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@aral Uh, no. This is some weird tinfoil hat nonsense. eiDAS isn't Clipper Chip, it PKI.

This regulation would require that browsers recognize the certificates of EU government-issued IDs.

It would allow me to use the same hardware token ID I use to file taxes and customs paper to verify my ID with banks, EU agencies, and other governments. It would allow us to use our IDs to sign PDFs, and widely enable passport verification.

@otfrom @lain @kaia I agree with your closing sentiment, but it's worth remembering that many of those countries (especially in the southeast) were colonized and never had colonies. Ottoman rule, for example, was politically and economically similar to English rule in Ireland (without using locals as agents in Africa and the Americas).

@freemo @pmonks @QasimRashid First of all, the top US tax bracket is 7x higher than the Dutch one, and 12.5% less. The "OUTRAGEOUS" Biden proposal to raise the top income tax bracket would still have Americans earning ~€489k paying rates like Dutch earning €35k.

Second, even when top US rates were +80%, almost nobody was paying them. Why? Because the whole point was to redirect income into capital investments.

@aral Hostile architecture exists but that's not an example. Bulgaria's homeless rate is so low, and the incidence in cities so rare, that there's no concept of anti-homeless measures of any kind.

It's western solution to a western problem which Bulgarians only learn about by visiting the west.