Random intervals, pitches, amplitudes: essentially white noise? If I start generating it on my computer now I’d not count on it happening in my lifetime.

Lawyers are expensive. Suing someone who uses it as a ringtone will probably be bad for public relations.

It does not. Instead of necessities the wealthy buy assets, e.g. stocks. Either way the cash is still in circulation.

It’s foolish to have huge piles of cash when most central banks have a stated goal of about 2% inflation.

Cash does not disappear because you spend it. Everything you spend is someone else’s income.

There is no need to change the user interface every few years. It works, don’t touch it.

I get angry when they rearrange the grocery store, UI changes are even worse.

Would you buy burgers from burger king if they sponsored people yelling outside abortion clinics?

Sponsoing protests would be a great way to lose half your customers. You won’t make up for it by selling more burgers to the protesters sympathisers.

What measurement are you interested in?

HDI is worse than most other former Soviet States, the exceptions are mainly landlocked countries in Central asia. GINI is even worse than HDI.

Russian arms industry has taken a reputation hit, from being the goto for anyone not keen on US weapons to air defense from wish.

He has managed to stay in power for a long time so in that sense he is good at politics.

Whatever you’re doing, what is calling 48 times going to do?

I obsessively do all the side quests before I can progress the main quest.

If a lot of people suddenly stopped consuming anything there would be a drop in price. The producers don’t have time to adapt.

One person per day for a year stopping consuming something will make no difference.

A large percent of the population consuming less may make it more expensive.

When it comes to agriculture it’s harder to predict. Not all land is suitable for soy beans and not all land is suitable for cattle.

I suggest looking into the old saying of: “Six faps a day keeps the sex drive away” for a cure.

Do you think that the relative impopularity of anarchism in politics is due to poor performance of the anarchists marketing department?

Occasionally. Generally I forget I bought it and rarely am I happy or pissed off enough to go through the effort of logging in and sharing my opinion.

I generally get more happy the older I get.

No we should not.

You don’t specify where in the world you mean. I’ve got 15 minutes to spare on the toilet so I’ll just answer for some place:

In Sweden they proposed recovation of granted licenses and a forced buyback of AR-15. They had to change it to a voluntary buyback. I belive the justice department said it would most likely be found unconstitutional.

Generally civilian legal weapons are not used in crime, organised or not. They are also not stolen and then used in any significant numbers. It’s simply easier and cheaper to buy already illegal guns (or bombs, they are the latest fashion in the current gang wars).

Over all it turned out as political showing of “we do something about the problem” that did nothing about the problem and would not have done anything about the problem.

Two very specific things I told it to do and it hit the right answer for one and not the other: Cartridges and barrel length and car TCO.

Or bricks.

It’s useful to churn through a lot of data and do tedious repetitive tasks.

You have to check the results. I’ve had it give me correct results and wrong results compared to known data points.

Only the clear trolls. Can’t see their stuff to downvote if I block them.