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Most married same-sex couples worried about challenges to marriage equality: study
  • Because historically the purpose of marriage was the secure economic and political alliances, and importantly produce heirs so that wealth stayed in the family. Even the idea of formally asking for the consent of the two people to be is only around 1000 years old.

    Marriage first and foremost is a legal contract to bind your wealth together. The romance is just marketing.

    Ten key moments in the history of marriage - BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17351133

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  • On the surface it seems reasonable, but it tends to have misogynistic undertones, especially if said towards strangers.

    It's like when the paparazzi publishes photos of celebrities with no makeup without their consent. If her makeup skills are good, she gets accused of "deceiving" people about her real age/looks. If her makeup skills are bad, she just gets called ugly.

  • Is Science Fiction Inherently Hopeful?
  • No. On the Beach by Nevil Shute is a sci fi story about the survivors of a global nuclear war in Australia, and as a warning against the futility of war everyone eventually dies of radiation poisoning.

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    TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5
  • Civ 6 was made much more to be a digital board game. The combination of little to no multiplicative bonuses and generally small adjacency bonuses means you have to micro manage city planning all the time. It bombards the player with so many individual decisions that each make little impact.

    Civ 5 felt much more like an empire simulator. The biggest bonuses come from making "big" decisions, like which policy tree, who/when to war, which ideology. As the game progressed, there was typically no need to micromanage.

    The combat in civ 6 is atrocious after they removed the ability to build roads offensively for war until you unlock military engies (way too late in the game). Civ 5's road system took ages to get up and running, but the payoff was immense.

    The civics tree system is better, but the policy card system is broken. It gives players too much flexibility, so everyone ends up running the same/similar set of cards every time. Tradition + Rationalism is a meme in Civ 5, but it did offer more esoteric strategies with different trees.

  • Anyway to make $20 a day online consistently?
  • If she is fluent in English then there are some legit options (as in, will comply with minimum wage laws).

    There are tech "consulting"/talent agencies which offer gig work where you help assess AI, i.e. rate and correct LLM responses, correct road signs etc.

    There are also some foreign news stations which run English programs, but pay gig workers to rate/correct their pronunciation.

  • Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models
  • Volkswagen got all the flack because they were the first to get caught. Subsequent independent testing revealed that basically all manufacturers cheated their emissions, and actually to a much larger degree than Volkswagen.

    Diesel emissions scandal - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

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