I just encountered this whole thing about the US's REAL ID and went down a rabbit hole of discovering that the US don't even have a nationwide, common identification card...
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I just encountered this whole thing about the US's REAL ID and went down a rabbit hole of discovering that the US don't even have a nationwide, common identification card...
Instead, they're only now pushing what is still NOT a unifying, single card all citizens should have but rather just a standard for the various 'identification' cards to comply with... like it's some commercial IC card like SUICA or some shit?
While other countries have long had a single, common national identification card (physical), and now either have already moved towards digitising them in the form of Digital IDs or even already have them, the US is freakin' decades away from ever, ever achieving that lol.
https://xcancel.com/wtflanksteak/status/1919623544029196638 https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/real-id-enforcement-deadline-other-tsa-approved-ids-documents-needed/417-1305931b-0806-49fa-9ff9-99db6c45c11f -
I just encountered this whole thing about the US's REAL ID and went down a rabbit hole of discovering that the US don't even have a nationwide, common identification card...
Instead, they're only now pushing what is still NOT a unifying, single card all citizens should have but rather just a standard for the various 'identification' cards to comply with... like it's some commercial IC card like SUICA or some shit?
While other countries have long had a single, common national identification card (physical), and now either have already moved towards digitising them in the form of Digital IDs or even already have them, the US is freakin' decades away from ever, ever achieving that lol. https://xcancel.com/wtflanksteak/status/1919623544029196638 https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/real-id-enforcement-deadline-other-tsa-approved-ids-documents-needed/417-1305931b-0806-49fa-9ff9-99db6c45c11f@irfan@sakurajima.social the reason they're different from state to state is because we're 50 countries in a trenchcoat. A lot of powers are given to the states because at the time, we were afraid of our present just being a new name for "king". (And now, we've got dipshits who literally want the moron -in-chief to be a king.)
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@irfan@sakurajima.social the reason they're different from state to state is because we're 50 countries in a trenchcoat. A lot of powers are given to the states because at the time, we were afraid of our present just being a new name for "king". (And now, we've got dipshits who literally want the moron -in-chief to be a king.)
@digitalCalibrator@hol.ogra.ph @irfan As with everything, racism also has a historical role in this. Many nonwhite peoples did not have recognition, documentation or the skills needed to acquire them ; ID laws were often pretexts for reducing representation. This has made a lot of people shy away from more legislation.
