<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, at 8:19 PM, <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div class="qt-ydp2a38606eyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Am I the only person who stops and wonders why a website wants my ID? <br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Not the only one.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div class="qt-ydp2a38606eyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr">If it's my bank,wants me to verify my identity, and I am sure the website really is my bank. Well OK. Otherwise, maybe I don't want to pull out my DL.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Did you hear about the guy on the news saying that Trump should pardon him because the riot was Trump's idea?<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Ahh, I meant to also link this excellent piece, which is an analysis of Trump's speech right before the riot.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">See particularly around tweet 31, and around 170.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">He goes into a rather fascinating tactic of Trump's saying things as A->X->B, and most of us would hear X as a de-escalation or tangent and B as a non-sequitur of X. But what his target audience hears is that B follows from A.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I think Seth argues quite well that the riot was, in fact, Trump's idea, and that understanding from the insurrectionist was common among those who were there.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Deirdre</div></body></html>