France has endless suburbs. The contrast with Spain is quite stark. Suddenly most people live in town and village centres and they usually stop at the old historical borders.

If you use median, removing or not of 1000 people from a pool of millions indeed has zero impact. My guess is that they worded it like that because they assume people don't knownwhat a median is, so they describe the practical effect

They are not excluded, it's just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money

For Harris, yes. For Biden: just "not anymore". Which can happen when you have geriatric folks doing this kind of job.

Bolivians don't need CIA approval to plot a coup

Do you really think there is no alternative? Isn't it more a matter of making place for an alternative, and then it will turn up?

I totally understand that (and Im sorry for your loss). But that objectively helps the guy who would not care at all (as opposed to at least trying to put a little bit of pressure) and actually encourage them to go for an even more radical "final solution". Voting is always picking the least evil. The US system simply does not allow you a serious choice - it would be better to direct your anger against that system, instead of against the least evil of the real options.

I'm pretty sure they'll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.

That's a short but touching poem.

Electric cars do charge when braking. Obviously the energy recuperated is less then waht was needed to drive that fast in the first place. Using driving wind would just increase the energy needed to drive that speed and would be net negative.

NDA, not BJP, got 293 seats