Brexit was sold as being protectionist, but it was actually the opposite. We gave up huge amounts of sovereignty.

For example, we used to control both sides of our border with France, but Brexit gave up control of the French side and sure enough the boats started coming. The French are not all that interested in policing our border for us, beyond what they can get out of any deals they made with us.

On rule making too, we are now pretty much obliged to accept whatever the EU does, because we are too small to make big demands of our own. Every time we diverge from what the EU does, it damages our economy even more. Farming is a good example. Brexit was supposed to help our farmers, but it's shafted them with extra red tape and costs when they want to export. Some naive fantasists thought we would become self sufficient and eat British grown food, but it's not really to our tastes and many can't afford the price rises that would come with it.

So don't worry, the next protectionist will argue that Brexit wasn't done right and their version will somehow not be a total disaster.

True. I wonder how bad that would be. How much stuff would get kicked up with enough delta V to enter a long duration orbit

Ah yes, for loans. But really that data should have been kept separate, and deleted as soon as no longer needed. If this happened to anyone in a GDPR country, that will be a factor because there is an obligation to do that kind of thing as a matter of course.

They were careful to separate out the damage done by COVID. While the UK was in the EU for 4 of those years, the damage was done the moment the referendum was decided. The Pound fell hard, investment fell, companies started planning their exit strategies.

Arguably some of the COVID damage can be attributed to Brexit as well. If we hadn't voted for it in 2016, it seems unlikely that Boris Johnson would have become Prime Minister in 2019, and then botched the COVID response so badly. His mismanagement and purging of the last few decent Tories from his party contributed to the economic damage, the deaths, the long term health problems, and of course the massive amount of fraud and theft by members of his party and their friends. Everything from dodgy PPE, to Test & Trace that didn't work.

What feature would necessitate the owner giving them their driving licence details? All I needed for mine was an email address and the car's VIN.

Oh I didn't say it wasn't really, really bad, just that the main concern with Kessler Syndrome is that it is extremely difficult to clean up.

A lot of her climate action is based around justice. The big emitters are causing huge problems for people in the developing world. The yearly CO2 output of the EU or US is bigger than the total all-time emissions of many African nations, for example.

So naturally, other justice issues like genocide are of interest to her. There is also the fact that Israel is stealing Palestinian oil.

I'm okay with it being buried deep in the settings. It needs to be harder than just a checkbox, because bitter experience has shown that otherwise people just don't install updates. Then they get hacked and become part of a botnet that attacks you.

I can live with an extremely mild annoyance if it means a huge reduction in exploits of people's browsers.

No, the CCP's goal was to leapfrog everyone else. Instead of developing combustion engine tech and hybrids in an attempt to catch up, they went all-in on batteries and EVs. It paid off, they are now years ahead and sustaining that lead.

How is competing hard not operating in good faith? Did the US not bail out its own auto industry multiple times, and subsidize the transition to EVs? Wasn't Tesla part of a government investment scheme?

We should thank China for doing that which we apparently couldn't, but which the world needs. They advanced battery tech rapidly and accelerated the transition away from fossil fuels.

Human beings are fallible, they make mistakes. Designing a system that relies on people not making mistakes is a terrible idea, and doomed to failure.

This seems completely reasonable. 5 seconds to 100 kph is still pretty rapid, but limits the damage that can be done by the classic "carpet stuck on the accelerator" or "pushed the wrong pedal" mistakes. The act of disabling that limit presents an opportunity to display reminders to check the carpet, and for the driver to make sure they are ready for it. 99.9999% of the time it has no baring on the drive, there is no need to disable it.

I do dislike some of the safety features, like the automatic speed limit detection stuff that never works right, but this one seems completely fine and sensible.

And a few years behind Huawei. It will be the same as it was with 4G and 5G. Huawei first to market, each generation the lead extends, and later Western companies come along with their knock-offs and rely on national security concerns to get into the market.

Germans will have to wait for 6G, or maybe Nokia can do a deal to rebadge Huawei gear, stick their own OS on it or something.

It's not just the mass to LEO, it's the size of the payload it can carry. New Glenn has a larger diameter payload bay.

There will be iPhone sockets on AliExpress, hand made, for 10 bucks, within a week.

Better to buy those, because more of the money goes to the person who actually made the sock.

It's probably due to many people not being sure how to pronounce Kuiper.