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.

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.

So if a creator can sign up with one of these collectives (a significant feat in itself) then their royalty cheque may be 37 cents at the end of the year.

You omitted the bit where they've paid a thousand times as much to play their own music in their concerts. Truly an impressive scam.

One option would be to buy a bunch of lemons, squeeze them, and freeze the juice, diluted to taste, in an ice-cube mould. Then you can grab one lemon juice ice cube when you need it.

They said "best", not "most prestigious". Eton is 31st in one league table I just looked at, and if state schools were included it might drop further.

That's definitely not right, because orange carrots didn't exist in the 16th century. Orange was often considered a shade of red, as in the name robin redbreast.

Take "tic-tac-shaped objects emerging from the ocean": i.e. submarine-launched missiles. Plenty of navies have them, but most don't have the budget to do test fires more than once every few years...

The third option is to remove the SD card and use a dedicated SD card reader in your laptop. I personally use an old compact camera as an SD card reader because it charges over USB, whereas my DSLR runs down its battery when it's plugged into my computer.

GPP was looking at inflation. Tariffs on imports from Japan add a further 15%, and then the markup is down to about 15%.

Are you saying that the safety inspector should approve you not putting your seatbelt on until after the car is moving? Something about the name "safety inspector" suggests to me that they might not be entirely comfortable with the driver taking one hand off the wheel and twisting slightly in their seat to reach over their shoulder while driving.

Many newer digital cameras support 12bpp captures

"Newer"? It's 15 years since Nikon started supporting 14bpp captures in its prosumer range (18 years in the professional range), and I assume that other camera manufacturers were on a similar timeframe.

They didn't: that chronology is back to front. When search engines came along, they were paper only. When they launched their websites, their paper editions drove traffic.

The flip-side to that is that in 2023, which is the last year I can find data for, Spain exported 17.8% more electricity to France than it imported from France. Maybe the diversity is mutually beneficial?

I'm confused on how people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hated for their wealth

I don't think they are hated (at least primarily) for their wealth, or (primarily) for the means by which they acquired it [1], but for what they do with it. If Trump had stayed out of politics then he would be an unknown outside the USA and a former reality TV host inside. A lot of Musk's unpopularity is to do with his political activity too, which includes the Twitter takeover.

[1] The caveat is required because of Trump abusing his political rôle for private profit, and to some extent due to Tesla's enrichment from government subsidies, which riles some people.