I'm all for magic mushrooms and legalization, but I don't buy this 1st amendment religious exemption bullshit. The law should apply equally to everyone and everything, or it ceases to have any meaning. It's the same as the Supreme Court carving out a religious exemption to the Civil Rights act. There's no good reason why people's woo-woo beliefs somehow changes whether the law applies to them or not. It's ridiculous.
> There's no good reason why people's woo-woo beliefs somehow changes whether the law applies to them or not.
There is: the 1st amendment is about what we consider more important than anything else: here, religion - but not just: freedom of assembly, of the press and speech also covers way, WAY more ground than any other country in the world.
Personally, I like that - and considering how many people believe in some $diety, it may be the majority.
If you don't like that, and think the majority also dislikes that, it's easy: find enough support to change the 1st amendment.
That's a pretty far fetched interpretation of the 1st amendment. It doesn't say "one's religious beliefs supersede the laws enacted by congress". Having religious beliefs doesn't mean I can practice ritual human sacrifice, or sell bleach to people with promises that it cures cancer, or impregnate a harem of child brides. Freedom of speech isn't a get out of jail card either. Most criminal statutes involve speech of some kind. You are not free to commit fraud, to lie to law enforcement, to engage in a criminal conspiracy, etc.
Religious exemptions are a good thing and should be respected. It’s important to be skeptical of novel religious claims, as they're usually just a cynical abuse of a legal exemption. Exemptions should certainly not be limitless: America is incompatible with human sacrifice.
I think we make selective religious accommodations and exemptions for no good reason. Why is one person’s fiction more deserving or more valid than another? Followers of CotFSM and Scientology have as much of a claim on special treatment as do older religions.
I think an inevitable but mostly untapped direction of research is to leverage biotechnology to manufacture materials to replace plastics, metals, chemicals etc., that either don't have renewable sources or can't be biodegraded back into source material. We can go even further and create new biological machines, bioengineered motors and computers and all kinds of shit scaled up from existing models in nature.
The technology of nature and life is far more advanced than anything we have conjured up ourselves, and the more we learn from it and harness it, the more we will be able to advance and evolve our technological progress without creating all the geopolitical and environmental problems that usually come with these advancements.
I'm not sure you can. If it is possible, it probably requires some open-source tools and a pretty painful process to get the credentials off a hardware token (if that's even possible) and go through the various API calls.
1. There are pretty damned good reasons to use a single sign on (SSO) authentication across all company resources. Managing multiple accounts for every employee across every service is a prohibitively burdensome and messy affair, error-prone, inconsistent in policy enforcement and quality of security, features that would difficult to roll out on your own, the list goes on. SSO is an absolute must in any modern organization.
2. WebAuthn just a marketing scheme? It's a pretty big jump forward in authentication security, protocol, user experience, etc. It eliminates passwords, the cornerstone of authentication for as long as computers have even had authentication, and the #1 cause for security breaches by far. It does away with the need for 2FA. It allows users to use a range of devices to easily authenticate themselves without the need to juggle credentials for every account they have. It uses public/private key cryptography, a robust standard for security for years, uniquely for each site, attested to prevent fake hosts from registering keys, and all automatically managed behind the scenes so nobody has to go through the painful song and dance of creating and managing their own keys anymore. And it does all of this with a universal and open protocol that is currently already baked into most browsers. Seems like a pretty big deal to me, and certainly a big enough deal for huge companies and services like Google, Github, Microsoft, etc. to have prioritized its development and rollout.
