@adisonverlice precisely that!

The only reason I'd not consider someone showing a drivers' license or ID card in-store for purchases of alcohol and tobacco is because one can basically hold it to only reveal one's photo and DOB and because it's neither practivcal nor feasible for staff to try to remember all the details within a second.

• Besides they only do it when they are 'doubtful' about someone's age as it ruins their flow even in a kiosk or gas station since most people won't have their ID ready to present…

Personally, I don't know of any good way to solve this online/remotely without it implementing #KYC even through circumstantial connection.

• May it be #PayPal / #CreditCard (#AVS-bit) / #SofortIdent (part if #SOFORT, now acquired by #Klarna), #PostIdent or any other format.

Like even if one were to offer some "#AgeVerification PIN" system (similar to TANs for #OnlineBanking) one would inevitably create a database of adults and their consumption / purchase / viewing habits.

• And that alone not only can, but will be weaponized to #blackmail and extort people.

So unless it's a #PaySafeCard-like system where one could just buy it at a kiosk fir cash (which does the *"age verification") there's no good way to do it.

• Although that too isn't secure nor watertight, as we all know from 17+ / 18+ / AO-rated games and movies: Just like tobacco & liquor it only needs some adults colluding to undermine it.

#Ratingen #NRW

#Update
21.25 Uhr: Die #amerikanische #FünfZentnerBombe aus dem #ZweitenWeltkrieg an der Angerstraße in der Ratinger #Innenstadt ist vom #Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst #erfolgreich #entschärft werden. Alle #Personen, die innerhalb der #Räumungszone wohnen, können ab #sofort in ihre #Wohnungen #zurückkehren. Alle #Straßensperren sind #aufgehoben.

#Bombenfund

@ustralien so if the #USA dislikes someone (which happens quite often and for no valid reason but to flex or blackmail, weaponizing #US-centrism), one's basically unable to legally obtain it?

Are they just incompetent or lazy? Cuz it's not as if they couldn't get alternative payment options setip. They certainly are big enough to get in talks with big payment processors like #NowPayments, #Klarna nee #SOFORT and #Adyen that support #SEPA as well...

• Hell, I'd assume the at least support #PayPal, cuz even #2b2t does that!

#rant #streaming #Nebula

Bei - auch nur vermutetem #Schlaganfall
ist #Aspirin #kontraindiziert - solange nicht
ausgeschlossen ist dass eine #Blutung vorliegt

In #beiden Fällen #sofort den #Notruf
absetzen und medizinische
#Hilfe abwarten