brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago

At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

The Aquaman movies were laying some groundwork for the Warlock comics to maybe be included, which is a hollow-earth reality. It's too bad they did such a terrible job.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why simp for American healthcare?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The risks of sodium aren't universal (some people appear to have immunity), and were exaggerated by the sugar industry.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 52 points 3 months ago

"Just Kidding" Rowling

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone should also get a procedurally-generated theme song.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 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.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

JFC we JUST started! Give it time!

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

Gross. I haven't run into that.

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