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This reminds me of how "civil marriages" started happening in France: https://youtu.be/xD7MJcxQzKU?si=gRfdgFoeRvDEQ658&t=973 https://youtu.be/xD7MJcxQzKU?si=32-fXp928SdiGq0e&t=718

Regarding "restrictions":

In at least some jurisdictions, the process of getting married involves "a marriage license", and I think of a license as something that provides a privilege to and imposes an obligation upon someone, and potentially multiple privileges and/or obligations.

A license is "Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech)", so if there are any "restrictions" then they just apply by default, and people with a marriage license get to ignore some of them (in exchange for having some additional obligations/restrictions).

Note that might have legal consequences: if they expressed that in a court session it might be considered perjury or contempt of court. In general, people don't like being mislead, so using sentences that are easy to misinterpret when you could have used a more straightforward sentence will probably lead to trouble.

Some consequences of "represent[ing] to others that the parties are married" can be considered quite negative: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/no-home-or-kids-together-but-couple-still-spouses-appeal-court-rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_United_States

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#openpgp-compatible-services

I doubt that Joe Exotic has been married at any time in 2025

Exotic is gay and has referred to numerous partners as his husband despite them not being legally married.

It seems they were not married as of 1st November 2024

We filed our official papers for the marriage license from the prison yesterday, so we’re just waiting for approval. He has picked out December 12 as the date we’re hoping to get this approved by.

This seems to be expressing a similar sentiment: https://piefed.social/post/479856

This makes me think about structures that are even more fundamental to the Internet:

• The Domain Name System is inherently hierarchical, and the highest levels are usually controlled by corporations that are much more powerful than I am.
• The process to register a domain name (like piefed.social) requires having a lot of cashflow (it seems that you need to pay many thousands of dollars each year): https://hostadvice.com/blog/domains/how-become-domain-registrar/
• The process to make registrations available with a new top-level domain (like .social or .name) requires having a lot of capital (it seems that you need to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars): https://dev.to/kailyons/tutorial-make-your-own-top-level-domain-name-like-com-org-and-net-jhd

Fundamentally, my ability to send a message between China and Argentina or Fiji and Kyrgyzstan is mediated by a relatively small number of people. For example, the ICANN "key ceremony" is probably not easy for me to participate in: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-key-to-the-internet-and-key-ceremonies-an-explainer-11-07-2023-en

I think it'd be hard to maintain connections to people that are far away from me (I don't know people in very many cities, and I certainly don't know enough people or have enough money to lay my own cables or launch my own satellites or set up my own radio towers to enable me to be independent of ICANN). Similarly, I'm not about to set up my own postal service or courier system.

https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-scores

Good choice: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop/#fedora-workstation