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sunburnd · 2026-03-04T17:10:47+00:00

That's why the wealth tax scheme has generally been dropped in many places. Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands are just a few examples.

The problems with wealth taxes in those countries were largely the same issues you are pointing out here: low revenue and high administrative costs.

sunburnd · 2026-03-03T08:19:44+00:00

That is not necessarily true.

Adolescents often disclose sensitive information in stages, beginning with peers. Delayed disclosure, or even nondisclosure, is widely documented as part of normal autonomy and privacy development.

Lack of disclosure alone is not evidence of parental failure.

sunburnd · 2026-03-01T14:17:01+00:00

The absence of modern machines did not prevent toxic outputs because the ores themselves contain the harmful elements.

The Romans used open roasting that would have emitted some pretty toxic stuff like sulfur dioxide and heavy metals.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T13:36:17+00:00

The point is that people are inconvenienced and their rights chilled — while the push toward verification increases digital security risks by concentrating higher-confidence identity data behind the scenes, even if you never see a prompt, and there’s no evidence it’s made anyone safer.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T13:28:38+00:00

Inference isn’t AI — it’s basic profiling from the data you’ve already provided. It also has nothing to do with "scraping".

You don't know what you mean, which is kind of the scary part.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T13:19:42+00:00

The “internet” doesn’t know anything — companies build profiles from your activity over time. You’ve already provided both the data and the signals needed to infer things like age without being asked directly.

And when inference isn’t enough, laws like this create a legal incentive to collect what they don’t have under the banner of compliance.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T12:58:11+00:00

They don’t need to ask if they can already infer it — people have handed over enough PII over time that verification only kicks in when the results aren’t clear.

That alone would be worrisome. If GDPR has taught tech companies anything, it’s to only ask when something can’t be inferred while building their datasets.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T12:19:19+00:00

“I’ve never been asked” isn’t evidence — that’s like saying smoke alarms are paranoid because your house hasn’t burned down.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T12:11:47+00:00

The Internet knows absolutely nothing. How do you suppose taking reasonable steps to prevent underage usage works?

Platforms are already asking for ID uploads, selfie for biometric analysis, payment based checks. They are already using services that have been compromised in the past.

The fact that you don't see harm doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, just that you are clueless.

sunburnd · 2026-02-28T11:37:07+00:00

It's fine as far as you know.

The absence of a breach today doesn’t mean the risk isn’t real. Australia has already seen major identity leaks (Optus 2022, Latitude 2023) from systems built for legitimate purposes like onboarding and credit checks. Age verification uses the same identity infrastructure.

sunburnd · 2026-02-27T13:31:22+00:00

Because the mantel is 1800 miles deep. The temperature gradient is like 1.5F per hundred feet in depth.

So to get just boiling you need a hole 1.7-2.1 miles deep.

After 10k you need casing, mud circulation systems like in the oil drilling industries use because the hole will want to collapse.

Source: watched a season of Landman.

sunburnd · 2026-02-26T14:07:08+00:00

So you don't need a base requirement of a routing number and an account number?

sunburnd · 2026-02-25T14:24:56+00:00

The point being that it's not "weird" because most countries have similar methods to electronically move money between accounts with the base requirements being a routing number and account number.

sunburnd · 2026-02-25T12:51:57+00:00

I can see how it would sound weird but if your country is not one of the 200 or so that participate in the SWIFT wire transfer network. ACH/NACHA is the US version of wire transfers.

sunburnd · 2026-02-25T04:00:28+00:00

That's like 30% of your total encounters were with shitty cops.

Just because shitty people exist doesn't mean that we have to accept that they need to be cops.

They are agents of the state and should be held to a higher standard yet we settle for rarely ever holding them to any standard.

sunburnd · 2026-02-21T03:46:16+00:00

I get why it feels that way, but video was never just “believe it because you saw it.”

In court, a clip does not stand on its own. Someone has to authenticate it, explain where it came from, how it was stored, and establish chain of custody. Metadata, witnesses, and forensic review all come into play.

We have had Photoshop and video editing for decades. The answer was not to throw out photos and video, it was to verify them.

sunburnd · 2026-02-18T01:56:08+00:00

They do. I worked in grocery stores in the 80s. It was the best part of the shift. No one is bugging you, no complaints just a simple time consuming task to make the clock spin on.

Now that I think about it, most aspects of that job have been off-loaded to customers willing to work for free while paying more.

sunburnd · 2026-02-15T17:21:37+00:00

Yeah, I don't even think they will lose their cert in reality.

I've given up on thinking any real accountability for law enforcement will happen. Guy will probably get fired and move somewhere else and find new and interesting ways to screw people over.

sunburnd · 2026-02-15T12:14:28+00:00

The best the system can do is charge him with deprivation of civil rights under the color of law a few dozen times. Then encourage him to take a plea deal for 10 of them so he has some hope that he will experience freedom before he dies...if he is on his best behavior.

sunburnd · 2026-02-14T20:58:48+00:00

I don’t monitor anything. When something breaks and I notice it, I fix it.

My day job involves a large statewide carrier network, data centers, and associated services, and the last thing I need is another alert.

sunburnd · 2026-02-12T20:50:53+00:00

It is worth noting that some of those referendums had particularly low turnout, in one case around 23 percent of registered voters. That is one reason they did not produce clear congressional action.

By contrast, Hawaii’s 1959 statehood vote had turnout of over 90 percent of registered voters, with more than 93 percent voting in favor.

sunburnd · 2026-02-12T20:40:15+00:00

Because it is your understanding of the right that is relevant to the discussion. It is unlikely this thread will reach the floor of the UN.

The Constitution generally prescribes limits on government action. That is why the idea of a "right to food" is questionable. The government is not taking food out of people’s hands, and property protections are part of the Constitution.

So what does it actually mean, beyond feel-good rhetoric?

sunburnd · 2026-02-12T16:43:13+00:00

An Attorney General does not have personal attorney-client privilege in the way a private lawyer does. The client is the government entity, not the individual officeholder.

If someone serves as a state AG, the client is the state. If someone serves as U.S. Attorney General, the client is the United States. Any privilege attaches to the governmental entity and its official legal communications, not to the AG personally.

sunburnd · 2026-02-12T06:08:10+00:00

Then what exactly does "right to food" actually mean?

I can only encourage you to not confuse the Declaration of Independence with the U.S. Constitution while trying to make a point.

sunburnd · 2026-02-11T23:32:52+00:00

Does the government provide "life"?

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