One could comment about Brexit in the same way. There were a myriad of reasons to stay in the EU, which are becoming more apparent each passing week. But good propaganda will help turn the minds of the disillusioned into thinking that there will be nothing but unicorns and chocolate cake for one and all of only the pesky EU wasn't in their way.
Many people in Britain thought they were paying the EU rather than the other way around. "£350m/week" and all that rubbish. The Poles have no such illusions.
I don’t think anybody is as ignorant about an EU exit as we where before BREXIT. I also don’t believe that anti EU and conservative voters are the same in Poland. Peoples politics are only simple in statistics or the media. In real life things get a lot more difficult and that detracts from the “story” somebody is trying to tell.
There was always scepticism in the Uk about the EU, all we ever wanted out of it was free trade, but slowly they were pushing the political union agenda and each successive UK government was slowly accepting it. If any of these agreements were put British public at the time they would have been rejected but they never did. But the resentment against the free movement of EU citizens to the Uk was growing. The game was up when the EU refused to renegotiate with the UK. The main driver for the Brexit victory was immigration and that would still be a problem if the UK rejoined. But now they've left once, the taboo against leaving is gone, and if they dont like it they'll just do it again. We'll never rejoin now. As for the issues from leaving, they're temporary, they may last a couple of years but solving them isnt rocket science and they can be solved with a restructuring of the economy until things settle down.
This is clearly only the opinion of a delusional Tory.
The majority of the public already recognizes brexit as a failure and the numbers who share this view are only increasing. The growing recognition of the scope and breadth of the lies used to sell brexit to the public is now being felt (Farage was always viewed as a liar, but BoJo and Gove are fucked in terms of their long-term reputations.) The UK will soldier on because they are too fatalistic for their own good, but the broader populace has come to realize that the issues are not temporary, are going to last for decades at best, and that many of them will only be solved at great cost. Right now everyone is just waiting for the NI protocol to blow up so that we can see just how few friends the UK really has and learn what if feels like when the US officially turns against us on trade issues.
Why has it been a failure? Because you say so or because you want it to be one? Scope and bredth of the lies? Like the economy crashing and going into recession the day after we voted to leave?
Soldierning on, you make it sound like the economy has tanked and were in the middle of a massive economic downturn with massive capital flight, high interest rates and hyperinflation.. When in fact the the figures today showed the highest number of unfilled vacancies in 20 years, an economy thats generating so many jobs it cant fill them? Thats failure?
Explain to me exactly why the issues arent temporary, you seem to be utterly convinced of this, even though the logistical issues have only been occuring in the last few months. Explain to me the great cost part of your statement, what great costs? Paying working people higher wages?
As for the NI protocol, it looks like the EU are caving in to UK demands not the other way around , and as for the US and trade issue, they've already started to take trade sanctions off us but have left them on the EU.
That was a democratic decision to leave or did leave "cheat" on facebook and social media? The leader of the opposition who was one of the leading remainers has come to accept Brexit and the fact we're not going back. Delusional you say. You sound very bitter about the UK leaving, but you're going to have to accept it like a mature adult and not sulk about it. Its done, its not going to be reversed, sovereignty isnt going to be handed back to the EU again. There wont be another referendum, we wont have free movement, we wont join the single market or a customs union. You wont have a burgandy passport anymore. And you're a citizen of the UK and not the EU.
Actually many countries have similar systems in place. For instance Spain's costs around 500,000 EUR (and then you must live in Spain for the next 10 years)
The question then comes, where would one go to learn the fundamentals-and what are they now?
Being someone who was ahead of the game in css 15 years ago, but not having touched it since - where would one go to understand the new fundamentals and options available?
Personally, I think flexbox is the single most versatile and important tool to be familiar with. You can create nearly any layout with it, in such a way that it's very naturally responsive almost by default.
Maybe I am wrong, but I would assume that the most sensible place to start with is the MDN Web Docs[0] in this case instead of looking for blog posts.
Throwing out blanket statements is dangerous for new comers, which seems to be the target audience of this article according to its title. For example, collapsing margin isn't always bad and unpredictable, it just seems that way if you didn't take the time to understand the fundamentals behind and go for "what works".
That's not too different to telling CS students to not worry about learning the memory and time complexities of different algorithms and just use [insert "best" algorithm] because it works most of the time.
I am infuriated by people who take little sips of a drink. The intense sucking around (primarily a hot tea or other hot liquid) but that pursed lip sucking sound destroys my will to live (and in a way that wants me to take everyone with me.)
Punishment should be due only when actual proveable facts can be shown. Otherwise it's just rampant speculation which just feeds into sometimes political power moves. We already have enough of that going on.
Surely that can be easily waved away in the minds of an ignorant by saying it's just a shiny rock, crashed satellite, ice patch or some other silly nonsense.
> Their cover-up of the true scale of the problem (lab leak or not) made it hard for politicians in other countries to lock down quickly. It helped it spread intentionally to multiple countries and by then it was too late.
I disagree. The actions from a lot of countries were absolutely lacking, even when they could see how bad it was given both China's data, and Italy, Israel's initial incidents.
China locked down super hard towards late February/mid-March.
During this time there was countless reports about the "ridiculous" and "draconian" lockdowns that occurred in China. The West basically pointed fingers, laughed, and said we'd be fine. And yet they're still not.
> If they were blasting their sirens early in 2021 instead of covering it up we might have had swifter border closures etc.
I agree that even earlier warning would have been good. I just don't see it changing anything. Countries only started to take it seriously when it really started to affect them. They didn't want to risk a political/ financial hit on taking the measures that were needed, and they paid for it.
Well said. China botched it at the beginning. They could have prevented a worldwide pandemic, but they started acting to late. However, what I know now is that pretty much any western country couldn't have prevented a pandemic, if the origin of the virus would have been them.
I'm in Germany and the whole situation is a joke. Incompetence in any way possible, everywhere. Half heated "soft lockdowns" whenever things get worse, reopen everything as soon as it gets a little better, then be all surprised that incidents are on a rise again, rinse and repeat. Obviously every state does this without any coordination with neighboring ones.
And it's not surprising. Do you think any politician is even remotely qualified for the position they have? Usually you get your position as minister of health, or defense, or whatever, but because everything in Germany just goes its way and nothing is wrong, you do your four years, pass a few meaningless bills, and that's it. Now that we have a pandemic at our hands and the minister of health would have to actually do something for the first time in several decades, the whole spiel falls apart.
