2018 in United States politics and government

Events in 2018 pertaining to politics and government in the United States.

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Events

October
  • 11 October — The US Armed Forces ground all F35 fighter planes due to a crash in Beaufort, South Carolina that occurred in late September 2018.[1]

November
  • 6 November — United States elections, 2018.
gollark: There are a bunch of different vaccines in development.
gollark: * turned on
gollark: Presumably the idea is that the contact tracing apps would keep it turn on, and people would have to suffer the slightly higher battery drain.
gollark: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/challenge-proximity-apps-covid-19-contact-tracing
gollark: The rough idea of the decent-for-privacy idea is apparently to have each phone have a unique ID (or one which changes periodically or something, presumably it would store all its past ones), and devices which are near each other (determined via Bluetooth signal strength apparently) for some amount of time exchange identifiers, and transmit in some way the IDs of devices of people who get inected.

References
  1. Pentagon grounds all F-35 fighter jets following crash — latest issue for costly program, By Phil McCausland Oct. 11, 2018, nbcnews.com


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