@futurebird @futzle in Australian and British English, “mileage” survives as a fossil, much in the way that the past tense of “go” bears witness to the archaic verb “wend”

@jon Presumably Spain, unless Poland can do it for less. In the long run, a defeated Russia will need civilian export industries to pay reparations (as Finland did after WW2), and they used to be decent at rolling stock

@chiefbongo That’s what I’m doing, but I just get the bounce animation. I’m guessing it would transition to a different view, which for some reason is not initialising

@andyhazel.bsky.social doesn’t Australia have the same policy?

Fun fact: did you know that the fascism that's taking over our country is enabled by car-centric design? Our rural and exurban areas are deep red and full of Trump voters. That's because places designed around cars isolate us and make us suspicious and hateful of our neighbors. What happens when […]

@kalleboo @timixretroplays I picked up an early-2010s thin PC for £60 last year. With Windows pushing AI hardware, there may be a glut of perfectly serviceable old PCs for cheap or even free; you can use them with Linux or (presumably) old versions of Windows.

@andyhazel.bsky.social The editors have their marching orders, while the journalists aren’t yet completely corrupt. (See also: the WSJ, where the articles are generally solid but the editorials are batshit.)