Good luck outsmarting a very stable genius that passes multiple cognitive tests.

EU leaders are waking up slowly. When they finally wake up and start acting Ukraine will be part of Russia and Greenland part of US.

But were are they going to buy cheap gas?

Explanation: France is one of the biggest importer of Russian gas in EU, right after Putin allies Hungary and Slovakia.

I’m really curious if Japan will manage to outwork their population collapse. Maybe if all of them can work 20 hours a day like their leader they will do just fine without immigrants?

Japan is ultra racist. Always has been. It probably has something to do with them living on islands, separated from other ethnic groups.

For me it’s pretty clear he was a kind of a freelancer selling info to everyone. He wasn’t pretending to only work for Russians or the Israelis. Most likely he started working for the CIA and then became an independent influence peddler. He knew everyone, could connect you to anyone and sell you intel if you had the money. He was useful to everyone so everyone protected him.

Yes but who funded Epstein?

Plot twist: It was Zionist terrorist.

Why not both?

Archeologist: Close analysis of pixels in this artifact will tell us that it belongs to the late AOL/early digg.com era.

It’s Russia and Is… cough cough… Kazakhstan.

Despite the apparent rise in republican sentiment and the unusual prime ministerial intervention, the dial hasn’t moved on the status of the monarchy among Norway’s wider political class. In a strange coincidence, a vote that takes places every four years in parliament on making Norway a republic was held on Tuesday. Just 26 MPs voted in favour of getting rid of the monarchy, against 141 who voted to keep it. Support was in fact lower than the last time a vote took place, in June 2022, when 35 voted in favour of a republic. The measure requires a two-thirds majority to pass.

Shame people that can do something about it don’t care.

You can’t say that. That’s antisemitism!

I wasn’t commenting on your grammar but on lack of sense in what you wrote.

I’ve seen this silly argument before. People keep equating digital ID with oppression because in some cases the system was abused. They read somewhere that digital IDs are bad and are unable to understand what they really are how they can function.

Here’s facts: many countries with fairly healthy democratic systems have been using digital IDs for years if not decades with 0 issues. Spain, Poland, Estonia… It’s just another ID. It’s not required anywhere, it’s not mandatory.

Other countries, like UK, require identification online without digital IDs. China was blocking, censoring and monitoring internet traffic without digital IDs. It’s almost as if those two things are unrelated.

You know what else the governments use to track citizens? Banking systems! OMG! We should get rid of credit cards and wire transfer. If we let people use those government will surely force everyone to use them and good night freedom!

Or maybe it’s just another tool that function without issues as long as citizens control their government? Maybe the issue are broken political system, not digitization?

Yes, the only issue here is that the government knows which sites you visit. It’s not an issue for facebook.com but is an issue pornhub.com I don’t like the ‘slippery slope’ argument but in this case, I can very easily see the government extend this beyond social media sites using the exact same arguments.

What do you mean? With Cl@ve I’m still redirected to government website and back. The governments knows which site I’m visiting. It’s like the first solution.

Was this nonsense generated by AI? People in Spain already have digital IDs. It’s a personal certificated signed by the Governments CA. I import into Firefox and when I visit government website the browser asks me if I want to send my cert and which. That’s it. It has been working like this for decades. It’s crazy how confused people are about basic things.

What do you think happens when you use digital ID? You know you don’t actually send your ID over to the social media platform? You just send your public cert with minimal information. What’s the difference between this and ‘digital fingerprint’?

Kids can still just use a VPN to get around this, but at least it doesn’t compromise the security of adults.

And I can just sell my “you’re over 18” paper to some kid and he can use it. Spanish government proposed anonymous age verification certs some time ago. It’s also better solution than letting privet companies handle the verification but it doesn’t really solve anything. One leaked cert can be used by all the kids in Spain. If it’s truly anonymous you will never know who leaked it. If it’s not anonymous then… you know.

That’s why I said it’s ‘not so terrible’ way, not that it’s a good way.

I don’t see a big issue with people authenticating this way for Facebook or Twitter. They government will basically know that “this person is using Facebook”. They don’t even have to know your username or anything. It gets problematic when we get to more controversial apps and porn so it’s still bad, just not as bad as letting Facebook scan people faces and IDs.

elmicha only mentions this one arguments but parents will have more. Some parents claim that this will isolate their kids and since social media is good at radicalizing children fascist parents will see this as simply censorship, cutting their kids for valuable, fascist content.