I find their attitude to the EU inexplicable. We all know Labour is overwhelmingly pro EU, and the voting public itself strongly regrets the vote. Unless they are lucky they are going to find the Lib Dems taking the former moderate Tory vote, Labours current centre vote and the normal disillusioned voter all governments generate and creating a pretty threatening new voter block.

I'm optimistic about it, especially if America continues falling apart and completely undermining the whole point of brexit. The actual public right now is split about 60 / 30 in favour and if thats as durable a change of heart as it looks rejoining is a matter of time and Reform / Tories running out of inexplicably hostile pensioners somewhere around the next 2 elections.

Just don't build your life around because its still going to take a while even at this rapid pace.

The EU in the future will be a power house with further waves of new members, reforms and integration. Theres no real reason for it to stop within Europe just because that is in the name assuming suitable potential members are to be had across the Med in the future. If the current EU was counted as one state in the stats instead of individual countries it would already the worlds 2nd largest economy.

One of the most frustrating things about brexit is that dodgy Dave held it virtually as late as he possibly could before the brexiters destroyed themselves. Even just a year or two later any vote would have had the shadow of Trumps insanity over it.

France with a completely serious hat on is most of the reason the UK is as pro US as it historically has been. They've tried to block or impede our involvement with practically every European project, leaving us with little practical alternative.

And the reason this happened is ironically because they fear letting us in with let the US into Europe

Its a good show with a very silly tone hiding some crazy plot lines

Far beyond time for this to be in the bin, I think there is one other country in the world that allows it. Hopefully the day will come when renters are placed on the same footing too, even if its clearly not going to be any time soon.

Also on Groves reforms just happening to include ways for landowners to undermine the entire system while superficially looking good, thats not some accident.

What does that have to do with anything? Wars aren't won by the number of bodies on the front, they haven't been since ww2.

Most of Europe was too cosy with him, and thats all gone now its clear appeasement / containment / dragging Russia in the west culturally has utterly failed. The entire northern hemisphere seems to be in the initial stages of realigning into 3 great blocks.

And judging by history, those who stand outside them will be crushed between them.

I still have alot of the level layouts burnt into my memory. Several very memorable places you can line the walls with grenades and trivialise MIB ambushes ahead of time :).

Very few games really allow you to build a character that ranges from practically undetectable to rocket launching robot chewing monster in quite the same way, and most of those are its sequels

The EU isn't a global power, thats a major part of why this happened in the first place.

That its clearly in Europes interests to become a unified state that can do things like send its own large 1st rate army to defend its borders will be one of the major consequences of this war. It will light a fire under federation efforts.

I don't see how the government could afford this. Even Labour is on a full blown cutting spree.

Interesting development that the plant is being de-prioritised down to secondary generator status. Thats the ongoing clean transition in action there.

Naturally a supposedly green group immediately popped up to complain about getting what they want.

Demand an apology?

Do people not understand what an apology is?

Its a very interesting question

The presumption is that they are front loading bad news so its all good news closer to elections. But I don't know if that will work if the Americans manage to cause to full blown trade war.

I'm only recently arrived here but already the tech stack seems significantly more stable

At time of writing the number of petitions over the lifetime of the system that reached Parliament and then led to law change or action stands at 0. Its a pointless PR exercise in looking like they care. The law on it doesn't even require it to enter the commons, merely to be debated in some back room for half an hour by 3 or 4 mps.

I did see that if you counted up EU stats as a single set of figures instead of country by country the EU would count as the 2nd greatest economy in the world and comfortably ahead of the third. Bet there would much more support for rejoining if that was widely known, it'd show how little chance there is even in principle of making international trader UK work well enough to offset the loss.

This kind of thing always leaves me wondering how stable China really is.

Not because painting dogs is some kind of threat to them but it speaks to real weak attitude to people being fucked over that stuff this blatant is not hard to find.

It makes me glad I have an exit path out of listening to Americans assuming everyone is American

I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.

Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who've very clearly not read or understood what you've said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures

I wrote that and now I'm imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

That'd be a crazy move. He must know there is an entire wave of new social media emerging thats just poised to punish such a stupid move.

I don't know why I find Uncanny so compelling. I don't even believe in this stuff.

I do know now though that any account from anyone remotely tired is totally worthless though. And that you can manufacture ghost experiences just with a few speakers your victim cannot even hear.