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This begs the question: tldr. Im going to fridge an egg and eat it raw but cold.

Not the person you asked, but for me:

• In 2017 I lost my £70,000/yr dream job as the company I worked at decided they couldn't keep their EMEA campus in a country that hasn't decided how, when or even if they were going to allow foreigners in.
• I had to move to a shithole town in Nottinghamshire to live by myself in a cramped one-bedroom flat to do a job I hated for £22,000/yr.
• That company went under because we couldn't import the network equipment into the UK because of Brexit. Most vendors weren't bothering since there were shortages anyway, so why not just send all their stock to Germany where there's no nasty surprises and plenty of buyers waiting.
• Ended up doing minimum-wage shift work at an Amazon warehouse and Deliveroo deliveries to survive.
• Got another, similar job on £20,000/yr.
• Not had a holiday in six years. I used to have at least two a year.
• Can't get a CPAP machine for my apnoea because of difficulty importing them (ended up getting a friend in France to buy one for me).
• Local supermarkets still can't get a lot of fresh fruit that they used to stock. Empty shelves common.
• My savings went from £50,000 to zero.
• Government is pissing money away on detention centres and hotels for immigrants because they refuse to cooperate with the EU.
• Government is also planning on ripping up our Human Rights (ostensibly to deal with the immigrants) and has even indicated they would like to abolish GDPR, bringing it full circle to OP's comment.

So, yeah. Not everyone has had as bad a time as me, but everyone I know has encountered some negative fallout. I've yet to encounter anyone who has actually benefitted, even indirectly.

The EU are doing exactly that, but they're doing it the sensible way. Instead of pointing to a particular standard (Signal, RCS, whatever) and saying you must use this, they're forcing Apple, WhatsApp, etc to publish open APIs that allow others to hook into their services. This allows platforms that are distinctive to develop but prevents vendor lock-in. Honestly, I'll be all over WhatsApp and iMessage once I can use an open-source client to hook into them.

The shorter one is reserved for exciting future functionality; keep your device connected to WiFi to ensure you're always on the latest firmware.

If you look closely the other one is used to refill the user's own water bottle for free.

OP is a liar. There are no anti-tank mines in the comments.

But how will this affect the stock markets?

"Hey Google, start the Roomba."

Up until recently I worked in schools IT and we did a shit load of work on major network refits and came across so many buildings that just needed condemning. And asbestos. So much asbestos.

A lot of schools standing today were built cheaply and fairly carelessly during the baby boom of the late 50s and 60s and were only expected to stand for 30 years. These should have been pulled down and rebuilt by the turn of the millennium (and, in fairness, many were, especially in the early 2000s) but a lot are still standing. Why spend £10m building a new school when you can keep the old one open for £2m/year in extra maintenance costs?

Do the little tentacles move like those of a sand dollar, slowly propelling the wearer who, presumably, is stood otherwise motionless, arms crossed, wearing a pair of oversized sunglasses and an expression of stoic defiance?

If so, I may be interested.

It's generally not much data. A 1GB/mo SIM with ten years service can be had for less than a €10 if you're buying in bulk.

I thought you meant armpits at first...

Could you do that again but in iambic pentameter and include a joke about Henry Kissinger eating kale for the first time.