On the danger of "flash droughts", which can lead to a destructive wildfire before government agencies wake up and try to prevent that.

Artificial Intelligence, put in charge of banking, could cause a economic crash. The AIs could invent new types of financial instruments that humans can't understand how to regulate properly, and their use could lead to a crash.

That should not be surprising, since human bankers already did just that, and the crash came in 2007.

It seems to me that the crucial cause of that crash was the deregulation that allowed banks to invent and use dangerous new financial instruments. The lesson we should draw is never to deregulate them. Neither human nor nonhuman intelligences can cause a crash by means of incomprehensible innovative financial instruments if inventing and using innovative financial instruments is strictly punished.

*Garment workers in Bangladesh say their pay is so low that they have to steal to feed their children.

One jaw of the vice they are in is that the businesses pay them too little. The other jaw of the vice is that they have had children that they cannot afford to raise -- and they expect to go on having children regardless of whether they can afford to raise them.

To have a lasting solution for this problem, both need to change. The businesses must pay the workers a living wage, and the workers must limit their reproduction to the amount they can provide for.

*[The insurrectionist] suggests he would use FBI to go after political rivals if elected in 2024.*

Hilary Clinton warns that the insurrectionist, if he makes himself president, would eliminate further elections, much as Hitler did. We can be sure of this, because he tells us his hostile intentions himself.

A two-state agreement in Israel/Palestine cannot happen if Israel insists on its "security" demands for Gaza or on its history of annexation in the West Bank.