Haha funny fact. This is actually a argument for a public fire department instead of private department.

Yes. It could be improved for sure, but it's one of the last things to worry about considering governmental malfunction. And we shouldn'tthink the market will perform better than government in all fields, that's just nonsense. Volunteer firefighters who live and work locally are cheaper and know the culture/people of that area. That's a huge plus in comparison with a company who will try to put cheap foreign personnel in those trucks.

This is outragous, but a very local problem (Los Angeles). You won't see this figures anywhere else and it's not a well-paid job at all.

But regarding the public-private discussion: Imagine the perverse aspects of having a company in firefighting. That's quite a motivation for arson.

Firefighter here.

Firefighting is something from the community and/or for the community.

Letting the market do the firefighting will make it MORE expensive and give perverse mechanisms (setting something on fire will generate revenue). Nothing cheaper than volunteer firefighters and NO they don't nearly get paid so much as I have seen in the reactions. Also letting the insurance do it is a conflict of interest, as letting something burn down completely might be cheaper for them than needing to pay for renovation of something half burned.

Professional firefighters are totally different than volunteer firefighters. The myth of waiting for a fire during the 24hour shift is correct, but that's changing in the last years as well. The point of letting civilians enter the fire house and having time to put kids in a fire truck for a photo is 'net positive' for society imo.

My wife got this mail as well. They sent it as though it's from your own emailadress (spoofing). The thing is that my wife doesn't have a penis, so it was pretty easy to notice that the jerking off part in the e-mail was meant for a male recipient haha

This is a great post man. Feels like nations should all mine bitcoin when there is a surplus of energy. Storage <-> Minig BTC seems like a great choice to make depending on the weather. In The Netherland people with solar panels actually have to pay money if they collect more energy than they have to use for themselves, because the grid is TOO FULL. Can you believe it?