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• mdlve commented on What happens now?
  If it wasn't for bloody C-19, I think even the already-showing gaps in the rainbow-Unicorns scenario of Brexit would be high up the public agenda. High up in the media coverage? Yes. Public agenda? Maybe not. Despite predictions, so far the shelves aren't empty(*) and people can still get foods and medicines - because if they couldn't that would knock Covid off the front pages. What is currently happening with Brexit is a handful of industries (meat, fish) having trouble exporting - and they don't have the voter numbers for the government to really care (remember, Boris already sold the...
• aldonius commented on What happens now?
  Australia has magamatism all along the eastern seaboard but it's not really a continuous pattern. Places in between have much crappier soil. AIUI there's one particularly strong hotspot that's moved south-south-west. It's currently down at the Victoria/South Australia border and I believe that it was previously responsible for the e.g. the Glass House Mountains (26 mya) and the Tweed shield volcano (23 mya), which are north and south of Brisbane respectively. There's another hotspot that's presently up near the Atherton Tablelands. Both it and the SA/Vic one have had eruptions that are in Aboriginal oral memory....
• mdlve commented on What happens now?
  While I appreciate that many people don't think under-18's are fully human, I think that you're being unreasonably harsh to say they're irrelevant. Are they irrelevant as human beings? No. Are they irrelevant as voters? Yes. I don't set the rules, and for whatever reason most countries seem to have settled on 18 being adulthood and thus the threshold for the right to vote....
• whitroth commented on What happens now?
  Y'know, as I get older, I find myself getting really emotional over things I wouldn't have, long ago. I suspect a *lot* of it is watching the US (and a lot of the world) go downhill from the hopes we had in the sixties and seventies. Joe Biden is *really* not who I wanted... but I watched a replay of the memorial they did for the 400k dead. No politics at *all*. And the piece of filth who will be gone tomorrow couldn't be bothered to show up....
• JBS commented on What happens now?
  SFReader @ 1379: This is just a sampling of public unis which are much cheaper but only if you're a state resident. Yeah - if you're a military cadet, makes sense to go to a military college - but for the rest, really? https://www.collegexpress.com/lists/list/percentage-of-out-of-state-students-at-public-universities/360/ When I got home from Iraq in 2005 I knew I wasn't going to get my old job back. The law says they've got to give you your old job back, but it doesn't apply if the company has been sold & moved (all of the jobs) overseas. So I looked around for another new career...