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New comment by tim333 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

tim333 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:12:26 +0000

> various economic analyses estimate that the broader, ongoing cost of Brexit to the UK economy ranges between £100 billion and £140 billion due to reduced trade and investment

>Britain's national debt is growing at a faster pace than any country in the world except Botswana,

New comment by tim333 in "AI profitability is mathematically impossible"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:59:46 +0000

The analysis seems iffy. As with most industries it's like:

Cost of producing service X

Revenue coming Y

Whether X>Y or not is mostly down to how much competition drives the price down. At the moment prices are down due to an investment fueled land grab but that could change.

New comment by tim333 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:40:38 +0000

Not from money saved by leaving though.

New comment by tim333 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:39:03 +0000

I think it should have been at least a two stage process. First vote do you want to leave? Second vote after figuring out the details of hard/soft etc. go back to the voters with - so this is the deal, do you want it? The second likely would have been a no.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:31:32 +0000

It was an area they let Hitler effectively occupy without going to war. The Donetsk People's Republic of its day. Not fighting over that only delayed the main war a little.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:26:42 +0000

NATO is an alliance of 32 democracies. You have to expect those to elect duff leaders from time to time but the thing goes on.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:46:15 +0000

I think it's more they lean towards the 'great powers' viewpoint that they are great and so have the right to bully smaller countries near them.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:41:19 +0000

>anyone who has been indoctrinated by a lifetime of Western Russophobia

or who turns on the TV and sees which atrocity they've committed this week.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:38:44 +0000

Magyar is a big change. It's down to not being an Putin employee.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:36:18 +0000

I think the far-right's pro Putin stuff is much more down to the Russians willingness to give them money in various forms than anything to do with their voters preferences.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:28:36 +0000

The history of not defending against incoming new management is not good for zero wars - google Sudetenland for example. If you want zero wars you're probably better being like Switzerland - defend your own country but don't go fighting abroad.

New comment by tim333 in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

tim333 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:19:44 +0000

As a European I'd say my sentiments are low more towards Trump and friends. I imagine things with the the US will go back to normal once he leaves office.

New comment by tim333 in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

tim333 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:10:06 +0000

If you want anonymous eSIM, Silent Link is pretty good. Pay with crypto, works nearly all countries/networks, quite reasonably priced.

New comment by tim333 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

tim333 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:16:23 +0000

Also trading on crypto futures markets at ~$160 vs the $135 IPO price so you should probably buy and flip to a greater fool.

New comment by tim333 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

tim333 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:15:11 +0000

The main argument is if you scale up a lot you run out of electricity supply on Earth.

New comment by tim333 in "Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse"

tim333 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:26:19 +0000

>A divisive influencer... third-most googled person in 2023... "king of toxic masculinity"... facing legal investigations in Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States

(wikipedia)

New comment by tim333 in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

tim333 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:32:20 +0000

Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out

British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease

Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-...

then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really.

Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana

I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.

New comment by tim333 in "Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump"

tim333 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:58:01 +0000

Maybe you apply to Trump's sons with a proposal as to how to enrich their crypto ventures?

New comment by tim333 in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

tim333 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:51:25 +0000

It's been quite meh economically - we'd be wealthier if we'd remained. Also immigration went up which is not what a lot of Brexiters were hoping.

I think a lot of the Brexit vote was just people being fed up and voting for something different. In my experience few Brexit voters are happy with what arrived.

New comment by tim333 in "AI is slowing down"

tim333 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:10:50 +0000

Well there are a lot of commenters so presumably some interest. I just had a look at the Bloomberg bit https://youtu.be/zbKDmkJPVvI and didn't see sweaty boosters rattled, just Ed doing his usual spiel - they are loss making and so it's all a big con. Which is kind of unproven on the big con bit.