That's not how you spell serfs.

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

This is largely a product of the price of energy being linked to the price of gas, most of which we import. If that link could be broken, then we would see energy prices fall.

While I am from the UK, I do read a variety of publications from the US and the rest of the world.

It would seem that there is a general anti-science movement in place in the US that is becoming stronger, vaccinations is one part of it, attacks on climate science is another. Couple that with the onslaught on education, and universities in particular, and all I can see is a gradual decline in the ability of the US to compete when it comes to science.

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.

The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.

The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters.

The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter.

The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

Socialism with American Characteristics

Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee

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.