Also it was 400,000 trees. The 250,000 was just one of two sites.

It's not the same when the person refusing to accept the result isn't the incumbent in command of the police and army.

Because it has good taste?

If you became disabled and Neuralink could help you would change your mind in a flash

In context it was about temporarily paying more as the price for taking away the threat of a nuclear armed Iran

It's also the supermarket where I buy shower gel.

has been there since ww2 ... Anyone can be rich if they’re handed a cheat code.

In the case of the USA, WWII handed you two. Almost all of the other industrialised countries were rebuilding from having their factories bombed. And the UK handed you the brand new computer industry on a plate by destroying all the computers it had built during the war while not requiring that you do the same with the licensed copies you had built.

Ask a mediaevalist about ancient Rome?! Surely they can't have run out of interesting on-topic things to talk about?

FTA: “The FCC received specific examples of how E-Rate helps local communities. “We estimate our annual Internet cost at approximately $3,120 and our annual E-Rate support at approximately $1,560,” Paul Lapka, the principal of Rock Valley Christian School in Iowa, told the US agency. "

Is this Christian school really operating on such a knife edge that the $1560/year ($130/month) puts them over the edge? Note it is a private school with around 240 students and an awesome 11:1 student/teacher ratio. My local school is more like 25:1. I get how they would rather get the money than not get it, but so would we all.

Multiplying this out nationwide somehow you get to over $2B in checks that probably fit into this same "nice to have" category.

That wasn't his line, it was Sean Connery's

My first thought was "I didn't know the Wicked Witch of the West was also a software pioneer"

The "preceding year" bit doesn't seem to get much respect either, because it takes longer than that to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The problem comes with hardware which doesn't have a way (or, at least, a user-friendly way) to update its locale data. I recall having problems a decade or so ago with discrepancies between two computers because one of them hadn't been updated with the then-very-recent changes to Chilean law about summer time and the other one had.

But maybe an authoritarian dictatorship isn't a great example. Then turn your eyes to France and Spain.

On a point of order... Spain was in GMT until an authoritarian dictator decided that being in the same timezone as Nazi Germany would be convenient. France changed when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. Where you arguably get away with the examples is that there is a question as to why they haven't changed back.

There are use cases you're not covering. Last month I needed a photo of my sister-in-law's ID card to prove that I'd correctly transcribed her address (bureaucrats don't always understand that other countries do things like addresses differently) when applying for a document to make it easier for her to visit. If she'd had to be there in person we'd have had a circular dependency.