Akshully I think it's either "less beer" or "fewer beers" (plural).
manxu
joined 9 months ago
No, but if you do, the (American) social media companies will tattle on you, guaranteed.
Imagine how that must feel for Germany. First, they decide they want to tie Russia down to eternal peace by dangling infinite oil and gas riches in the face of Putin, and he decides to hell with riches, he wants WAR!
Then they have this relationship that lasted for 80 years with a former occupying nation that they submitted to and obeyed. They braved nationwide dissent over that nation stationing nuclear missiles on its peace-loving soil. They criminalized everything that nation disliked. As recently as (checks notes) now they supported a genocidal regime because they were told that's the thing to do.
And now all this sensible foreign policy blows up in their face, and they did nothing wrong, except bet on the crazy horses.
I mean, it beats BEING the genocidal regime, or - worse - being the target of the genocidal regime. But it does give one the impression that being sensible is not all that it's cracked up to be.
I think the worst part of Brexit is not that it reduced UK GDP by a fixed amount, but that the damage is getting worse with time. Brits could probably have lived with a temporary setback followed by faster growth, but it's becoming pretty evident that the UK has been permanently damaged and growth will lag peer economies' for the foreseeable future.
And yet, Reform UK is looking pretty good in the polls. Make that make sense, they were the most ardent proponents of Brexit.
Doesn't even have to be a lofty goal like fixing climate change. I'd settle for the backdoors not leading to disclosure and scams, as any such weakening of security or privacy inadvertently does.
When there was the leak of ID photos from that one site (forget which one) I sighed, because neither the users nor the site wanted to keep ID photos around, but the government made them do that. It was the most predictable result I could have imagined.
I think it's Apple Reality Distortion that got the better of people. For a long while, Apple was obsessed with thinner and lighter phones and the world was very loudly ??? at them. Recently, Apple had to admit nobody wants its iPhone Air, so the chase for thin and light is over for the moment.
The cries for bigger batteries on regular phones have been very loud for a while. But if Apple doesn't do it, Android makers are loath to try. Now that light is out, maybe there is some motion in a better direction.
Next, bring back all the ports we used to have, and replaceable batteries. I might die crying of joy.