What next, is Beijing going to be renamed to City 17?

Don't drink the water. They put something in it to make you forget.

3,474km in diameter, but really it's not the size that counts, but the mass (and how you use it).

Yeah, it's got electrolytes.

With the number of available and vulnerable IoT devices and the number of motivated hacker groups supercharged with LLMs, shouldn't a lot of company and government secrets get revealed these days? Perhaps news organisations have a bottleneck being underfunded to go through leaked material?

A deliberate attack to knock out as many satellites as possible is a very different thing from Kessler syndrome. The blame for such an act would in no way be on the owner of the satellites that got taken out.

China is a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. China isn't a threat, when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. American companies are a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. Getting the idea here?

People use Chrome because it's popular! Anyone who's anyone uses Chrome!

There's 10,000 starlink sats, each of which is about 30 m^2. That's 300,000 m^2. Meanwhile, the total area available in that orbit is 510,000,000,000,000 m^2, they take up 0.000,000,05% of the space up there. And that's assuming that they sit flat on the orbital plane, which they don't.

We live in a world destroyed by industry, but the landscape is not a burnt wasteland, it's a golden land of opportunity. It's all in how you look at it... and how much money you have.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

So does a "blanket ban" mean everyone in the UK will need to provide government ID to access YouTube?

Wow, that will be a boon for advertisers... Not so much for the parents.

It'll be a Brave New World, surely.

The real question is, does it really matter?

Unless it's about filmmaking or storytelling, I try not to worry about what anyone in Hollywood believes.

There isn't a political union, only a trade union. All the laws are in the interest of improving trade.

You said what the difference is yourself. Leave, rejoin, leave rejoin, leave rejoin causes chaos and churn. Leave, rejoin can be a populace being tricked by right wing elements into making a dumb decision, and it's very unlikely that a country that's done that is going to re-leave after discovering how badly it turned out for them. Do you really think the UK would be likely to leave again any time in the next 50 years if they rejoined now, having discovered just how wrong the tories were, and just how right the left were? If they were made to join schengen, and the euro to re-join then they lose their border checkpoints, and ability to produce currency, and leaving becomes much harder, adding yet more reasons why it's unlikely that they'd re-leave.

It doesn't make any sense to say "no, we're not going to trade with the 5th biggest economy in the world, that's right next door to us, because this one time, they made a dumb mistake."