Whatever you do, do not give your money to BetterHelp. They’re a fucking scam.

Not a federal ID, but a federal standard for State IDs. And not “only”, but SocSec card is one of the several forms of ID you could use. Not required and not enough by itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

Teach a man to build a fire and he will be warm all night.

Set a man on fire and he will be warm the rest of his life.

With enough cocaine, you can stay awake for the rest of your life.

Which is why we should refer to them as “DMs” or “direct messages”.

How am I to tell who is a tankie, vs a wumao, vs a Russian bot troll? It can be hard to tell who is commenting in good faith.

I’m kidding, of course. I just block them all. No one using these talking points is worth my time.

Gotta love tankies unironically parroting Putin’s disinformation.

its pretty clear. You’re conversing with a tankie.

Just as an FYI, whether lie detector tests are accurate or not, lying in a polygraph interview for a federal background check is a crime. Polygraph interviews can and do sometimes lead to criminal prosecution.

I miss the golden age when we had AIM, ICQ, or GoogleTalk, etc all on the client of our choosing.

Hangouts was the best thing going for a while there. Of course they had to goog it up.

FYI, in case you did not notice: nutomic, the user you’re replying to, is one of the two creators of Lemmy. Make of that what you will.

fuck yeah.

I was picturing Warehouse 13, but for weapons.

Allegedly

I get that. And I did try to play along… But I’m mostly not interested in owning firearms that serve to glorify feds, or politicians, or criminals. Not really favorite groups of people and owning a firearm comes with some baggage to care for and protect each of them lest they harm someone or decay.

Maybe if MLK or Jimi Hendrix carried a derringer. Or Thurgood Marshall’s shotgun. (No idea whether those are a thing.) But those aren’t likely to be in the crime lab unless involved in a crime amd I also am not interested in having a murder weapon in my house. None of my guns have ever killed anyone (AFAIK) and I’d prefer to keep it that way. Did Harriet Tubman carry a weapon? That would have been illegal but I’d proudly own that.

Notice the items I chose secondarily are still valuable for their historicity, while revering neither criminals, nor the feds (nor violence, generally.)

I also like old and weird or otherwise interesting firearms of all sorts. Maybe I lack imagination.

If I’m going for pragmatic and boring I’d pick an autoseer.

But it might be interesting to own one of the bullets they pseudo-scientifically “analyzed” to tie it back to a specific gun.

Or maybe some DNA evidence used to exonerate the wrongly-convicted.

You are literally repeating bullshit conservative misinformation.

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/scicheck-what-weve-learned-about-so-called-lockdowns-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

The only comment that even attempts to debunk anything while offering sources is buried by downvotes. This community is badly in need of moderation.