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The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.

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  • Yeah, what lower case democrats (and by extension capital D Democrats allegedly) want and believe in as a core tenet is for the public to vote on small scale measures that affect them directly. Shocker, I know. But tell me, did you think they meant elections instead of these issues? Because you're glossing over the scale of these initiatives quite conveniently.

    Also, should my country stop taking young people's votes? Imagine children voting to give an opinion for the local council to hear! I may just clutch my pearls thinking they're electing officials.

    You need to look up the definition of the word “election” mate.

  • Logs, eh? You know those are just text files, right? And how do you plan to get access to them to prove any kind of mistake or malfeasance, exactly?

    Well no, they’re not just text files lol.

    You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together. That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

  • Well no, they’re not just text files lol.

    You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together. That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

    You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

    No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don't matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you're not getting access to any of the data we're talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you're not a person as far as they're concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can't verify the identity of?

    That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

    No, it's happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you're up to speed.

  • You need to look up the definition of the word “election” mate.

    Of all the things you could've said, that's what you chose to comment on? Don't start looking silly now and start arguing semantics. You came at this strong. What happened? Losing confidence all of a sudden when called out?

    Anyway, I'd love that for you!

    I don't know if you know, but generally speaking, an election is a vote held to choose who holds political power. And less commonly, it's used in the general sense to make a generic choice. I chose one definition over the other deliberately to make a distinction about the purpose of votes on a referendum or ballot initiative that are less commonly said to have been "elected". But you know, I won't get mad if you "elect" cake for breakfast over scrambled eggs. You do you, boo.

  • but the majority of undocumented immigrants in the US don’t enter that way.

    Doubt, especially given what we saw from 2021-early 2025.

    You're free to go look at the statistics easily found, I'm not gonna do your homework for you. Were you at the border?

  • Of all the things you could've said, that's what you chose to comment on? Don't start looking silly now and start arguing semantics. You came at this strong. What happened? Losing confidence all of a sudden when called out?

    Anyway, I'd love that for you!

    I don't know if you know, but generally speaking, an election is a vote held to choose who holds political power. And less commonly, it's used in the general sense to make a generic choice. I chose one definition over the other deliberately to make a distinction about the purpose of votes on a referendum or ballot initiative that are less commonly said to have been "elected". But you know, I won't get mad if you "elect" cake for breakfast over scrambled eggs. You do you, boo.

    Of all the things you could’ve said, that’s what you chose to comment on?

    Yes, I chose to comment on that because it shows you're arguing based on incorrect ideas.

    And less commonly, it’s used in the general sense to make a generic choice

    No it's not. You thought it was, but it's not. I'm talking about political elections, you're talking about voting to choose between options. Electing to choose something over another thing doesn't mean you held an election lol

    Words have meanings, and you clearly don't know what the words you're using mean.

  • You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

    No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don't matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you're not getting access to any of the data we're talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you're not a person as far as they're concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can't verify the identity of?

    That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

    No, it's happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you're up to speed.

    No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them.

    No, they don't - not when it's illegal, and especially not when it's something like this. You guys always love to bang on about the whole January 6 thing where Trump supposedly ordered all sorts of things of the ballot counters etc - and they didn't do it, did they? People say no to their bosses all the time.

    because the government would have to grant that access, and you’re not a person as far as they’re concerned in this scenario.

    So the DOJ/FBI/CIA/etc never investigate anything internal? I'm not talking about me specifically lol.

    No, it’s happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you’re up to speed.

    Wait so this National Citizenship Database already exists and is already being corrupted with legitimate citizens being deleted from it because they're not registered Republicans?! Where can I read more about this? How was it exposed? You just finished telling me that there would be no way to know, didn't you? So how do you know?

  • You're free to go look at the statistics easily found, I'm not gonna do your homework for you. Were you at the border?

    So you tried but couldn't find them, because you're wrong. Gotcha.

  • Of all the things you could’ve said, that’s what you chose to comment on?

    Yes, I chose to comment on that because it shows you're arguing based on incorrect ideas.

    And less commonly, it’s used in the general sense to make a generic choice

    No it's not. You thought it was, but it's not. I'm talking about political elections, you're talking about voting to choose between options. Electing to choose something over another thing doesn't mean you held an election lol

    Words have meanings, and you clearly don't know what the words you're using mean.

    Yes, I chose to comment on that because it shows you’re arguing based on incorrect ideas.

    I investigate well before I reply. Do you really want to go there?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/election
    https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/election
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election

    Words have meanings, and you clearly don’t know what the words you’re using mean.

    You sure about that? Looks like you're the one struggling with reading comprehension. Either that or you're grasping at straws already.

    Anyway, nice diversion. Just like you did last time.

  • So you tried but couldn't find them, because you're wrong. Gotcha.

    This took 30 seconds to find

    Visa overstays have outnumbered people who enter the country illegally at the Southern border every year since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies. The report's authors estimate that the number of total visa overstays was 600,000 more than the total number of border crossers and that in 2014, visa overstays accounted for two-thirds of all new undocumented immigrants.

    This article has the most recent data I could find but if you look at the sources you can probably find better info. You're welcome to prove me wrong.

  • This took 30 seconds to find

    Visa overstays have outnumbered people who enter the country illegally at the Southern border every year since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies. The report's authors estimate that the number of total visa overstays was 600,000 more than the total number of border crossers and that in 2014, visa overstays accounted for two-thirds of all new undocumented immigrants.

    This article has the most recent data I could find but if you look at the sources you can probably find better info. You're welcome to prove me wrong.

    2017, so before Biden opened the borders for all. Not really relevant in 2025.

  • Jokes on them. I cancelled my voter registration the day after the last election.

    gop dominated states regularly purge democratic voters from the rolls anyways, its also the reason why people rarely get jury duty form the states that are regularly purged.

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    You act like they want us to have access to information they don't have full control over. I'm pretty sure that's a really low priority for most of them.
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    Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There's a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.
  • time to switch to DeltaChat 😁

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    The point is... (almost) nobody is going to do that. Ask a layman what a SMTP is.
  • What was Radiant AI, anyway?

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    In fact Daggerfall was almost nothing but quests and other content like that.
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    Not being a coward.
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    What could possibly go wrong? Edit: reads like the substrate still needs to be introduced first
  • Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages

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    Forgive me for not explaining better. Here are the terms potentially needing explanation. Provisioning in this case is initial system setup, the kind of stuff you would do manually after a fresh install, but usually implies a regimented and repeatable process. Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots are like a save state in a game, and are often used to reset a virtual machine to a particular known-working condition. Preboot Execution Environment (PXE, aka ‘network boot’) is a network adapter feature that lets you boot a physical machine from a hosted network image rather than the usual installation on locally attached storage. It’s probably tucked away in your BIOS settings, but many computers have the feature since it’s a common requirement in commercial deployments. As with the VM snapshot described above, a PXE image is typically a known-working state that resets on each boot. Non-virtualized means not using hardware virtualization, and I meant specifically not running inside a virtual machine. Local-only means without a network or just not booting from a network-hosted image. Telemetry refers to data collecting functionality. Most software has it. Windows has a lot. Telemetry isn’t necessarily bad since it can, for example, help reveal and resolve bugs and usability problems, but it is easily (and has often been) abused by data-hungry corporations like MS, so disabling it is an advisable precaution. MS = Microsoft OSS = Open Source Software Group policies are administrative settings in Windows that control standards (for stuff like security, power management, licensing, file system and settings access, etc.) for user groups on a machine or network. Most users stick with the defaults but you can edit these yourself for a greater degree of control. Docker lets you run software inside “containers” to isolate them from the rest of the environment, exposing and/or virtualizing just the resources they need to run, and Compose is a related tool for defining one or more of these containers, how they interact, etc. To my knowledge there is no one-to-one equivalent for Windows. Obviously, many of these concepts relate to IT work, as are the use-cases I had in mind, but the software is simple enough for the average user if you just pick one of the premade playbooks. (The Atlas playbook is popular among gamers, for example.) Edit: added explanations for docker and telemetry