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Every single one of the predictions of the Brexiters has been exploded: migration, taxation, funding the NHS, better public services etc. The cost of implementing customs controls …

Your condescension and arrogance is amusing. The British discoverer of the metal, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it aluminum, which Americans still use.

Patronizing rubbish. The EU builds plenty of EVs, rockets and fighter jets and has far more subway systems and public transport than the US. Europe is already great. It's why hundr…

You can be very sure that millions of Europeans and large numbers of businesses are finding alternatives.

The absence of war in Europe is more down to the EU than the US. Polls do not consistently show anything of the sort.

The UK itself lost one third of its land area in 1921, following yet another insurrection in Ireland (always a coerced part of the UK subject to genocidal rule and expropriation). …

Oh look, an ignorant begrudger. I don't know many banana republics with a well-educated workforce let lone the best educated workforce in the world. Perhaps you'd like to compare I…

Ireland started by not leving tax on income from writing on writers for specific cultural reasons -- to support and encourage writers. It's a cultural norm. Extending it to other g…

On the contrary, the EU is the solution.

Blinkered nonsense. Yes, of course Europe doesn't have any US laws but to suggest that it doesn't have legislation about accessibility is simply wrong. Guess what... the legislatio…

If American companies don't want to pay taxes in Europe they can easily avoid doing so by staying home. If they prefer to earn profits in Europe they can comply with the law. As it…

I want a Linux phone based on open source hardware. I gave up an iPhone for Android then switched to Pixels. My current Pixel 7 will be my last Google phone. I want out of the surv…

> The fact that most research participants and their families are unaware that they are part of a vaccine trial, leaves no room for justice or compensation. What an absolute load o…

National economic statistics -- GDP, GNI etc. only tell you so much. Measures of human wellbeing I'd argue tell you more. Ireland is ahead of the UK on every metric, from child mor…

French and Germans were not depicted in English publications as apes. The Irish were coerced into the UK and were officially British citizens, that is ostensibly, co-nationals. The…

Dumping things that aren't up to standard for sale in the EU is routine since the UK left the EU single market. The EU implemented full customs controls and goods inspections on da…

If you visit any store in the EU selling new phones or tablets you will find only USB-C devices for sale. No enforcement required. What the Chinese do with cheap products sold on A…

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You don't appear well informed about the EU or about the consequences of Brexit for British manufacturers. If you're implying some kind of EU civil servant driven influence over de…

Perhaps you should inform yourself by reading the DMA. You won't find in it anything about Apple or anyone else hindering developers from selling elsewhere. What the EU is regulati…

Typical BS from a house journal of those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It's not simply about what you SEE. It's about tracking what sites you visit, where you are, what information can be collated to profile you in any and every way: your political pr…

This is naive. Read https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror . There's nothing wrong with traditional advertising. That's not the world and surveillanace economy we now liv…

Not self-hosting. Linking by identifying key fields. Currently just using password login.

I help run a small non-profit that has managed data in a number of spreadsheets. Grist made it v simple to pull the data into a web site linking it together with a variety of diffe…