Yeah, turns out we made a lot of the same points in our first HIVE post, didn't we? We might find that we might be better off with manual curation over here. By getting rid of a lot of the automated scripts that had come to dominate the old chain, we might discover new (old) ways of connecting that are much more fulfilling.
I, too, can't believe the EU has lasted this long. First, the virus exposed Schengen for the stupid idealism that it was (although I can't believe that recent terrorism hadn't already). Now, the inability to enact QE measures in a targeted way because of the eurozone will surely lead to its downfall.
Yes, great minds think alike, but fools never differ. I hope we are the former.
Manual curation is much better, although I'm sure the auto-voting will return.
The US is also having governance problems with Congress unable to pass its package.