There is one nuance missing: the random law enforcement officer takes your tires because some random company said one of your passengers did something they don't like and claim that by providing their transport, you are facilitating their 'infringing' activities.

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" I can't find a reliably sourced citation in fifteen seconds of googling, but whoever said it was spot on.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to my lecture notes at this moment and I can't access any literature (my university VPN is down for maintenance), but from a course on the molecular defects underlying diseases I remember there was some interaction between amyloid beta and tau. I don't believe the precise nature of this interaction is known or whether amyloid beta defects cause tau tangles or vice versa (or none of the above). So both this article and the one you mentioned may be correct.

Does the analysis software scan it's own source code repository, firing the programmers who have contributed too little to its creation?

I travelled to China little over half a year ago, departing from Schiphol and I didn't encounter any full body scanners. I didn't even get a pat-down. Maybe having a Dutch passport helps, but I didn't see any of the fellow passengers go through any security screening more rigorous than having their carry-ons X-rayed.

Any religion will, at some point, require a follower to stop thinking and accept that something is true just because it has been spoken by a particular person or written on some arbitrary piece of paper. Our ability to ask skeptical questions is what enables us to have and preserve freedom; give up on asking questions and the people who 'have the answers' will grab power (look up Pythagoras and his followers). That is what makes religion in general dangerous in my opinion. I have nothing against specific religious people (some of my friends are deeply religious), provided that they leave me alone.

You mean there's a difference? Mind is blown.

This plan was canceled in the Netherlands as one of the first acts of the latest government (Rutte-1). I believe they were planning to increase taxes on fuel as a compensation.