We need good citizen protections, an extension of the laws used when providing aid that shield from liability, similar rules should exist to protect people who improve their local area.

It's bad enough the council won't do anything about the problems but evil they punish others for trying.

I looked it up, the ACLU said it "unnecessarily intrudes on the fundamental rights of marriage without due cause" and fought prior attempts to legislate against it. Planned Parenthood were against it because they said it was a slippery slope that might affect abortion rights (I didn't see rational for this supplied but assume they have some)

So it wasn't Hollywood as the other poster glibly asserted, actually movies like 'childbrides of the ozarks' were important in brining it to popular attention and helping initial pushes against it. Currently there are democrats pushing for legislation to ban in, supported in many case by the 'evil Hollywood elites' as seen from conspiracy theory world as they're big donors and fund raisers for democratic causes but also ACLU and PP so possibly yeah they were slightly involved in the ban being resisted but not in the way suggested.

The ACLU have since chances their stance on child marriage, I imagine planned parenthood have too but I couldn't find that stated. Most current resistance is coming from religious focused Republicans.

If you heard as much about Korea, Singapore, Australia, Slovakia, or anywhere else then you'd say the same about them too. Not diminishing the problems in the US but the rest of the world is nuts too.

Yes I imagine it is confusing if that's your perspective, maybe view news from outside your extremeist bubble and other people will start making sense to you.

Hmm seems that's leaving a lot of room for disparity, have you considered establishing a testing centre where people go to check their compatibility and permission to date is only given if both are intellectually and emotionally within a set margin of each other.

And I really don't think we can allow people incapable of deciding their own romantic and sexual partners to make important choices that affect the nation. How can you say someone is too silly to decide who to spend time with but should be able to choose the longterm future of millions of people?

This is probably the free gpt anyway, and the free specialist models are much better for coding than this one is going to be

American passenger trains are absurdly bad, I tried to book a return between two neighboring cities and evey single thing about it is stupid and expensive. I would have had to book the exact train which is annoying anyway but to make ot worse any at a useful time are are all insane prices and the train stations were both awkward and stupid. We might have to kill time waiting for our exact train but we can't do it near the station because theres nothing there.

You guys need to start acting upset that china is so fad ahead and get everyone charged up to update the railways.

As someone with dietary issues I hate this, everyone trying to force insane things down my throat 'its goodwholesomehonemade! You have to try it!' And its some oil, grease and salt mess that'll leave a vie ltaste my mouth and upset my stomach for days.

'I just know you'll love....' no, no you don't. People that I politetly try to explain I have a delicate stomach to but they but still pout and try to push are the worst - I don't want to argue but also I don't want the next two days ruined.

Elden ring just looks so ugly

And if they start looking in groups like that where you have up communicate with other people then that's far worse and more dangerous than pornhub

It's easy to be glib but the actual reality is far more complex than you want it to be, here's a good simple video talking about the difference between good tree planting projects and bad ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9k-22Lv9bU - Simon Clark, when tree planting hurts the climate

He doesn't go into the bad very deeply but they're are plenty of other resources if you're interested. The tree planting projects he does talk about are great and beneficial to the climate but their benefits are so much more than the small help they give the environment - is great treed are being planted when done in the right place but they won't save us alone and it's difficult to do

The education aspect is vital, one tool that's got a lot of promise is the node and branch analysis that plantCV does, there are projects working on using that to look at a tree and model it from images to highlight which limbs to cut and where for effective copicing, as well as other plant health info like tracking diseases or pests and providing good eco solutions. If a charity could give access to such a tool to subsistence farmers in their native languages (via an LLM like metas open-source models) that would be far more effective than their current efforts protecting training video onto the side of a building.

One of the best eco solutions though is not longstanding forests it's actually maintained cycles of smaller fast growing plants like willow, hemp, or even biowaste from crops or things like sidewalk grasses from.managed spaces. They collect the biomass using a non destructive cropping method then dry it in a thermal solar collector before burning it, the heat drives a turbine to generate electricity and the smoke goes upto the chimney where a portion of that electricity is used to create an electric charge over a membrain which collects over 90% of the carbon - this is then converted into echems (electronically derived chemicals, lubricants, fuels, or building materials.) These are used then at end of life we chuck them in a hole, ideally a used coal mine so that carbon goes back where it came from.

It's not a choice between eco utopia and tech hell, take a bio recycling center as an example, currently they're incredibly limited with people having to manually remove contaminants which means loads gets missed and we actually end up adding plastic and chemicals to farm fields, the process is slow and results in low quality 'soil improver' which is why to stop total soil death we'd either need to starve as our arable land lays fallow or cover it in chemical fertilizer (which would could make at the carbon capture plant btw rather than the current ugly supply chain) a better option is automation and ai enabled permaculture integrated into human living spaces, cities teaming with life and covered in plants all being maintained by automated tools with their biowaste taken (via underground cargo networks if we're blessed) to have the carbon extracted and useful things made with it.

All of this is possible with the science we know, solutions are still being engineered but if we put nasa levels of effort into it then we could have the start of things in place within five years (the education tools, facility automation, ground broken for at-scale biocarbon extraction plants, and home garden automtion)

Trees are our friends but tech is not our enemy

If that actually bothered you then Elon is lost in a huge list, it's painfully obvious you're reaching at straws to justify your emotions rather than forming emotions based on an honest appraise of reality