/u/douglasmacarthur's posts
We are the ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Restore the Fourth, and Tech Freedom. Ask us anything about surveillance, privacy, or the Amash Amendment being voted on by the House today, which would end the NSA's blanket surveillance of American citizens.
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We are the National Organization of "Restore the Fourth", which is coordinating nationwide protests on July 4th in opposition to the unconstitutional surveillance methods employed by the US government, especially via the NSA and its recently-revealed PRISM program. Ask us anything
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We're four protesters with Restore the Fourth New York and we're in the office of a congressman that voted against the Amash Amendment. Ask us anything in the next ~40 minutes we expect we have before the police get here.
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I frequently hear that alcoholic drinks cause net dehydration, as well as that there were periods when alcohol was used as a popular substitute for drinking water because the alcohol made it sanitary. Which if either of these is true? If both are true, how is that possible?
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Putting aside whether it would be good, bad or, neutral: demography experts, given current trends, is the proportion of Muslims in Europe going to skyrocket the next few decades or are Mark Steyn et al. full of crap?
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What does recent physics suggest might be the deeper reason why inertial mass and gravitational mass are the same?
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Why does dust and smudges on my laptop screen almost invisible under artificial light suddenly become very visible under sunlight? People say it's because the sun is brighter. Is there more to it than that?
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Do southern Argentina, Chile, and New Zealand occasionally get snow? What about other far southern land masses?
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