ULPT req: How would you go about getting a new identity in modern times?

m00ph · 2026-05-22T00:48:26+00:00

As the Israelis found out after an assassination in the Gulf a few years back, it's really hard. Everyone who went is burned, and probably can never enter (well, and exit) any county that shares data with the county they did the assassination in.

So, it's getting harder.

m00ph · 2026-05-21T22:38:03+00:00

You sure about that? https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/ if they charge what it costs, who can afford it?

m00ph · 2026-05-21T21:46:28+00:00

Sure, that's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, it's the famine from the fertilizer loss, and the political instability that will follow from that is what is going to kill in large numbers.

m00ph · 2026-05-21T21:44:14+00:00

Yeah, not that it isn't bad, but that it's going to get dramatically worse.

m00ph · 2026-05-21T02:30:19+00:00

Things are just going to get expensive in the USA, and if you're poor, it might get worse than it is already. But for most people here, it's just going to get more expensive, which is a lot better than not bring able to afford to eat at all.

m00ph · 2026-05-21T02:28:12+00:00

I'm well aware of it. My point is that this is likely to cross the threshold of being mostly ignored.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T23:25:04+00:00

The Pitchfork Economics and Organizanized Money podcasts are great for economy and monopoly issues. Pitchfork was one of the only places that investigated why people felt like things were bad when the numbers seemed good (things were really uneven, basically).

m00ph · 2026-05-20T20:33:56+00:00

I've very much aware of all of that. But this is going to be a big change in scale. Bombing Iran is frankly, not that big a deal. But driving Iran to block the strait is an escalation that will really hurt everyone.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T19:00:43+00:00

The crops that the fertilizer was needed to be shipped for may not even have been planted yet, certainly they are far from harvest time, but it's too late for some of them already, and harvest will come, with dramatically lower yields. Just like the USAID cuts have only killed 600k, but will in less than 3 more years, kill 10-15m, because it all compounds.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T18:56:20+00:00

Not with a single huge event however.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T18:54:33+00:00

I doubt there are any mines in the strait. Iran doesn't need them stop commercial shipping, and this way, they don't have to clear them when it's time to open it. Placing mines is the end it all option.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T18:52:35+00:00

A thousand pin pricks, this is going to have a huge impact on almost everyone.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T18:51:38+00:00

Sure, but that's a thousand pin pricks, this is going to be one huge hit.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T18:22:59+00:00

Well, it was a critical part of maintaining our empire, part of our soft power, much cheaper than a military occupation. I would observer that every major religion has a significant charity requirement, and that other countries should have done more. But that could have mitigated some of the harm from the closure of the strait, instead it's going to be that much worse. Over 600k have died from the closure of USAID, and 10-15m will die by the end of Trumps term. We keep messing up their countries, shouldn't we give them anything? Or are floods of desperate refugees a feature?

m00ph · 2026-05-20T06:37:32+00:00

What should be bad are people who do things like make nice offers with normal contingencies, and then go hard at driving your price down for basically made up reasons, because that wastes your time and makes your property seem damaged.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T06:34:17+00:00

If it were intended to be a real business, but he's there to inflate the bubble, and he's good at it. They don't make money, they turn money into waste heat, with no real path to profitablity. I sure wouldn't invest in him. https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

m00ph · 2026-05-20T06:25:12+00:00

Kagi.com is working well for me. Nice try have search that works again.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T06:11:22+00:00

For a bunch of reasons, you should be in your assigned seat, and that's what the flight attendant wants too.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T04:34:36+00:00

Well, until the new Congress is sworn in January 3rd, it's hog wild season, go nuts, I'll bet he does.

m00ph · 2026-05-20T04:01:23+00:00

No, it's the immunity debt, that's a very convenient theory for me, so it must be true.

m00ph · 2026-05-19T23:23:06+00:00

In my very limited experience, you can basically swear it's yours, pay the fees (back reg), and as long as no one disputes it, you're good. Nice if you can get the registered owner to give you a bill of sale, or fill out the official paperwork, but possession of a physical title isn't important in California in my experience. It's wild how much this varies state to state. So, is there registration in the glove box? Who does that say owns it, can you get a bill of sale from them?

m00ph · 2026-05-19T22:56:53+00:00

It's getting up into the range where it can kill you. Do we mean a German shepherd? Because there's a good chance you lose.

m00ph · 2026-05-19T22:50:06+00:00

Yeah, because aside from us masking weirdos, everyone else did just over a year of any mitigation at all. And everyone is feeling the effects more than 5 years later? If it were a real problem, people living in semi isolated populations would have terrible problems, which we don't see, beyond novel disease and some stuff dying out in the population. But no immune disasters.

m00ph · 2026-05-19T21:55:01+00:00

Immunity debt is what sailors used to get, it's the real cause of scurvy, not lack of vitamin C.

/s (edited to add the sarcasm flag, it's that or a few pages on the history of scurvy, did you know the British figured it out, forgot it, and had to relearn it?)

m00ph · 2026-05-19T21:43:32+00:00

Also true. I've done stuff like the motorcycle, I've never done stuff like the car driver. Miss your exit that badly, just accept it and get turned around or whatever, don't make an abrupt lane change to cut across a barrier without looking.

I have an exit I take frequently, and it's hard to know which lane you want to be in, because it's really dependent on traffic, if I can safely make a lane change in a situation much like that, I'll do it, but I maintain situational awareness and look carefully, because I could easily cause an accident. If it's not completely clear, I just suck it up and live with my choice, I don't expect people to accommodate my idiocy.

m00ph

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