That's a complicated question and answer with a lot of variables. Are we talking about gam-gam with multi-organ failure on a mechanical ventilator who has had chronic pain for years and just prayed to Jesus to send her home? Or are we talking about a 20 something athlete who just collapsed on the field of play and received immediate attention? Because both of those get different answers.

Removing guns, at least temporarily, from homes where someone is actively suicidal or in mental health crisis would be a good start. Locking guns up appropriately away from the ammunition would be another good step. Removing guns from homes where there is domestic abuse and domestic violence would go a long way as well.

You have to fund rehabilitation for addiction if you're going to open those flood gates. I'm all about legalization, but we need to follow Portugal's lead on this as they saw a major drop in overall drug use.

You could easily fund rehabilitation with a fraction of the taxable proceeds from legal drug sales.

Of course

Geological data like ice cores? https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Ice cores are good for global climate trends, not so much for local wildfire trends. However the later can be revealed by examining char layers in the soil.

I sense a combative attitude coming from your comment so let me be clear about this: Man-made climate change is real. And simultaneously, drawing conclusions about a specific region's propensity to burn from only 10 years of personal experience is farcical.

"The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed." quote from the article this thread is about.

I still haven't seen a situation where cryptocurrency is going to work better for me than cash, credit, or bill pay would. I'd have to pay a commission to buy crypto currency, I'd have pay a commission to cash out again, how is that better than just using cash/credit?

Bitcoin as a currency doesn't solve any problems for people in developed countries. For the 5 billion plus who are underbanked due to lack of access or government red tape, it solves a big problem. Maybe you live in a country where there is hyper inflation like Venezuela or Argentina, or you are a female in Saudi Arabia and you cannot open a bank account, or you need to purchase prescription drugs online because you cannot afford it. Bitcoin is not perfect, but it actually solves problems for some people. We mostly buy Bitcoin in the west as speculation.

I think the real value of crypto will come when the market is stable enough that people feel comfortable leaving their money in crypto instead of cashing out (avoid the commissions). Get paid in crypto, buy goods and services in crypto, and never have to deal with cash or banks. I think a great use for crypto is microtransactions which are cumbersome using cash (literally coins) or expensive using credit ($0.30 transaction fee).

Sadly transaction costs in established crypto are quite high for small (<$10)transactions. Microtransactions are not viable at the moment.

There would have to be a solid(likely with some sort of central authority) proof of stake crypto for inexpensive microtransaction models to work.

Of course the alternative is doing it off chain but that pretty much gets us back to trusting some sort of central authority.

You are paying for privacy. There is no company to sell your buying habits. There is no company the government can demand turn over your purchasing history.

This all depends on where you are. In the US, you have to provide KYC information to get bitcoins so there will be a wallet tied to your personal identity. From there, you can follow the transactions on the blockchain and see where it leads. It isn't as easy as a subpoena to get information from a single company but it isn't like there is actual privacy either.

Not counting Monero and a few others, most cryptocurrencies are only pseudo-anonymous.

One of the neo-nazi's ran over a bunch of people with their car in attempt to kill and injure them. Did you miss that video? These nazi's are trying to kill people, they deserve life long prison sentences, not an internet platform to spew hate and calls to violence.

If crypto currency is ever going to replace cash and credit cards, you need to make it easy for 8 year old Timmy and his 80 year old grandma. At the moment neither of them have any concept of what crypto currency is or how to use it, but the sure can go down to the gas station and buy some candy from them with cash.

This doesn't really have anything to do with security, and there's nothing inherent in the way that crypto currencies are designed that would prevent this.

I suppose the market will decide what gets sold.

Bricking the I(di)OT(ic) Components of smart devices as a service.

Lets just stop calling it ransomware- and lets just call it Outsourced Planned Obsolence.