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Daniel Wigton
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Catholic stay at home father of 6. Interested in spaceflight, decentralized communication, salvation, math, twin primes, and everything else.

I am not sure who thinks that. I am pretty sure the data says other wise. Beauty and intelligence are both markers for general fitness and tend to be correlated.

Drat! I saw an interesting reply from nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 to this note. Where did it go? I agree with his main point that the vast majority of people don't want to run a server. I start from the same premise, without always on and always reachable servers that ordinary people don't have to think about this will never work.

But that doesn't preclude a messy 0 configuration network of clients that act solely on behalf of the user. For instance if I add my npub to a client on both my phone and my laptop they can attempt to find each other on the local network, attempt a hole-punch with a public relay, or use a relay as a TURN server. This in order to share resources for checking hashes or caching data.

If my router had a relay my devices could always fallback to using it for the above discovery. Of course not every home router will be easily addressable, but enough should be that we can use them to find out contacts even if governments go after large relays.

This is why abstinence before marriage is important. That way abstinence after marriage isn't such a shock.

It is also supposed to be a contract between the couple and society. This is why witnesses are required. Society needs children and marriage agrees to provide them in exchange for support and protection of the marriage.

The state gets involved because society is an interested party. (No state without replenishing the people) This is also why the state is traditionally uninterested in other types of infertile unions.

This would be true if every life happened in isolation. But lives play out across a tableau of culture, against a backdrop of a hundred thousand years of history. We know which decision is better because it survives. A life well lived begets more life well lived.

It takes an odd blindness to see oneself as forging a lonely unguided path, while all the weight of history surrounds them with the evolved wisdom of tradition, and the more immediate example of a planet awash in all manner of lives lived in as many ways. To choose such a lonely way will lead to a lonely end.

Can the pants mesh network to other pants in a tor like fashion so I can still get texts?

I'd like to take this time to point out that birth-control is a raging lie. It has a failure rate, and any failure rate at all will still result in a significant number of pregnancies. When you multiply the lower likelihood of pregnancy by a much high occurrence, that is what you get.

Abortion exists in the west to close the loop on the lie that sex and childbearing are disconnected.

I wonder if there has ever been a time when there was a healthy focus on chastity as opposed to a Victorian era snobbery. Though almost anytime before the advent of modern birth-control was chaste by comparison.