Or for travelling: there already is a phone app to translate signs but it would be so much more to have that live

Most countries use street signs that do not require translations, that is more of a US thing.

Obviously you are meant to place trebuchets along the route and be shot from one to the next. With exact timing you could even use another trebuchet to slow you down each time.

A window in the bathroom would be a good idea too.

Your problem is certainly one that would be enough for niche success of the technology but not the kind of killer application that would make the majority want this.

Thinking of that article about Deepfake porn the other day probably real-time nude body overlays for everyone you meet. Can’t think of a serious application that is actually useful enough for people to want this.

The most useful applications I can think of that would run permanently (while wearing them) would be stuff like name tags for people if you are forgetful, labeling roads in front of you with their names or maybe the destinations in that direction at an intersection and similar low intrusiveness applications. Certainly nothing that could be considered a killer application.

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.

I sincerely hope Trump will not end up being revered decades or centuries later like those two presidents.

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,…).

What do shootings do? Do you genuinely believe a couple of people with handguns or rifles are going to achieve anything at all?

Non-violent protests in large numbers would be one option. It is much harder to get the military or police to shoot a crowd of a few tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, especially when it is people from their own communities. And when you do it anyway you have a very hard time suppressing it in your and the international media.

I wasn’t the one who used the “the armed left is preparing” argument in a public forum. I just consider it a stupid argument to use if there isn’t any evidence that that is happening.

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.

Guns are pretty much giving the government the excuse to just shoot you as a crazy gun nut (or extremist group,…) and shoot you without any morale repercussions in the people they use to do so and without any PR nightmare in the greater population for them.