Your mail is stored as a plaintext, so everyone that has access to mail providers could read it. Stop using mail systems. Or encrypt your every message with PGP and have the other parties do the same. Both are really cumbersome.

Is being not spied on possible? Yes. Will it exclude you from the society? Yes.

I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK MY PERMISSION TO USE MY PHOTOS.

But they are still obtaining those emails to scan illegally?

Much of the reputation of night shades in Europe for much of its history was its use as a poison (or medicine). It’s acceptance as a wide food source wasn’t until the new world (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers). In fact, In the beginning farmer were cautious of these plants because of their resemblance.

Over time we understood their value, but their stigma as more of a poison than food source gave the family a bit of a different identifier.

Which is also wrong

Food "goes bad" when a lot of air passes over it and microorganisms like bacteria and mold get onto it and start eating it.

When the factory puts food in jars, they seal the jars so that no air can get in. Then they "pasteurize" it - they heat it up hot enough to kill any microorganisms that might already be in the food.

So what you end up with is a jar of food with nothing alive in it and no way for anything to get in.

It's really common for people who discontinue weed to get more vivid dreams, especially in the first week or two after stopping. It does level out after a while. (I've taken tolerance breaks several times and have more recently all but quit for about six months now.)

A baseless hysteria back in the 60s fueled by xenophobia lead to lots of people thinking that MSG is bad for you. Turns out the whole thing was total bullshit. The only people still against it are the ones who haven't gotten over the fake claims.

It's irresistible because it amps up savory flavors in anything.

Block him!

Neither political party seems particularly interested in dismantling the deep state.

There isn't some guy sitting down at his desk at 9am with a Starbucks pulling up tpb's emails for the last week.

They'll have a list of flagged people they probably do read, everything else is algorithms for key words or phrases.

Gotcha, thank you.

It's been a while since I studied these things, but I'll do my best. As others have said, energy is always conserved, so when we talk about energy loss we really mean "how much energy went places where we didn't intend."

The biggest one in the case of an open fire is going to be "waste heat." If you're heating a pot of water over the fire, the smoke and hot air that has already passed your water is still very hot, much hotter than the water itself. Because that air is still hot, it's carrying energy that could have gone into your food but it escaped into the surrounding room instead. With perfect energy transfer, the hot air would lose its heat to the water, and it would be the same temperature as the water by it time floats away into the room.

The next biggest source would be "incomplete combustion." An ideal fire would burn all of your fuel and food sample until it's nothing but CO2 and water. You probably saw some smoke rising off of the flame. Smoke is visible because it's little flakes and molecules of unburnt stuff, which was carried away from the fire before it could burn. That stuff had energy which didn't get released in the burning process, instead the energy was carried into the surroundings.

Another issue is moisture in your fuel (or the food you're burning). Props to /u/robot_egg for bringing this idea up. They did a great job explaining, so I'll just point out that it's usually very complicated to know how much water is in your fuel or food sample. When that water is boiled out by the fire it turns to a gas, which absorbs an amount of energy known as the "heat of vaporization." The only way to get that energy back is to condense the water vapor back to a liquid. Since that's not going to happen in your open fire situation this energy can be considered lost because the water vapor escaped. Your dried nuts and beans probably have very little water. A quick google suggests marshmallows are something like 20% water, so that's a significant issue there unless you dried the marshmallows first.

A really minor part of your losses would have been "radiant energy." The fire gives off light and light is a form of energy. To return to the idea of heating a pot of water, this light from the fire is going places other than the pot of water so again its being 'lost' because it isn't doing the job you care about. The amount of light is very small compared to the heat of the flame, so this is going to be a insignificant amount of lost energy, but I'm including it to be as thorough as possible.

Nothing drastic changed, no, is the CIA and/or NSA still harvesting American’s data? Almost certainly.

More like Toxygen, amirite?

But it goes through a filter and are illegally collecting.

Im definitely glad that Snowden exposed what he did, and we have seen some tiny data regulation reforms, like GDPR, which aren't nearly enough yet, but I honestly think Snowden is a bit of a traitor.

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His story is that he had to go to Russia because he was trying to fly to South America and the US canceled his passport, but since he was the one leaking the information and knew it would be published ahead of time, he could have been anywhere in the world when the story broke, and he just happened to be in China and then Russia. Idk pretty split on the guy

BRO WHAT?

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Great.

Is there a way to stop this?

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Yup. Maybe also the national security courts have more not-yet-public rulings to make it legal-er.

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