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Comment · 11 months ago
Do you think it's impossible that there are undocumented folks living under false identities and/or stolen SSNs casting votes in elections? It's a yes or no question.

To put it another way, do you believe non-citizens in this country illegally (and thus already breaking the law), have some sort of deference when it comes to obeying election laws?

Thankfully we have the spry 45 year old election judges to oversee it all.

Comment · 11 months ago
Is it your contention that if someone was an illegal immigrant as alleged, and in doing so able to pass a local government background check without arousing suspicion, someone wouldn't be able to outsmart some 80 year old election judge who is volunteering her time that would otherwise be spent watching reruns of Judge Judy?

The system is not as airtight as you purport it to be.

Comment · 11 months ago
> And have you looked into the big employers, not Harriet Homeowner, but the meat packing plants, to see how carefully they examine documents?

The larger an employer's size, the more likely they are to do business with the federal government, which mandates the use of E-Verify.

Comment · 11 months ago
One of the more egregious stories that made national news and captured the zeitgeist of this situation was the alleged illegal immigrant that was working as a sworn police officer in suburban Chicago:

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-...

So given that this was allowed to happen, you want me to believe it's impossible for an illegal immigrant to cast a vote in an election? In Chicago? Where the dead people vote?

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2-investigators-chicago...

> In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.

Comment · 11 months ago
What do you propose that is better? VC-backed smartphone apps?

Aircraft have much better quality electronics than a $20 tabletop radio located some distance away by whoever is ripping the stream.

Comment · 1 year ago
I know it seems like an insignificant detail, but it's a totally different OS with a completely different lineage!
Comment · 1 year ago
It's not 'macOS'. The correct nomenclature is 'Mac OS'.
Comment · 1 year ago
You're right, the world is better off having some Asian kid taking apart your junk and breathing in solder fumes with no protection, rather than you running a legacy box in your basement that uses some extra kWh per year.

After all, he probably won't live long enough to tell his grandkids stories about power-hungry hardware.

That reminds me, my homelab could use a SPARC box just because.

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