You can buy a machine gun in the US but this software needs safety testing.

Well, you'd better have at least a bare minimum of about $40K or so, since citizens can ONLY own full auto weapons that were manufactured 1986 or earlier...so they're a bit rare (thanks Hughes amendment [rolls eyes]).

And once you find an old one that is legal to sell, then you have to get with the ATF and go through the enhanced background check, and you pay the tax stamp ($200 I believe), and then likely wait at least 6mos to a year to get it processed, and THEN, if all works, yes...you can then purchase and own a full auto machine gun.

AI safety testing is MUCH easier, cheaper and quicker.

This is one reason why I want to leave the US ... I want to live in a crowded, communal culture where neighbors tend to randomly drop by to chat or ask if you have a food item.

Err...I don't know where you got that this is not a thing where I live...?

I know and enjoy my neighbors, we talk while we're out walking our dogs, or riding bikes in the neighborhood, or go to the neighborhood pool.

We just don't share walls, we're all single family dwellings.

You don't have to share a wall to be neighborly...not sure where you got that from?

I find that NOT sharing a wall, helps you keep from actually hating your neighbor due to the noise their lives generates.

Pretty much all music genres except rap...

Well...I pretty much consider the terms "rap" and "music" to be mutually exclusive terms.

But for sure they contributed heavily to the loss of lyrics and dumbing down of modern music.

"Yo Yo Yo..."

Right, there, I just wrote half a new rap "song"...

In the USA nobody cares if they are shitty to their neighbors, and we have room for a big TV if we have a place to live at all.

That's why many of us in the US REALLY LIKE having our single family homes and don't have to share walls with neighbors, neither imposting on them with noise, nor having to put up with theirs.

I didn't spend my life since just before my teens building my stereo / AV system over the years, to NOT exercise its decibel range from time to time.

Since I'm not in an apartment, I don't have to worry when I want to watch the Flintstones at concert volumes.....haha.

I'm curious....if in the plans, they plan to keep gas or other fossil fuel electricity generating plants operational and maybe even on standby while the solar, wind and battery systems start to take over....sort of as a failsafe backup?

Nobody cares for this new shit...bring us Darth Vader, Chewy, Han, Luke and Leia (especially in the gold bikini, but I digress).....

People want to see the "real" Star Wars and not the farce trip they've taken off the route of canon and success.

These days...it's more like "May the Farce be with You".

*SIGH*

I didn't build a stereo/ AV system since my teen years only to not ever exercise it's decibel range...and, I don't wanna hear my neighbors either.

You're trying to put a modern definition where it does not fit. You have to take into consideration the mindset , thoughts and language of the time it was written.

Quite how you can bang on about feeling safe in America whilst millions of your citizens feel the need to own a gun

I feel safe in general because of my guns. An armed society is a polite society.

The major problems happen in the "gun free zones"....place criminals know they won't find any resistance or threat to themselves.

As long as you are not a gangbanger dealing drugs, your chances of getting shot in the US are quite low....I don't generally give it a second thought.

But, on the off chance there's a random loony out there that pops up...I'm armed and have at least a fighting chance to defend myself or others around me..

Issuing more currency doesn't necessarily cause inflation & there is no direct correlation between the two.

lol....ok, you lost me there on that one....haha

That one's pretty basic in economics...

A backyard where I can hang with friends, brew beer, fire up my smoker and grills are a necessity to me. I like my veggie garden too...