In the end, it appears not much in the long run. Glenn Greenwald who was the actual person releasing the information Snowden gave to him says (according to himself) he specifically didn't release a lot of the info as he deemed it was too sensitive. We don't know what he didn't release, only that he says he didn't release some things (again no verification on this, his word only).

The information that was released publicly, really didn't have anything that impactful in it, despite what a news show's host may try to scare you with. It described a lot of US (specifically the NSA's) and others surveillance techniques, however, this was already broadly known within the public and defense/intel community, this was just the first time it was "officially" verifiable and contained a lot more details than they would want disclosed. Since the 80s, most of what was revealed was known publicly in the right circles, and wasn't' at all surprising, again but that doesn't make a good news story! In the end, we don't know the direct impact other than the NSA and others needed to make some changes to their strategies

FYI his stuff was NSA not CIA -- very different things.

Perfectly legal under the wonderful patriot act.

It did get swept away fast with no overthrowing the government.

It certainly wouldn’t form the same way to the same level as it did in that period.

I’m not sure if there is none being formed or whether, meteor, nuclear winter, biblical flood could result in the formation of new layers of coal.

I think that's another type of event. I have zero medieval history knowledge but in books of fiction and such there is a thing where a lot of people fight with blunted weapons of all kinds, kind of like gladiators but non lethal

MSG contains glutamic acid, which is what causes things to taste savory, a flavor known as "umami." Umami is a major flavor profile in a lot of asian foods. In the USA it was difficult for people cooking asian foods to get their hands on natural sources of umami that are traditionally used, so a lot of asian restaurants, specifically Chinese restaurants, started to use MSG to get that savoriness. MSG was really not used in the USA or Europe to that point, Julia Child's The Joy of Cooking famously called it "the mysterious white powder of the Orient.”

In the 1960's and 1970's articles came about about how MSG could give people headaches or have other negative effects. Someone wrote a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine saying "hey, when I eat a bunch of Chinese food I have these symptoms, and some other people do too, and we think that it may be connected to overconsumption of MSG." This ended up turning into a New York Times article called "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome Puzzles Doctors," which blamed MSG. The story took off and people blamed MSG for a number of things.

There were some studies claiming to support these conclusions that MSG was dangerous, but they were all deeply flawed and later debunked. For example one of the most notable ones, a 1969 study in Nature by Dr. J.W. Olney, concluded that young mice who had a highly-concentrated dose of MSG injected directly into their brains experienced markedly higher rates of obesity and even tissue death. The issue is that (a) the concentration of MSG being used was significantly higher than normal consumption and (b) you eat MSG, you don't inject it into your brain. That study, like just about every other on the dangers of MSG, was debunked.

There have been a number of studies done showing that MSG is not dangerous at all, nor does it cause this "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," but the public perception already existed that it was bad, and changing perceptions is very difficult, so a lot of people continue to think that MSG is inherently bad, even though it is not.

Oh... Things changed... Just tighter lockdowns on what could be leaked... Probably some more clearance levels and shit...

But yea... They are still spying on you... Probably even more than what Snowden leaked.

The US did basically nothing, but the EU canceled its safe harbor agreement with the US in 2015.

That basically allowed the US to export personal data from the EU, because it was deemed safe. This was needed for Facebook and other services to work smoothly. In 2016 a similar agreement called the Privacy Shield then allowed the export again, but the EU was wary of the US by now and soon canceled the agreement again in 2020 after the CJEU again determined the US to be in breach of it.

Since March 22 we now have the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, but I can assure you that it is very likely that the US still doesn't give a fuck about EU privacy and will soon breach this agreement too. It's basically always the commission allowing the US to export EU data until the courts strike it down again.

So it made exporting personal data and spying on EU citizens a little harder.

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Additionally, https basically became standard instead of the not encrypted http.

There are several reasons.

Back then animated movies and shows were made by drawing directly onto paper and see through cells (basically like clear plastic sheets) this usually included the colors. Today even in the rare "hand drawn" cartoons that still exist, the color is usually done by computer.

The cells were usually the parts that would move or change the most, which is why if you ever noticed in those cartoons, you call always tell the part that is going to move, because the color looks a little different, and smoother.

So with that understanding here are some reasons.

1. Cells don't hold color as well as paper. Everything drawn on them looks a little dulled.

2. The clear part of cells stacked on paper dims the color of the paper below it slightly because there something inbetween.

3. Pigments (paint, markers, inks, dyes, crayons) are not perfect and are duller/dimmer than a computer generated image on a computer screen.

4. Pictures of pictures are never as vibrant and bright as the original pictures themselves. This is a little less true today as filters can boost colors of pictures afterwards, but this wasn't done back then.

5. Video tape used at the time, especially the cheaper video used for animation for broadcast TV has far less contrast and color range than newer cameras, and even those have far less than something made directly on the computer. TVs themselves could not show nearly as much color as today tvs so there wasn't really as much point in trying to go for anything fancier unless it was for a Disney quality feature film.

6. Batman TAS and several shows that followed it broke the mold of animation of the era by drawing on black paper instead of white. This gave it a far darker and grittier look that was copied by a lot of animation that came after it.

The right-wing nutjobs that screamed "the government was spying on us and recording our phone conversations" had their worst fears confirmed and ... were totally cool with it, apparently.

Does this mean, that with the bacteria today, the ground isn't able to "make" coal any more?

It was due to un savory research that it was declared a health hazard. A researcher released data showing it caused heart attacks in mice. What they didn't mention is that they had to give the mice 500x the normal dose to cause it. Add to that racism and xenophobia in that it was mostly Asian cooking that added MSG, and the average person not knowing it occurs naturally in alot of foods. Years pass with products and restraunts advertising "no MSG and everyone "knows" MSG being bad, without knowing why.

It's the opposite of what happened with spinach. Everyone swears spinach is the healthiest shit ever grown, massive source of Iron, but that's all bullshit because some researcher moved a decimal point which got spinach known as the single best source of dietary iron on the planet.

Basically its just bullshit, cognitive dissonance and bad science.

A bottle of beer is like 95% water but if I hit you around the head with it you would probably not accept the excuse that I was just washing your hair.

I would like to be distracted into this topic a little more. I drink whiskey and i know that some whiskey have the selling point of "aged on cherry barrels" or something like this. Can every barrel be reused for this purpose?

Very interesting. Thanks for the info. But if this system is so good, why has it not been a regular things in use for cars?

> we really take for granted how much the digital process has opened up for art reproducibility in the last 30 years.

Yep. I worked on the digital team in a video production shop for a short time in mid-1990 and it was interesting watching the analog guys setting up to send video up to us for capture. They'd load up a tape and then fiddle around with half a dozen knobs while watching a little analog 'scope screen that plotted several indicator dots showing information about the image quality. The screen was marked with little boxes indicating the ideal value for each parameter, and each knob would affect some or all of the parameters. The guy running it would spend a minute or two going back and forth adjusting knobs to try to get as many of the indicator dots as close to the target boxes as he could. He said they could get it pretty close, but they'd never get them all into the boxes, and if you loaded up the same tape again next week to do it again the dots would be in different locations. He said that's why they called NTSC video 'Never Twice the Same Color'.

Today it would be interesting to take that old equipment and connect it to a machine learning system and see how well it could adjust the inputs to get it set up precisely.

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> But when those trees died, the bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that today would have chewed the dead wood into smaller and smaller bits were missing, or as Ward and Kirschvink put it, they “were not yet present.”

> Where Are They? Bacteria existed, of course, but microbes that could ingest lignin and cellulose—the key wood-eaters—had yet to evolve. It’s a curious mismatch. Food to eat but no eaters to eat it. And so enormous loads of wood stayed whole. “Trees would fall and not decompose back,” write Ward and Kirschvink.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth

So it isnt illegal, because there is no law.

This comment only made me that more interessted in to know how bacteria did not "knew how to decompose wood". Is this like a evolution theory kind of story?

Wait, you guys actually sleep the first 1-2 weeks of cutting out weed? I literally stay up for more than 5,6…7 days straight or even longer. And I never smoke more than a couple bowls of flower a day

They already do this.

My car was stolen in broad daylight by being loaded onto a flatbed tow truck, and they just drove off with the alarm blaring.

Illegally = no due process / a sham of 'due process' = basically

Last night it was starting to go away, so I thought it was just a terrible headache but when I goof out of bed this morning it started up again, even looking at my phone makes it very bad. Only thing I’m questioning is where the pain is, every thing online says migraines are mostly in the front of your face but my pain is on the back left.

Good and valid point.