Short of last-minute coup attempts, in 3 weeks from now the United States will have a new president and maybe (according to reports) Edward Snowden will be allowed back into his home country (without risk of arrest). For the time being, Donald Trump is mostly pardoning violent criminals and reportedly himself/family (if possible), not just close associates. It's really ugly. Really, really unprecedented. When nations fail they don't fail gracefully. We saw that before (decades ago it was the Soviet Union). It's not limited to nations by the way; we also see that in institutions such as the Linux Foundation and corporations like Microsoft, which now loot the American taxpayers.

"There's no factual basis upon which to believe that 2021 will be any better than 2020."2021 won't be a good year. We already said that last week. There's no factual basis upon which to believe that 2021 will be any better than 2020.

For us, as a site, 2020 was OK. For instance, over the past couple of weeks, owing to videos for the most part, Techrights served an average of almost 5MB/second. The year is almost over and we've more or less decided to continue making videos. They're generally well received, we just need to improve their quality (over time). ⬆