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nobody is anywhere downrange

Reflections can also blind, so make sure no-one, including you, are uprange, or siderange (to stretch a wordform to breaking point) either.

I don’t think a license is going to help you if you’re found walking around with a 7 watt laser hooked up to the relevant drive circuitry. They’re still going to presume you’re up to no good, and, when they find a camera with a burned sensor, they’re going to assume it was you. I guess the moral of this is: don’t get caught.

I’ve been thinking along similar lines as this implicitly allows you to have multiple IDs, and for a lot of things it works well, especially if you can choose what attributes to attach to a specific ID, so, for instance, you could gave an ID that says you’re over 18, but gives no other information, and a separate one with your name and address.

Where it falls down is when you need to ensure individuals are only counted once, for instance, when voting. You could have a state ID issuer, but that gets us right back to the original problem.

I think they might be bots.

I’m not!

They read like YT comments.

YT comments are just text, so they can’t read at all. For that you’re going to want a Readerbot 3000.

My brain must be running at half speed today, it took me way too long to ‘get’ your comment! I went as far as checking the spelling and definition in a dictionary before I realised the joke. You get a hearty groan and an upvote.

The IRS have transcended the need for mere addresses, they simply dispatch their missives addressed as “To whom it will concern” and trust to the postal service.

“You won’t take me alive copper!”

You don’t need to stop them, you just need to make the effort not be worth it compared to using a different site. Things like making sure they have a valid session cookie before they hit the payment flow, and, ideally, require them to be logged in too. That way you can block attacking accounts, and they have to go through the effort of registering a new one, which is, hopefully, well gated against automated attacks.