The state cares insofar as your partner gets certain rights and will be included as family in many things.

For instance, deciding for you in medical cases, being informed if something happens, getting money from your life insurance whatever.

No marriage would mean the two are not connected at all in the states eye and thus not family.

You could say, ok lets just enable putting that into some record without marriage, but the state wants to safeguard itself as you can get things like citizenship and such

And in most states that is what you define as civil unions (there is no marriage as such often).

Not E2EE though

He mostly used it for two things. One, as all rich people do, to donate money to their own foundations to save taxes. Second, to push his thoughts and interest on what should be research and what shouldn't.

He didn't do either of these things overtly (e.g. as Musk for the latter), but still Billionaires do Billionaire stuff.

Probs also might have helped his image with Billionaire friends and the public.

There are plenty of times when his funding things interfered. Alas there are for sure times when his funding things helped, but no one individual should posses such power.

I mean, fair point. i was mainly thinking of temples and stuff where you can run around without having to go inside.

If you look at stuff in Kyoto at 5 am in the morning (or earlier) it is nice and empty.

Source lived in the Region for a year

He means regular money would be worthless as well as stocks and such. And as rich people own gold, but own much more of the other, he argues they would like to avoid collapse.

However, I don't think they really can. Also, if it comes to recession very rich people tend to profit.

Sure. Generally, it is a marker for life as we see it being produced by living organisms on Earth (e.g. Algae) and it also should vanish quickly from atmospheres if it is not replenished.

However, as you correctly put it, there may always be a non-biological explanation as well for any of these markers, which we might not know as of yet. So far as I know, DMS has no non-biological explanation and is seen as a biological marker still.

Alas, the possibility of it being proven non-biological or even (as happend here) not a real detection makes it even more important to get more data and be very careful about the statements made from it than as otherwise those statements and/or connected papers have to be corrected/retracted. And if these then reach the public (and why wouldn't they with the possibility of alien life) then this could diminish the trust in science if it turns out to be wrong.

Edit: I had a look and as you stated for DMS there may indeed be abiotic ways to produce it (scientific works from this year). They found it in comets and could reproduce it in labs as well.

My main point of the original comment was to add that the detection (paper) itself was flawed. Regardless of DMS being a sign of life.

Astronomer here, the "life detection" on K2-18b was dimethyl sulfide (DMS) which may be ̶I̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶a̶i̶n̶s̶ a marker for life. What you get from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is raw data that needs to be treated and calibrated to some extent to be usable in scientific study. This is called data retrieval.

However, the lead scientist on this paper claiming they found DMS basically used his own very specific way to do it and found very very weak signals in that way. Other scientist tried to both reproduce it in the way he did it and also with their ways to retrieve the data, but couldn't find anything. So it turns out, it was simply a non-detection.

Edit: It might be the case that DMS can be produced abiotically (scientific works of this year) as chosensilence pointed out correctly.

My main point is, that the DMS detection itself was a non-detection in this case

I guess that is one of many applications. Also strong magnets, levitation (that is more funny or futuristic depending on application)

So the higher minimum wage is already a thing in some countries (e.g. Germany, where degrees are also mostly free) and there is still the trend of many more ppl. studying.

In general, our world is getting more complicated and we live longer. So i dont really see the problem of more education?

So do Japanese history school books, they call it the Nanjing incident and divide the numbers of murdered by 10-ish

Japan is also led by a right wing government, just not as anti-immigration as these guys

Not really contradictions, there are those behaviours which you describe (i.e. speeds at the outer regions if galaxies faster than originally expected) and from those we come to things such as dark matter which describe these, but we don't yet know what they are.

It might be that the theory needs to be changed if there is no such thing as dark matter and it Is jnice calculation trick that actually mean something elsr in the real world, but as of right now it describes most things well.

Alas, there is the disconnect between different theories that don't work together (see Gravity and Quantum mechanics) or only on different scales