Comment by terminalshort
4 months ago
Mail is completely obsolete and we shouldn't spend money to support it. I can't think of anything stupider than writing a message down on paper and physically transporting it to its destination. Not one cent of my taxes should be spent on maintaining it as a standard means of communication.
Mail is the opposite of obsolete. Ever bought anything and had it shipped to you? You probably used mail. A paper letter is just a special case of mail.
My taxes shouldn't be spent on putting up walls around the government and juicy contracts with technocrats excluding people from being able to sort things out with government. If I must first pay some technocrat to buy their computing terminal to contact government then government failed me.
Yes, and it happens to be the special case we are talking about here since the entire thing is about communication with the government. If you refuse to use email you choose to segregate yourself and it should be your own problem to deal with that, not anyone else's.
if you are so crazy about not paying more tax than needed think that having to buy a device is also a tax.
also next you will say there's too much email spam so we can't waste taxpayer money making them go through it, so we can only contact them using the approved app on approved hardware with remote atteststion to ensure you didn't root it. if you refuse, it's your problem segregating yourself.
of course later that app will require you to first talk to an LLM. only if LLM decides your problem is important enough you can really contact the government. why waste taxpayer money on supporting various legacy means of talking to taxpayers if it can be spent on billion dollar contracts with tech companies instead
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