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And Apple don't accept passports as ID, so complaints are rolling in from non-drivers without current credit cards, who tend to be younger and in big cities. Apple just took a big shot at their foot.

Can you explain the €75'000 claim? The only articles I found about Hidalgo's clothing expenses were by political groups and even they only acrused her of €10'000 of luxury clothes over 3 years, which is less than the permitted expenses, even if some think Paris's mayor shouldn't be wearing high fashion. Also, it seems surprisiing that the amount is the Paris postcode and that does make it difficult to search for.

It also seems rather small beer when opposition candidate Rachida Dati failed to declare €400'000 of gifts!

Too late?

What were you hoping for?

Elect better politicians who will improve the bus service, then.

Driving a car sucks more the longer the distance, as 130km/h is considered fast for a car, but pretty slow for a train. Trains doing less than 200km/h aren't considered high speed. The longer the journey, the bigger the time advantage of a train should be, plus you don't have to pay attention on pain of death the whole journey.

Most of the poor are on buses, trains or bikes, all of which are pretty good in Denmark. They can't afford to fund cars and their random repair expenses.

Banks using less secure IT than their customers but having tons of annoying security theatre? Oh, at least 30 years.

Copilot?

Yep, because one of your programmers used it to start sniffing glue, it seems!

Tom Scott talks about it as though "combi boiler" are completely ubiquitous on newer housing in the UK today

Tanks were rare for about 40 years, as instant "combi" burners were popular on cheap housing and most UK housing is cheap junk. The big housebuilding companies didn't design heating systems well and if they messed up, they'd have a more powerful burner than needed for heating anyway, in order to do instant water heating and avoid taking up space with a hot water tank or caring about pipe run design much. The number of small homes with 30kW heaters is scandalous, but why would the builder care if the heating is even more inefficient when gas is cheap and the resident pays the bills, not the builder?

That's starting to reverse because it's easier to get permission for homes with heat pumps and insulated water storage now, due to tighter pollution rules and so on, but the big developers still don't have great experts and there's 40 years of junk out there now.

More background on Scarborough for anyone interested: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/11/against-the-tide-scarborough-eastfield-youth-town-love-opportunity-transport-seaside