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Gemini Digest, Vol 25, Issue 4

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net

Sat Aug 7 18:32:37 BST 2021

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On Friday, August 6th, 2021 at 16:33, Almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote:

Also, I'm pretty sure you can fill those forms in the nearest government
office. (is that the word?) Being Hungarian myself (which is the country
where Szeged is, unless there's another Szeged somewhere else) I had
never encountered anything similar that couldn't be done in-person, or
through the phone (for which you can use a public phone).

Not necessarily. One of the reasons services in the States have moved to the "you canonly fill forms out online" model is because it's far cheaper than maintaining officespace staffed with personnel who manage physical paperwork, plus the cost of printing,storing, archiving, and managing those dead trees goes away.

There is also the highly tone-deaf "apps fix everything, let's make smartphone apps"attitude.

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