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Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by gcr on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:34AM (#48732560)
posters upthread are talking about comprehension and value systems, not literacy.

"functionally illiterate" is the brush that one paints with when describing people of opposing political viewpoint or lower socioeconomic status, for example.

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Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by jazzyjackson on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:11AM (#48732987)
I must be illiterate because this doesn’t make any sense to me

Being kinda dumb and graduating school without reading a book is not a socioeconomic status

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Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by chadgpt3 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:39PM (#48735296)
The point: you call them "functionally illiterate" when you don't like them. Otherwise, you call them something else.
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Re:European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple by jazzyjackson on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:11AM (#48742496)
I guess one could use it as an insult but I’ve only heard it as a practical descriptor for someone who can read the headlines but not the article
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