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I know this is an uninteresting aside, but the name "Real ID" is odd, because you'd think there was some sort of obvious meaning behind "real" like maybe it's a

I know this is an uninteresting aside, but the name "Real ID" is odd, because you'd think there was some sort of obvious meaning behind "real" like maybe it's an acronym associated with the "REAL" in REAL ID Act of 2005, but nope. It just makes it sound like all of the government and international identification us citizens carry isn't real enough. What a dumb name.

kyleee 1y ago
It’s similar to when a pro athlete / famous person could not get the username they wanted, for instance on twitter and chooses to prepend “real_” to their username. What the government should do, is hire some xooglers to help with naming so in the future when Real ID is deprecated, they could transition to come up with some even better names like “Real ID (Official). Or they could launch a competing ID and use the same or similar name and then sunset one of them. That would be good.