Still Europe. Just as Norway, Switzerland, and much of the Balkans are Europe. But not EU.

Only if it's for two people - 30 hours each!

Around here families of four probably have at least two cars. I didn't realise what 'car-dependency' looked like until I moved out of London. People tell me, "You don't have transport," but I walk, I have a bike, I get the bus or the train.

and yet people will be shocked that a decent everyday bike can cost as little as £500. For some reason they expect them to be practically free. For much less you can only buy a BSO (Bicycle-Shaped Object)

You can't make people eat it though.

My thoughts also. Totalitarian regimes make people work all the time so they're too burned-out and disorientated to rebel.

Electric cars just replace a car with another car. I'm not even convinced we need lots more public transport, at least not long-range public transport.

and free-text search, not just on hashtags and usernames.

It's probably closer to IG than any other Fediverse app is to its non-Fediverse equivalent. Although introducing Collections and possibly Groups might make it more versatile and give it Flickr features (though not perhaps the comprehensive picture info and ability to download the original).

With a 72% turnout, only 37% of registered voters voted Leave. Should not voting be seen as a vote for the status quo?

Depends what you want I suppose. Storygraph doesn't have the 'practically every book ever published' of Goodreads, nor the ability to browse reviews sorted by star rating (AFAICT) but for cataloguing and writing reviews I've gone over to it completely.