That's not how you spell serfs.

You're correct. TIL that Bill Clinton, Dubya and Trump were born in the same year.

Sometimes they're so aggressive that I couldn't reply if I wanted to. "Are you satisfied with the product?" when the delivery tracking shows that it's not even in-country yet.

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Back when my secondary school replaced its network of Acorn Archimedes with Pentiums running Win 95, all of the pupils started with the same password: lightly anonymised, it was xypupil. It didn't take long for some of us to guess that the teachers had all started with password xystaff, and not all of them had changed it... Curiously that didn't work for the headmaster's account. I don't know whether I was the only person to guess that his password was xyhead. One hopes that nowadays school IT staff are a bit more clueful, but seeing the summary talk about guessing teachers' passwords brought back memories of sending winpopup messages from the head's account to try to scare my friends.

Regulations may have changed, but in 2019 I was able to rent an e-bike in France with no licensing requirements. It wasn't as restricted as in the UK either: with the electric assist the highest speed I reached was just over 40 kph. (It was, however, assist, unlike some of the bikes under discussion).

What I gathered from a different article I read this week is that they attract gig delivery workers, who may have experience on bicycles but want more speed and don't have the stamina for eight or more hours of riding.

It's not clear to me whether the authors of the article caught the difference either, because all of their "adoption" figures are percentages, not percentages per stated unit of time.

So if a creator can sign up with one of these collectives (a significant feat in itself) then their royalty cheque may be 37 cents at the end of the year.

You omitted the bit where they've paid a thousand times as much to play their own music in their concerts. Truly an impressive scam.

One option would be to buy a bunch of lemons, squeeze them, and freeze the juice, diluted to taste, in an ice-cube mould. Then you can grab one lemon juice ice cube when you need it.

They said "best", not "most prestigious". Eton is 31st in one league table I just looked at, and if state schools were included it might drop further.

That's definitely not right, because orange carrots didn't exist in the 16th century. Orange was often considered a shade of red, as in the name robin redbreast.

Take "tic-tac-shaped objects emerging from the ocean": i.e. submarine-launched missiles. Plenty of navies have them, but most don't have the budget to do test fires more than once every few years...

The third option is to remove the SD card and use a dedicated SD card reader in your laptop. I personally use an old compact camera as an SD card reader because it charges over USB, whereas my DSLR runs down its battery when it's plugged into my computer.

GPP was looking at inflation. Tariffs on imports from Japan add a further 15%, and then the markup is down to about 15%.