He absolutely was hit by the shock wave from a passing bullet, which caused visible damage to his ear.
Yes the metal of the bullet did not touch him, if it had there would not be much left of that side of his head.

WTF? You think the US government trusted what the Soviets said?

Also that is "federal income taxes". The poor pay a huge higher percentage of their income on sales taxes and fees than the rich.

So the bottom 50% have 2.5% of the wealth, and pay 3% of the taxes. Got it.

Things are getting really bad when some of the top 10% are now considered part of the middle. There is a cutoff, maybe 5%, above which the effective tax rate goes way down.

Those articles just say that the gap between the richest and poorest in each country is growing, and that the US has a larger gap. The articles are not comparing the countries to each other so there may be different computation methods. In particular the CA article talks about the top 20% (at least for men, I'm going to have to assume for women) while the US graph talks about the top 1%.

It does look like there is better results for American rich, as the US graph allows me to guess as to what the top 20% are:

Top 20% life expectency in CA: men: 83 women: 86
Top 20% life expectency in US: men: 86 women: 87.5

That is waste heat inside a very small closed structure, which is different than any kind of Niven-style waste heat destroying an entire planet.

Life expectancy of the top quartile in the US does not exceed the the top quartile of CA. Yes life expectancy of the top quartile in both the US and Canada exceeds the average of everybody but you seem to have deliberately lied or misled.

The top 10% of earners have a lot more than 72% of the wealth.

I know this is a joke, but waste heat is not what is causing global warming. We would have to raise the amount of energy we are using by some orders of magnitude for waste heat to make a measurable fraction of global warming.

IMHO I hope Google only paid a few hundred dollars for this.

Yea I thought of that as well. So for some reason Georgia ships a much larger fraction of their waste to Malaysia than California. Is there an explanation for that? Just logistically it seems like Malaysia is more convienent for California than Georgia.

Georgia produces more plastic waste than California?

Is this the state or the country? Actually either way, this seems really hard to believe. Any explanation?

Why not put links (and not just tiny icons, but Wikipedia-like links of whole words or even sentences) to wherever the AI got the information?

Then it is *both* a search engine and an AI overview.

You can't put your house on public land or in the middle of a road.

Cars get in the way of anybody else using a location, *including other cars!!!!*. Yet for some reason any attempt to move them out of the way causes insane illogical reactions such as yours. Very sad and maybe the underlying cause of the obesity epidemic. The fear of having to walk is unbelievable and is warping people's minds.

It does seem very likely that the amount of CO2 you produce for the rest of your life is greater than the amount produced if you dropped dead right now and decomposed. And if you always include the decomposition after death, living longer obviously generates more CO2.

I'm unsure about the rate, especially if nothing is done to slow the decomposition. Possibly you will produce CO2 and methane much quicker for a few days.

Serious note: CO2 from living sources that get all their energy from plants or animals who eat plants are not a problem, as this is a short-term closed cycle. But then you don't get to make funny jokes.

Having a large metal machine occupying space that could be used for other purposes is restricting people's freedom to use that space. But somehow "freedom" only applies to those large metal machines.