Introduced by US representatives Warren Davidson and Sara Jacobs, the amendment, first reported by WIRED, would prohibit US military agencies from “purchasing data that would otherwise require a warrant, court order, or subpoena” to obtain. The ban would cover more than half of the US intelligence community, including the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the newly formed National Space Intelligence Center, among others.
I guess I’m not surprised, but I didn’t realize they had warrantless access to these data. With the attacks on e2e in the UK this really drives home how important encryption.
This subcontracting and five eyes is just one way of bypassing the constitution. They are able to directly spy on foreign communications to conduct police actions on domestic targets.
Also worth noting that “foreign communications” are any communications that have even a tentative connection to any communication that travels outside of the domestic US.
That includes multiple layers: if you live in the US and have never left it or even communicated outside of it somehow but have emailed your friend who lives next door and who happens to have a penpal in Canada then all of your friend’s communications and all of yours can be classified as “foreign communications” and be subject to NSA collection/spying.
Simply because you have a provable connection to your friend and they have communications outside of the US.
Your communications can also be considered “foreign” if you use or interact with an email server hosted outside the US.
In other words basically all of our communications domestic and foreign are hoovered up by these agencies because of loopholes and they probably still will be even if it becomes “illegal”
The lakes hold 5500 cubic miles of water, not 5. But yes, the lakes have been warming, surface temps on Superior are 2.5C hotter than they were 50 yrs ago. Which is alarming no doubt. The deep temps in Superior remain a constant 4C all year round and that temp seems to be pretty stable.
We got lucky with the lake winds this week. That’s all.
People who think climate change is going to spare this region are overstating the case by a lot. That said, I guess being on defense in the water wars will be better than being on offense… maybe?
Van Orden did not dispute the exchange and defended his actions when asked by The Hill.
“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.
"If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”
Journalism is way to soft these days…
I don’t know how no one asked him what he thought about 1/6
McGee also shared the same child rape and torture post on Instagram. The Instagram post, which had roughly 600 likes, was deleted Thursday. A spokeswoman for Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said the image violated its policies against child sexual exploitation
Wtf Meta? Why wasn’t his account closed there either?
It was blurred/censored as mentioned in the article. It talks about what some organizations consider CSAM, but without seeing their guidelines or how it violated them it’s hard to say.
Good. I’m glad the GOP are unravelling as the young demographic vote in a way that effectively tells them to take their intolerant bullshit and shove it right back up their asses. A shame these kids minding their own damn business caught the flak for it though.
During winter, in bad weather it might take a while to get back to civilization if you are somewhere out there. I mean sure you should always plan for stuff like that and be prepared (and look for help well before running out), but this really wasn’t a well planned thing from the start.
I wish people would realize that humans only got to where we are because we are a COMMUNAL species. We developed complex language and tool usage BECAUSE we work together. Being “off the grid” is usually isolationist and therefore extremely dangerous. We need community in order to develop and manage the resources we need to survive.
The current infant-clothes to steak exchange rate is unfavorable. It would be wiser to hold off till the late autumn, when steak futures usually fall and clothing values skyrocket.
Yeah let’s all go back to subsistence agriculture! Every time my mind wanders and I find myself romanticizing an age of simpler times and communal living I remind myself of the realities of that sort of lifestyle.
Well, why aren’t we practicing that communal specialty into you know, bettering society from it’s current dumpster fire state? Or is that just too tall of a task?
It’s dangerous to go full off the grid, but in reality it’s never complete isolation. In Leave No Trace/My Abandonment (based on a true story) the father relied on disability checks to buy goods and educated his daughter using encyclopedias… In Walden Thorough is living alone in a remote area, but it’s not like he’s completely cut off from the benefits of society and has visitors somewhat regularly. I think there’s a difference between trying to minimize the brunt of society 24/7 vs going full isolation.
I’m a world of growing instability where the inputs for modern lifehave their supply consistency threatened, learning some basic survival skills is not a bad thing. Many countries will likely have huge energy, food, and water shortfalls in the coming years. Germany is burning what amounts to wet coal to make up for losing Russian oil. Ukraine was one of the world’s biggest wheat producers. Russia produced a lot of the world’s fertilizer. There are reasons to learn how to live without the entire support network most of us take for granted.
Though you should be pretty decent at living off grid before commiting to it.
Don’t assume that you’re cougar-proof or that 40°F and below weather with no real insulation is something you can save yourself from with enough bootstraps.
Also, we’re living in kind of an unprecedented part of history that enables is to be independent of other people in ways never before possible. So that gives people a very distorted sense of that, a lack of any notion of the importance of community. And of course this “independence” is achieved by a complete dependence on this huge ubiquitous economic machine.
I think sometimes it’s the extreme dependence that makes the attempt at off the grid freedom seem more attractive; it’s weird how the technology seems to both take away so much freedom and yet make people feel independent at the same time
Guy who had escaped being charged with obstruction of justice just because he was president, charged with obstruction of justice now that he’s not president.
We’ll see if they have the evidence to prove it but yeah not a shocking turn of events at all.
I guess when you’re already at this level of trouble and you haven’t faced consequences for any of it yet, what’s a few more charges added on top of it all? Either nothing happens or the whole house of cards comes tumbling down, there’s not really any middle ground here.
yep, he lived a fulfilling life of crimes and morally dubious choices, I figure nobody, including himself, would have expected to lose that immunity from consequences especially after serving as president. Though I guess there was indeed a limit to just how cartoony evil you could be, even though it is incredibly hard to get there.
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