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  • The Texas Board of Education Plans To Force Kids To Read the Bible in Public Schools

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  • Yeah, there are many variations but it's taboo enough that the closest to a major sect I can think of is that Catholics have additional books.

    But fun fact, one of the founding fathers (I think Ben Franklen) made a very short version that took out all the history or magic and just left being the laws and rules to follow

  • YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card.

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  • Your system does sound more straightforward.

    Unfortunately various groups have historically opposed changes to make it simplier in the us ( some for dumb reasons some for valid reasons).

    The main issue is almost all our documents are effectively voluntary...

    Birth certificate is the one you're most likely to have, managed by the state (people who don't give birth in hospitals sometimes skip this, which makes everything harder in life)

    The parents should also file for a federal social security card using the birth certificate, but again some people skip this and it makes their kids lives hard.

    Most people who can drive will get a state issued drivers license at 16, the most recent standard has a label to identify if you are a citizen or not (proven by showing your birth certificate or social security card when getting the id)

    All male citizens are required to register with the government at 18 for the draft, but I don't recall getting any id from it - but mentioning it as the only time I think citizens are required to do something for the feds because they are citizens, the other mandatory federal item is paying taxes, but residents also pay taxes.

    If you want to vote you register with the city / county, prove citizenship to them, and get issued a voter id, and about half the country doesn't do this.

    I don't know the exact percent, but most Americans don't have a passport. Traveling between States is cheaper than internationally, and within a half day or day long flight you can reach whatever vacation activity you'd want.

    There are a bunch of less common id cards granted by state governments, such as weapon carry ids, hunting permits, a dedicated state id card, etc. But these aren't standardized and not every state accepts other state ids fully (in particular the weapon permits are often not accepted). And a common issue comes up when voting laws require id because the politicians often will choose ids that their voters already have and hope enough opposition doesn't get that form by the election to make the election easier (North Carolina Republican party lost a lawsuit recently because there were emails where they specifically asked which ids their voters were more likely to have then tried to make only those the accepted ids).

    In practice the federal government uses the social security number as a federal id, but it's a terrible bad idea that has caused many issues and we passed a law requiring government agencies stop doing it

    I wish it was simplier, but most people don't care and any discussion of changing it has people panic that their id won't be valid for an upgrade, fearing they would have to spend a frustrating amount of time and money finding or replacing their original birth certificate in order to get a federal id or deal with a slow process (I've known people who had to wait in line multiple work days to get state ids issued, although that was rare, I only stood in line 2 hours).

    Probably more information than you wanted, but it's complex and I just kept going lol

  • Why do .ml users get a bad rep?

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  • That's weird, to everyone else it looks like Russia wanted a war to feed it's mic and created one

  • 'Are you insane?': Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are 'telling their people to use less AI'

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  • That's true to an extend, but the interactions are only useful for training if you can mark it as good / bad etc (which is why sometimes apps will ask you if they were useful). But the 'best' training data like professional programming etc is usually sold at a premium tier with a promise not to use your data for training (since corporations don't want their secrets getting out).

  • Good morning Mr. President! You wake up after a snap election in the US to find out that you are the new POTUS, what are the five first things that you focus on to reverse the current course of the US

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  • I've always felt we should have one judge from each court district, voted on by judges from that district. Districts already are equal population size, cover the entire country, and judges are better able to determine if someone's qualified on law matters than the general public, which is important to prevent a populist making promises they can't deliver on since these people would know the limits of judges power and responsibility

  • Just a little... why not?

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  • You probably can make it believe your it's owner, but that only matters for your conversation and it doesn't have control over itself so it can't give you anything interesting, maybe the prompt they use at the start of every chat before your input

  • 🚨 New York City is holding a public hearing on Mayor Adams's controversial proposal to cap e-bike speed-limits at 15 mph. People can file a written comment until 5 p.m. 📢

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  • Not a new Yorker, but it's my understanding most modern cars do have a govener kick in and limit the speed. Usually somewhere around 110, so not practically useful, but the cap does exist

  • US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign

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  • It's more complicated than it should be, only Congress can declare we are at war, however over the past 200 years they have passed laws allowing the president to do things before that vote out of a sense of being flexible and Congress being slow , and keep allowing more and more things, I think currently the president can do almost anything with the military so long as Congress leaders are told and they then can vote to stop it, instead of voting to approve it.

  • IT’S THE FEDS!

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  • But to address your main question, most bullets are not magnetic. Some are, in which case idk how the mri would impact them. But most would fire as normal

  • ‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home

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  • Not a dairy farmer, used to live by some and when I've seen them using machines it's still labor intensive, they guide the cows in, clean the machines, attach the machine, make sure the cows move out once done etc, so still requires them up and working. The machine just means they aren't physicality doing the milking part

  • Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker

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  • People misunderstand 3d printed guns. We use mostly normal gun parts bought anywhere, but legally the pistol handle is considered the gun, and the most popular commercial ones have been plastic for decades. So 3d print that glock frame and put a glock slide on it and you've got a cheap glock (and outside of like 3 States, that's totally legal).

    There's fairly large 3d printing gun communities, mostly because it's just fun to build things.

    3d printed silencers are much more rare / fragile because those are illegal to make without ATF approval and silencers need to withstand heat and pressure, so the typical plastic can't withstand prolonged use.

  • The UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter's meticulous planning has helped him evade police so far, experts say

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  • I think they met either transportation or commuter