Y'all were under a king before and managed to change that.
If you think passing a multiple choice test alone allowed them to be practicing doctors, I have news for you as well.
The pace at replacing books at libraries is so painfully slow you stand a good chance to find an environment that's nearly free of LLM influence at your local one.
It's faster than a transaction via QR code. Also, the chip isn't just restricted to handling payments. It can be used as key fob for your car or on your smart lock at home or at the hotel you're staying at.
Your imagination is wild.
Delightfully dumb this is. LOL it made me.
That tends to be the case though. Even in Europe that's true in many cases. I think so far only France has legislation on the books that makes it illegal for airfare to beat trainfare under a certain distance.
The geographical distances also favor air traffic over anything on the ground. If the jet engine hadn't come around, North America would have a great high speed rail network today.
Ignoring recent events in the middle east and their effect on pricing, even in Japan a flight from Tokyo to Osaka will beat the bullet train fare if you book it a month or more ahead of time. And that's not on a budget airline. Japan gets a lot of praise for its bullet train network. But it's really just one cash cow line (Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka-Kyoto) and the rest is more often than not half empty. They run it because there is pork barrel politicking and because they can sell the flexibility and immediacy of hopping on a train in a downtown location in this network, on a whim (outside the holiday congestion). Japan is also a centrally organized country where the administrative sub sections (prefectures, cities, etc.) have less say in things.
And no local in their right mind would take the shinkansen to go from Kyoto to Osaka. That's a 40min ride or so on the normal trains. The cost to time saving ratio is not good enough.
Normally, I would say the answer to a "Am I the only one who thinks ...?" on the internet is always no. There will be another person who thinks that. In this case, my guess is though it'll be hard or sheer luck to find that other person.
Do you live a life of asceticism? Do you spend money on anything just as a treat for yourself? If the answer is no, then well done you. Hope you're happy. If the answer is yes, then you are just like the rest of us.
Of all the foods available in the world, you thought of a lemon? Allow your imagination to eat some ice cream. Or a strawberry. But a lemon?
I don't have the foggiest idea where I could've gotten the idea from.
There is no entity called "the world" that can flick through contingency plans. You can bet those who benefit from oil that would have sailed through the strait with no problem hadn't the orange toddler started a war have a plan B. Whether that's reactivating a few old pipelines or just sending ships the long way around, fuck knows. I'm not swimming in petrodollars. None of these plans will cost the same. All contingency plans cost more money. They might be raising fuel prices too much but they couldn't not raise them at all.
No one foresaw this development because it is - and that's the diplomatic term for it: fucking stupid. And that's why there isn't a plan B in place that can be used in the same way right away.