Also dogs are not any more armed in the US than in Europe, yet American cops shoot a lot more dogs. They do so because they are antisocial and know they'll face no consequences (and even if they get fired from on PD, another will recruit them). I'd say there is both a recruiting issue and an immunity issue.
Big transformers are now limited to boat transportation, and it's a constraint on grid design. I assume this is also the case for other industries that become river bound but wouldn't necessarily be so if not for equipment transportation. So this could be a game changer (more so I think than this faster than boat slower than plane thing).
Not prominently noted in the article, but at least in rural France where Citroën Ami are pretty popular they are mostly replacing mopeds ans scooters for teenagers, parents deeming them safer.
Not displacing cars, if anything adding to congestion.
Multi thread support is an experimental feature available on nightly build (and needing to be enabled). The bug tracking it is interesting to read, it has been a long journey... https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/391
As scary as the last two lines are, it's not the developer abandoning ship, it's just him optimizating the process. Cutting releases was taking time best spent on dev, and commiting to main as a mainly solo project is perfectly reasonable.
Mandatory audits by accredited auditors in order to participate in a market, inevitably create a market for accredited auditors that don't uncover too much but ensure all checkboxes are ticked. Much of the security industry is actually selling CYA and not actual security. The same dynamic at play means buyiong a home/boat/car you should get your own inspector, not blindly trust the seller's.
