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1. Pension bomb — as you see, is about to go off in Europe.

Honestly, I would expect it to go off first in the US. They rely heavily on the stock-markets and have much higher payouts. Many employee funds may just implode (e.g. Illinois teachers fund)

3. A younger/more populist group of politicians will assume power in China.

This is not how it works in China. But Xi will unlikely be still in power in 10 years. His successor will be younger, so not a big prediction.

5. Chinese-American co-dependency crumbles like a bitter divorce This is a 50/50 chance.

6. Brexit — no comments needed Well, the verdict is still open (I am skeptical)

"much faster than say ext2"

Mordsschnell!

Yeah. Because we know that post-soviet Russians are very happy people. Not.

Source: I am there once a month.

"How's life in China?"

"Great!"

Source: I live there!

This is the mistake you're making regarding stuff you have no idea of.

I would appreciate an article about "The secret afterlife of Belgium Mail"

The Belgium postal system ranks below Moldavia. It is a third world country and the postal system is dysfunctional.

Now wonder Boris Johnson is leaving after he lived some years in Bruessels.

"I don't care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster. That's waste reduction and a net good."

I could agree with that but I am worried about foot items. Do you know why a Pharmacy NEVER takes back any medicine for resale? Too much risk that the product has been tampered with.

The same is true for food items.

And since we are on it, if I had a wish I would wish a nerd password option for one time passwords based on regular expressions.

"This should not be a surprise, as this supports the NIST's revised recommendations (from June 2017!) that passwords should not expire [0], because it actually leads to less-secure passwords for this exact reason."

THIS. 10 Times This.

Would somebody be so kind to tell this to the eRA Commons website maintainer of the NIH?

And when you are one it, please tell eBay I don't want to change my PW if they think someone else tried to log into my account based on their shitty Tracking metrics. I mostly switched from Amazon to eBay but the constant PW change request really annoy me. I have one plain vanilla browser with no anti track plug-ins only for eBay.

I once send them a message, that I consider their security guy an idiot, told them to forward him my cell phone number and ask him to give me a call to discuss this PW policy. He never called. :-)

"An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day"

Stopped reading there. Google: "By the end of the first day, none of the assault forces had secured their first-day objectives. Allied casualties on June 6 have been estimated at 10,000 killed, wounded, and missing in action: 6,603 Americans, 2,700 British, and 946 Canadians."

10k killed on your worst day? "an epic loss"?

The Soviet Union lost like 15k people. Per day. Over a week, a month, a year, in the end, over 5 years. It was a German-Russian war in Europe and the "Omaha Beach" looks more like a birthday party for children.