Perhaps you've been exposed to too much American education.

WW1 was the great powers thing taken to the extreme and all I remember about Munich 1972 is the Arabs killing Israelis during the Olympics.

Might be easier to see from the outside. As a Canadian, I've always felt the biggest threat to my freedom has been the American government.

Thanks, informative.
Being in a country where voting is a right (for citizens of age), seems weird to deny people the right to vote to change bad laws that they might have been convicted of, like some drug laws.

From the outside looking in, the Florida election count was a shit show and at least here, the courts would have ordered a redo.
I did notice that at the end the loser conceded, which did not happen in the 2020 election. I can't think of any election, at least in the West, where the loser didn't concede once the election was declared over. Sure close elections have recounts, took a couple of months here in 2016, at the end there was a smooth transfer of power.

When was the 2nd time the Nazi's lost? After WWII, de-nazification was so successful that only recently have they re-risen in a meaningful way.

Is Trump allowed to vote? I understood convicted felons aren't allowed the vote in free America.

The war on Americans goes a lot further back then Nixon. Consider the red scares, especially the 1st one from before it was realized that communism led to authoritarianism. Before that, the war on labour, the war between the States which killed more Americans then any other war, etc. Speaking of war, how many wars has America been involved with since the Spanish American war or the wars to steal the land.

They're usually not that spread out. Been to communities in BC that are in the middle of nowhere. The diesel power plants are noisy and stink.

Well, they don't burn wood for heat and diesel for electricity in LA

Yes, that can be part of the answer.

All year round too. Even home grown veggies taste worse after sitting around for months.

Well, for minerals, where basically you flash burn the plant material and then measure the minerals in the ash, accuracy has probably improved resulting in smaller error bars but measuring things like iron, copper, potassium and other micro-minerals is old hat and we're talking 30-50% changes. A 5 or 10% change doesn't change the observation that much and it is likely less then 5%.
Similar with vitamins though I know less. Chemists have been measuring this stuff for a long time. Likely more accurate but once again doubtful they were out by 30-50% 60 years ago.
The hypothesis's make sense too. Lots of experiments have shown that crop quality improves by adding micro-nutrients, even in the form of crushed rock dust. Especially in depleted soil.
There's also the CO2 factor. Experiments show that increasing CO2 without increasing other nutrients results in plants with less nutrition, as well as generally weaker plants. It's like fattening up animals, including humans, by increasing the sugar intake without increasing the intake of other beneficial stuff.
Traditional farmers have been aware of this stuff for the longest time. Rotating crops including leaving some fields fallow. Fertilizing with well rounded fertilizer like manure and such. It's the industrial farming focused on short term profits that has broken things. Less income leaving a field fallow. Less income alternating the profitable crops with crops that have less profits.

What would you replace it with? It's not really useful for much else.

Driving around on the back roads to avoid the fires it was handy to have AM to find out which roads were closed. Once you get into the back country there's not much else besides AM.