futurix

While our construction costs are indeed ridiculous, this number is incorrect. It hard to decipher which £1.2bn figure you are actually talking about - but none of them are for just planning (for reference: the contract for the northern connecting highways and the contract for the actual tunnelling are both for a similar amount of money; the total spend as of 2025 is also around the same amount but it includes initial payments on all contracts etc).

Stunning! I'm not a driver, so it won't be easy to organise - but it is on my list of places to see before I die.

At least in Germany public transport reaches into very deep countryside and it is used widely everywhere. This is certainly not about just supporting urban transportation.

I can partially understand this, as my family is from ex-USSR country (also went through repressions on one side) and we all shudder at the mentions of 'socialism' and 'communism' too. However it doesn't take a lot of research to realise that the modern Western understanding of those terms and actual things that the modern socialists want are in no way comparable to the realities of mid-20th century. In USSR socialist and communist ideas were subverted to facilitate repressions and totalitarian society. Modern socialism is basically Sweden or Denmark - no gulag there.

I love searching for very American-looking fire hydrants or pedestrian crossings. Great case of US cultural imperialism - I suspect that the developers didn't even think it might not be the same thing abroad.

TV+ is a special case, because the trial period (1 year) is longer than the non-trial payment cycle (1 month).

Apple Music pop-ups are annoying, but I only saw them after some iOS version updates. There's also a setting to hide Apple Music features completely.

You are holding it wrong TM. But seriously, I realised that I need to hold it in a way that is different from all other mice I ever used.

Worst mouse I ever tried. But at least they learned for it and current Magic Mouse is a delight to use (on macOS).

Well, the difference is that German manual tends to work in the end. Certainly worked for Coronavirus (so far).

An actual blur that directly modifies multiple pixel values cannot be reversed. Things like swirls and motion "blurs" potentially can be - but I wouldn't even call those blurs as they are more of a directional transformations.

This is gross generalisation - I know many workers who are hired on H-1B who are getting same (good) pay and conditions as locals.

Cut off the abuse, don't shut down everything for everyone.

My copy of Charles on iOS disagrees.

Thank you!

Provided that next election is still happening.

The real issue here is not Caucasian skin tones vs everyone else but instead light skin tones vs dark(er) skin tones. So Chinese government won't have an issue with current facial recognition tech.