That's not going to work. The British government is basically non-functional and Sunak is effectively a caretaker PM until the next general election where Labour will sweep them out. Unionists don't want any Brexit deal that has them in a special political unit and the EU won't accept any Brexit deal that includes free market access. From any outsider perspective, this has gotten so complicated where it is hopeless to find a solution that works for anyone.

Conservatives need to admit that Brexit has failed, or at the very least they've failed to facilitate the UK leaving the EU. Which is what this agreement doesn't do: it tries to sustain trade flows that Brexit doesn't allow. Labour is willing to eject NI to make Brexit real, and this is a winning platform as most of the electorate doesn't live in NI.

"but China will lead the climate transition" - says somebody

It is, and this includes replacing last-gen plants with newer ones.

Shitty article that doesn't expand on any specifics. Most household tasks are already automated, at this point the only ones left are folding laundry and placing microwave dinners into the microwave. This can probably be automated, but most people can't afford another 4x4' onto their laundry room for the laundry-sorting robot arm or 2x2' above/near a compliant microwave for the kitchen claw.

Though that does bring up an important idea: as this happens, the market will split between compliant/automation-usable devices and old-fashioned human devices. We need some larger entity like the government to step in and regulate how that would work so consumers aren't left with discontinued products that end up trashed.

Moldova is an EU candidate country, it would be wise for Europeans to have a joint military operation to at least monitor the situation there and assist Moldovian security forces if an attack happens. This doesn't even require weapons, just good intelligence and reconnaissance as information control is the core of Russia's paramilitary strategy. This can also be done independently of the US/NATO, and arguably should be to show that Europe can be unified and defeat Russia without American assistance. Poland is certainly ready to help, as are Romania and Italy.

All the more reasons proving that Windows is depreciated, almost defunct technology that is kept alive solely through bureaucracy not knowing how to adopt a non-Windows system. Certainly -nix based systems can be hacked, but it's not an open door like Windows usually is. It is plausible to lock down Windows, and W11 is built specifically to do this, but it's still more vulnerable than a comparable -nix setup.

It's really up to Europeans. Would Swedes tolerate their Internet speeds dropping in half, or being forced to route all communications through satellites launched by USA? Would Swedes tolerate rolling blackouts or the occasional railroad derailment? What about interdiction and filtering of Swedish ferries for "terrorists" that are detained and then sent to Russia for imprisonment? Or hijackings of Swedish planes so their passengers can be used in human medical experiments?

All of this requires a large and effective military to respond to such incidents. Europe lacks this, except for countries with border problems like Spain, Italy and Poland. All conservative-leaning countries whose security policies have long drawn the ire of more left-leaning politicians. Europe would have to admit that many on the right are correct, and concede that not everyone has a right to live within Europe.

>The Coveted Blue Checkmark

god, what an awful thing to represent our generation. But I don't blame Zuck for this as paid subscriptions give him the ability to effectively moderate users.

Presuming Americans even want to watch foreign media. Tik-Tok aside, if all right wing voices are hosted on truth.rus can those people truly call themselves right wing? I'm certain there is a class of Americans that would willingly swallow literal Russian propaganda but those people are a minority, and a very small minority on the right. The American right will die if such an arrangement is made, because Americans won't accept Russia Today into their lives for the same reasons they won't accept China Daily. And similarly, if Russia becomes a major political participant the government can and will blacklist all Russian websites categorically by classifying them as publishers and declaring it to be misinformation.

Likewise, imagine the memes of Trump posting from wall.mx or drill.no or americafirst.il. I think most countries would just ban him and not deal with the consequences of hosting a guy who tried to kill the vice president.

Speaking for myself alone, I've come to beilive that the post-google internet will be a net good. Without a single monopoly controlling all web content (or at least web monetization and indexing) smaller sites can exist and create their own networks. Future generations of zoomers can then go through the ruins, and create the all-in-one freeware Internet Catalog that we all want Google to be. One that has selectable FOSS algorithims driving it. Then the Information Age can truly begin.

I'm thinking more about Twitter's death in this. Twitter has effectively controlled the media and mainstream journalism for the past decade. This has been extremely harmful for society culminating with Trump, and new non-Twitter alternatives offer better discussion. 15 years from now Twitter Archeologist will be a job.

What Republicans want to happen: social media websites admit they did a no-no by banning Trump & agree to artificially promote right-wing views in exchange for not being regulated under Section 230.

What will happen: Republicans will try to gut Section 230 regardless, and social media companies will hedge themselves by formally becoming Publishers. Republicans will then be mass culled from all major websites, Section 230 won't apply, and most of the web will move to paid subscriptions. Most people will pay $2 to use Google Image Search or $10 to use Facebook, especially if all Publishers agree on a single Interoperable credentials format. Musk has already done them a favor by breaking the seal on this with paid Twitter subscriptions and people pay for Amazon Prime.

For those quick to compare this to the negated US strike from last year, Biden at least met railroaders halfway and they can still pull the rug out if they want. And in an ironic twist, America's conservatives were fully prepared for a total strike meltdown just to make Biden look bad, and now have such power (if only tenuously) to block a strike ban. America's threatened rail strike was also contained to freight, as American passenger RR workers lack the scheduling problems that prompted the (threatened) strike.

We already see Sunak's long-term strategy here anyway: as public services close more will be shifted to online-only. The article mentions this vis-a-vis education and healthcare but this will be forced more generally as transport closes. This will also permit outright firings and service closures which is his only real response to the strikes, as he has not postulated any way to resolve them otherwise and lacks the votes to do so.

A more neutral view would posit that daily life is already disrupted, thus forcing a protest. Repeating the PM's statement is a useless assessment when the PM is useless.

IMO the real issue isn't so much privacy but that Americans failed to build social media Americans want to use. In the marketplace of ideas a Chinese company is winning. Their formula resonates with a generation of American teenagers and is the voice of their generation. This speaks to a profound failure by older generations to create media zoomers want to consume. It also highlights why privacy is dead - young people know Tik-Tok is owned by China and that anything they post is public but don't beilive in privacy as a concept anymore, even if it's privacy against an invasive, manipulative, evil foreign power.

Fast trips mean higher vehicle turnaround and increased safety for crewed missions. This is very good regardless of who's doing the flight. NTRs will be needed as power sources in the outer solar system anyway, as PVs aren't as powerful out there. SpaceX's entire business is based off low turnaround to/from LEO, so this is the natural path up. This works out to SpaceX's advantage anyway. If the government commits to 4 Mars trip every year, that creates 4 opportunities to launch probes, mining equipment, orbital human facilities, and ground-based robots.

In the nearer term it means a regular Moon flight every week or so, and a regular long-endurance moon mission once or twice a year. Great opportunities to demonstrate SpaceX-branded habitats, moon trucks, and heavy industrial equipment needed to build things on the moon. It is the perfect chance to show how SpaceX can work with others inside a greater mission, such as a true Mars human transfer vehicle or Mars orbital lab.

(or we get a Trump Presidency and all this money goes to Hummer H4 production instead)

If NASA can actually do this then by 2030 we will have all the data needed to mass produce space reactors (for propulsion, electrical power, mining, whatever) which would permit serious space exploration in the later 2040s and 50s. By "serious" I mean off-earth laboratories with triple-digit populations, such as a lunar particle accelerator or a venus orbiter which would build up for a true mars shot - itself just step one for a larger program to chart Jupter's and Saturns many moons. By that point we'll have information from JUICE vis-a-vis conditions on Europa, and this would allow for an in-depth Europa chemical analysis program to discover off-earth life. Ideally, by that point we'll have a regular schedule of rockets coming to and from other planets that we can just slot missions into.

And if we can successfully do that, we could build something like a giant 100m telescope outside the asteroid belt, creating optimal conditions for observing Alpha Centuari for an inevitable probe there that would have to be nuclear-powered somehow.

It'll happen the moment you accept a new nuclear power plant down by your local Walmart and all Walmart items being required to participate in a company buyback program for clean/safe disposal and recycle as is done for batteries and tires. It'll happen whenever you accept the necessity of waiting for the bus and permitting construction of a railroad, truck terminal and auto wrecker near your local Caddilac dealership.

I'm being facetious but you get the idea. The sorts of compromises required are too much for the average person to accept. By the time it does matter, people will just accept that birds went extinct, that gardens can't be made without special chemicals, or that rain is toxic. The sort of world where standing outside for more than 20 minutes is dangerous due to ozone depletion and reproduction requires special drugs to offset microplastics in breast milk. This is already happening in parts of the US and they are begging Trump to take america back, build the wall, and stop the liberals from taking away plastic bags.

So long as I can order a vial of "research" chemicals from China I can order fentanyl. This is a problem with how the US makes it so easy to buy such chemicals and import them. If the government had any balls, they'd just restrict such imports entirely except to accredited institutions and licensed pharmacists. It'd shove it all into an underground black market, but it's already a grey market and it can start a discussion about decriminalizing possession and focusing on distribution instead.

I really don't like how the words "big tech" now exclusively refers to FANG webservice companies and not technology in general. It's like people can't even think about technology as a physical thing anymore, and exclusively as internet-based software. On that point, does anyone really think Bechtel or Wilcox weren't hiring? These are huge companies that build our naval reactors, technology that is being adapted to build commercial reactors. These are difficult jobs that most people cannot fulfill because they require lots of skill, knowledge, and technological readiness not excel proficency.

Ditto for the companies building H2 cells for things like locomotive for fleet trucks. Those are undoubtedly technology companies but you won't see Google programmers lined up to work in a dirty workshop where such devices are made. Nor the actual computer/electronics chip fabs that are being scaled up to bring chip production back home.

the "100% Kosher" part gets me the most, this is witty