MouldyCat

Definitely not, lol. Nearby countries with fast rail - France, Spain, Germany - would perhaps give a slight bemused smile in the direction of HS2. Those are big countries where high-speed rail makes actual sense - as just one example, from the German town of Karlsruhe right by the border with France, you can take a TGV to Lyon, about 350 miles away. It takes around 5 hours and will probably cost you less than €100.

However all those countries are all too familiar with their own governments mismanaging public works. So they wouldn't be shocked at the huge sacks of cash that are being tipped into great holes in the ground, and any laughter would be at the idea that this ridiculously unnecessary governmental vanity project is even being built at all.

if they hit you, you’re going underneath, not over the top

I don't really understand American car categories, such as SUV, but anyway, older models of the Nissan Leaf have done well in the "Vulnerable Road Users" (VRU) part of crash tests, with the most recent model on the Euro NCAP site scoring 71% in the VRU Protection category.

That's the 2018 model, so quite old. I wouldn't expect this latest model to perform much worse than that though and I wouldn't be surprised if it performs even better. Here's the side view - it doesn't look as low and angled at the front as the 2018 model, but you can still see that it's been designed with not killing pedestrians in mind:

why Netanyahu came to Mar-a-Lago June last year to see trump

Interesting point. Mossad psyop teams helping promote pro-trump disinfo on the social networks?

Americans definitely all seem to be patriotic, like they say stuff like, "I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but was carpet bombing all those villages worth it?"

FYI I've had this issue on my old XFCE laptop for a while, and I'm still using X there. I thought it was a sign of failing hardware, given that it happens at the very last point of shutdown (and also, if the system was going into hibernation, it wakes up from it successfully even though I had to force poweroff the machine).

I thought we switched to libre

Maybe some people did. Thing is there's a whole rest-of-the-world out there, and they didn't necessarily get the memo or are happy with the existing way.

Gardiner Bryant is great. So great, you don't have to suffer YouTube to keep up with his videos, he also publishes to PeerTube:

https://peertube.wtf/w/omBg7MPgFSZAB7YkWEYGdu

A collective can be a great way to run a company, for some cases. I lived with a girl who worked at a cafe that was run as a collective - it meant that people had a fair say in decisions that affected them. They could vote on their own wages, working conditions, and no one was barking out orders bossing them around. The owner was an old-school left-winger who was doing this out of pure idealism. He was still the one with the financial risk, he dealt with banks, ensured taxes were dealt with, and all the other tasks involved in running a business such as that.

Nothing stopping you trying!

How would this specific problem be better under another system?

I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?