They’re freezing 99.9% of domestic and foreign assistance. This is only one specific part of what had been halted.
The idea is to strangle the government and end anything that might keep a single dollar out of the hands of the wealthy.
On top of the idiocy of this, every SINGLE contractor can, and likely will, sue the government for breach of contract and win. Likely for more than the original connect was for. As has been the case for most other stop work orders.
This is a massive and avoidable expense to taxpayers with zero to show for it.
I don’t disagree with you. There are trade offs is the thing. I’m not getting a digital ID until I’m forced, but many people are fine with it.
The other commenter from Ukraine explained it well, and to add, the Diia app they use is open source. Other countries can use it if they pay a one time “licensing fee” that is basically a donation with the from line “we’re not shitbags.”
According to people super into digital IDs: In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver’s license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal. You would rarely set foot in a government office ever again. Your ID hash can be used online and IRL to validate only a part of you identification, like age, so a bouncer at a club can’t take a photo of a young woman’s ID and stalk her later. So there are some added privacy benefits…in theory.
Obviously, there are the same downsides to any consolidation of digital anything. A stolen phone, even a dead battery, means you have no identity anymore. Data leaks are inevitable. This likely opens the door for far less privacy online when LinkedIn or Reddit starts asking for an age or name check. But plenty of people are oblivious to that anyway. Andb the same argument was probably made in the 1950s and 1960s about paper ID cards. So once there’s utility and pressire applied to having a digital ID, adoption will follow.
Mmm, I’ll decide that myself much later. I’m going to be a crypto bro, Elon sent me a message on Facebook saying he was going to help me invest my money.
Hmm…maybe. Can I make money with auto-generated clickbait headlines?
The style of AI slop writing is in the style of AI slop writing. This is often indicated by its use of writing that fits the typical style of AI slop. This can sometimes happen when a lazy writer dumps their notes into an LLM, and isn’t careful to delve into the results. The results can be disappointing because the lazy writer had dumped their notes into an LLM and simply used the raw output without delving into the details of the raw output.
Please pay me $900 now, thank you.
For real. I once had the misfortune to admit to having some Centrist ideas, and the down votes were immediate and generous. No discussion, just personal attacks.
And we wonder how things got to where they are.
Said like someone who confidently knows nothing about the complex process of vetting the backgrounds of people applying for refugee status.
I have a bunch of weird stuff, but I rarely show it off.
Tooth from a dinosaur, not sure what kind, it was found by a herder in a remote area, but some sort of preditor as its pointy.
Two 19th century swords that were from both sides of the French colonial expeditions in West Africa. One has magic powers (or, so the guy that sold it to me said). A number of other supposed enchanted items and charms.
Jar of sand from the Sahara outside Timbuktu and the Playa at Burning Man. Stones from I guess around the middle of Mt Olympus, and bunch of giant quartz crystals from southern Africa. A pin given to basically every Soviet citizen that was alive during (and therefore coined as fighting in) WWII.
Ticket to one of the Obama election night parties.
“Yes, you see, as a country we are barely holding our shit together. We can’t even figure out how money works anymore. Our power grid is…aspirational at best. Our most notable exports are oil, emails, and Nigerians running from this place. But you see, if we join BRICS, it definitely means you all are awesome, and so are we.”
The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.
I believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
In theory, but in practice the BBB is usually a pay-to-play sort of racket where as long as a member doesn’t have active litigation happening, you can likely swing an A+ rating and still be a terrible company. It’s business oriented, not consumer.
shit ton
I see what you did there.
It really is terrible. I’ve tried a dozen times to get it to do anything that the free version of GPT can do…fails every time on the few things it even tries.