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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

More that peoples' movement data isn't worth much, so it wouldn't be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.

As Sen. Wyden says:

This is timely in light of JD Vance's comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I don't think it was that, but it was unclear whether he had been grazed by a bullet or hit by a piece of shrapnel generated when a bullet hit an object near him, and the campaign was far from transparent about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Zoning has been a state policy thing in the US, not a federal one, so not likely to be a Presidential campaign issue

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I suspect that the primary concern is whether a VP can bring a few more voters along in a swing state.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

In much of the western US, subterranean termites will eat buried wood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Unusual events are just a lot more likely to be captured by cameras. This particular basin erupted several times between 2006 and 2012

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

There is a history channel, but they tend to be focused on stuff like racist conspiracy theories claiming that the people who actually lived in various places long ago didn't do what they actually did, but that it was extraterrestrials instead.

Netflix did a decent documentary on the rise of Hitler recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They need peoples' votes. Get even fairly modest numbers of people organized, and they pay attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One American has been very interested:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Basically:

  • Canada has a lot of boreal forest
  • The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)
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