In the 2000s, the average /.er was probably two decades younger. Now there's a lot of grumpy old people well set in their ways ;)

The SNR of the low ranked comments is still too much for me to handle perusing at -1.

Have you tried registering an account? There's a pretty unfriendly message in big letters that looks discouraging:

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New Zealand was Region 4: Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Europe was Region 2.

Maybe you're thinking of Blu-ray regions, where New Zealand was grouped with Australia, Africa, West Asia and Europe?

Although the site provides a rather large range of launch inclinations, even down to ~25 degrees if you dogleg around the Florida keys, the real price here is polar launches. You launch South, and the booster comes in over open water for the catch. You wait 12 hours for the Earth to make half a rotation under your ship's orbit, and then you come in for a ship catch from the South, thus alleviating any problematic land overflights.

This is particularly interesting for shipping cargo to a South Polar Basin base on the Moon; a polar orbit on Earth translates beautifully to a polar orbit around the Moon, from where you can land straight in the Aitkin polar basin.

I don't really get your point. Maybe some American thing? As an outsider, it looked like Fauci was trying to do the right thing whilst being undermined by the political "leadership". We got many things wrong in the UK, but the Covid vaccine program wasn't one of them: in this we excelled with a fast, well-planned rollout and very high uptake and levels vaccination. That vaccination programme showed fantastic results in reducing Covid deaths and led us to be one of the Western countries with the fastest return of full freedoms. It would surprise me two years later going to work events in the US and finding people still talking about Covid and taking precautions when it was a distant memory for us. WTF?

Although the impact on children was big, the schools were only really closed for under a year. Lockdowns started Easter-ish 2020 and then the UK was going through its lockdown easing steps a year later after the vaccine program had been going full-steam since January 2021, with about 90% school attendance by March 2021. I remember American colleagues shocked at our levels of freedom so soon! London was buzzing again very quickly.

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Except his. He has a range of houses that he can move to as the bad air moves around. All of them paid for through by sleaze and corruption.

Have you been to London? The traffic in the centre is as bad as it ever was. It's faster to cycle.

Work from home has increased traffic in the outer boroughs during the work day.

The ULEZ brought the biggest improvements in air quality in the outer boroughs. Inner boroughs benefitted too. Sounds like a win.

The rest of your post is inarticulate. Take a breathe next time and explain the points you're trying to make properly.

I love that the Tory outer boroughs who fought hardest against the ULEZ have ended up the biggest benefits improvements of the ULEZ.

Sadly, their voters don't understand. Sadly, they don't get that their chosen politicians hate them and care little for their health.

Europeans, as a group, are *profoundly stupid* people. It's like Dunning and Kruger designed a civilization to prove their point.

      They are keeling over like flies due to stubborness. It's a good thing it isn't heavy rain, they might drown staring up at it with their mouths open.