brianary

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Military, sure, but driver's licenses are state-level, not federal. Health care has been using birthdate like a password (one that is largely publicly available) for way too long now. At least financial institutions can use account numbers and financial history and code words, but even all that isn't great.

It's a messy patchwork, but I think at the time of the creation of the SSA, the US may have still thought of itself as a land of second chances. IBM numbering Holocaust victims probably didn't help the idea of a national ID, nor did the victim narrative of groups like the NRA.

I'm not sure if it's possible not to have a national ID anymore, so denial of it just forces a terribly kludgy implementation from whatever is around.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

JFC we JUST started! Give it time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Gross. I haven't run into that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (19 children)

USB-A requires three attempts to connect, C only one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That's not at all the assertion you made.

What I haven't seen was any effective debunking that moved the needle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not what I've observed in the last 20 years for either side, but I guess we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They've put all their eggs in the Trump basket, with no clear line of succession. Once he is humiliated again this year, the fever will break for some, and the rest will splinter into infighting. This was their last clear path, which is why they are forcing through everything they are able while they can.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Beating them at their own dishonest game has worked much better than trying to fact check them, and getting completely outpaced, ever did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The ketchup is supposed to be his fake tan, not blood, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Give it time. Soon enough he'll hire a reputation management company, shave his beard, show up for Dancing on the Stars, then SNL will put him in a sketch as Waluigi.

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