I've talked with officials in the USA for almost 20 years now and their eyes glaze over. They don't understand any of it and won't put in the mental effort unless YOU complain to them! They need to be motivated; even if they like the sound of your ideas it's too much effort to bother. It's complex sounding computer junk and math to them.

Government can easily give you a free online digital ID.

They must also provide a 2nd ID that only verifies your age without your identity. I always suggested a photo of your face with digital signature. Low resolution digital image. Height, eye color... basics; maybe I should have pushed for an abstract like Nintendo Miis... photo ID isn't precise and in this use it can't be otherwise you are too easily identifiable.

This way it could be used on paper or phone; not fool proof but enough for a bar to verify drinking age - they look at your photo and the birthdate already which isn't secure but good enough. Online, it would verify age; it may or may not use the photo. Obviously, this info can be stolen or a similar face or faked face could be used -- making the face check just a tiny hurdle; but the signature information would be like a copy/paste password and works as long as that is kept private. Most children would be stopped and that is the main purpose. Reasonably CHILDPROOF.

Offline use is a must. This means the government has no idea what you are doing either... within reason. rotating keys etc. can make it harder to track.

The government is exactly the perfect place to do all this. They need to verify your gov ID already to issue that; they put all that into computers already. This would be an extension with a system where your authentication and identity are separated by the non-profit entity already required for identity use.

Driving could also be part of this. Citizenship could also be part of this-- including the anonymous one.

Have a key/password? authentication. possession is authentication.
Should you have the key? Identification.
2 different things usually linked. whats your name? if I don't ask for proof, it's just your ID.

This should involve support for USB encryption keys. they don't have your ID. Only hand out credentials to people over 18. The authentication is this is ONLY for the key itself not the ID. Revoking keys should be easy; if your kid gets your authentication key you need to get a new one. The only good solution I have is to make you renew the key every year... DMV is a good place for this.

Well, then snow shouldn't be a problem for you with a plugged in car.
You manage 10 minutes of using a corded vacuum navigating around inside a house and yet you can't manage 30 seconds of unplugging a car and putting the plug away? Do you know what you sound like?

Finally, who would leave a car empty and only then when you need it, fill it up?? WTF? You plug it in when it is NOT needed and like most everybody, the car sits idle for almost all it's existence. Even a bus likely spends 12 hours parked per day. Rarely, I need more usage, then I use a faster charger and I never needed something bad enough to go to a 30min quick charge.

No EV you buy is going to be close to as bad as mine. I manage with only a 70mile range... everything is at least 200 now. A luxury for me, I could stop taking mass transit in rare cases; although, the city center parking is way more than the light rail, plus no traffic... At some point I'll spent a bit and upgrade myself to 350 miles but only because the range drops too low; not for the range. I live in a real city, where even in the USA you don't need to go too far... if we had proper mass transit, I'd not even own a car.

Wimp. I wired my own plug. It's easy. I 3d printed my own holder mounted it outside the garage. Zero snow problems. Unless you are in Buffalo or Alaska, I doubt you deal with much snow but I do. I have even wired up other people to help them out and those sometimes were involved but not rocket science. Running power to a garage that never had power; that is involved. Configuring web webserver is way harder.

I wonder how you people can even vacuum your house... you have a handheld battery vac for your house? roomba? cords are too hard? LOL.

I can plug inside the garage too. It's not even a big charger. Most the time I use the Level 1 weak charger because the Level 2/1 is in the trunk. It takes 14 hours to charge but that is fine and if I need to do that in 4 hours I pull the bigger one out of the trunk. Level 1 is a NORMAL POWER CORD! I totally could buy bigger but I don't need it. I could wire a 6 kW if I wanted, but I only did a 3kW - which i rarely even need to use!! I still don't plug in every day.

No cold didn't "kill" the car, it made them troublesome to start. Actually, I plugged the last ICE car in because the battery needed to be warm. 1 car lived 21 years, the other, 14. The EV is doing better at 13.

I don't keep the car plugged in constantly; but out of habit, it usually is plugged in. I don't have to stop at a gas station anymore! If you find the gas station nicer than your home; you have a problem. Why do people bitch about plugging their car when everything in their life is battery powered! You fools have watches that can't go without charging... my watch goes for 5 years.

You do realize that ICE cars waste gas warming themselves up? Gas is cheap; well, we simply do not do the math to realize what it costs. My car at the time cost about $1 just to start it in the cold (about 1/3 the cost to fully charge the EV.) To drive across town to visit relatives cost me at least $6 in gas.

Last time Dontardo passed a big trickle down scam bit coin crashed down to the price to generate a coin. This time it's a repeat but the cost is higher. What is it now $40k? (depends on cheap power) We probably have a ways longer to drop. Last time it made more sense to invest in higher return "investments" because of the trickle down scam and it is the same now.

I do think it will rise up again later on like last time.

Also try to pay attention when Putin goes in big; likely after the USA goes in and then beat the Putin sell off...

IT IS NOT protecting illegal immigrants. talk about spin...

It is simply NOT the job of local police to handle immigration. We have SWAT teams. They don't give traffic tickets. not their job. We need more social workers and far less cops handling domestics. specialization. duh. I don't want the help desk managing the network...

There is no "protection" going on. you don't seem to know what the word means.

You have many separate departments who handle immigration which are national; we could create a local one but we pay the fed for such things and we should get something back since we help prop up the poor red welfare states.

Now you have over-funded ICE. they can do it. WTF should locals do shit when mpls has only 600 cops and ICE has 3000k bitching the local 600 are not doing their jobs for them? BP or homeland security could do it. ICE can do it if they follow the LAW. which they are not. the whole org is fucked up. it needs a redo. ICE is another stupid mistake born out of 9/11.

I know a guy in Homeland security who has for decades deported illegals. Generally criminal ones who sneak back in; some are big criminals. He catches them largely by facebook and showing up at a wedding or something their friends do or even when they go for an operation they shared info about on facebook. No bunch of goons with guns required; no road blocks checking people's skin color. He works like a process server and generally sneaks up on them. He is also mad at facebook for being hard to exploit to invade people's privacy to find these people on his list. Before his promotion, he used to personally fly each person he caught back to the airport in their country. These are not harmless people that involve that expense; although, some don't get arrested when they get back home.

ICE is a fuckup like the Iraq war and most the post 9-11 changes.

I won't expose my sources! But I'm sure you can find some rather open speaking strategists. I knew about the Afgan war before Cheney became president. He had the plans in his think tank and published online. nobody reads that stuff and they know it. I'm surprised anybody even caught on to project 2025; in the past that stuff never was reported on. Also, never brazen enough to put it all into 1 book.

Will platters get so thin they can flex?? since they get more solid spinning...if they are larger in diameter... could we get a variation on the 5.25 floppy? lasers?
So... a huge stack of "floppy" platters and using lasers to write like a CDR?

not for long.
EU is like 20% of global reserve already.
gold is going up.
BRICS got like 4x the membership since DonTard was elected.
Germany is talking about pulling all their gold held in USA's fed. They should. Dementia Don is likely to start stealing much more heavily when things get worse.
EU has quietly been threatening to dump US dollars which would crash the USA. They may have to go thru with that. Japan has made the threat previously too and it would be wise to dump it together when that time comes; nobody wants to be left holding. I don't see why decent nations would not work together against president BIFF.

We're living in Back to the Future 2.

thank you.

Trumistan, newest satellite of Russia - will they join Russia before Ukraine?

Canada makes a ton of CAR PARTS! for the USA. They have cheaper manufacturing than the USA because they have cheap electricity and free healthcare. The top cost to the USA auto industry is the healthcare of their workers!

So it harms USA autos to attack their cheap quality parts suppliers; they'll go to Mexico probably before they go to the USA.

I am pretty sure every EV has battery heaters. I have one of the 1st. It doesn't even have battery cooling. It has heating. It loses range due to the heater.

My old worn EV is still above 80% after 13 years. It NEVER was stopped by cold. My ICE cars all had trouble in extreme cold; and often troubles and maintenance which wasn't cheap! They only lasted because I repaired most the stuff myself knocking the costs down by 1/3. The EV only needed brakes after 10 (TEN!) years and a 12V battery (and i bought the best there was, brakes too.)

The weight HELPS the car in the winter; it's also low center of gravity and centered on the car. The traction control is better than the ICE car possibly because it's more responsive; but could be newer computer that makes it so much better than my old ICE which had 4wd.

It will NEVER die suddenly, like my prior car did on the highway. I'll know the power is running out long before it does. It is a shift in driving since charging is difficult to find that doesn't involve waiting half a day. Quick charging that doesn't have a monthly membership fee is rare.

If I need to go far, I RENT a hybrid. I rented before anyway-- you're a fool to go long distances on in an old ICE car where some local rips you off after getting you towed to them. A rental is not going to die; and if it does, it's their problem and you get another rental.

Future 3rd party battery upgrades are coming. For Nissan, they already exist. When I can't manage with my range being too limited, I'll replace the battery. It'll cost me about as much as an engine rebuild. I make sure it doesn't rust out so I'll get easily another decade from it. Plus, the battery packs can be hooked to my house for next to nothing in cost.

go back to Russia.

There is no appeasing Dementia Don. A few months later he forgets everything and it starts over again.

Canada is the victim if you think like Putin.
Russia is the victim if you think like Trump after he gets off the phone with Putin.

MAGA is unbelievably stupid. I just hope Trump has them drink coolaid when he goes down; that would help his ego a lot; he loves people harming themselves for his sake. Wish somebody would show him a Jones Town movie... seriously, he probably would admire that guy. (he does love dictators...)

He will never be removed. Country is too forgone for that. Foolish dems will give up impeaching him every week; which must be done simply because the public is too stupid to register fire without a lot of smoke.
Dementia Donald knows...or forgets... and repeats lies constantly until half the country believes it. The truth needs repeating just to counter the gas lighting.

Americans are so stupid, if we didn't have videos of protester executions from multiple angles on constant repeat they'd forget what their own eyes saw. Once Trump gets youtube in line and tiktok ups the censorship (already begun) those videos will be out of most peoples view. Plus they are currently SLOW-- when they learn, we'll have so much AI slop of events that people will have a hard time finding let alone verifying reality. I'm surprised by the 2nd execution they didn't have the man holding up a gun from 2 angles within a week.