Which will be met with the response “but I’m not an ‘immigrant’ why should I have to carry this ID card?!”

‘I’m not an immigrant’ is their code for “I’m white”.

As much as xenophobic cunts fantasise the idea of stricter border controls and US-ICE style raids, they’re also the same cunts that complain about long queues at airport security and HATE it when an authority figure questions them or forces them to do something.

They keep trying this every few years.

This ain’t going to work unless it’s sold to the public like Estonia’s X-Road:

Complete digitisation of government, using the NHS, passport application, driving, taxes, etc. to reduce cost overheads and speed up government services. It needs to be a properly implemented super app with best industry security practices. I’d even go so far as to make it open source and have UK developers who log contributions to the project get a tax rebate according to hours/lines contributed as a sort of payment.

Plus it would help sell UK digital services abroad by developing and advertising a local talent pool.

Getting the UK public to be on board with just a digital ID isn’t going to fly. Why when your driving licence/learners license or passport is already being used as an ID that people carry around, and then you have your NHS number, your national insurance number, and even a gov.uk account.

What the point of adding another one?!

Counter point: KiCAD

Yes I know it’s schematic capture and PCB layout, but I’m giving it as an example for two reasons:

1. The UX is genuinely really good and easy to use even for a novice following YouTube tutorials because it follows the norms of a schematic/PCB software package you’d expect to pay for (OrCAD, Altium, etc.)

2. It’s open source and used in industry so GIMP and Inkscape have ZERO excuses for their horrific UX which is the prime reason industry professionals don’t want to spend an age re-learning all of their workflows.

There I said it, I’ll get down off this soapbox now.

cough Inkscape cough …

Why are y’all looking at me like that?

Well even in that condition a Ford Something is better than a Ford Nothing.

I have a similar photo.

Downvote me if you must, but idiots like this won’t internalise the lesson until their parents, partners, sons, and daughters die in ICE custody.

The same way that the vaccine conspiracists won’t learn until they watch their unvaccinated child shrivel and perish from a horrific and completely preventable disease.

The memory of the suffering has to live on in people’s minds by having permanent consequences etched in the blood of unfortunate innocents as APPARENTLY we’re on average to fucking dumb as a species to remember otherwise!

[Dr. Who meme format]

Is AI bad?

It Depends. Large corporate AI hosted at a data centre that consumes a nuclear reactor’s worth of power and a lake’s worth of water for cooling for the purpose of generating slop stolen from Artists and Writers? Yes.

Locally run embedded AI designed for a specific task to automate small processes or enhance the UI experience with little cost to local computing resources because it’s been properly optimised? No.

Does this make Neelix the anti-Riker?

Please, he’s Pound-Stretcher Trump. Not even Poundland would stock him.

This is some prime Hope Posting.

I get what you’re saying but Russia isn’t that dumb, they know they’d be detected.

It’s best to wait a little to not give away your quickest possible response time, then send some aircraft up to politely escort them out.

This will also give your pilots some airtime so they can keep their flying hours topped up.

Chess is his kink and he’s just waiting for the right king/queen/rook to traverse all-over him.

I don’t know that- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

(Gets tossed into the air and into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)

It’s a bold move Cotton, let’s see how this test of the 2nd amendment plays out.

Genuinely curious question from someone who’s not into this as a fetish but, how does this fetish give you satisfaction?

I’ve had some bits of fluff get into the tip and that was very irritating and hurt for a while even after it was removed. What is the mechanism that is giving you pleasure from this activity? Enjoyment of the pain from the foreign object irritation? The sensation of the sounding rod sliding down? The feeling of it being stretched? The feeling of it being removed?

This is why you have to factor in the airspeed velocity of your laiden and unlaiden swallows pigeons.

Mushroom MUSHROOM!

Yep, 100% where it comes from. Here in the UK you hear that advice constantly growing up as well. So at least we both got lied to the same in our childhoods.

Whoops, spelling mistake, thanks for pointing that out.