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I and others I know would. Granted we're not the vast majority, but my feeling is that people don't do it nowadays because they've been trained not to. If bands went back to their own sites, I'd say people would follow.

I'm old enough to remember when bands did everything on their own sites, complete with message boards. I _really_ miss that. Twitter is just a middle-man nobody wants when you're talking about artists.

I made no claims that anything got better. Just that people are exaggerating its effects to support their politics.

> Polls show the population regrets Brexit

57% is what I said and would have expected to see. Aside from that, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a poll on "do you regret brexit" is looking for a particular answer.

> The UK took a big hit to GDP as a result of Brexit

During that time period, we had Covid, global supply chain disruptions, Russias invasion of Ukrain, central banks raising interest rates, energy and food prices going up globally. Brexit was just one of many factors effecting the UK GDP. To say "GDP went down because of Brexit" is disingenuous.

> ordinary people have faced steeper household bills ever since

This one's the biggest clue that Brexit isn't as bad as people are making out. The EU country I'm living in, and those I've visited on holidays in the last years are also complaining of exactly the same thing. It's across EU (the world?), but people look at the UK and say "See, Brexit was bad".

Popularity ruins things?! NO!

It's become serious in German, Austria, and Czechia. The sentiment in France is not insignificant either.

I hear a lot about how the UK has suffered after Brexit, but none of my experiences there support it. Not the people I talk to, not my own experiences from before vs. after. I think people _want_ it to be true, which I find ugly.

Depends who you talk to. I have a mixed bag of UK friends, and it's about half-half.

One thing I think myself is that there was an ugly _hope_ that the UK would suffer as a result. A hope which, as far as I can see, wasn't realised. Living in Europe, I saw a lot on the news about how the UK had shot itself in the foot and things were going badly, but when I visit friends, not so much.

What do they gain by joining? Seems like they already have all the benefits they could want, but lose their fishing rights if they joined?

> A Yes vote would not be a final decision on joining the EU. It would mean backing a move towards an accession agreement. Any deal would then have to be approved by a second referendum, as well by parliament

Makes sense. Which is why I was baffled when the UK just up and left after a referendum, as if it were legally binding or something.

Government, municipalities, bank, large corporations, the list is endless. A curated RSS feed would work, but someone would have to do the curating.

I hear this sentiment a lot from people in the USA. They deeply distrust their government and can't imagine it being different anyway else in the world.

> For starters, every country would insist on having its own ChatsApp

Fine, let's say the Netherlands should do it for their own citizens only (but in a broad way to keep the door open for EU adoption)

> to satisfy strict security and compliance regulations it would be restricted to devices passing Google & Apple hardware attestation checks

Banking apps are already restricted to locked Android and iOS devices, and they are all but mandatory, unless you want a very difficult life.

> And once everyone is finally forced to be on board, any confidentiality guarantees can go out the window to catch pedos and terrorists

I don't see how. We all already have the Digid app?

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address.

It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all governement communication through it so everyone has to have it installed, and you have an instant EU-wide userbase. From there, people will naturally start to use it between themselves.

People who who "cringe" as an adjective are cringeworthy, and I hope we hear less from them.

Standards. It's the same thing in some European countries. Wages are down, unemployment is up, and yet the standard of living hasn't changed because there are certain standards people take for granted as being obvious and basic.

You'll still hear people complaining about things like a crack in the road that hasn't been repaired in a timely manner (timely being less than 2 weeks).

> When I asked current and former U.S. officials what had to be done to win

Win what? What is even going on? What is anybody (other than Iran, wanting to be left the hell alone) even after anymore? "We're going to make the Straits of Hormuz a US territory?! Are you out of your fucking mind? I mean, obviously yes, but Jesus Christ.

On the one hand, I'd love to see the regime in Iran fall, but on the other hand; absolutely insanity.

Right at the goddamned top for everyone to see:

> How this was written: drafted with an AI assistant from my own notes, then edited by me.

For the record, I enjoyed the post, and it's much more than your summary suggests.

> This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions ... “Manifest Destiny.” “Aryan superiority.” “The divine right of kings.” “The domino theory.” “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

aaaand, you lost me.

Yup. This is the way it is for most European countries. Places like France, Germany, Austria, Italy, really, most.

I find it odd that the USA had this in the first place.

We already have several plug-in batteries?

Simple search: https://www.ecohome.net/en/guides/4189/best-plug-and-play-ho...

The straw man was the 2 obvious statements she made (sci-fi has more than science, technology is more than computers and whatever). She argues for both, when nobody was arguing against, then says; therefore I write (hard?) sci-fi.

That's the difference though. Knowing enough about science to be creative with it vs. knowing little about science so you just write whatever you like.

> I think the critical factor that makes sci-fi hard isn't known physics, exactly, but early on establishing a known set of rules and letting them play out as they will

No that's just competent writing. Hard sci-fi is very much about real science.

Technology is not only "computery" electronica. A lever is technology. So is writing. Fair point, and I don't think anybody was arguing otherwise.

Sci-fi has elements other than technology, such as how the humans interact with the technology. Sure! Again, I can't imagine anybody's arguing that Sci-fi is only when you write about technology and any mention of feelings or other human stuff disqualifies it.

But what a non-sequitur to say that therefore, _science_ isn't the main focus of Sci-fi. It's fiction about _science_. If the story isn't centred around the science, then the Sci-fi is the backdrop and the genre is something else you've chosen.

The most famous example is Star Wars. You can take that trilogy and replace every spaceship with a ship, every planet with a country, and lose nothing other than fun visuals.

Plus, just how exams only test you on how good you are at exams, those systems only show how good you are at getting likes, votes, followers, etc. You can have a billion followers, doesn't mean anything to me other than you're good at getting followers. Which now that I think about it, says enough.

That is hilarious, depressing, and would likely work.

Oh god.

"This app didn't have a feature that it didn't advertise it had, ONE STAR!". Really?

He explains why the request for ratings exists in the post. I'll never review a well known brand if they pester me, but go out of my way to make time for indies (including real world shops) when they do.

Let's all be a little less entitled.

You are mistaken.

> Indie developers can’t win in the App Store. Since we’re mostly unknown to the public, we need positive App Store ratings and reviews for our apps to encourage purchases. If we don’t request ratings from all users, then the self-initiated ratings tend to be disproportionately people with a complaint rather than satisfied users

Did you read the whole thing? His reasoning is difficult to dismiss as "well, you shouldn't do it anyway".

I would have said it needs to taper off, not just stop, but reading it described in black and white made me think "actually, why _not_ just stop at a threshhold?".

If you can get 2k a month (all numbers pulled from my butt) in disability support, and at some point get a job offer which will give you the same, why _shouldn't_ you work? Non-monetary forms of support should probably continue, or even be increased, depending on what you're going to need to be able to work.