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And what if the family says "no" anyway? Can they override the donor's decision?

What do you think about geopolitical consequences though? Ideally not only from British, but also wider European perspective? Don't you think that while the EU is far from perfect, the idea of Europe uniting around certain core values is essential to their prevalence in the world where individual European countries don't mean much compared to players like the USA, China, India or even Russia? Not to mention what history has shown many times: the devastating wars that broke out many times, when European countries got all divided and pitted as rivals against one another.

BTW, sorry, I forgot to mention that your domain-searching app is really cool!

Regarding my career and being self-employed, I used to run a small company with my friend. We had plans to develop a commercial, highly customisable ERP platform, but we failed mostly because we're shitty managers/businessmen. At some point we decided it was too much pressure for too little money and we quit it (wasn't easy due to obligations towards various clients).

After that, working for somebody else feels like a chill-out session in a forest. Although, I am sometimes tired with the corporate bullshit. When we joined the company, it was more like a startup - small team of people, no BS approach to things, but now the company grew immensely and the BS creeps in...

I don't argue for forming an empire by force. You mentioned China and Russia, and their neighbours that don't want to be bullied into submission - I don't think putting it against the EU is a fair comparison at all, to say the least. I do think though, that the EU should eventually transform into some sort of a federal state. And not because "hyper scale is a good thing", but because I don't think that we can afford the opposite in this day and age.

Talking about values, for one, I think that liberal democracy is a European invention worth defending at all costs and uniting around. Behind the fence we have aforementioned Putin's Russia that never gave up on its imperialistic dreams and a desire to expand its zone of control. Not peacefully, mind you, which can be seen in Ukraine and elsewhere. You won't have liberal democracy in that zone any time soon. And every time we get divided over petty things, Vladimir opens a new champagne bottle and starts planning his next move. Same goes with Xi's China and a bunch of other powers.

There will be of course states that don't want to join, and that's fine - again, I'm not arguing that we should be forcing anybody. But we should be honest about the consequences, not only short-term, but most and foremost, the long-term. I think, that if there still are enough people in Europe believing that there's more that we share in common with one another politically, historically and culturally, than with, say, Russia or China, then it makes sense to unite in an effort to create something slightly less dystopian than the aforementioned countries. And the shortest path towards that goal is to build upon what we already achieved: the EU. Not so long ago, within the living memory of quite a lot of people, a European alliance like this would be unimaginable, and yet we have one, however imperfect it is. So why not try make the EU stronger and fix it from the inside, instead of throwing all that we managed to achieve away and starting from scratch, while other empires grow in strength?

Hopefully not too late for a question.

I'm a 35-year-old coder and I really like my job (programming). What I don't like is management (managing people, projects etc.). I work in web development (I'm a PHP backend programmer) and I'm worried that if I don't try some managerial positions soon, the perception of my CV will lower and I'll start getting worse job offers. I'm talking about reactions like "Look this guy is 40 and has only ever been a senior programmer for years, not a team lead nor tech lead - there must be something wrong with him!".

Is it true though? I would really like to avoid doing the managerial stuff just for the sake of "upping my CV". But I also don't want to stall my career development...