Obviously someone is going to try to uplift pigs/chickens/rabbits/etc. Into a quickly reproducing just-sapient-enough mass sacrifice.
]]>Election day isn't a holiday and labor protections are nearly non-existant. This means that many (especially poor) people simply cannot get to the polls without significant financial hardship. Legally your boss has to let you go, but most just say do it on your own time.
Since the Voting Rights Act got gutted by the Supreme Court a few years back many R-governed areas have been implementing Voter ID acts while cutting back hours and closing locations of the offices where IDs are obtained. This mostly keeps minority, poor, and transient (student) populations from the polls. This is unconstitutional but hasn't gotten through the courts yet.
Voting registration isn't automatic and in many places is a bureaucratic nightmare with deadlines months before the election. Add voter role purges to the mix and there's many people who can't vote and don't even know it.
Lets say you're an EU citizen who has a gMail account dating back to the old days when it was invite only. Google does something you don't like, or you run afoul of their automated policy violation detector, and you delete your account and submit a formal request for all your data to be forgotten. Google's fancy spam filter has years of your email baked into it's big detection matrix. There's no way to unwind that without GPU-centuries of computation. Sure you probably can't extract the PII from that but it's still there. According to GDPR that's no excuse and Google should have to delete and start over.
]]>Also, the main reason that fission plants want to keep their waste around is that as soon as reprocessing is allowed, they have a goldmine. Burnup rates for present operational reactors is quite dismal (<1% of fissile material burned). If they get rid of that material they lose out on the high-grade fuel stored in their waste tanks.
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