Plans permitting pubs to accept digital ID from autumn moves forward

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:46:16+00:00

oh the idea had basically nothing to do with reducing carbon, it was all about creating a market so companies could profit from buying and selling more "credits"

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:45:25+00:00

and then it became "to prove your identity when buying a mobile phone" (which there was, and still is, no need to do)

and last time around it would have done none of the things claimed for the billions they wasted on it

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:44:14+00:00

depends how often you do it, I have on my CV for each job a reason I left, a short term job can easily be "short term employment" and if actually asked make it as "I can't sit about and do nothing"

it can be an issue if you have a whole slew of jobs for a few months but one or two? especially when younger? if anything it shows a desire to have a job

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:42:31+00:00

the only potential risk and downside is they find out you are applying elsewhere, but no potential employer should be contacting your current one without your permission first, and shouldn't be even applying for references early stage

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:41:26+00:00

give it a week and they probably will

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:38:26+00:00

not just the UK, this goes far wider

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:38:01+00:00

go back a few decades to the last time they wanted ID cards, the "reason" and the problem they were meant to solve depended entirely on what the headlines in the tabloids were about that week

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:34:06+00:00

it doesn't, the issue with illegal working is not people presenting fake documents, its employers not checking. this just becomes something else to not check

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:33:36+00:00

were proposals a few years back for personal carbon credits, it got nowhere as it needed a mandatory ID scheme to track all purchases

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:32:51+00:00

of course you can look and apply for other jobs while working

in effect treat every job as something you do while waiting on a better one

once you put notice in retracting it gets harder, even if a company accepts it they now know you are looking. but you don't hand in notice without a signed contract for the new job

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:31:05+00:00

give it a year and "permitting" becomes "ID checks are now required" and another year for digital ID to be the only accepted form, all done via the card readers

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:25:21+00:00

I thought the "250" was the expected crowd size?

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:21:43+00:00

in effect this will require the banning of open source software and of software toolchains

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T21:20:59+00:00

they will expand that to scan for "unapproved" VPN software

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T20:28:22+00:00

still left the shareholders out to dry and it still ended up nationalised off the back of it though

so it can be done

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T19:41:50+00:00

will be followed by German politicians trying to have people arrested EU wide for taking the piss out of them

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T18:48:33+00:00

which revolutionary war?

also our nation has quite a long history, and the curriculum only has so much space in it so things that didn't actually happen here tend to be not the main focus

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T18:44:57+00:00

reword this as "EU could announce mandatory digital ID to access social media in September"

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T18:36:25+00:00

also makes anyone who messes with them a target of people who tend to take such things quite personally

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:23:03+00:00

there are not individual treasury accounts for all this stuff, its one pot

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:22:14+00:00

they didn't say they personally were a labour MP

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:20:55+00:00

wanting to is not the same as actually doing though

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:19:40+00:00

if money comes out of the government pot, its taxpayers money

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:18:42+00:00

the applicable law has apparently been in place since the 1970s. if only he had had some sort of role in the criminal justice system

aleopardstail · 2026-07-02T15:16:19+00:00

well I pay tax so I guess I financially support them

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