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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

What will SovCits do now?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or just bypass the stupidity and get a passport/passport card instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Passports are functionally different too because with realid I believe you can only travel inside the country, with passport you can fly outside.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The passport card is a passport for domestic air travel. You can use it to drive to canada but nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yes, and somehow those who are against RealID are okay with using a passport.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just read the article, and as an EU citizen, I very confused when looking at the sample ID...

Why, oh why, would you ever need to put your adress on the card?

That is stored in the national database of citizens, surely?

What happens when you move?

And whoever thought that weight needs to be printed on the card is just delusional that it serves ANY kind of actual scurity purpose.

It changes constantly, there is zero use for it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I tried to renew a driver's license that I lost once, and they asked me to verify my weight. That was 10 years prior when I was a teenager.

I guessed wrong and they wouldn't let me renew.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It gets worse... Here in Oregon, if you moved, they would just print and ship you a sticker with the corrected address.

Now, they don't even do that. They update the address in the computer system, but the drivers license will continue to have the old address.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So there is zero actual need for the address?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's used as address verification for employers, but you just tell them "Oh, that's old, my new address is..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

So yeah, zero point to it.