Ian Campbell 🏴This is a hilariously harmless “fucked around and found out” story.
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joy larkin 🌺✨I genuinely laughed at this.
Viss@joy @neurovagrant glorious
Epic Null@neurovagrant honestly?
This might actually be a good thing? We should have more non-name signitures.
Patrick Morris Miller@Epic_Null @neurovagrant I mean, my signature already looks more like an earthworm on LSD than anything in any human language. Might as well go all the way and use bespoke inkstamps like in Japan.
2xfo@neurovagrant
I had my vote challenged because my signature on the mail-in ballot didn't match the one on my ID. Just FYI
I had my vote challenged because my signature on the mail-in ballot didn't match the one on my ID. Just FYI
Dofain@neurovagrant @baralheia Congratulation on ownership!
Aoi_X_Kaizaki@neurovagrant My name is 3 cat head. (sounds like a band name) What's yours?
Mira@neurovagrant That’s a good one! Poor dude, having to do that “signature” so many times. I’m surprised no one asked “how do you pronounce that?”
D2@mira @neurovagrant
Me: signs with a symbol
Other: how do you pronounce that?
Me: ‘inkomtech. It’s my autograph, not words.’
Me: signs with a symbol
Other: how do you pronounce that?
Me: ‘inkomtech. It’s my autograph, not words.’
Lillith "Infinidoge"@neurovagrant The only reason why I haven't done something like this is because I am a coward who hasn't learned how to commit to the bit yet. Eventually I want to get good at drawing something like a paw print or some other litte icon. Non-word signatures are awesome.
Maybe I could get an intricate stamp. Hmm. Thoughts for later.
Venus@neurovagrant That's why my signature is two dots and a curved line
I am Water@neurovagrant I drew the gastrointestinal diagram at a grocery store once. When my wife asked me what I was doing I’m like I’m busy. She looked and just said ohh god.
The machine accepted it so that’s that.
The machine accepted it so that’s that.
LeeRayl@neurovagrant crime fits the punishment in this case. I would have laughed through signing them knowing someone got paid to make this happen. The corporate engine briefly stopped, a risk assessment as made, good chance legal called. That prank cost more to the system than 90 cat heads .
tessarakt@neurovagrant The legal criteria for a valid signature (as part of the form "in writing") are pretty specific in Germany: a rendering of the name with at least some recognisable characters.
However, in the US, at least the Uniform Commercial Code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/1/1-201 defines "Signed" as "includes using any symbol executed or adopted with present intention to adopt or accept a writing .", i.e., also execution by mark.
@neurovagrant But anyway, I doubt there is any legal requirement that the signature has to match the sample on the driver license.
Aren't mortgage papers anyway notarized? So the notary should know what a signature is.
The Lack Thereof 
@tessarakt
Long history in the US to accommodate legal marks made by the illiterate informs our law. Almost forgotten now.
The opening prison scene in the Blues Brothers, where Jake receives his possessions makes a mark rather than signing, is meant to imply that Jake is illiterate.
hollow-one> This is a hilariously harmless “fucked around and found out” story.
I love stuff like that. That makes me continually believing we got the system under control, not the other way!
And the stupid bureaucracy has to follow us, not us the damn fucking paperwork. :)
Hazelnoot@neurovagrant wait do signatures actually matter when buying a house?? I always just do some random scribbles, including on my IDs 
@neurovagrant
Yeah when you're borrowing six figures they want to make sure everything matches and nothing can be challenged. The title company literally sent a notary to my apartment with all the paperwork when I bought my condo.
Yeah when you're borrowing six figures they want to make sure everything matches and nothing can be challenged. The title company literally sent a notary to my apartment with all the paperwork when I bought my condo.
@lackthereof @neurovagrant oh interesting, thanks for the info! Good thing I'll never afford to have that problem 
Jessamyn@neurovagrant I had to sign approx 100 documents in order to be a part time contractor at a version control site which rhymes with "shithub." This was in the months before its acquisition by a bigger company. I tired of signing documents that no one would ever read as part of a largely performative onboarding process, so I started signing some of them "Abolish Ice." I worked there eleven days until someone actually looked at my documents and thought I might be a bad fit. They were not wrong.
Pseudo Nym1. Run for and win US presidency.
2. Sign executive orders with cat heads.
3. Profit!
Veronica Olsen@pseudonym @neurovagrant It's certainly better than the current pubic hair signature!
Primo
Cyber Yuki@neurovagrant oh no 😿😿😿
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@neurovagrant Sounds like a broken system to me, if your signature on your driving licence matters for anything other than your driving.
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
shironeko@neurovagrant 100% will
do again
do again
4n6@neurovagrant I used to write “please check photo ID” on the back of my credit cards, back before chip/pin was common. About half of the time, people didn’t even look at the signaure section. Another common reaction was turning the card over to see the “signature” (which clearly looked nothing like what I just signed), and promptly ignore it.
Sometimes, just sometimes, they’d actually look, and ask me for ID (yay!). I had one place insist that I sign the receipt with “please check photo ID”. And no, they didn’t check my ID.
sidereal@neurovagrant So uhhh
This is a Washington state license. Most people in WA vote by mail. They compare the signature on your ballot to the one on your license. So this guy probably hasn’t voted since 2015 🤣