honestly, it’s why i bristle at the nit picks of most modern tech reviews. the cheapest walmart android tablet has better color calibration and picture quality than the most expensive consumer sony crt of the 90s. across the board the quality and consistency of everything from the signal to the image is better than what i grew up watching and using.

Dealing with a lot of this right now. Really appreciate your advice

An act that arguably is unconstitutional but few are willing to publicly go after it

Not as long as the government wants it this way, and they sure as hell are not asking for it to be on a nationwide referendum.

That is sad for him, I wonder how his life in Russia is right now.

What came of it was the man who exposed the government's illegal activities was forced to flee to Russia. That's it. No one ever answered for, or stopped, the illegal spying on the American public, and Snowden can never return to the US for fear of being arrested. He should be hailed as a hero, but half the country for some absurd reason views him as a traitor.

Regarding the NSA? Not much. Regarding everything else? Well, for one, a certain rival nation ostensibly advanced approximately thirty years of naval technology immediately after the releases.

TIL that Batman TAS was drawn on black paper. That certainly explains the grittier look! My respect for that show’s artistry just grew!

Many, yes! It mostly depends on if it’s toxic. I have friends who homebrew/distill and we visited a distillery together recently and did the whole tour, it’s pretty interesting stuff. Some places are taking traditionally “clear” alcohols and also “finishing” them in re-purposed barrels. So for example, gin, by definition, has to contain juniper berries and must be at least 37.5% alcohol by EU regulations (which I used as an example since london gin is a staple) Traditionally, aged gin wasn’t really a thing but there’s a trend now of aging gin in re-purposed bourbon barrels. This gives the gin both color and flavor, while still following the legal requirement. Every country has different requirements on what process you must follow to sell an alcohol under that name, and some require certain alcohols to only be aged with certain types of wood. In short, it depends, but the creativity is getting wild.

The expected outcome of the election results for a state is the exact same as the popular vote in that state. Representatives still hold the right to decide not to vote the same way as the majority of their districts, but the majority of the votes in their districts are fore the same candidate that the majority of the districts vote for.

Is it possible. Yes. Is it possible for you personally? Maybe.

The US government have facilities that are effectively impervious to nuclear attack. These bunkers are deep underground with complex ventilation and supply storage, and would house the critical functions of the US Government and Military in the event of a nuclear war.

Obviously you probably could not afford to do that. Instead you are probably stuck with at best a concrete and steel bunker only a few feet below the earths surface, with only basic ventilation and water/supply storage.

For you, could you survive a direct nuclear attack? Probably depends on your ventilation system. Since you’ll need a way to let fresh air in. Maybe you can design/buy a system that can withstand the pressure wave from the nuke, maybe you can’t.

But surviving a direct nuclear attack in a backyard bunker is probably unlikely.

BUT, if you aren’t at the direct epicenter, yes you totally could survive. Underground in your bunker. You’d have to stay down there for at least a few days, but ideally you would want to have a radio that you could listen to emergency broadcasts with (Yknow that really annoying TEST message that plays on radios and TVs? Yea, that’s partly for alerting people what to do during nuclear way)

Because it would also depend on things like the wind and where you live. For example, if the wind is blowing from your bunker towards the nuclear blast center, it’s blowing radiation away from you, meaning your area would be safer, quicker.

Nightmares are bad, I'm glad I'm mostly spared, and I don't really know what to say else, maybe apologize to your girl.

There were many, many nuclear proof bunkers and locations made during the cold war, on all sides. Its not particularly difficult to build something capable of surviving a nuclear detonation, often these would be built underground or in the side of a mountain. There are many, many of these facilities, both civilian, military, and government though today, most are abandoned or used for storage.

Nuclear weapons are extremely powerful, but we also know an absolute ton about how they work and figured out its not that hard to build shelter or even whole facility to survive an attack.

The lingering question though is when will it be safe to get out of the bunker, as there may be radiation, although this depends on the specific weapon used and where it detonated.

Awesome, thank you and yeah I realized it was NSA lol wrong 3 letter agency.

Nitrogen in the air is found in a molecule that is like a coconut. Without a tool like a hammer (or the chemical equivalent, which plants don't have) it's really hard to break open and get to the good stuff. Nitrogen in the ground is found in a molecule that is like a banana. It's easy to peel and get to the good stuff.

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oof.

But the data is stored permanently regardless, so if they ever want to look through it they could, and so could anyone the information is accidentally leaked to. Also, algorithms doing the searching is arguably worse because they are pretty primitive and stupid and yet we’re still giving them the authority to implicate you in a terrorist plot.

Yes and no. It's relatively easy to avoid the blast, if you have the money to spend making it happen. Bunkers are an obvious choice. How long you stay down there depends a lot on what was dropped where. One bomb a mile away? You can leave in a day. Global nuclear apocalypse? It'll be a while.

Very little and gaping laws by design yes. While Snowden acted from the right place, he was primarily driven by fear and existential survival

Your mail is not necessarily stored as plaintext. It depends on where your mail is housed. You can absolutely encrypt email at rest. The hard question is whether everyone you correspond with also encrypts email at rest.

Sounds great, my FBI agent sure will be disappointed in me for all my searches over the years.

T-Mose?

Think about a Car Tire. It's composed of 70% air by volume but certainly doesn't feel like air does it? That is how much of a effect the other 30% can have.

wow, good for the EU I guess lol.