brianary

“Just Kidding” Rowling

Hmm, that’s a good point. Washington finally relented, they were a hold-out for a long time.

Everyone should also get a procedurally-generated theme song.

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.

Americans explicitly didn’t want a national ID.

JFC we JUST started! Give it time!

Gross. I haven’t run into that.

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

That’s not at all the assertion you made.

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