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The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe (gizmodo.com)

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"The exercise was held from May 8 to 9, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and at a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site in Denver, Colorado."

Article refers to a PDF of the report it's based on:

https://www.jhuapl.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/Space-Weather-TTX-Report-Summary-v3-FINAL.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is news to me and so fucked up for a country that considers itself “land of the free”. I hate it here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

If you want to renounce your US citizenship to get away from that onerous requirement, you have to pay a fee (about $2k) and also get screwed on a lot of US taxes on investments (forcing you to treat all capital gains as realized, for example). Part of my definition of freedom is that you don't have to pay someone money for permission to leave.