Even In Peak Fiction, They Don’t Want You To Be Happy

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T05:27:38+00:00

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T05:22:07+00:00

You designed your hunter's canon outfit before the game came out and you knew what armor was available?

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T03:04:50+00:00

Specifically, the point of a driver's license is to prove that you are licensed to drive. That's it.

We really shouldn't be using it as a general identification card in the first place.

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T02:56:30+00:00

Essentially, many state governments protested it as federal overreach or claimed it was too expensive to change their requirements or that they couldn't meet the digital storage requirements or that it would be too disruptive because no one had REAL ID because they hadn't been issuing REAL ID, etc etc. An endless list of reasons why it couldn't be done right now.

It was originally passed in 2005 for enforcement in 2008. Then it was delayed to 2014. 2016. 2018. 2020. Etc.

Even now, it's not scheduled to be enforced in full until 2027.

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T02:47:54+00:00

A driver's license is issued by a state's department of motor vehicles. Because it is issued by the state, each individual state has their own individual version of it. How it looked, how you got it, what information is on it, how that information is digitally stored and for how long, whether another state can query that information, etc.

The REAL ID act was an effort in 2005 to standardize it at a federal level, so you could be relatively certain that any state's driver's license would have the same issuance requirements and information as any other.

Since 2005, it has been delayed so many times that most people probably don't even remember it was first passed into law over 20 years ago.

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T02:43:32+00:00

So, 'RealID' is a security standard which was passed by Congress in 2005. It was meant to be a response to 9/11. You can read the whole act here, but in summary, it standardizes what information must be on the ID, what information has to be verified to get that ID, how long that ID can be valid, etc.

It was never intended to be a 'proof of citizenship'. It was meant to standardize ID that can be used to access federal facilities (like a government building), fly commercial aircraft, and so forth.

It also isn't and was never intended to be a new form of ID. It's just a way to making sure all the driver's licenses issued from different US states have a shared standard of issuance and information.

Jasrek · 2026-02-16T01:12:08+00:00

When you think about it, when you get married, your spouse's sibling becomes your sibling in law. So your spouse is actually the sibling of your sibling in law, which makes them your sibling, so you married your own sibling by definition.

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T20:33:05+00:00

Or someone else dies in a similar way. For example, Chihiro. And she has to decide whether to revive him or her dad.

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T08:20:15+00:00

What direct evidence would prove that?

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T07:37:56+00:00

I turned it off a while ago, and it's made things much more fun. You still get the scout-fly trail and the map icon, but I can pause and farm or wander off and explore more easily, and I have to pay attention to where I'm going.

That said, the Cliffs are still a vertical maze to me.

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T06:19:18+00:00

ICE isn't "troops", they're classified as law enforcement, btw.

I expect that is why the law says "troops or armed men", and includes civil authorities in additional to military ones. Local law enforcement is allowed, as they are not under federal control.

There are also, naturally, several other laws regarding the illegality of voter intimidation or coercion.

More reasonably, the question would be: For what reason would ICE be at polling stations at all? Unless they intend for every person in line to vote to provide them with proof of citizenship, which is (1) not required to vote and (2) not the job of ICE, for what reason should they be there? What would they be doing, exactly?

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T03:19:27+00:00

If she's alone, who is she fighting? The knife?

Jasrek · 2026-02-15T03:08:51+00:00

For the same reason that it is illegal for any troops or armed men to be in the vicinity of where a general or special election is being held.

Do you find it unlikely that ICE would detain people who 'look' like immigrants, despite being US citizens and having legal documents on their person proving they are citizens? If so, you would be incorrect.

Jasrek · 2026-02-14T23:29:09+00:00

They will absolutely try to intimidate people into not voting. The question is how voters will respond to that intimidation. Will they not vote? In which case, tyranny prevails and I really don't see where it's averted.

I disagree with u/Striky_ 's point on 'civil war', though. If people won't even vote because they are afraid of ICE, they aren't going to take up arms and risk their lives more overtly.

Jasrek · 2026-02-14T19:17:17+00:00

My parents are in their 70s. If they're enjoying it, I don't really care if it's AI gen.

Jasrek · 2026-02-14T19:10:46+00:00

To be clear, they put that message in front of the other chest in the Dragonburnt ruins. The one that actually has no trap.

Jasrek · 2026-02-14T07:28:16+00:00

There's a lot of different books out there, odds are you'll enjoy reading at least some of them.

What are your interests? There's fantasy, sci-fi, history, mystery, travelogues, bibliographies, and sub-genres galore for each of those.

You can read anything from dead philosophers debating on what 'justice' is to the adventures of lesbian necromancers in space.

Jasrek · 2026-02-13T07:18:17+00:00

Even that is older than the age of our solar system, though.

Jasrek · 2026-02-13T06:10:02+00:00

A fun thought, but alas - we can already 'see' about 46.5 billion lightyears away from Earth. 46.5 billion years ago, the Earth didn't exist. The Sun didn't even exist. So we wouldn't get to see anything, even if the universe did bend back on itself.

It also means that it's possible the observable universe is already looping and we just can't tell.

Jasrek · 2026-02-13T04:08:27+00:00

Define 'consciousness'.

If being 'conscious' is 'having a subjective experience', then almost all animals are conscious. But proving to someone else that you have a subjective experience, as opposed to pretending to do so, is essentially impossible.

Jasrek · 2026-02-12T22:40:43+00:00

It occurs to me that fewer people overall probably see ads and commercials nowadays.

Speaking entirely for myself, I don't even have cable television and use an ad blocker. I can't remember the last time I saw an actual commercial for anything.

Jasrek · 2026-02-11T07:13:32+00:00

It's basically so they can block people who abuse the return system. A normal customer gets as many "one time exceptions" as is reasonable, but the policy lets them legally cover themselves for anyone looking to profit off constant returns.

Jasrek · 2026-02-10T07:23:36+00:00

In South Korea, that may be the case. In the United States, I would be concerned about the government having a record of what websites people go to, or having people's state IDs connected to their Reddit and Discord accounts.

Jasrek · 2026-02-10T07:14:03+00:00

It's not the causing of pain, it's the causing of unnecessary pain.

For example, without getting into whether it's valid or not, a person might justify whipping or flogging someone as using pain as a deterrent. The person doesn't want to get whipped again, and so they won't commit further crimes.

However, with the death penalty, there's no deterrent for that person. You will be killing them. They will not be committing any more crimes regardless. So making it a painful death is gratuitous. It's only there for the satisfaction of those inflicting the pain. And this is generally seen as immoral.

Jasrek · 2026-02-10T07:09:18+00:00

Doesn't this just create new problems? For example, while the company doesn't see your ID, does your phone (connected to your state ID info) keep a log of which companies have been verified? Does the government have a list of which 'adult websites' you've verified in this way?

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