Depends on the number of short trips changed from scooter to car and how close the roads and streets were to capacity. Sometimes just a small increase in traffic can lead to a huge decrease in average vehicle speed. But it would not surprise me, if owners of scooters took somewhat longer trips, maybe 4-5 miles or a bit more. As scooters are pretty versatile, they can make such trips in a jiffy.

With England being one of the most densely populated countries in Europe, protecting the remaining green zones makes a lot of sense. However, England does suffer from run-down and horribly insulated housing. Even before the current price explosion many people had problems keeping warm in winter because they did not have the money to pay for something as basic as heating.

A popular franchise attracts subscribers. An extensive catalog keeps them subscribing.

Having a state religion is not the same as being any sort of theocracy. It can easily be the opposite by putting the major religion under the control of the state. That, at least, was what happened here in Denmark. While priests and bishops can (and do) participate in political debates, it is illegal for them to use the church as a platform for propaganda. And the state church is not allowed to be political either. Or to be more blunt: The state church and the clergy as a group are politically neutered.

There are a lot of plastic items that should be pretty simple to clean and reuse. It might involve making containers a bit more durable, but if it is x2 the amount of plastic for x25 the number of uses, it is still a win. Furthermore, one of the major problems with recycling plastic is that you don't know what sort of plastic you have available. If it is already sorted, it is also a lot more feasible to recycle.

But not all plastic is easily reusable. A plastic bag for cheese is difficult to clean and seal.

Why the Hell are you on the road if you are fighting to stay awake? Pull over, take a nap and continue your journey. Or take a train instead of driving long distances.

The "actual source" that you link is to a survey from the UK whereas the article is about Denmark. While the age distribution of the two countries are similar, the UK vaccination program is (IIRC) primarily based on vaccines from Astra-Zeneca, where the Danish vaccination program is based on vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Furthermore, Denmark tests a much higher proportion of its population. Currently it is about 7% of the population per day.

It takes about 2 weeks from infection to hospitalization and a week more to death. The first case of Omicron in Denmark was detected on November 22nd, and the initial spread was primarily among the 20-29 year olds. Even early this week, half the known Omicron cases are in the age group 18-39. This group predominantly do not get hospitalized, especially if they are vaccinated (and around 80% in that age group are fully vaccinated).

At a press conference a few days before Christmas, Henrik Ullum (head of Statens Serum Institut) revealed that the taking the profile of the infected into account, the early and very unreliable result was that Omicron was about as bad as Delta.

As long as we don't know, it makes sense to cry Wolf to avoid it getting out of hand.

There is a solution if you are streaming: Enable subtitles. That way you only need to make out the tone of their voices to get the full experience.

The cars in the roundabout have turned into it and are doing a circular motion, so they are not moving as fast as in a regular intersection. Which means that the drivers in those cars have more time to spot and react to a distracted driver entering the roundabout. As the cars entering the roundabout are turning into it, both cars will be driving at significantly lower speed, so even if the two should crash into each other, the damage to people and property will be smaller.

As I understand it, the main difference between iPhone and Android wrt Pegasus, is that there is a known way to detect Pegasus on an iPhone, but not on Android.

The virus did spread from human to mink, between mink and back to humans. So it is definitely possible. The reason that we haven't seen it in a wild population could be lack of testing?

Having said that, the mink were being kept in small cages stacked on top of each other (I would call that animal cruelty, but there is a lot of money in mink farming), so the virus had perfect means to spread that it would not have had in the wild. On the other hand, the mink farmers were unable to stop the virus from spreading between the farms. It could be due to incompetence on their part, but it could also be wild animals that got infected by the mink and transported the virus between the farms.

Denmark did cull the entire 17 million mink because the virus did spread from humans to mink, between mink and back to humans. Some of the mutations that got back into the human population had cause for concern, and the mink farmers had proven to be utterly incapable of isolating their farms, so the government decided to cull the population.

How was the rocket and fuel produced? And how about all the infrastructure surrounding the launch?

If it's still under warranty, I suppose you could return it and demand either your money back or that NVIDIA fixes your device. Their update has obviously broken the device.