Check out the new US passport

(mishtalk.com)

28 points | by megamike 13 hours ago ago

14 comments

  • stevenalowe 9 hours ago ago

    '“Welcome, but be good” is not the language of citizenship. It is the language of a landlord. Or a bouncer. Or a king.'

    Double creepy with the dog-growling posture in the picture, with a side of dumb, as passports are not visas.

    The point about merging the "brand" of the USA with the "brand" of Trump is spot on; definitely a disturbing pattern here. Narcissist of fascist? Why not both?

    • mslt 5 hours ago ago

      More importantly, the US isn’t the one welcoming someone holding a US passport, so the phrase is nonsense and reflects a complete lack of understanding or at least thought as to the purpose of the document

  • sscaryterry 13 hours ago ago

    Is this for real?

    • ccvannorman 13 hours ago ago

      yes but it's an optional limited edition run

      • rorylawless 13 hours ago ago

        And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.

      • pseudohadamard 6 hours ago ago

        For the moment, anyway.

    • joezydeco 13 hours ago ago

      The passport is real, this style of book will be a limited-edition option when you renew.

      The article, though, is AI slop.

      • mtmail 13 hours ago ago

        The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.

        • unmole 6 hours ago ago

          > Most of the article is a quote

          The quote absolutely reads like AI slop.

        • tough 12 hours ago ago

          Its entirely possible they still used some sort of AI to either transcript or edit their content tho, even if personally dictated by them etc. At which point slop becomes human authorship depends on your POV i guess

          • forestry 9 hours ago ago

            That’s not what “AI slop” means and I’m confident you know that.

        • netsharc 10 hours ago ago

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  • warumdarum 4 hours ago ago

    Integrate or be deported. Try to culturally take over and experience the same. You joined a recipe that works from a place that does not work (as well). Some not at all. Do not bring that recipe for cultural disaster into this country.

    • mindslight 3 hours ago ago

      Appeals to culture are so cringe in the context of support for Con-ald fucking Grump, who has been the worst thing to happen to our culture and our country in my lifetime. Exhibit A: this train wreck of a "passport". I know you desperately want there to be some innate quality you personally possess that is responsible for "great" things, but the only thing you're actually demonstrating is utterly hopeless gullibility.