You can’t just buy one on the dark web because the credential is tied to a private key — you’d need the actual device or key, not just the token.

A government-issued cryptographic credential lets you prove you’re a real adult citizen without revealing your identity. It eliminates bots and foreign actors, protects children, and preserves privacy — because the government only gets involved once at enrollment, and platforms never see who you are, just a yes/no proof.

(I’m not an expert, so if anyone has input please correct)

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The one-time government verification moment is a major privacy chokepoint. Who runs it? How is that database secured? History is not encouraging here – government identity databases get breached, misused, or quietly expanded in scope. “The government only gets involved once” is doing a lot of work

Governments need to setup a digital ID using a trustless authenticator.

Government issues a one-time verified credential (tied to real identity verification, like a passport or SSN check). You get a cryptographic token on your device. When a platform needs to know “is this a real adult citizen?”, you present a zero-knowledge proof — yes/no, nothing else. No name, no IP, no persistent identifier the platform can track. The government isn’t contacted. The platform learns nothing except the answer to their question.

I don’t see it as acting “like a teenager”. These eccentricities seem more to me as being representative of a person who knows all the rules (both formal and informal), and has decided which ones are worth breaking – whether it’s for personal comfort or if it’s for a more purposeful reason, that I can’t say.

Complaints about her demeanor remind me of people who complain about nurses with tattoos or dyed hair for being “unprofessional”. They clearly have the resume and skills for the role.

Did Picard or Janeway outlive all their friends family and comrades.

I personally have several issues with the show; but Ake’s posture is certainly not one of them – In fact I kinda like it. She’s giving me Guinan or Dr Who vibes portraying an outward silliness that hides an inner sadness and seriousness.

https://morbotron.com/meme/S02E10/355904.jpg?b64lines=CiBOTyBPTkUgSU4gTkVXIFlPUksKIERST1ZFLiBUSEVSRSBXQVMgVE9PCiBNVUNIIFRSQUZGSUMurama

Mine is connected to a smart outlet that is only ever powered on when we are away from the house, and it’s connected locally to my home assistant setup.

Interesting I’m not familiar with how these measurements are taken.

This was the source I was thinking of:

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024

As sourced by the Guardian

I was under the impression that they reached peak CO2 emissions and have been flat or falling for the past year or so

The USA isn’t the whole world, but even if it somehow were, there are conservatives who refused to vote for Trump (not enough but they do exist).

Not all conservatives are MAGA.

What do you mean trust? I prefer Anthropic/Claude for most things.

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Plus when it is broke it still works a couple times per day.

Irrelevant is too strong a word given the opportunities in VR for training or even therapy… but you have a point.

Which parties call themselves liberal, but are actually neoliberal?

I’m started to become convinced that there is a coordinated effort to misdefine the term liberal among the political left in order to divide us.

I see supposed progressives dedicating significant amounts of time demonizing liberals (when they mean neoliberal), despite the fact that they would mostly agree on policy if that was the topic of conversation.

Enacting progressive taxation, punishing white collar crime, establishing strong environmental protections, establishing a strong social safety net, ensuring high quality universal healthcare, enforcing anti-trust legislation, and enacting electoral finance reforms are all things that liberals support… but instead they are often shouted down by progressives online for being status quo capitalists?

We’re fighting the rise of literal fascists right now, but instead of joining forces we keep arguing about labels among people we agree with.

Aren’t judges appointed in almost all countries outside of the US, Mexico and Switzerland.

This LAN is my LAN

This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)

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Simpsons did it.

Mmmmm… incapacitating