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Xenny ,

What’s wrong with passport offices? Here in the states I tried to get my passport in my teen years. I filled all the paperwork paid for it and everything when it came time to get the passport they were just like"you don’t exist your social security number isn’t real" and that’s b******* since my mom had been literally filing taxes with that number as a dependent my entire life. The passport office said tough s*** fax me all your ID information maybe we can do something. So I literally hooked up a fax machine in 2014 and sent everything off but still nothing.

Tl;Dr US passport office told me I’m not a person and took my money anyway.

Birbatron ,

I’m not familiar with how voting works in America but like…

Can you vote? I mean it thinks you’re not a person, can non-people vote?

Xenny ,

I can and have voted since. The passport office was just on something

APassenger ,

This is what congress people are for.

Maggoty ,

A. Call your Congress critter. Part of their job is tracking stuff like this down.

B. Go check with SSA immediately. That can be a big problem later.

SexualPolytope ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The people involved with this bullshit should be sacked. Typical power-tripping idiots.

humbletightband ,

Can’t see anything wrong with calling your child after your favorite character

TheLowestStone ,
@TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

Well, for starters the character’s name isn’t even Khaleesi.

Nuke_the_whales ,

That’s it, I’m naming my kid Norman Bates

Nuke_the_whales ,

Mom especially

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, I don’t think she technically did anything wrong but I really wish she wouldn’t have.

ColeSloth ,

You named your daughter after a tv/book character famous for getting naked, railed, being a bit nuts, and losing a war? I guess she OG owned some dragons for a while. Destined to be bad ass destroy all mega lizards before season 8 destroyed an entire series.

Maggoty ,

The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside, the UK just decided that a corporation can own your name and prevent you from enjoying the rights of your citizenship.

That’s pretty fucked.

DMBFFF ,
@DMBFFF@lemmy.world avatar

“queen” in Lojban is “nolraitruti’u.”

mw.lojban.org/…/me_lu_ju'i_lobypli_li'u_18_moi

😁🙂

Maggoty ,

Are you saying they should just use lojban?

DMBFFF ,
@DMBFFF@lemmy.world avatar

Presumably they won’t get sued by IP (“intellectual property”) trolls.

Ilovethebomb ,

The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error.

No, they can’t. That’s not how copyright works. Read the damn article.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Are they worried that this 6 year old is stealing the identity of a fictional character? 🤨

huquad ,

This is their fault for not checking the username db first. Should’ve tried xXx_khaleesi_xXx instead

DMBFFF ,
@DMBFFF@lemmy.world avatar

1a. Folks, before you name your children, don’t make it easy for the big corporations to sue you. Those who “own” (i.e. use the government to suppress your right to free speech) a conlang, be it Dothraki, Klingon, or Tolkien’s language care far more about profit than culture.

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2b. wp:Dothraki language

In 2012, 146 newborn girls in the United States were named “Khaleesi”, the Dothraki term for the wife of a khal or ruler, and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.[3]

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3c. wt:kalisi

Noun

kalisi (n class, plural kalisi)

Alternative form of kalisiamu

wt:kalisiamu:Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English calcium.

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