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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • Are they provided for free?

    No.

    We have to pay for ID in the US

    Same here. An ID card is €80 and a passport is €88. Both are valid for 10 years.

    and there is often a requirement for an address on paperwork

    Here you simply go to the municipality where you are a registered resident and request it there. They already have your address on file since you are required to register your place of residence.

    that makes it very difficult for the homeless to acquire an ID.

    I just looked it up how this works here. If you aren’t a registered resident of any municipality there’s a couple of them that handle ID applications for people without residence. You have to prove your nationality but that can be as simple as showing a bank statement proving that you receive dutch social security (homeless people receive monthly social security payments)

    my state mails IDs which I’m pretty sure it intended to make it difficult for homeless people to get one.

    Then how do they make sure it ends up with the person who requested it? Here you have to pick them up in person specifically so they can make sure that the person on the ID is the same person who is receiving it.




  • Aren’t you required to have a government ID?

    Here (.nl) you need an ID to access so many services that it’s basically impossible to function without one.

    Want to rent or buy/sell a house -> ID

    Want to go do a doctor -> ID

    Mobile phone contract -> ID

    Open a bank account -> ID

    Get a loan -> ID

    Take a driving exam -> ID

    Collect a package from a parcel point -> ID

    Buy alcohol, tobacco or weed -> ID

    Hell, I had to show ID when getting food delivery because apparently there was a tiny amount of alcohol in the desert.

    How does US society even function when people don’t have a government ID?




  • That’s the problem with PHP. It’s quite easy to build something that works. It’s quite another to build something that works and is secure, scales well, is maintainable, etc. The thing is that ‘it works’ is something that people see immediately. Those other things they only get to experience when it’s too late.

    This is compounded by the fact that because it’s so easy it attracts a lot of inexperienced developers who don’t even consider things like security. Add to that that the language is full of footguns.

    That’s not to say it’s impossible to build good apps in PHP, but that is despite the language, not because of it. It takes experience, knowledge and discipline to write something secure and maintainable in PHP. Something a lot of PHP users don’t have.






  • Mine has 4 large induction ‘burners’ that automatically adapt to the size of the pan. It also has physical knobs on the front of the cabinet so no touch-screen controls that suck and take up space, leaving more space for the burners. It’s frikkin awesome. I can fit 4 large pots on there no problem.

    I used to have a 5 burner gas stove but you could only realistically fit 3 pots on there and that was if there was at least a small one so this is a huge upgrade.


  • They don’t “take jobs”, they save work.

    Jobs are a means to an end, not a goal in itself. Jobs are not a good thing, they are a necessary evil. Things need to be done and someone needs to do them. Once we run out of stuff that needs doing, we don’t make up new work just to keep people busy. Do you think our hunter/gatherer ancestors sent out people to gather berries when they already had more than enough just so everyone could have a ‘job’? Of course not.

    Our goal should be to eleminate all jobs, or at least as many as possible. Every job that is eliminated means more free time for humans to do things that actually matter.

    You are confusing needing a job with needing an income. People need incomes, they don’t need jobs. You can hand people the income without creating meaningless work for them.

    It’s like those stupid fundraisers where someone does a meaningless task in order to raise money. “I’m walking from the east coast to the west coast of the US to raise money for cancer research”. Why are people requiring you do something this pointless before donating? You gain nothing by requiring this. It makes no sense.