Stop projecting. I only ever need to show my ID card at the airport in the EU. Phone searches for social network posts is what the merkins do.

It is perfectly possible to turn lead into gold. The technology has been there for decades. It is simply not economical to do so.

1) They are comparing pre-lockdown levels of traffic- when "working from home" was almost zero, with post-lockdown -- many people continue to work from home, assuming they still have a job. There are massively fewer cars on the road than there were. Less pollution is a good thing, but fewer jobs? not so much. (I am retired).

2) They viciously forced people to sell older cars prematurely rather than allow them to be replaced at the normally time (I never replaced my car, as I could not afford one having only got scrap value for the old one - of course I resent this and feel bloody minded towards thee whole thing. i am not alone). Fewer cars - more poverty.

3) Electric cars because petrol is very, very expensive. We pay about £1.80 per LITRE! (Not Australian pounds - Slashdot still cant get this right!)

4) Global warming means less pollution from household boilers - no firm data on this.

Moral: the research finds what they were paid to find. (A good researcher usually finds more research is needed if he wants to keep his job).

Oh, wait. You are serious? Let me laugh even harder.

Putler tested that in 2022 already.

You own a SUV hence you are not poor. And your latitude is much further to the south than the old Brunswick and get more sunshine hours, too.

And not even bothering to hide it.

So every private company is a figment, then?

Username checks out.

Oh, it gets worse. Every time you wank, it prematurely prevents a life from happening, which makes you a serial killer of sorts. And there are millions of wankers like you.

For a very loose definition of "work". Tried those. They make a difference of maybe two or three degrees Celsius. Not worth the hassle.

Many Europeans live in apartments and the outside part of the AC tends to be loud and annoy the neighbours which is serious business. Window ACs are not really an option because Europeans have tilt and turn windows, not slide windows.

That is pretty normal. Germany has six top courts - the equivalents of your three plus the federal fiscal court, the federal labour court and the federal social court.

In civil law countries the law - or, to be more precise, the way the court of law is operated - is far less adversarial. This is why people in these countries are, in general, nowhere near as litigious.

And how exactly did they manage to do that? The Schengen treaty is not valid for these exclaves, so there is passport control between them and the mainland.