I think it'll get approved for sure. It'll be one more vector for the EU to ~loot~ fine US tech companies, so win win for both sides.

Like most matters concerning the UK: unless your feet are touching their territory, the correct response to their actions, inactions, or very existence, is: "fuck off"

I think the correct response in terms of the British legal system is to simply say:

"Dear Sirs, In regards to your recent request, can I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram (1971). Yours etc,"

One of the most depressing things I've ever read

I found it strangely uplifting. Widowed three times, failing health, yet she still manages to find joy in the little things.

It's always the little things that matter.

That someone found love in a care home?

The article as a whole. Like, life shouldn't be that harsh.

Could insert most countries names and be equally right.

All so that keep one's unabridged freedom and get extra money to freely piss away on crap and narcissistic indulgences, or on some comically priced house you carefully use contraceptives in.

Most other countries don't have a TFR below 1 and still within a middle income country.

What are the odds, would you say, that the US don't have a team constantly trying to breach China's networks?

Hence the framing of these articles always strikes me as dishonest by omission. The titles should all append "(similar to what we do)".

There would also be no way China would admit to any breaches.

I don't think people get to those positions by having firm principles

Why only have the cake when you can eat it too

And then Microsoft forced him back in on the grounds of: he's a scumbag but he's our scumbag so he's untouchable

Altman is a snake who uses words purely instrumentally, and this is well known.

He basically takes advantage of people's limited memories and default assumption that when a person says something its honest.

The stupidity of this is that cops literally used to not exist. People used to have to arrest people themselves and drag them to a magistrate and then prosecute them themselves. Didn't mean society was mad max.

Doubt you'll find many cops who'll know that though.