Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • This attitude is pretty prevalent here for some reason:

    We don’t want no gotdang national ID. Don’t want the gubmint tracking me or putting me in no database.

    ==Sent from my iPhone

    The closest we have to a national ID is a passport. However, there are new ID requirements for something called a Real ID. It’s basically an enhanced driver’s license / state ID that complies with federal standards. When I got mine last year, I don’t think the process was any different from renewing my old-style driver’s license. The only noticeable difference is they gave me a black and white printout temporary ID to use for the two weeks it took to receive the ID card in the mail.

    The weirdest thing about it, though, is that it looks crappier and cheaper than the old “insecure” driver’s license I had before.

    My question to the rest of the world: Are y’all this obsessed with birth certificates? I feel like it’s ridiculous here.