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wonkothesane said:

I’m curious who’ll be laughing some years from now. IIRC, Musk always wanted to create the “western WeChat” - the one platform “to rule them all”. Any of you, who have been to China will probably know that it is virtually impossible to live without WeChat: Payments, Reservations, Customer Service, Streaming,…
This guy certainly has a lot of funding; I guess he just waits until the X takes off.

Well, if anyone still remembers Twitter years from now, they will absolutely be laughing.

Oh, wait, I thought this was another article about Elon Musk. 

How long till Musk is living in a blacked out Mexican hotel room storing his urine in jars?

mike_galloway said:

Democracy is not about right or wrong - it’s what the majority vote for, no matter how stupid they may be.

You should read up on the paradox of tolerance and the tyranny of the majority. Democracies are fragile and are not a goal unto themselves. The goal is a free and open society, and a democracy that protects against tyranny and intolerance is the best tool to achieve and maintain that. If the democracy in the UK (and the US, for that matter) can't protect against intolerance and tyranny over minority groups then it is broken.

But, as far as Brexit is concerned, the politicians supporting it were obviously, wittingly or unwittingly, tools of Vladimir Putin, and the voters duped.

The Apple TV+ nature shows are generally good but I'd like to see them to do some science shows in the vein of NOVA.