I’d argue the paper is “ID” for the purposes of this discussion and it’s freely provided by the government with no burden to the citizen.

Then pay for it through taxes for fucks sake

In my experience in an EU country, sufficient ID was also provided freely by the government (eg a social security card).

This is not something in the US that is free. ID must also be a photo ID. So let’s say you have a job where you work 7 days a week and take the bus because you don’t have a driver’s license. To get sufficient ID you must then: take unpaid time off of work, get to an office that issues ID, pay like $20 for such an ID… All to have the opportunity to exercise the right to vote.

This is both a tax and an unreasonable burden, effectively disenfranchising millions of poor people.

This is solvable though, if the government issues free IDs and sets something up to facilitate people getting their photos taken. However that would never be executed effectively, nor would people support paying the costs.

Aside from having digital post for public services and official mail from things like financial institutions, nobody’s stopping you from putting paper into a parcel envelope or using DAO who is taking over letter delivery.

They couldn’t get solid olive drab with fantastic red arm flair

And then everyone clapped

https://youtu.be/l3fAcxcxoZ8

And his father? Because it also says clearly that as long as one parent is a green card holder or citizen that citizen ship is granted.

Came across this post today. https://bsky.app/profile/kojamf.bsky.social/post/3ltav35egbs2q

How would you classify this? I know it to be fake, but its created to make a point. But its good enough that someone could be fooled intl believing it was real, no?

Imagine a primary with AOC, Pete Buttegieg, and maybe a third younger candidate…

All could be really exciting to see advance, but they’ll split the vote and open the way for some stupid fucking corpse to win.

I hate this system.

I hear you, but this is subjective and not objective. A bad faith actor, presumably an authoritarian government, can exploit laws like this to advance their agenda. “Yes, I was definitely convinced that was George HW Bush”.

Subjective judgements are ripe for abuse of power, sadly.

It’s a slippery slope from something that is otherwise well intentioned.

Define what a deep fake is over a parody or other political commentary.

I’m with you in your frustration, but this only furthers a class of elites being eligible to govern. The test needs to be at a level that anyone going through compulsory education could pass. Eg 8th grade.

Additionally, I would do the test at candidate registration. There is no pass fail, but the electorate can decide if they’re qualified enough (as it’s the right of the electorate).

Maybe it doesn’t fix it fully but we can directly point to who is a moron, and who voted for said morons.

I’ll offer a near miss.

Chat amongst colleagues over a coffee, the topic was something very normal and mundane: how lazy are we about cooking.

My colleague Carol said, “sometimes I just throw some chicken nuggets in the toaster because I don’t care or have the energy”

My response I intercepted between the brain and mouth: “living the bachelor lifestyle, carol?”

Carol’s husband had died quite suddenly 6 months prior. I didn’t fuck up, but I almost did and it haunts me still over a decade later.

My situation is I have an ability to recall a lot of really old information and some of it seemingly mundane. I can also synthesize all this together to make a good decision quickly.

This is basically what learning is, but it’s a broader base I can pull from and the process is just faster.

I don’t do well with forcing specific information to be cataloged. This means I wasn’t a great student in classes where you needed to just remember things (eg history).

The other thing I’ve got going for me is being able to visually see things in my head. It might be memories, but it’s also things for solving problems like this https://www.intelligencetest.com/questions/visualization/medium/3/8.html

I’m gonna fuck a waffle, marry pancakes, and kill french toast.

Like who even invited french toast to breakfast.

Yeah it’s really there to guide how fucked up it can be and not really be mega prescriptive. It’s not like quantities are on there, either.

Ideally a fire department shows up, sees the signs and then gets in contact with the building owner to start being more specific about what’s ahead of them before they just start dumping a ton of water on the building.

Section 4.2.3.3 of NFPA 704 guides how to handle multiple chemicals.

You can combine the worst of each category into a composite, list each individually, or do a hybrid option.

The posts saying there are two chemicals are true but likely incomplete… There are probably several different chemicals and they decided to go with the hybrid method.

My guess is that they combined the worst rating of everything that doesn’t need special handling, and have a stand alone for the chemical that is incompatible with water (or even combined for several chemicals that are incompatible with water).

See you in 2032

Only two of what you mentioned are American brands, which is probably pretty relevant for a Senator to consider.