silence7

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[–] silence7 6 points 4 hours ago

Vance is ideologically flexible. He'll do whatever benefits Thiel, who has paid his bills for years.

[–] silence7 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly because sending troll content to his staff isn't particularly useful.

[–] silence7 9 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] silence7 13 points 6 hours 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.

[–] silence7 27 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] silence7 4 points 13 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

[–] silence7 5 points 15 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

[–] silence7 17 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.

[–] silence7 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] silence7 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] silence7 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

[–] silence7 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.

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