Any state-ordered blocking must link to the text of the specific legal order on the page returned when someone accesses a banned URL.

Unless this is done, the government has a cheap, easy, undetectable way to censor. Just slide in whatever URLs you want and everyone has to assume it is part of one of the many blocking orders.

I use robots to play Candy Crush for me.

This will go well.

It did well domestic business, but stunk it up in China, and the rest of Asia doesn't look too good either. The only foreign market that's really putting in good numbers is Latin America. Since the domestic market is doing better than expected, it'll make money. But with the way Asia is playing out, it won't make the kind of money that Warner Brothers was hoping for.

Hollywood has been relying on Asia for profitability on multi-million dollar CGI epics for a couple of decades now. They may have to adjust their business model.

Does Superman have to do with Sharia?

If you want to find Taliban-style authoritarian moralism, you don't have the leave the country. Book bans, secret police, explicitly religious political messaging (Can't find the URL of the whitehouse propaganda video, I was thinking of, but you can find your own examples) , surveillance of political speech...

That's The American Way at the moment.

So, to sum up your argument, we've become weak, hedonistic, and uncaring about our own civilization.

"We" are no different than our great grandparents or their great grandparents. What has changed is the environment, and it would have effected them the same way.

What you call "weak", others people call "wealthy".

What you see "hedonism", others see agency and self-determination.

And the only people who ever spend time fretting about "our own civilization" are people who are unhappy with it and want it to change.

I'd also note you seem to have so internalized the "exponential growth forever" belief that you can't even see it. The earth's carrying capacity is not infinite, as we're learning a bit more every day. I'm absolutely not some Elifist or similar, but it is simply true, and those who profess to care deeply about "civilization" need to confront it if they want to be taken seriously.

And while abstractly there's no inherent political valence here, in this world these beliefs are mostly professed by authoritarian-natalists whose program is also wrapped around eugenics and really shitty racial beliefs as well as regressive beliefs about rights (especially those of women) and social control. I don't know if you're in that category or not, but that's a really ugly path to be treading.

HR: "We're doing a RIF, and unfortunately, we're going to have to let you go".

Worker: "What am I going to do?"

HR: "Learn to co... oh, fuck, I'm so sorry".

For the women that DO want to have children it's certainly an increasing problem.

So, to sum up your argument, we've become weak, hedonistic, and uncaring about our own civilization.

That doesn't explain everything. Fertility takes two to make babies. It doesn't explain why male fertility is also dropping. Testosterone and sperm counts have been steadily dropping in first world countries for decades now. And everyone notices. Men are getting more boyish-looking and less rugged. There's more guys firing blanks. Women complain that men are less attractive than they used to be. That surely has something to do with the lower testosterone. So something else is going on. It's not just economics.

It comes mainly from three reasons:

One, only some kinds of recycling make sense. Aluminum? Of course? Steel? Certainly. Glass? Mostly. But many materials simply don't make sense to recycle. I WISH plastics could be recycled more, but in all practicality, they can't, at least not in a commercially desirable form. And recycling paper is the biggest fucking scam in the whole business. It takes far more energy and water to recycle paper that it does to make it from fast growing virgin softwoods like pine, of which there is no shortage.

Second, there's the utterly arrogant attitude from the evangelists of recycling. You know the type. Infamously holier-than-thou types that want to know what sacrifices you've made today to Save Mother Earth. It really is their religion.

And then, there are affluent types that wave recycling around as a status symbol, signaling that they're the right kind of people, and you aren't. George Carlin infamously pillaged the fuck out of them:

Outside of a handful of Beaux-Arts buildings that are truly lovely (the Library of Congress, for one), DC is mostly a collection of Brutalist monstrosities that regularly make the list of ugliest buildings. When the Great Society programs starting kicking in during the sixties, it set off a wave of ugly, soul-sucking concrete construction that consumed DC.

Who the fuck gave Zod net access?

The river that swept away those girls actually rose by up to 45ft in an hour. And the NWS had extra staff on hand as they knew there was a possibility of flooding. Flash Flood watches went out at least 3 hours prior. It was just one of those situations where a number of things combined quickly to make a tragedy. The storm grew fast. The camp was in a valley that used to have flooding problems but, since there hadn't been one in years, people got complacent. And of course, it happened in the middle of the night, while everyone is asleep. In Summer Camp. It was, pardon the expression, a perfect storm of things.

You can definitely design high end toilets and better pipes. You can buy a "smart toilet" now, but for between $8 and $12k, the vast majority of people are going to stick with good ole' simple shitters that rely on Isaac Newton. But you're still never going to not need someone to work on them physically from time to time. High and Low end.