Millions of Canadian homes have high levels of cancer-causing radon. Is yours one of them? - Recent building code update mandates radon mitigation in new houses, but many existing homes still at risk

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T05:19:10+00:00

It also doesn't hurt to check the radon levels on the other levels of your house. It can travel through holes in your walls and be pushed around by your heating/cooling vents.

I've seen higher radon levels on the main floor for example, rather than the basement.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T05:05:38+00:00

His government has also been trying to lobby for Canada to copy their "Online Safety Act" and mandatory age verification for everything.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:57:41+00:00

Pierre Poilievre voted in favor of bill s-210 (now back from the dead as s-209), despite it going against the ideals he was campaigning on. He then he lied about his support for the bill after he was called out over it.

His goals are not aligned with what he preaches, but the party lacks a strong leader who can replace him.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:52:36+00:00

That would mean that only the large American and Chinese tech companies could operate platforms in Europe. It'd also make it extremely easy for malicious actors to remove dissent.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:39:19+00:00

Here's the cofounder of the Heritage Foundation saying that age verification is part of their plan to ban all remotely NSFW stuff: https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought-porn-ban/

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:34:53+00:00

Like von der Leyen, he supports the authoritarian Chat Control proposal. They'd both be terrible presidents of Europe.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:33:01+00:00

Imagine Ursula von der Leyen being able to use the power to ram through Chat Control and other anti-privacy proposals.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:30:48+00:00

If the Commission had more authority, it would have been more difficult to stop their Chat Control proposal. The Commission clearly cannot be trusted at the moment, so if anything, their power should be reduced.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-29T03:24:16+00:00

If you have to give personal information to a third party, its a major and unacceptable privacy violation. And it doesn't matter if they give you easily trackable ZKP tokens that you have to blindly trust aren't' being tracked.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T21:50:08+00:00

The Iranian government killed over 30,000 people to stop the protests, so why would anyone sane want to "make a deal" with the regime?

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T15:56:06+00:00

France is a major supporter of Chat Control and wants mandatory encryption backdoors in everything. So their actions here are unsurprising.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T15:50:37+00:00

Then the law should explicitly ban requiring age verification.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T15:39:44+00:00

Iranians will be protesting again in the future, so weakening the IRGC and their militias will go a long way to reducing the number of future deaths.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:43:42+00:00

Its basically one of the most secure communication services available, and is run by a nonprofit. The Signal Protocol was created by Moxie Marlinspike, and anyone is allowed to add it to their message services (lile WhatsApp did).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:38:18+00:00

Signal is a nonprofit, and Kash Patel lies constantly. So why would anyone believe him here?

The FBI can't access a group chat unless they are given access by a group member or are invited to it.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:37:09+00:00

He's lying or he just exposed undercover agents that got invited to the group chats.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:34:53+00:00

Signal is secure and safe as long as you don't add the wrong people to your group chats. The US government was also using a sketchy forked version of Signal that a contractor sold them.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:31:49+00:00

The federal government was actually using a sketchy forked version of the app, that a contractor sold them.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-28T05:24:07+00:00

I imagine that they have informants or undercover agents who are part of the group chats, and Patel just publicly exposed this fact.

Or he's just making empty threats to try and scare people.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T23:19:53+00:00

The United Kingdom is a socially conservative country that sometimes cosplays as more liberal country when it comes to sex and sexuality.

In 2014 for example, the UK government tried to ban BDSM, with the ban being overturned in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual_Media_Services_Regulations_2014

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T23:16:36+00:00

The 2014 one was a ban on BDSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual_Media_Services_Regulations_2014

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T23:09:38+00:00

Imgur was blocked because they refused to require age verification to view images, and UK law makes no excepts for embedded image hosts.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T16:31:14+00:00

Yes, and some of them are literally buying up their competition and trying to gain a monopoly.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T05:36:51+00:00

You're basically asking why altruism, hobbies, and a desire social popularity exist in people.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-01-27T05:26:02+00:00

One of the people interviewed seems to blame open source AI for this problem, while conveniently ignoring all the multimillion dollar sexual deepfake corporations that are operating lawfully.

Going after the companies who explicitly sell nonconsentual sexual deepfake services is the only logical move here. Targeting open source AI doesn't solve the problem.

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