It will not save any water, but it will make it easier to deny that there ever was water.

Supply them with vital technology?

I couldn't mention everyone. Good example, feel free to add to the list.

Except they were not.

Newton is not acient history. He is firmly modern era. And his theories are still in productive use today. Because he was not wrong.

But even going back as far as actual ancient history, for example Democrit was absolutely correct. And the theories of Archimedes are still in productive use today. Because he, also, was not wrong.

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You can develop an intuition for quantum mechanics if you play with it enough. In the same way you develop an intuition for gravity, although maybe not always intentionally. In the same way you develop intuition about anything you develop intuition about.

Our senses are well suited to observing quantum mechanical effects, especially those involving light. We can see light without needing special instruments. (I say although I do wear spectacles.) There is a lot of fun to be had with polarised glasses and mirrors. And lasers! Lasers are fun.

Mathematicians also develop mathematical intuition by playing with mathematical concepts. That kind of insight has led to surprising discoveries.

But, of course, intuition can also be misleading. The proof of the theorem is in the calculating.

TL;DR: Humans can actually understand reality. That's how we have science, in the world in which we actually live.

You mean Great Britain?

I don't see how that is relevant. All islands, private or not, are subject to the law of the land, regardless of how big the nation or nations claiming that land.

Some governments have declared human genetic engineering illegal, others have not. (The government of GB, the UK, seems to have no problem with it.) But the designer babies themselves are always human, and being human isn't banned anywhere.

It was an observable fact in the 1880s whenPaul Lafargue wrote that Capitalists don't want workers to be productive.

He cited how letting workers sleep more than four hours a night by reducing work hours per day led to increases in production just when the markets were getting saturated. The owners reduced the work hours in an attempt to reduce productivity, to maintain scarcity and keep prices from falling too much, but alarminly their policy had the opposite effect.

He went on to say that the universal employment envisioned by the Communists was a horrible idea (for which he was disowned by his father-in-law).

Then there is David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs, which lists some of the ways in which the modern work place is designed to destroy as much productivity as possible.

Of course it has to be on record, but those are rarely published in newspapers.

It is possible to get married and not tell anyone (other than the official and a witness). You can keep a marriage secret from nosy relations.

The point is that it is a personal matter. It is difficult to get married in anything other than person.

Ah. So cat is the malware.

So: host, nslookup, dig, dnsip, and related tools are malware now? Including libresolv, and equivalents in Rust and Go? Also the Python standard modules, of course?

It is already banned in the USA.

Although there is nothing preventing an executive order making it twice as forbidden.

The first two designer babies were twin girls in China. November 2018. After their successful birth, the treatment was immediately banned in China.

(In contrast, test tube babies are still legal. The first artificial human was a girl in 1978,)

Designer babies are banned in most of the world, for some reason. It is nice to see that apparently the UK is an exception. Although technically these are not designer babies, as their DNA hasn't been altered. Donor eggs aren't really a radical concept.

Some people do get married in secret. It is a contract between the people getting married. It is rarely done by proxy.

But if you say it isn't personal, you won't have a problem getting married to an object or abstract concept in your absence and without your knowledge until after the fact. It's nothing personal after all, it's, how did you put it:

Are you talking about adoption?