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While the Republican majority in the House means that this kind of thing won't pass this session, it gives a sense of what Democrats might try to pass if they win enough seats.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's more effective to take the money you would have spent on postage and give it to the Harris campaign.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

He's calling for a world where people are more or less coerced into having children by punitive taxes if they don't have any.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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] 4 points 2 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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.

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