That is supposed to be reliable? It doesn’t even have a subscription service.

Somehow I don’t see Quebec deciding anything that favors a party that wants everyone to speak English.

I’m talking about modern marriage.

But most of the laws regarding marriage weren’t written in that time, they were written back when the legal situation was women could vote but you married a person from the surrounding five villages or neighborhoods or so that was roughly your age and you married for largely economic reasons. Divorce did not exist for the average person and marriages were for life even if they weren’t particularly happy. Living together unmarried was considered sinful.

That is the very reason they use marriage as a catchall for relationships, cohabitation with a romantic partner, coparenting,… in legal texts instead of considering other options.

You have got that backwards. Liking your partner was a thing that was very late to the marriage party.

The fact that many laws are written to favor one form of relationship is just another data point that suggests that that form of relationship needed extra incentives for people to even consider it.

Also, in a sensible legal system I could name e.g. a doctor who is a personal friend as the one who makes health decisions for me even if they are not my romantic partner.

And if they aren’t they are often sold into one of those systems once the younger generation of the family decides they have no interest in running their parents’ company.

In my experience SEO is largely bullshit too and the rest is so simple you could summarize it on maybe two regular pages of paper and actually documented on pages that the search engines publish themselves (stuff like duplicate content, stable URLs, which status codes to use when,…).

My view on this is that if the Church does nothing but follow trends in politics like any other government it loses the last few shreds of justification for its existence. If the Church agrees with everything governments are saying and doing anyway they make themselves redundant.

Of course, it can be one of the many, many organizations in the world who exploit people and doubly exploit poorer and less educated people for a while longer but what is supposed to be the value proposition to younger people and people they are trying to convert? “Hey, join us, invest your time into us, with us you can get fucked over not just by your government and your employer and your landlord and those selling products and services to you but also by your religion”? Doesn’t really seem like an appealing message to me.

It feels like this will be the point where the church decides if it wants to become relevant again by defying the trend of just turning more conservative and bigoted as so many governments are doing at the moment or if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

If targeted advertising worked the way they say it does then why is Amazon with my entire purchase history at their disposal, still unable to stop themselves from trying to sell me a second washing machine just after I bought one from them? Or Audible with hundreds of books in my account, most of them English, is still trying to sell me German versions of books with original English language versions? The whole notion that advertising has all that data to do better advertising assumes a competence level that just isn’t there.

You are not helping people with ADD by devising some sort of convoluted “solution” which requires them to get and then keep 30 year old technology working and transfer over the result of their work with technologies that themselves require a lot of patience too.

Well, to be fair Ken Ham has a sort of super-power, listening to him for any amount of time makes your brain leak out of your ears.

True but I think the important thing to note is that their prosperity is not really a direct consequence of the dystopian shit. Something that could not necessarily be said of e.g. the big tech companies of our time.

To be fair I also never understood people who were considered smart and moved to the US for brain drain related reasons.

It is just another step in that direction starting at real amateur porn (i.e. real sex by real people being filmed) over professional porn (actors being filmed), fake amateur porn (professionals pretending to be amateurs), animated or rendered or machinima porn,…

There hasn’t really been that much genuine left in porn in quite a while.

The elderly and disabled are exactly the people who are forgotten in a car centric society that assumes everyone can drive.

Most of those places would work just fine with a combination of trains for long distance and bicycles/walking for local travel too.

If anything, emergency vehicles have been hampered by the rampant proliferation and deregulation of cars, because it makes it harder for them to get to their destination quickly and safely.

Hell, half of the time I can’t move as quickly as I would like to through the city with my bicycle it is due to cars being in the way of moving quickly and efficiently. And that is a lot smaller than an ambulance.

I really don’t understand why people think they need to use outdated technology and inconvenient transfer methods to be undisturbed instead of just disabling programs that generate or display notifications (e.g. on Linux the notification daemon).

Do people really have so little self-control that they can’t just not use a network connection if it exists?

Society subjects people to a lot of things that people aren’t “perfectly fine with” but only some of them have wider implications for reputation, career chances, ostracizing,… and that is the main problem with this kind of technology.

Your assumption that people need deepfake technology to fantasize about people sexually who have no interest in being on the receiving end of that is at best naive and at worst arguing in bad faith.