Oh do they have proof that he was killed?

Do I think the medical examiner and all the other investigators are right and he killed himself, or do I believe in a vast, shadowy conspiracy requiring all those parties plus the prison guards, plus whoever controlled access to the federal prison building to function? A conspiracy whose goals seem to silence him, with the assumption that he had something juicy on powerful people, something that wasn't kept in with the other blackmail materials that law enforcement actually had possession of, and something that he had never decided to use before to save his own neck? And that suicide wouldn't make sense when he was almost certainly going to spend the rest of his life in prison, where he had already been assaulted and was in constant fear?

Yes, I think he killed himself.

Scientists: There is no god.

Also scientists: There is likely a god, and he lives in his mom's basement.

Several of the cameras were still working. Not a very effective conspiracy.

"We'll see if he "kills himself in prison at the same time the cameras malfunction". He lost access to all those funds so he isn't able to make protection payments or party donations."

Some of you people need serious psychiatric help.

"A decent private school costs anywhere from $2500-8000/year."

Are you on crack?!

Getting kids off of social media is good for them, but it shouldn't be paired with Florida running it's already-pitiful educational system into the ground. The politicians doing this are purely doing it because they can't control social media the way they can the school systems.

MBAs: Let's outsource and cost-cut our way into danger!
Right-wing idiots on Slashdot: Der her look what DEI did!

Are you that easily tricked by stupid right-wing talking points?

Yeah, it's usually that last 10% that's the "impossible" part.

General Motors announced today that it is now selling this data directly to insurers. After all why should LexisNexis and Verisk get a cut?

Yep. This one sounds like it's now useless for editing code.

For a truck that is spectacular gas mileage. The manual transmission helps, but the big difference is that it just isn't that big. Our current regulations make small trucks like the S10 infeasible. That's the sort of unintended consequence that is likely to make this 30 year-old vehicle even more desirable in the future.

And before you mock his gas mileage remember that he has been getting that gas mileage since 1995 when 23 MPG was even more amazing. That vehicle cost around $10k new, is far less expensive to insure than basically anything else. While the S10 is small, it is still a pickup truck. If you take the time to compare his driving costs over the last 25 years compared to yours you will probably be far less inclined to mock his decision. Especially when you consider the fact that his vehicle doesn't phone his insurance company every time he brakes aggressively.

I drive an old 1996 Honda Civic for similar reasons. It gets better gas mileage (and seats more people, at least in a pinch), but it isn't as generally useful as an S10. I'm jealous.

What I want is a new Toyota Hilux. It is like the S10 in many ways (in that both are small pickups). Unfortunately, Toyota can't sell them in the U.S. due to the unintended consequences of some of our stupid EPA regulations. Instead we are stuck with bigger trucks because apparently those vehicles get loopholes.

See, here's the thing -- salaries are highly dependent on location. You might be able to get a beautiful, 3000 square foot house in Trumpistan, Alabama, but if the only jobs are "Walmart cashier" there then it's not going to help you very much. The fact that people can't understand this in 2024 baffles me.

That is a good point. And it really drives the point home that what we want is reduce and reuse, but what we are sold is recycle. Thanks.