Kinda. It’s a novel technology and one that hasn’t been well analyzed or exhaustively tested.

A computer is a machine that makes human errors at the speed of electricity.

Jeremy Corbyn was simply ahead of his time.

You’ve got some fairly forthright anarchists. They just don’t have the capital or the manpower to institute their social vision.

The only thing they should care about are contracts.

A marriage is a contract.

The government shouldn’t care.

As soon as its time to pay taxes, the government cares. When you’re declaring ownership/sale of property, the government needs to determine if the re-titling is legal and has to care. Household accumulation and collection of private debts means the government has to care. Knowing legal residency as a result of marriage is a requirement. Knowing the legal parents/guardians of children is under government purview, as is knowing which school district the children are eligible to attend.

There’s so many downstream consequences of marriage, I could hardly list them all.

they should not care what religion or what sex the people are

Theocratic governments are naturally going to care about the religious inclinations of their residents and the violation of taboos. And Americans need to recognize that we are absolutely living in a theocracy, at least under certain Christian Dominionist state and national bureaucratic leaders.

“Well, but we should/shouldn’t…” is ultimately a decision left to the voters, and one that can change with every new election cycle. It isn’t a moral imperative that overrides legal authority.

As I understand it, older versions of the app have hacked that call/response so it either doesn’t happen or dummies out. Also, lots of minecraft community servers will advertise what version they’re using, because certain updates are considered undesirable.

Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.

did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?

More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.

The two guys calling you a “Tankie” in the comments.

You can just download any of the older iterations of Minecraft and host your own server.

You don’t need to be on the latest release.

What if Five Eyes was Russian?

Not marriages in the religious sense.

Governments don’t manage marriages in the religious sense, they manage them in the legal sense. That is, and has always been, the fight wrt same sex marriages.

And as marriage is the primary way by which two people from different families join together into a new legal family - with a host of legal consequences following that joining of households - you absolutely need marriage overseen by the state, for the same reason you have a host of other legal institutions overseen by the state.

Alabama tried this back in 2017 with Common Law marriage in response to a number of gay couples attempting to claim it following the 2015 ruling requiring same-sex marriages to be recognized. Now Alabama requires an official court recognition of any marriage. And as a result, a handful of counties have operated in defiance of the Supreme Court by refusing to issue same-sex licenses. Another set have ended the practice of issuing marriage license at all.

But its not a practical solution, given the amount of legal scholarship surrounding the concept of marriage. Like, marriage and adoption are the two established methods of including two biologically unrelated individuals in the same legal household. There’s no other universal interstate mechanism for doing it.

Incidentally, one historical method of getting around same-sex marriage restrictions for gay couples was for one partner to legally adopt the other as a child. There’s a whole host of reasons why this isn’t a good legal substitute for marriage.

yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.

90% of dealing with family while doing tech support is dealing with family.

Somehow, in the middle of doing whatever I’ve been asked over to do, I’m juggling a book of old family photos and three plates of snacks and every animal in the house and my mom is still upset with me because I’m not giving her enough attention.

Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

This is what they’ve got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won’t step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

The UK police state is metasticizing again.

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities

Examples include at least four 911 emergency calls referencing sexual abuse at the South Texas Ice processing center since January.

Tell that to Wikileaks.

I mean, they succeeded in so far as it wasn’t included in the US National broadcast. The overwhelming majority of CBS viewers will not see this. YouTube won’t host it. You won’t see it on TikTok. You won’t see it trending on Twitter. Anyone with the genuine impulse to search out the video doesn’t need convincing that CECOT is operating as a horrifying torture and death camp for victims of an American pogrom.

That Weiss was sloppy in her management of CBS won’t matter in the long run, because stories like this won’t be funded for research and broadcast in the future, either. The network is being strangled to death and replaced with a full lineup of segments starring Steven Crowder screaming “What is a woman!?!” at college freshmen in between ads for PragerU.

“Nothing happened today” isn’t a sign of a slow news day, it’s a sign of institutional decay. Literally people unwilling or unable to do their jobs.

Modern hustle culture has it’s own problems, but suggesting we should be applauding a national broadcaster just doing Ferris Beuller’s Day Off? Come on.

Real “nothing to see here, move along” moment