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It maybe that I'm in my own personal bubble but it strikes me that so many people still invest a significant time and effort into propagating a delusional interpretation of reality. On some level I bear them no ill will, they are free to lead their lives in whatever way it brings meaning and fulfillment. However many people attending a Christian church seem to have aggressive opinion on how others should live their lives.

The biggest flaw with religion is their story of an afterlife without any proof or evidence. The consequence is that billions of followers of this delusion devalue the importance of their current biological existence, and that of others. They are told they will have an infinite and wondrous existence in a made up paradise. When this shared delusion is the dominant world view it leads to easily excusable murder and abuse of human beings. For example the genocides of indigenous people by European colonizers or slavery.

I suspect our ancestors in a thousands of years will look at this early childhood stage of humanity in shame and contempt for what cruelty this insanity allows.

If you fail to see it personally I take it you haven't had many of these rights denied. To be fair I haven't either, but Marriage is not "just" an empty acknowledgment:

its the right of inheriting when your spouse dies

its the right to be covered by your spouse's insurance

its the right to share joint custody of children

its the right of spousal privilege in court

its that you can file taxes jointly

its the rights to benefits as a spouse of a veteran

and dozens more of trivial and important legal rights most couples take for granted. These are trivially denied in many social interactions and used to make others feel like second class citizens, and deny them their pursuit of happiness. This was all debated and settled by the Supreme Court in 2015.

If the government would stop meddling in all the other legal affairs then I would see the reason for your confusion why they are meddling in marriage.

However paths are made out of rays. So the basic technology implemented on the GPU is to calculate intersections or rays against geometry, raytracing, which is the basic building block of path tracing and several other classes of algorithms.

We've known all this before and could have done something about it if there was a collective political will more mature than that of self obsessed child.

There is no logical link between willfully making our own government incompetent and corrupt just so we can realize how unprepared we are. That sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy.

I'm not, my reply wasn't meant for you. I think that deceptive propaganda like yours shouldn't go unchallenged or else it seems like it has more credibility than it deserves in the eyes passersby on forums like this.

30 millions jobs lost and counting. 70,000 deaths in the US alone. No international cooperation. No organized plan to contain the pandemic, or even demonstrate confidence. to the markets. The endless stream of scandals before that can only be dismissed if you buy into the endless propaganda machine.

The world is not better by any measure.

As op predicted, there is always one that tries to derail the discussion into the false distinction between parties, administrations or what have you. As opposed to working towards solutions that may save lives, let's spend the next decade or two throwing blame and arguing. Classic use of what-aboutism to muddy the waters.