What exactly are these independent economies going to run on? I mean it’s a monetary union at its core.

Scotland joined because they went bust trying to build a railway link across South American, not because of some fantasist bs films about Wallace.

Wales is tiny.

London has a greater population than Scotland, N.Ireland & Wales combined. 80% of the UK population is English.

So, whats the plan? Other than to become billionaire tax havens…

At this point, listening to him feels like going to an open sewage pipe marked LIES, & watching it spewing out effluent. Kind of amusing for 3 or 4 seconds, then the stench & realisation of what you’re doing dawns.

AT THE VERY LEAST! All its doing is impoverishing the majority & threatening mankind right now.

trump hates it, so its gotta be a good thing

At first glance it seems like a good idea, but there’s something about it the makes me distinctly uneasy. False sense of security? How easily could it be manipulated?

The thing is, that an awful lot of this is already happening. They’re using AI on things like reddit to profile people, if you post faster that they can profile then you are a “bot” or are simply spamming. Its rather insidious like all these things.

I’m old enough to remember a tine before the Internet & have lived through all the changes that have come about.

I think that a ban for under 18s on social media is a good idea tbh.

Do I like it? No, I don’t.

Do I think that many of these sorts of “checks” are a way to monitor other people activities? Yes, I do.

However, when we’ve AI profiling us in order to manipulate us, when such a massive proportion of content is being created by bots & bad actors, how on earth do we even begin to deal with it? Providing ID to access the Internet feels appalling, but, would it reduce bots? Could it counter the flood of propaganda we are subjected too by countries & companies pushing their own agendas?

I don’t know, but I think we are at the point where doing nothing is not an option. The Internet I knew is already long gone & it’s never coming back, so we need to figure out ways to protect ourselves & make it less of an a swamp to manipulate people.

This is honestly quite exciting! In a good way too.

Feels like social media manipulation with the world how it is atm

I paid for a copy of this…at least 10 years ago, I bought a couple of ships too,never played the game.

I cannot remember. It’s been so long

Is still claiming to be a Democrat? Good grief.

It’s pronounced Falklands.

Shall we talk about Argentine genocide of their black population now?

he’s dead ffs, why are we continuing to entertain the obvious lies about this?

W T F ?!?

didnt speak back ofc as hes dead…thoughts & prayers talk maybe?

So you’ve moved away from it simply being NATO, to now saying its a vassal moving away & politically & economically, which is exactly what I said. I didn’t say the “west” had nothing to do with it, you’re saying that.

So how about you make your mind up?

That just reads “your are chattel”

This is rubbish. They couldn’t join NATO, russia had invaded them, as well as a bunch of other countries I might add. This special operation was to stop them joining the EU.

A failing dictatorship cannot have a neighbour have free elections, vote in who they want, & be economically prosperous. Thats the beginning, middle & end of it.

All this bs about nato this & nato that is a lie & you’re either a troll, delusional, or both.

Dictatorship needs an enemy to hide its failed corruption.

It’s not compulsory though, is it?

Why isn’t it on fire?