Although the impact on children was big, the schools were only really closed for under a year. Lockdowns started Easter-ish 2020 and then the UK was going through its lockdown easing steps a year later after the vaccine program had been going full-steam since January 2021, with about 90% school attendance by March 2021. I remember American colleagues shocked at our levels of freedom so soon! London was buzzing again very quickly.

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Except his. He has a range of houses that he can move to as the bad air moves around. All of them paid for through by sleaze and corruption.

Have you been to London? The traffic in the centre is as bad as it ever was. It's faster to cycle.

Work from home has increased traffic in the outer boroughs during the work day.

The ULEZ brought the biggest improvements in air quality in the outer boroughs. Inner boroughs benefitted too. Sounds like a win.

The rest of your post is inarticulate. Take a breathe next time and explain the points you're trying to make properly.

I love that the Tory outer boroughs who fought hardest against the ULEZ have ended up the biggest benefits improvements of the ULEZ.

Sadly, their voters don't understand. Sadly, they don't get that their chosen politicians hate them and care little for their health.

I think this kind of switch has to be voluntary. When people choose to change rather than having it forced upon them, they will manage much better and tolerate issues with less irritation and grumbling.

I donâ(TM)t think intelligent is the right word. There was such an intersection a street over from my house in Toronto and I would have to get off my bike, go and push the pedestrian crossing button and then get back on. Fucking annoying and whomever thought it was a good idea was clearly brain dead.

Merkel's relationship and strategy with Russia/Putin was complex. I believe her goal was to maintain stability and prevent escalation to avoid conflicts or more serious conflicts. Hindsight is 20-20 and sheâ(TM)s been criticised by many people for how she handled Russia.

Chrome is a better product than Firefox, but if I wasn't such a heavy Mac user, I would make the same choice as you. I can take a lot if it means no Google in my life.

I ditched Firefox and Chrome at least 13 years ago and have used Safari exclusively since. In fact, Chrome hasn't ever been installed on this MBP, which I've had for five years. I don't miss their bloating and battery drain, nor having a privacy raping app from Google. I also appreciate the integration with Messages and Mail for how easy this makes 2FA on web sites that send codes, as well as unified keychain and history across all of my devices. That doesn't mean I'm unaware of the current state of the other browsers: I do have FF, which I dabble with occasionally, but it drives me nuts, it's just shit and it's obvious why it's losing market share, and I get forced to use other browsers on remote Windows machines or in local VMs of Windows and Linux.

The 2013 rMBP can run OS XI, aka macOS 11 Big Sur. There are either a lot of people who didnâ(TM)t update their OS or a large number of very old devices out there, or both. Well, Mac hardware of good and it lasts along time. Yes, I have a Core 2 Duo-based 2007 MBP I still use.

And you Terminal is listed under "Developer Tools" in Privacy & Security? FWIW, mine is also listed under "Full Disk Access".

I'm on an Intel MBP. lldb never requires a password. I only debug command line apps - maybe that's it?

Iâ(TM)m wondering whoâ(TM)s typing passwords these days for elevation. Havenâ(TM)t all Mac laptops had Touch ID for years? I have an external keyboard, but itâ(TM)s still easier and faster to reach over to my MBP for one touch authentication.

I donâ(TM)t get prompted like this. Is this is an extra step in Apple Silicon machines or Iâ(TM)ve just granted more permissions to my terminal?

Oh yes! I remember being at an air show on a small RAF base and a Vulcan did a low-level turning pass with the belly to towards the crowd. It was probably one of the loudest things I've ever heard. Military engines certainly have different priorities to civilian ones.

we no longer live in First World countries where you can rely on the power to stay on

Speak for your country, not the rest of the First World. I haven't experienced a power outage since I left N. America in 2008. Given the lag in grid investment here in the UK to reshape it with all the changes, that might change. But for now, it's been incredibly stable.