That happened many decades ago

The US would not exist if France hadn’t bankrupted itself to spite England 250 years ago. They got the French Revolution and much death as a result.

It’s bizarre. People don’t learn to negotiate or accept half a load of bread when offered.

He broke the marriage equality impasse. Without him I might not be married.

wow, I never knew about that. Terrible

It could only be negligence to cover the ceiling with flammable materials then allow open flames. What’s shocking is how common it is for this exact scenario to play out–acoustic foam that is not fire resistant and pyrotechnics.

There is a bar/restaurant nearby me where they had to shut down their restaurant due to repeated health violations. They converted into only a bar but were eventually forced to stop serving alcohol because they kept overserving people and serving minors–this caused them to close down entirely. Weirder: it’s a historical building. A company who specializes in restoring neon signs offered to do it for free and the owner apparently screamed at them until they left.

The moral? These are probably terrible people.

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My impression is that they had a problem of an economy that could not support the population at that time. Overpopulation vs underpopulation.

The problem is that you don’t want to record important information like passwords so if they did log them, it’s another possible vector of loss. I e if someone got into that copy of the data

This was also my takeaway. Sounds like a security nightmare if they are logging any data.

You mean to say that some people who write history are biased. History itself does not hold agency.

History isn’t a living thing, it’s a concept. People within history may be biased, however.

There’s an entire field of study called “History” and people are trained to do just that. YOU, specifically, want otherwise. Don’t project that on other people.

All things that suck and are part of human nature. Sadly most people seem unable to grow past their primal urges.

Where did you gather that I’m ok with that? What a strange comment. One can view history through a neutral lens.

Honestly, though, this has happened throughout all of human civilization. It’s only now that people think it’s generally a bad thing. In the past, you either didn’t care, suffered it, or celebrated the conquest.

What does the UK export that they could leverage here?

Thanks for that input. I might look into something.

How difficult was this to do?

Do people genuinely rely on these or are they really just a novelty?