earlier, said he had never seen anything as bad as this before. I highly recommend listening to the episode (and the whole podcast).

Also, did you spend any time analyzing the data? Looking at the countries with 30 guns per 100 inhabitants or more (ignoring Iceland since Total is greater than Suicide (different years)) you get

United States 59.95
Serbia 66.56
Cyprus 33.00
Canada 72.16
Finland 90.04
Germany 87.50
Uruguay 38.99
Norway 94.59
Austria 88.73
New Zealand 74.19

The outliers in this list are Cyprus and Uruguay, excluding those USA has a lower suicide percentage, e.g. higher homicide percentate, than all the other countries.

The fact that you thought that "Hah, suicide is as high as 65% so no problem" proves that you have zero understanding of what a massively outlier USA is with regards to guns compared to any other country it is relevant to compare to (I am not including Cyprus and Uruguay in that list). The norm in 4 out of 5 European countries in the list is close to 90%.

Speaking of being accurate.The numbers given on the wikipedia page for USA is Total 12.21 and Suicide 7.32. That gives a perctage of 59.9%...

There is no question about the wealth distribution effect of automation; it will make people with (available) money richer and those without (relative) poorer. That is the big, long-term issue with automation.

Sure, there will be some short-term, negative effects like lay-offs at a higher rate than new jobs created by the same automation causing lay-offs. But eventually new jobs will be created. If you go back in time 150 years, approximately 90% of the population were working with farming, while just 10% with other types of jobs. Today the relation is the opposite with approximately only 10% working with farming. E.g. an enormous amount of jobs in farming have been lost to automation, but people have found new types of jobs so that is not a lasting problem.

If someone today want to start an auto repair shop or a small production factory, they can go to the bank and ask for a loan of say (wild guess) 500.000 to 1.000.000€. If automation enters the equation by requiring heavy up-front investment in machines/robots so that instead they have to ask for a loan of 5.000.000 to 10.000.000€ that will be a massive game changer that will exclude ordinary people from being able to play.

That is ridiculous. This is just a list of things you do not like. You claimed "I mean they openly call for the murder of the wealthy". That is guarantied to be lie to claim for the vast majority of your list, and extremely likely for all of them. Are you able to back up that claim with concrete, individual quotes? Or are you still just going to hide behind some vague "many people are saying"?

Why do you write lies like that?

If you are not lying, debunking my claim should be trivial by providing a single concrete example proving that you are right (which you of course are not able to).