I've always associated Labour with ID cards, so this feels right for Labour. Last time they pretended it was needed to prevent terrorism as that was the issue de jour but this time it's immigration.

That NI number lives in my head. I don't have to carry a physical card or install an app.

So why is another form of ID needed?

Post something the government doesn't like, and you can no longer get a job, but you never find out why.

I wrote about how to force pages to do that here using uBO: https://blerg.net/blog/selecting-text/

Or chuck it out as e-waste and buy the shiny new one

I suppose thats a bit easier than reading it out to ChatGPT.

> "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?"

I still feel that way. I have cookbooks because I find the UX better than searching for recipes.

So I can read the 20,000 story about how the author was told this recipe by their brothers husbands step-grandmother while vacationing at the lake house with their golden retriever named Max before I can get to the recipe.

While this joke is never mentioned and is hilarious every time, you'd be hard pressed to find a recipe site that didn't have either a "print" or "go to recipe" button at the top.

Well, it's a speaker. Its not using bone conduction.

Probably not a very loud speaker but if someone is next to you then surely they'd hear it.

I find that list out of date. It shows friends that deleted the app months ago so don't receive the message.