Actually only 37% of the British electorate voted for Brexit, vs. 34% who voted to remain. This is why it's important to vote, otherwise you end up like the remaining 29% who woke up the next morning and started frantically Googling various wordings of "Wut is Brexit?"

So probably at least 6 out of 10 potential voters in the UK would readily admit that Brexit was a mistake.

And delete the keys. Coins gone forever.

Insane pivot to extreme politicization of US politics. Thanks, we need more of it. I think intense politicization of everything is going to make America great again.

This is the one potentially lasting permanent damage that Trump will have caused. US power has been supported worldwide in no small part by the strength and universal acceptance of the US dollar. Trump has already destroyed that hegemony at least partially. It took world wars and fortuitous positioning by the US across a century to build up that hegemony, and almost overnight Trump has severely weakened that power. It wouldn't be surprising if that power never returned, as no president post-Trump will be able to correct that huge mistake.

This is true. Anyone who wants to use stable coins that have the deep capital backing and reliability of large banks and major countries will use the preexisting ones. Theyre called the dollar and the euro. The people who want “alternative” online assets will utilize trumpcoins and whatever equivalent shows up in the European market. The really stupid thing is when these alternative assets inevitably crash, all these libertarian anti-gubbermint dumbasses in the ecosystem will scream for a bailout from the very governments that they were so keen to loudly hate on and avoid. And theyll almost certainly get it. Thus, the end result is that idiots are largely immune from the consequences of their actions, and wealth ultimately is transferred from taxpayers into the pockets of the cryptobros who stood up the coins and skimmed their millions or billions off the top. I will continue to avoid the entire scammy ecosystem like its Ebola.

Once you realize it is the governments of the world that cause tribalism, and pit us against each other, you will realize what a folly it was to go to war so some politicians and can win over some other politicians. Sorry if that upsets you, but the stupidest thing you can be is patriotic. Even in America, we are far from free, and far from the sort of men who went to war over a 1% tax on tea. Our governments own us. They are in control, and we cant do shit about it. They are evil, regardless of which side of the aisle you think your side has the moral high ground. You are wrong. No peoples want to harm you, no peoples want to take what is yours. Just governments do (unless you are Palestinian, and there are Israelis around). I commend your bravery for going to fight, just not the wits you used to decide to do it for some shitty politicians. They are all shitty. All of them.

"minimum spec" for a game isn't supposed to mean "technically runs but no one will actually be willing to play it that way"

Maybe not in your opinion, but it has always meant that, and always will. Marketing departments are a thing.

In other words, a search engine*.

*In the times of yore before ads buggered them all up.

No, but the effect is the same. If I don't collect $500 M from the fossil fuel companies, that money has to be made up somehow. It's not giving them other people's tax dollars but it's raising everyone else's tax burden to make up for it.

True, I hear tax breaks for the asbestos and lead-paint industries are equally as beneficial to our national health. "We've always done it this way and the companies are very happy about it." is not a reason to continue funding environmental disasters.

What's next? You will defend oil spills as a way to create jobs cleaning up the coast? The Valdez oil spill and Deepwater Horizon were great ways to inject government dollars into the economy?

A few years ago my mother complained about the government "wasting" money on research into ocean algae / plankton die-offs. I had to explain to her that ocean algae and plankton generate an estimated 50-80% of the oxygen on the planet and if they die off we all might have a big problem breathing.

Mosquitos. They LOVE warm weather and the nastiest of the nasty little critters are moving northward. They've packed their bags full of tropical diseases. As one little feller was heard to exclaim when arriving in Michigan with his mosquito family: Wheee!! We're here!!!