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?

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?

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.

Maybe you use different OSes to me, but I expect whoami to be deterministic rather than stochastic.

More generally, there's a strong negative correlation between reliable contraceptive methods being available and birth rate. There's also a strong positive correlation between infant mortality and birth rate. Comparing the situation today with Victorian Britain as though the only thing which had changed is the working time directive overlooks those two significant differences (and surely many other relevant ones).

It's now the Department of Just ICE, but they haven't got round to updating the letterheads.

My Spanish bank this year forced me to install their app for verification because they discontinued the receipt of an SMS for the second factor. I am not amused: SMS works, but seemingly every other time I launch the app to verify an online credit card payment it insists on updating before it will let me do anything, and meanwhile there's a Verified By Visa timer ticking down.