Traffic was close to zero here during covid lockdowns. It was bliss - it was quiet and serene like I've never experienced before.

Is it wrong to be wistful about the car-free depths of a pandemic?

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

I think about 18 billion of that was me

I wonder how many thousands of people died as a result.

They're not wrong that democracy's under threat. But maybe the threat's from the guy who has literally said he's going to murder political opponents - y'know, the guy they support.

Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It's gotten pretty nuts.

Remember the time - two days ago - when Trump said he was going to ban all electric cars? I wonder how Elon feels about that.

Celebrities get wide latitude to protect themselves from imitators. Impressionists can do "satire" etc. but this isn't that. It's explicitly a reference to her voice in the movie, and as such she's protected by law from them going around her and hiring someone else to imitate her.

It was explicitly represented as her voice when he tweeted "Her" in relation to the product, referencing a movie which she voiced. It's not a legal grey area in the US. He sank his own ship here.

He tweeted "Her", which explicitly tells us it's a deliberate imitation of Scarlett's voice in that movie. And he tried to negotiate licencing her famous voice, which she rejected.

So it's more than just a coincidence, it's deliberate bad faith behaviour. Legally you can't misrepresent a product as being from a famous person when it wasn't, and he very much did that. I guess he was hoping she'd give in and accept the licensing agreement post-facto. But instead it looks he's in legal deep water now.

When I lived in Switzerland I literally used a bike to haul furniture (flat packed). Honestly it's easier than you might imagine.

I brought a big tv home on my bike too. It's quite achievable, if awkward.

But a cargo bike would have been a better choice than my conventional bike.

I just mean compared to the country I live in.

Wow. America's a scary place.

All this tells me is that they have a great PR department.

Meanwhile Mercedes has already reached level 3.

I remember many years ago New Scientist magazine did a review study of many different alternative medicine techniques and found that the only benefits they provided were placebo effect.

Except acupuncture. That was the only one with an effect greater than placebo.

Lithium is used in grid storage:

• Hawaii
• Ventura County
• Collie
• Hornsdale
• Bouldercombe
• Geelong

And that's just what I could find in a couple of minutes.

They're meant to survive an order of magnitude more cycles than Li-ion. But I'm containing my enthusiasm until we see them lasting a long time in real life use.

They're meant to have a much wider temperature range than Li-ion, theoretically.

I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron's life a living hell and driving him to suicide?