I actually like the car navs, because they are fed car data, and so they work in places without satellite coverage. In the U.S., this is quite seldom, but Europe has many very long road tunnels. Of the 100 longest road tunnels in the world, 80 are in Europe, and some of them (like Munich's Innerer Ring) have on- and off-ramps in the tunnel, which Google Maps, left to its devices, will miss.

That's what was supposed to happen, but the school's administration was not present to review the footage and cancel the alarm, hence the police came in force.

They re-adapted to a predatory diet later. Their neornithian ancestors however were feeding on seeds and insects. In fact, eagles (as members of the Accipitriformes), owls (Strigiformes), hawks (also Accipitriformes) are more closely related to the likes of sparrows and parrots than to most other birds, and the falcons (Falconiformes) are the direct sister group to sparrows (Passeriformes) and parrots (Psittaciformes).

While this caveat is correct, it is incomplete, as most avian lineages died out too. Only some toothless lineages survived, and that's the important adaptation. Toothed birds had a diet similar to their theropod ancestors. Birds with toothless beaks diverged from that diet to a seeds and insects based one, and in the aftermath of the meteor impact, that was an important treat.

The actual ban in force (and wanted to be lifted by Germany) is not about ICEs in general, not even ICEs in cars. It's about banning the sale of ICE cars without the warranty that they can be operated by carbon neutral fuel like e-fuels or green hydrogen.

The "ICE ban" is often misunderstood. Companies are free to build more ICEs, they just have to warrant that they are powered by carbon neutral fuel, e.g. e-fuels or green hydrogen.

If I had a dime each time someone predicts the immediate demise of the E.U...

This still does not explain the dropping allergic rate. If you are careful, you are still allergic. You just know how to handle the situation.

Anyway, even at the height of the peanut allergy craze, the number of teenagers dying in car accidents dwarfed the number of teenager dying from an allergic reaction to peanuts. But we know that improved crash security in cars is the main reason why less people today die in car accidents than in the 1970ies, and not bad drivers dying out due to car crashes.

No. Being allergic to peanuts does not reduce your ability to procreate in a significant way, large enough to explain a drop of more than 30% within a single generation.

The legislation introducing tax breaks and similar subsidies for PHEVs was argued for by larger savings in gasoil use. They don't realize, so what's to do about the subsidies? Why should PHEVs in some places get the same subsidies as EVs, despite only saving 19% instead of 100% in local emissions?

No, that's exactly not what chatbots are doing. Chatbots have no concept of right and wrong. Chatbots know that given the frequency of words already in the conversation and their probalistic neighborhood to elements in their body of data, which words are most probable to come next. And if there is not enough data fitting their current state, they randomly add words, because no possible next word presents them with a high probability.

You don't think policies like VAT on private school fees and pushing up business taxes instead of personal ones play well with the typical Labour voter?

They're cratering in the polls anyway for a host of other reasons, and I suspect Starmer is already toast anyway for a host of other reasons (though it's significantly harder in practice for Labour to replace a leader they're not happy with than it is for the Tories), but I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that some of these policies are being chosen because of their political alignment.

They appear to be playing heavily on the politics of envy. Look at some of their education policies, for example, or the way they treat small businesses and the people who run them. They don't seem to want to pull up the less fortunate if they can be busy pulling down the more fortunate. It's not a good look if you actually want a successful economy, but it plays well to their base.

I agree with you that they seem to be all over the place in policy generally, and after trying to give them a fair chance in the early months, I now have a fairly low opinion of them (with the odd exception in Cabinet who does actually appear to be at least recognising the real problems and trying to do something about them, which I can respect even while thinking little of their party politicians and government as a whole).

You're right about the investment culture as well, but presumably if we're talking about entrepreneurs who have already been successful and are looking to move elsewhere, that's of limited relevance unless they're planning to start at least one more business after they arrive, so in this particular debate, I doubt that is such a major issue.

While we're hardly Russia, our democratic and stabilisation credentials are looking more shaky than ever as well. Our electoral system produces results very far from proportional. One of our two traditional main political parties is now essentially irrelevant. The other, which currently holds power, is breaking all the wrong records and is widely expected to suffer severe losses at the next election already, barely a year into their term. Waiting in the wings (and currently leading by a very wide margin in the polls) is the nascent far right populist party that has become the default protest vote. It looks scarily like that party might actually be pulling so far ahead (whether thanks to their own merits or, like the present incumbents before the last election, because the government of the day is so unpopular) that even with the usual reversion towards traditional voting patterns when a real election happens, they might still win. And the prospects of what happens next in that timeline are truly terrifying, particularly for anyone who isn't a white British citizen from birth.

As a Brit, I was surprised to see the UK as a destination of choice.

The current Labour government here often seems to be criticised for being ideological and not pragmatic. In particular, they seem to prefer policies that tax "the rich" and businesses in one way or another, yet not large, relatively wealthy groups like pensioners or the homeowners who have lucked out and now live in a million-plus property that most younger people will never be able to afford.

There's also quite a lot of red tape for businesses here, maybe not compared to some of our neighbours in Europe, but certainly compared to places like the US and probably parts of Asia too.

Obviously some of this is politics and maybe the policies are not so surprising coming from a party that in theory represents the working class. However, it is surprising that entrepreneurs would be attracted to a culture like this at a time when we expect to have this government for another four years still.