Weird how I couldn't find any links at that site to the actual text of the bills in question. Am I just supposed to take their word for the bills being bad? I ask because there really wasn't much in the reasons they mentioned that would make me mad enough to call a congress critter. Maybe if I could read the bills themselves, it might spark a "HELL no! Not on my watch!" kind of reaction in me.
There was loads of stuff on how the bills might affect LGBTQ folks, and "marginalized communities", but not much in the way of how it would affect average folks like me. I mean, while I DO live in a "marginalized community" it doesn't mean much because that community is mostly white, so no one cares. Probably a factor in why it's "marginalized" to begin with, eh?
So, if they want to light a fire under my ass for real, they'll need to provide a little more personalization... and being able to read the bills themselves might be a good start on that.
Virginia has one of those online ID laws. Generally, if I run up against one of the ID blocks, I just leave the site. They don't really need to have any information on me, now do they? If they are requiring it, there might just be something there that I don't want to see anyhow, and I'll be damned if I'm going to ID myself so they can follow me around with that bullshit.
On the other hand, if it's a site I really, REALLY think I need to get to, I just bypass their ID requirements by coming at them from elsewhere in the world, some place that doesn't require ID. No problem.
The only real messaging system I ever used was Facebook Messenger. Recently, they started end to end encrypting it, and apparently put a PIN on it... and neglected to tell me what that PIN was for my own damned messages with the net result that I can't even get into my own messages.
So I just stopped using it. Anyone that needs to talk to me has my phone number anyhow. I've no use for a message service that the message service can get into, but I can't. That kind of a message service is what security professionals call "a false sense of security".
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There was loads of stuff on how the bills might affect LGBTQ folks, and "marginalized communities", but not much in the way of how it would affect average folks like me. I mean, while I DO live in a "marginalized community" it doesn't mean much because that community is mostly white, so no one cares. Probably a factor in why it's "marginalized" to begin with, eh?
So, if they want to light a fire under my ass for real, they'll need to provide a little more personalization... and being able to read the bills themselves might be a good start on that.
Virginia has one of those online ID laws. Generally, if I run up against one of the ID blocks, I just leave the site. They don't really need to have any information on me, now do they? If they are requiring it, there might just be something there that I don't want to see anyhow, and I'll be damned if I'm going to ID myself so they can follow me around with that bullshit.
On the other hand, if it's a site I really, REALLY think I need to get to, I just bypass their ID requirements by coming at them from elsewhere in the world, some place that doesn't require ID. No problem.
The only real messaging system I ever used was Facebook Messenger. Recently, they started end to end encrypting it, and apparently put a PIN on it... and neglected to tell me what that PIN was for my own damned messages with the net result that I can't even get into my own messages.
So I just stopped using it. Anyone that needs to talk to me has my phone number anyhow. I've no use for a message service that the message service can get into, but I can't. That kind of a message service is what security professionals call "a false sense of security".
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake