What is "left-pad"? If it does what I think it does, doing that with a LLM would be very wasteful.

EDIT: I remember the event now. Obviously you wouldn't use a dependency for that. I think I understood your comment now anyway.

Where is the archive?

Not something for general users but, for organisations and public figures, having a platform with only verified entities is valuable.

For general users: Mastodon and the Fediverse.

It was born as a villain from the very beginning.

Bounce off from 3.20% to 3.19%? Not the wording I'd use.

If you turn VPN off, you lose.

That one was compromised. The good fork is "I still don't care about cookies".

If all the people they killed come back alive and they're still banned, all the killing they did wasn't the reason for the ban.

...but they won't come back.

Yeah, at some point the cat is both behind and in front of the pillow.

I will not watch ads. That's the first, unbreakable premise. If the service does not provide videos, I leave the service.

Good. However, if the intent is to discourage driving in central London, the penalty should not be an fixed rate for each vehicle. It should be a dynamic rate based on how much the people in the car earn. Otherwise you are only displacing people with low salary while freeing the roads for the rich that don't care to pay £30.

It's not unreasonable, but if after taxing 3rd and 4th homes (etc.) to oblivion the issue persists, then also second homes should be taxed high. I truly believe that extreme would not be needed once it's made humanely forbidden to own multiple homes without intention of ever living in them.

Worth adding that it should not be the number of homes what should be taxed, but based on the market value of those properties.