Well there's the first issue. That's harder and harder to do in this economy, and the quality of people I meet aren't exactly the ones who won't flake 80% of invites.
Most of what I'm working on ends up being social clubs.
Tech Pizza Mondays has been going well, as the Toronto HN meetup. If you're reading this on HN, you're welcome to join us -> URL Mondays.Pizza details on fedi.
We just finished Toronto's Pizza Day, our fifth year in a row and most successful so far. toronto.pizzadao.xyz will eventually get updated to next year's event invite.
I threw a fun experimental comedy party, and I plan to throw another in August. Having a volunteer cast was great, the clown burlesque was shockingly great. I hope to find some team members who want to join forces and put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen!
Working on founding a school in Toronto has been very difficult, feels like I'm making zero real progress over time. If anyone cares deeply about education, I'd be happy to talk. I'm extremely enthusiastic about the Sudbury Valley School model.
And this last week I started a fitness club, where most weekdays we do strength training with giant wooden swords. Looking for people who want to join up and get strong and have fun!
Unfortunately it's not a clearly written clause. It's derived from the dignity of humans and similar general terms. So the interpretation has changed over the decades. As long as the GDR existed it was clearly considered a property of a totalitarian state. Existed in the GDR (East) but unthinkable in the Federal Republic (West). Maybe 15 years after reunification (don't quote me on the exact number) a permament nationwide tax id was introduced. With the promise that its usage will forever be limited to tax offices and exchange with any other authorities is illegal. Another 15 years later that promise was "forgotten" and now the tax id can be exchanged with many authorities. It's relatively new and probably not widely used yet. But the dams have been opened.
Yes, that's a better explanation of the constitutional status, thank you! (Supreme court decision vs. an explicit clause in the constitution.)
FWIW, I think in this age of massive databases that can be effortlessly joined on fuzzy matching criteria, the lack of a unique person identifier is more of a hurdle for legitimate use cases than a safety measure against government or corporate overreach.
One good thing about it is the complete lack of the horrible "SSN as both primary key and bearer authentication token" pattern that's commonplace in the US, though – but the alternatives are pretty annoying, in my experience.
That sounds a bit like how SSN use in the US has broadened from its original scope. Any government power, once granted, seems only to ever increase in scope.
I invite people to events almost every time I go out and talk to people.