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.

My response was specifically to the original poster who, for some reason, was taking a "we are losing the class wars; breed faster!" position rather than the "if you are already losing the class war why would you even think about putting in that much effort and cost so your children can deal with a bad or worse outcome?" position.

It would honestly not surprise me if that is a nontrivial contributing factor: If you aren't emotionally invested in children as an end in themselves the wage and cost of living numbers have done very little to encourage you to see them as affordable since roughly the late 70s(with a combination of substantial stagnation for anyone who is primarily wages rather than capital gains; and such good news as there is mostly confined to people who complete at least undergraduate education and remain in a career track full time) and people who are emotionally invested in children are often willing to go to considerable lengths to try to improve their children's outcomes; but are presumably discouraged by the prospect that they will most likely be downwardly mobile instead.

It's not a surprise that people who want labor, cannon fodder, or taxpayers to be abundant for them are fretting about it; but it's hard to see why most of us should care. Why do things that are good for society when society is pretty overtly disinterested in being good for you? You may be able to squeeze the current labor market a bit; because people who already exist tend to take the "or starve" possibility pretty seriously when deciding what they will put up with; but if you offer nothing but the demand for a toiling underclass to encourage people to have children that's not terribly compelling, either for those who aren't interested in sacrificing for children and see hitting education and career hard as increasingly existential or for people who would sacrifice a lot to better things for their children but are more or less accurate in seeing it as highly unlikely that they will be able to.

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.

Solid state batteries. This is also a demo of those.

They are not close to commercial viability. But they made another step in that direction. Some things just need time, sometimes several generations. Still worth doing.