This attitude is pretty prevalent here for some reason:

We don’t want no gotdang national ID. Don’t want the gubmint tracking me or putting me in no database.

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The closest we have to a national ID is a passport. However, there are new ID requirements for something called a Real ID. It’s basically an enhanced driver’s license / state ID that complies with federal standards. When I got mine last year, I don’t think the process was any different from renewing my old-style driver’s license. The only noticeable difference is they gave me a black and white printout temporary ID to use for the two weeks it took to receive the ID card in the mail.

The weirdest thing about it, though, is that it looks crappier and cheaper than the old “insecure” driver’s license I had before.

My question to the rest of the world: Are y’all this obsessed with birth certificates? I feel like it’s ridiculous here.

I think my conscience could live with that. Even more so if we can stamp “UN-CONVICTED” on all the other ones.

It’s a complicated situation, lol, and I can see both sides of it.

As for that being “a taste of his own medicine”, I agree.

Ultimately, though, I feel putting a picture of an actual convicted felon alongside photos of people who are highly likely to be only accused of crimes sends the wrong message and gives them the implication of guilt.

Depends how you look at it, I guess lol.

Ironically, no. He’s actually been convicted of 34 felonies.

Not only that, but I’m guessing what’s printed are the crimes they’re accused of rather than anything they’ve been convicted of.

Anyone can accuse anyone of anything at any time. That’s why courts exist.

At least it reflects what’s inside.

You ever drive past “that house”? You know the one I mean; every neighborhood has one. The one that always has a yard full of signs, banners, flags, etc? The house equivalent of a car covered in bumper stickers, all collectively saying “Stay Away: Crazy Inside”

The answer is the square root of pancake.

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So edgy. So reactionary. While I can’t speak for Jeffries, Booker has been working: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-cory-booker-filibustering

From March 31 to April 1, 2025, Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump and the operations of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. EDT on March 31 and concluded at 8:05 p.m. on April 1, 2025. The speech lasted twenty-five hours and five minutes, surpassing the previous longest recorded speech in Senate history: Strom Thurmond’s twenty-four-hour and eighteen-minute-long filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker's_marathon_speech

TIL 4chan has an MBFC rating:

Huh. I should try this with the old refrigerator in my basement that I’ve been needing to get rid of.

I totally forgot about that. That would make him the oldest person in the universe, no?

Was Fry younger or older than Pauly Shore? Plus, that 80’s business guy is probably older (unless you’re only counting people who are still alive in the series).

He’s probably in the top 5 oldest people, though.

Good to know. Will have to read up, though from the little I’ve read, it sounds like this is just a concept for now.

That’s what I thought (re: backup cameras), and someone else mentioned the gauge cluster is a digital screen which switches to the backup camera view). In my case, 150 miles (round trip ) would be just around the upper edge of my use cases, though 15-20 would be more average.

which these days are basically a full size truck of yester-yore

Makes me miss my old 2003 Ranger. It was right where I needed a truck to be, size-wise.

Would definitely buy one of these. I miss having a truck, but I only need one occasionally for the occasional need to haul something that won’t fit in my car (e.g. Lowe’s trips). I also really dislike the “smartphone on wheels” aspect of pretty much all current EVs.

Plus, I hate the infotainment systems so I would be happy to roll my own.

Though I do wonder if it has a backup camera/screen. Aren’t those required nowadays?

Well…that sent me down a rabbit hole. Thanks!

They are just being used, and should reconsider

Reconsider?! Whoa there. That’s too much like thinkin’ which is the devil’s work.

BYD, definitely not available.

VW: Didn’t see one I really liked and could afford

Polestar: Yes. But PS3 and 4 are unaffordable. PS2 has some used inventory roughly within 300 miles of me for ~$30K so I guess they’re an option (though I haven’t done any research on them).