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I see we're back at the "Labour attempt to introduce a mandatory ID card" stage of history*.

My feeling last time, was that the main problem that they always have is that they *start* with the cards being mandatory.

If you start with "Here is a thing that makes your life much easier, that you can carry about if you like." then that will get you 85% of the way there. And then, once you have a voluntary ID card that's not causing any problems for anyone, and that 85% of the population is using to make their life easier, *then* you move in and say "The only people who don't carry an ID card are weirdos and troublemakers, and they're causing friction in the system, we could make it all run more smoothly if only they *had* to carry one."

But no, they always try to go instantly from "Nobody has an ID card." to "Everyone must carry one at all times." - which forms a coalition of all sorts of people from across the political spectrum, and ends up being far more politically costly to them than if they'd just boiled their frog slowly.

(None of which should be taken as me taking a position on ID cards. I'm just constantly bemused by their inability to get things done by trying to rush them through in the most authoritarian manner possible.)

*Younger readers may not remember the fuss in 2006 (repealed in 2011)

1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction: (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
2. How the US military made San Francisco gay: (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites): (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke: (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?: Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK )
6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...: (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )

1. Why Don't Grocery Stores Stock the Most American Fruit? (The Pawpaw): (tags:fruit USA )
2. Why full-fat food could be the healthiest option: (tags:fat food )
3. How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now: (tags:ocean shipping fishing maps ai )
4. Looks like Room Temperature Superconductors are back on the menu!: (tags:superconductors )
5. Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity: (tags:fraud identity business Blockchain )
6. FactCheck: do you have to pay tax for selling secondhand on Vinted or eBay?: (tags:tax uk )
7. A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive: (tags:contraception men )
8. Study reveals genetic link between anorexia and being an early riser: (tags:sleep anorexia genetics )
9. More of Mickey Mouse is public domain than you might think: (tags:Disney copyright )
10. Here's a Labour MP denying Nazi war crimes. But apparently it's fine, because they're against transgender people.: (tags:nazis labour OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry lgbt )
11. They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better: (tags:ptsd psychedelics psychology )
12. Has The 'Sexlessness Epidemic' Been Overstated?: (tags:sex demographics society )

1. 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese): (tags:language history evolution )
2. I just discovered that the blobfish only looks ugly when it's been dragged up from the ocean depths.: (tags:fish )
3. Why was the Titan's hull made of carbon fibre?: (tags:materials submarine epicfail )
4. How does raising interest rates lower inflation? Why Bank of England hikes base rate to combat rising prices: (tags:economics )
5. India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks: (tags:India science evolution education OhForFucksSake )
6. One of the best pieces of advice on making art: (tags:art advice )
7. Major report says pupils should not sit exams before fifth year: (tags:scotland school Education )
8. ID rules stopped more than 14,000 British people voting: (tags:uk identity voting OhForFucksSake )

1. Women's Equality Party votes in favour of self ID: (tags:Identity LGBT transgender women GoodNews )
2. BT and unions agree pay rise of up to 16% to stop more strikes.: (tags:unions pay strike BT )
3. What do people think of the Tories?: (tags:Conservatives politics polls uk )

1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books: (tags:library history women horses usa )
2. AI image generation is improving quickly: (tags:AI art )
3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition: (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity: (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries): (tags:LGBT polls )
6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case: (tags:work France fun law )
7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery: (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved: (tags:physics )
9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence: (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems: (tags:storage electricity scotland )

1. The right wing company who own hundreds of local American TV broadcasters: (tags:TV politics usa )
2. No US-UK trade deal if Boris Johnson discards Northern Ireland protocol: (tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland Ireland USA trade )
3. Monkeypox outbreak erupts; US, UK, Spain, Portugal, and more report cases: (tags:disease monkey )
4. Single progressive challenger to Tories wins seats (because of FPTP): (tags:voting uk fptp OhForFucksSake )
5. Why "Scottish" not "British" now leads Scotland's identity: (tags:Scotland UK identity )
6. SpaceX Paid $250,000 to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Elon Musk of Sexual Misconduct: (tags:ElonMusk abuse sex )
7. Hinkley Point C delayed by a year as cost goes up by £3bn: (tags:nuclearpower uk )
8. OnlyFans Star Got Her Instagram Back by Sleeping With Facebook Employees: (tags:sexwork censorship facebook sex )
9. There's a bunch of fantasy that I struggle with nowadays because it comes across like this.: (tags:StarWars fantasy genetics )

1. Jamie Wallis: Conservative politician comes out as UK's first openly trans MP: (tags:LGBT conservatives UK transgender )
2. How cables get so tangled: (tags:video cables funny Technology )
3. A Woman's Story: (tags:racism computers women history usa )
4. "I no longer grade my students' work - and I wish I had stopped sooner": (tags:academia learning school )
5. When the school day starts later, teens get better sleep and feel more motivated: (tags:sleep school )
6. Automated taxis coming to San Francisco: (tags:sanfrancisco automation driving cars )
7. MPs Vote To Make At-Home Early Abortion Services Permanent: (tags:UK abortion GoodNews )
8. The vast majority of British voters support a close deal with the EU (Norway-like): (tags:UK Europe polls identity )
9. Scottish under 18s will no longer be sent to young offenders institutions: Although, why can changing approach from "one of punishment to one of love and support" be applied to adults too?
(tags:scotland prison children )
10. "Procedural Justice" reduces crime by 14% and arrests by 60%: (tags:crime police transparency )
11. Mobile phone users do not have increased risk of brain tumours: (tags:mobile_phones Technology cancer GoodNews )

Sue Gray says she's not able to present 'meaningful report' due to Metropolitan Police investigation: (tags:UK police conservatives BorisJohnson party )
What do you when the new hire who showed up is not the same person you interviewed?: (tags:work fraud identity wtf interviews )
The New York Times Buys Wordle: (tags:games newspapers newyork wtf )
People have the weirdest ideas: astronomy edition: (tags:astronomy ignorance )
The longer you watch this the more kittens appear: (tags:kittens cute video )
Police given 500 pieces of paper and 300 photographs of evidence on partygate: (tags:police party Pandemic )
Peter Dinklage Called Out By Actors With Dwarfism For His Accusations Against Disney: (tags:acting Disney size )
Scotland's new smoke alarms law comes into force: (tags:Scotland safety fire housing )
This Osprey Looks Right At His Rescuer As He Frees Him: (tags:birds video )
Sophia's nursery is the first childcare business in Scotland to transition to being owned by its staff!: (tags:children business ownership Scotland )

Is this how a Pictish fort looked 1,000 years ago?: (tags:scotland archeology )
A reminder that wearing clothes from other cultures is just fine, so long as you're not being a dick about it: (tags:clothing culture cultural_appropriation )
One of the people the BBC platformed in its recent transphobic piece turns out to be a serial rapist and is now calling for the murder of trans people: (tags:LGBT BBC rape transgender bigotry )
UK Government Officials Held Secret Meeting With âEx-Gayâ Conversion Therapy Providers: (tags:LGBT UK politics conservatives OhForFucksSake bigotry )
US issues first gender-neutral 'X' passport: (tags:USA gender passport GoodNews )
CDC overwhelmingly recommends COVID vaccine for US kids 5 to 11: (tags:vaccine Pandemic children USA )
Man left shocked as his house is stolen: (tags:housing theft fraud identity uk )
BBC News reports a non-existent religious revival: (tags:uk polls religion )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4108198.html

Heavy! Metal! Harp!: (tags:music video viaNancyLebov )
Have some terrifying predictions about schools and Covid: (tags:children school pandemic )
I see the next generation of robot assassins is coming along nicely: (tags:robots video )
Nando's shuts restaurants as it runs short of supplies: (tags:food transport UK Doom )
Edinburgh Castle protestors claim to have 'seized' landmark as police called to the scene: (tags:Edinburgh castle wtf Scotland )
Some Scottish Covid changes could be made permanent: (tags:Scotland pandemic )
But, you ask, how does one *make* a robot assassin?: (tags:robots video )
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul: (tags:taliban afghanistan communication )
When Google lies to people about who you are: (tags:google identity photos )
New political divides opening up between countryside and city dwellers across Europe: (tags:uk europe politics cities immigration )
Anime studios and an all-star cast combine for Star Wars: Visions: (tags:anime StarWars )
There is no link between anonymity and incivility on social media: (tags:anonymity abuse socialmedia )
Apparently we're holding a superspreader event for MPs!: (tags:pandemic politics UK )
Top pro-Israel lawyer faked vandalism attack at Scots home in plot to frame Palestine group: (tags:Palestine Israel Scotland OhForFucksSake )
Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes: (tags:brains eyes )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4074497.html

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4068692.html

Star Trek: The Original Lyrics: (tags:StarTrek music lyrics )
Facebook Is Showing Military Gear Ads Next To Insurrection Posts: (tags:facebook OhForFucksSake coup military terrorism advertising )
Indyref2: SNP reveal 'roadmap' to another independence referendum: (tags:independence referendum SNP Scotland )
How would you connect a modern graphics card to a 40-year-old original IBM PC?: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352715917889658880.html
(tags:computers graphics history )
Seals playing in ridiculously big waves: (tags:animals Ocean play video )
In the middle of the 80s a gay man wrote a subversive parable about standing up for your chosen identity. And then the Little Mermaid saved Disney animation: (tags:Disney LGBT history identity movies )
Investigating "fat but fit" (longitudinal study of 500,000 people): (tags:obesity health weight )
How Long Does a Bottle of Wine Last After It Is Opened?: (tags:wine air oxygen )
Why have so many brands changed their logos to look bland and unrecognisable?: (tags:design branding logo fonts )
The pandemic projections look hopeful for the UK: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1353270197935812608.html
(tags:UK pandemic thefuture )
Do you suffer from friendship degradation? (I'm pretty sure I don't): (tags:friendship psychology adhd )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3989657.html

The Uncanny Valley of Culture: (tags:culture society tv movies media )
Apple Silicon and losing our legacy: (tags:apple history doom sad )
Guatemala protesters torch Congress, set up guillotine, as simmering anger boils over: (tags:guatemala riots corruption )
Baby! Yoda! Cocktails!: (tags:StarWars alcohol )
People who absolutely love their lives, what's their story?: (tags:happiness life advice personality )
Coronavirus: why are Western countries like the US and Britain still not learning from Asia's success?: (tags:pandemic uk usa epicfail china singapore korea )
Fake people are created on Twitter and then the BBC shares their opinions as if they were real: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330632499907661837.html
(tags:BBC fraud identity politics uk )
The new war in Ethiopia. The first step towards peace is understanding the conflict.: (tags:Ethiopia politics war history )
How do the coronavirus vaccines compare so far?: (tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews )
The BBC can fuck off, transphobic hate group edition: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330758709140729856.html
(tags:lgbt transgender BBC OhForFucksSake )
Trans boy takes NHS to court over delays to gender identity treatment: (tags:LGBT UK transgender NHS )
Scotland's national investment bank launches: (tags:Scotland investment )
Two-dimensional trees for fun and profit!: (tags:trees )
Trump accepts US presidency transition to Biden must begin: (tags:usa politics ThankGoodnessForThat )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3961974.html

Victorian Engineering Connections (everyone, apparently, knew everyone): (tags:engineering history visualisation )
Feminist action, not feminist identity: (tags:Identity feminism society )
Police corruption in the USA really does seem to be endemic: (tags:police corruption usa )
LEGO Asks Retailers to Stop Advertising Police Sets, Pledges $4M to Fight Racism: (tags:Lego police racism )
Madeleine McCann: Jailed German paedophile at centre of new police inquiry: (tags:abuse children )
Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom: (tags:headline death psychedelics )
Video of a mud slide dragging multiple houses into the sea: (tags:video Norway )
Australians horrified by the USA should look to themselves. There have been 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody since 1991 yet there has not been a single conviction: (tags:police australia racism )
A city built by slaves - remembering Edinburgh's shameful slave trade history: (tags:Edinburgh slavery Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3894182.html

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