There aren't fewer brown people, there are more and more all the time. Vast amounts of money are sucked into dealing with them, and if they earn anything themselves a lot of the earnings are sent back to where they came from.

Space travel is the safest form of transport measured by deaths per km

It is the most dangerous form of transport measured by deaths per trip.

Air travel has a less extreme but similar skew to its statistics.

I knew a guy who worked at a refuse depot. Almost everything he had was stuff he had salvaged, except for his food and his underwear I believe.

No way you can walk into a landfill site and start digging. This is the UK and it's not 100 years ago.

As very few of those HDs will be working off the bat, most will need forensic analysis even to identify the one being sought. Does this guy remember the make and model (if its labels survived) or remember what it looked like?

You don't need to find the body in a good condition. Just the teeth are sufficient for identification and they are very riobust. OTOH, a HD, or just its magnetic surfaces, will need to be workable.

Happily, Vanuatu imports things like cars, building materials and appliances, so it does not create emissions by any serious manufacturing. I expect that flower garlands for tourists are one of the main products manufactured. Thinking of that, it would help if Vanuatu banned tourists from coming and going on all those polluting aircraft and cruise ships.

I think the OP is Elon Musk.

Musk is obsessed with the idea of small transport pods for public ransport. His Las Vegas Loop, Hyperloop, Robot Taxis, all small "pod" transport, are supposed to kill off trains and buses. However, their capacity in passengers per hour is abyssmal. Apart from the mid-journey flow rate, Musk fails to take handling at terminals into account. This shows the queue of taxis waiting to enter a station on his LA Loop : YouTube

Yes, the Victoria Line and the Docklands Light Railway.

You obviously don't know much about public transport, queuing theory, or London.

You don't need platform barriers for driverless trains, such barriers are a different issue entirely. As TFA said, there would still be a staff member on board anyway, which is exactly how the Victoria line has been worked since it was built in 1967. And why the heck would you need new lines?

Only as a standing joke. I don't believe most here want a year of Linux on the desktop because they realise it would enshittify it, like Windows has become enshittified, and the internet has become enshittified, as they try to cater for the lowest common denominator. It would be Linux's Eternal September.

Almost everyone I hear of using Linux (eg on a couple of hobby forums I know) are using Ubuntu because that's the one they had heard of. I suspect that some think that Ubuntu is just another name for Linux, and doubt they have even heard of 99% of the other distros. I have probably not heard of 75% of them myself, and I've been on Linux for years. Is it really a problem?

Undersea cables are not buried except very close to the shore. Why would they be? It is not normal for ships to drag a anchor or grapnel along the bottom in the middle of the sea.

This is the year of the Linux bootkit on the desktop.