Fantasy_masterMC

As someone who's only recently gotten into the 'romance' genre, whether smut or not, how can I find something that's actually worth reading?
The majority of the stories I've picked up were honestly painful. Might or might not have anything to do with a relatively low tolerance for drama. If the characters whose relationship I'm reading about act too stupid, I'll completely lose interest in the book because I can't imagine people being that stupid to each other without good reason.

Not to mention excessive telegraphing by some authors. about 70% of the time, when I read a story that involves some form of romance, the author telegraphs the relationship in SUCH an obvious way that any doubts they try to cast on those people getting together simply break immersion. I guess I'm a picky reader.

So, to rephrase the questions for maximum clarity, is there some way to distinguish the 'good' romance from the 'bad' romance, and are there any signs beyond the synopsis that will tell me how overstated the relationship drama will be?

Depends on the scale and the target. Taking down a non-vital website for a few hours is less impactful than identity fraud, but taking down the infrastructure of a government website or even just stressing it to the point of it NEARLY being overloaded could be far more damaging overall than a single case of identity fraud.

yeah, the perpetrator of the identity fraud will almost always have a bigger impact than someone hitting off random sites, or even the occasional government site Hell, in my specific area of commissions I recently discovered some asshole was impersonating me. By estimate, he managed to scam several thousand over a period of a few months using mine and other's identities.

The reason I'm asking this, btw, is that some members of the government seem blind and deaf to anything with "privacy" in it, yet as soon as "security" becomes an issue they'll do anything between breaching individual human rights and completely paralyzing entire cultural systems.

As a european, I've gotten the overall impression that in the US you need to re-register yearly, or otherwise people move to another county/state and forget to register to vote there.

I'm used to always registering with my local council after I'm settled in, and then automatically receiving any relevant voting passes in the mail.
How does the system in the US work to make registering to vote such a challenge that there need to be dedicated campaigns by former presidents, political parties and activist groups?