u/ladyorion2021 — reddlx

▲ 795 r/SurveillanceStalking+1 crossposts

Automakers Would Rather Quit California Entirely Than Turn Off Their Snooping Tech

SB 1394, a 2024 California law aimed at one of the creepier side effects of the connected car: stalking. Vehicles are rolling out with surveillance devices...GPS, always-on data connections and apps that let any phone track a car's location or control it remotely.

This law gives victims the right to not be tracked by a perpetrator, as it would require automakers to give drivers like domestic-violence survivors—a clear, fast process to submit a restraining order and have location-tracking and remote access cut off or transferred away from an abuser. In other words, an in-car tracking off switch.

Should these laws be passed nationwide so that automakers don't have the *loophole* of *running away* or *refusing to sell to a state* in order to avoid complying with laws that violate a person's rights?

finance.yahoo.com

u/ladyorion2021 — 6 days ago

▲ 195 r/CorpusChristi+2 crossposts

Corpus Christi is facing a severe water crisis...Would You consider Moving?

Reservoirs... Lake Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon are at roughly 10% capacity. City will declare a Level 1 water emergency by September or November 2026, with supplies potentially falling short of demand by early 2027.

Experts and former water managers say that prolonged shortages could lead to managed evacuations. The plans to prevent a total collapse of the system by implementing rolling blackouts of water availability, mandatory 25-50% cuts in industrial and residential use, and the need to truck in water are underway. But will it be enough? Would you consider moving?

u/ladyorion2021 — 7 days ago

▲ 109 r/SpaceXBets+1 crossposts

Human Biophysics are Incompatible with the Martian environment

The primary biological barriers include insufficient atmospheric pressure, which causes bodily fluids to boil, and high radiation exposure due to the lack of a protective magnetic field and thick atmosphere.

*Gravity Issues*: Mars has only 38% of Earth's gravity; no vertebrate has successfully completed fetal development or birth in low-gravity environments, posing a fundamental barrier to human reproduction.

*Radiation Damage*: Without Earth’s magnetic shield, colonists would absorb lethal doses of cosmic and solar radiation, causing severe DNA damage and high cancer risks.

*Respiration and Pressure*: The thin atmosphere consists mostly of carbon dioxide, offering no breathable oxygen and insufficient pressure to keep blood and saliva in liquid form.

*Evolutionary Limits*: Natural selection cannot occur fast enough to adapt humans to these conditions, as exposure to the surface is immediately fatal.

While terraforming proposals exist to warm the planet and thicken the atmosphere, scientific consensus indicates there is not enough accessible carbon dioxide to make Mars habitable in the foreseeable future.

Source:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/july/its-official-we-cant-terraform-mars.html

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/can-you-really-survive-on-mars-what-science-fiction-gets-wrong-about-off-world-living

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/could-humans-evolve-to-adapt-to-mars

u/Ok-Pear-2490 — 7 days ago

▲ 258 r/SpaceXBets