I’m sorry but the UK is the entity we’re talking about, not actual persons - individuals can’t join or leave the EU on their own hence it’s the actions of the actual formal nation state that get judged when it comes to joining or leaving the EU.

Consider the possibility that it’s your nationalist feelings (and given the huge role of British Nationalism in Brexit that’s not actually a good thing) that are making you confuse the country and the actions of it by the hand of it’s elective representatives, with you yourself and people like you - the actions of the nation never really represent all people in that nation and it’s not really healthy (IMHO) to identify yourself with The Nation.

People being critical of a country seldom means they’re critical of everybody in that country, unless they’re nationalist far-right morons, in which case their problem is a lot bigger than merely talking in an acerbic way about a nation.

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As the vote for new EU Members is one with veto rules, my bet is that it’s going to be an opportunity for all manner of EU members to make demands, such as Spain demanding Gibraltar back.

If I remember it correctly, members of the EFTA such as Norway have a vote with veto, and during the Brexit Deal negotiations they weren’t at all keen on having the UK joining the EFTA because it’s far bigger than all the others and would likely dominate.

The “conservatives” nowadays are just another far-right party, only they’re led by posh twats instead of rabble rousers and unlike in most of Europe (with noteable exceptions being Hungary and maybe Austria), in the UK are mainstream rather than fringe.

Nowadays they don’t really do “conserving”.

All it takes is for one member country, no matter how tiny, to say “No” and it’s no, and in some countries like Belgium even a single region (say, “mighty” Walonia) can block it.

For example, I expect that Spain will want Gibraltar back as a condition for a Yes on a UK Membership vote.

Only apparently in the EU power circles nobody wants yet another “special deal” like Norway or (even worse) Switzerland.

I’ve lived in a couple of countries of Europe, including the UK whilst it was an EU Member.

The spirit about the EU in the UK was always different, no “stronger as a group” mindset, always “what’s in it for me” and trying scheme after scheme to see if they could swindle the rest of the EU.

Then on top of it all there were all the many insults to the EU - and by extention the people in it - during the Leave Referendum and even afterwards, coming from amongst others top people in party in government, including the PM.

I remember how even the Remainers were running around with delusions of national superiority: for example one of their arguments were “We should stay and change the EU from the inside”, as if Brits knew better what the EU should be than the other 470 million people in it.

The EU doesn’t really need that kind of member nation, more so when we’re dealing with another one like that in our midst: Hungary.

Respect is earned, not due, and the UK has a lot of work ahead to earn it.

Euro, Schengen and no special exceptions.

The Leave Referendum and what happened during it and afterwards to the Tory party is a great lesson of what happens when a mainstream rightwing party starts adopting policies of the far-right.

(The present day Tory Party is far-right by continental european standards, only headed by posh twats rather than the more traditional rabble rousers).

Should be a lesson for similar parties in the rest of Europe, IMHO.

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Illiteracy does seem the most plausible explanation.

“spending thousands of dollars and millions of man hours installing and configuring Arch Linux on a rig that plays Stardew Valley…”

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I failed, but since I didn’t waste any time or effort in trying, I count it as a win!

In that kind of mindset, it’s not “child”, it’s “human animal”.

Even for incandescent technology, the efficiency actually goes up with wattage, whilst for LEDs it’s roughly the same (if I remember correctly, it mostly decays with temperature), so even for incandescent the gains in switching to LEDs actually fall as the original lamp wattage goes up.

Further, given the consumption of lighhouse lamps it makes sense that they had already been switched earlier from incandescent or similar, to the same kind of tech as street lights (i.e. some kind of high power fluorescent), which is a more efficient tech.

Last but not least there is one fluorescent technology (I’m not sure anymore if it’s sodium vapor or if it is mercury vapor) that is (or at least it was a few years ago) more efficient than LED technology, but only really works well for very large lights (again, I roughly remember something like 1000W - so stuff like stadium illumination). At least in terms of consumption there is no point in changing from that to LED technology as it would be a step back.

So it makes sense that for some lighthouse lights they’re not even replacing the lights with LEDs whilst when they do replace them the gains percentage-wise are a lot less than one would get from replacing one’s 80W incandescent light bulbs with the equivalent modern LEDs (which would be maybe 12 - 15W).

I don’t remember ever hearing “Brit” or “Brits” being used for immigrants in Britain and definitelly heard it used for when Britons are living abroad as immigrants (in fact when living in The Netherlands I had some colleagues who were in their own words “Brits”)…

Always thought it was just another way of saying British and not going into the specifics of which nation in Britain did people come from (the whole “nations” thing for people abroad is generally irrelevant or even misunderstood).

Microplastics are only really an issue for micro penises.

The whole Zyklon-B, death camps and train transport would be too much of a hassle and too obvious in the XXI century.

Death by Starvation, Disease and Dehydration is a much cheaper Final Solution and pro-Genocide Propagandists can even blame the victims themselves.

That shit is very much like the Nazis blaming the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto for what the Nazis were doing to them.

The ethno-Fascists style of excuse is the same for Zionists as it was for Nazis with little more than the names of the “ethnics” and of the “places” changed.