Well considering how bad most software is, it might be able to do some damage. But competent humans are much more of a threat.

Yep, definitely some tech (and country) to rely on.

I don't think they are making themselves any friends here.

Yep. It would still be a massive advantage for the UK to get back in.

It happens in FOSS as well. Or rather, FOSS is 90% crap, just as anything is (by Sturgeon's law). The problem is that mainstream commercial software is closer to 100% crap these days.

I think that is a bit crass. I would advocate that we let them back in, at the same conditions everybody gets, but they do not get any votes for the first 10 years.

Nobody in the EU wants these assholes back at their old conditions. They will probably habe to accept conditions worse than usual.

Tell me you have absolutely no clue about politics and history without telling me.

Seriously, with a mind this dim, how do you manage to tie your shoelaces?

I hope these repulsive idiots suffer. Maybe some of them will learn that decisions have consequences. Although probably most will not.

These people are actually a large group of the population. Cretins that understand nothing.

48% still think it was a good decision. With a population this abysmally stupid, a country has no future.

I would not actually mind the self-destructiveness of these utterly dumb people. But, unfortunately, they damage everybody else as well.

Actually, it is. The thing you are overlooking is that this milestone needs to reach decision makers. These people are not smart and have no understanding of technology. Hence you need to simplify it on the level of a comic or other child-appropriate ways to "tell the story", or research money will dry up. For a case where they did only that and had massive (short-term) success, look at the current LLM insanity.

The only reason they release this nonsense now is that they need to misdirect away from Epstein, the economic catastrophe, the criminal efforts and the war with Iran and some other things they have messed up.

Indeed. But the "China baaaaad!" faction is not mentally capable to understand that level of detail.