If you keep your money in a bank, that ship has already sailed and left you behind. The Social Security Death Master File: "If you get accidentally added to it when you are not dead, it can mess up your Social Security payments, sure, but also your bank accounts, all kinds of things. ... DHS wants the SSA to kill off 2.7 million people, like an entire city, mark them all as dead in the Death Master File. Again, like last time, no sign or pretense that they're for real dead. DHS tells Jeremiah's team that these 2.7 million are here illegally ...."

If you're marked as dead by SSA, you're effectively legally dead: all your bank accounts and credit cards will be frozen, until you can get to an SSA office and prove to their satisfaction that you are who you say you are and are also not actually dead.

An example of NOT practicing minimal access: "A database of almost a million passports from around the world was leaked online. Note what happened. A high-value credential -- a passport -- was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk."

Explains how to set up Apple ID and how to use it.
"To create and present your Apple Digital ID, you need
* "An Apple Account with two-factor authentication turned on."
* "An unexpired U.S. passport."
* Claims: "Your Digital ID data is encrypted. Apple can't see when and where you use your Digital ID, and biometric authentication using Face ID and Touch ID helps make sure that only you can view and use your Digital ID."
* "If you don't have a U.S. passport to create your Digital ID, you can add an eligible driver's license to Apple Wallet."
* "How to create a Digital ID on your iPhone and Apple Watch .... After the passport's chip is read, you'll be asked to take a selfie to prove that you're really you." (or an identical twin?)
* "Present your Digital ID from your iPhone and Apple Watch .... If prompted, authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID. ... Hold the top of your iPhone or the display of your Apple Watch near the identity reader."

So, to answer one question: no, you don't need to hand over your phone to anyone. Unless, you know, they force you to.

Except it isn't. As the summary says, "Apple Wallet IDs are generally not accepted by law enforcement, so carrying a physical ID is still legally required for traffic stops." Optional for the (currently) small number of businesses that will accept it, yes.

This sounds like the Greek moutza.

You can't. As the summary says, "The user-agreement update isn't necessarily binding in court." But people who don't know that my THINK they signed their rights away, which is good for Amazon (et. al.).

You've never actually met any election workers, have you?

Yes, I know: don't feed the trolls, and it's useless to argue with stupid. For the others, the Cato Institute, not noted for its strong support of the Democratic Party or support for illegal immigration: "... there was a net increase in the illegal immigrant population of 5.5 to 6 million during Biden’s administration."

Also: "What if There Were 20 Million More Illegal Immigrants? Illegal immigrant crime and incarceration rates would be among the lowest of any subpopulation in the United States. ... Terrorists who entered as illegal immigrants have murdered zero people in attacks on US soil since 1975."

The HIPAA example is from medicine, but there are also restrictions in other fields: attorney-client privilege, for example.

HIPAA disagrees with you. "Covered entities" (health-care providers) are generally prohibited from releasing Protected Health Information (PHI) or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) even to the police, except as noted in Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, Subtitle A, Subchapter C, Section 164.512 (e): "In response to an order of a court or administrative tribunal, provided that the covered entity discloses only the protected health information expressly authorized by such order; or" [additional provisions] ... (f): "As required by law including laws that require the reporting of certain types of wounds" ... (2) "a covered entity may disclose protected health information in response to a law enforcement official's request for such information for the purpose of identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person, provided that" [limitations].

And contrary to some fictional cop shows, HIPAA protections do extend to dead people: "A covered entity must comply with the requirements of this subpart with respect to the protected health information of a deceased individual for a period of 50 years following the death of the individual." [Section 164.502]

What do you mean? People convicted of crimes are already involuntarily confined, either in prisons or psychiatric hospitals.

Sounds like either missing data or a mistake. The Air Quality Index is confusing, because it's actually the Air Danger Index: larger numbers are worse.

Unfortunately, it's the answer to the question: "How do you find someone who has ALREADY started a deadly fire?"

Those are two entirely different things, and one way to achieve the first is voluntary birth control. Other ways include pandemic, war, and famine, all of which I for one consider suboptimal.

"30's" would be life expectancy at birth, which is heavily biased by infant and child mortality: "As recently as two centuries ago, around 1 in 2 children died before reaching the end of puberty."

Council on Foreign Relations: "In 1800, for example, global life expectancy was estimated to be just twenty-nine years. This didn’t mean people died on their thirtieth birthdays; rather, low life expectancy reflected the large number of people at the time who died young. More than one-third of children died before their fifth birthday, and most young women knew at least one person who had died in childbirth. But if someone back then made it through the perils of youth, the idea of that person living seventy years or more was not unfathomable."

Not that I, personally, would want to live the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

Recent survey by the Human Rights Campaign [possibly biased, of course]: "The survey, commissioned in February 2026 by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation .... Large majorities of Americans support equal rights and protections for transgender Americans (85%), as well as equal access to healthcare (89%), workplace protections (79%), and protections for transgender students (83%)."

Maybe more relevant: "41.2% of U.S. adults say they know someone who is transgender. ... [but] only 27% of Americans report regular conversations with a transgender person, those who do are consistently more likely to support equality across all four measures." [How they know or think they know a person is transgender is not reported.]

Pew Research Center findings are somewhat different but similar: 64% say they "favor or strongly favor" laws prohibiting discrimination.

Maybe there's some prejudice and bias against Boomer uncles? Maybe?