It pleases me greatly that I know where these places are, thanks to the first of what will hopefully be many future visits to the Netherlands by bike!

plot thickens....
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I don't remember the green bird!

Quite. A non-socialist party that strangely keeps announcing socialist policies and encouraging other socialists to join.

Would anyone like some toast?

Yes - this is exactly the sort of inequality that I'm thinking of.

I'm also thinking about in places where there are infrastructural challenges - for instance, remote hospital on one side of mountain where landslide has closed the only road can have some surgery carried out remotely by a surgeon in a big city on the other side of the mountain.

Or, to put it another way, I'd be interested to see an account of the amount of labour required to get something like the Davinci robot funded, vs the way that people with more money than sense seem to be falling over themselves to support the development of AI robot bartenders.

I'm super glad to hear that. Even so, I'd speculate that if we're comparing the amount of funding vs. social benefit gained, I'd wager that the Davinci robot must be orders of magnitude better in terms of return on investment than this dross.

The father of a school friend - 25 years ago now - was doing research on precision medical robotics, developing tech to be installed in rural locations but operated remotely by a human surgeon at a major hospital. I bet that work hasn't received anything like the funding that this sort of thing has.

So the slope is real - but why do they want to get rid of 3/4 of the trees out the front?

This one is epically bad. Is there anywhere that slopes that much in Mayfair? And the building on the left is...wow

An interesting aside to this is that the sort of community safeguarding that would deter/discourage a kidnapper is far easier to implement in areas with lots of pedestrians. People in cars don't notice what's happening in their surroundings and wouldn't notice this sort of stranger danger incident.

The park is barely 200m from home but that includes crossing a road with 3600 daily journeys with no crossing point & reduced visibility. The alternative route has a crossing but is nearly double the distance but involves walking along an even busier road where drivers drive and park on the pavement

I often get concerned looks for the amount of independence I give my kids (8 and 5) in our local park, which has a number of denser woodland sections. But I know that they are statistically much safer in the park and that it's the journey to and from the park where the actual danger lies.