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I can't find the exact shot, but I used to have a picture of the 220kV lines parallel to the Desert Road as my desktop background. Something like this:https://johnmathews.smugmug.com/Nov-18-Desert-Road-North-Island/i-CkSm5tK

Underground works well for greenfields construction, where you can map everything out ahead of time and don't have to deal with existing underground services.

It's manageable on low-density streets where its really only three waters and maybe some telephone lines.

It's a nightmare to underground existing infrastructure in dense environments. Underground is already full of three generations of critical comms, corroding gas, water, HV lines that will fail if you look at them wrong, and if you're really unlucky, steam pipes too.

Still about a 10x cost difference, plus (particularly on transmission lines) there's issues with extra capacitive loading.

Oh, I mixed up your post. Sorry.

If you're considering the US federal government (excluding the newly elected carrot...) 'tyrannical', what civilisations are you considering not tyrannical? The list has to be very, very small.

None of the definitions of tyranny I see have a restriction on scale. You can be a tyrant ruling a hundred people or a billion. It's technology (transport, food storage, writing/communication) and geography that limit the size of a tyranny. I'd argue lots of small tribal societies wander into tyranny; it's just hard to rule over multiple islands when you don't have writing or metals.

There's religions in Asia other than Buddhism.

There was rampant cannibalism in Polynesia along with all kinds of infighting. Maori gods have plenty of murder and war in the mythology.

War in Asia goes far wider than just one empire. Imperial Japan were thoroughly tyrannical during WW2, as well as many other conflicts.

Any civilisation that could spare, mobilise, and feed enough people to form an army basically did so, sooner or later. It's a supply lines and population problem. Small populations can't raise large armies and send them long distances.

What type of 'scooter' are we talking? I wouldn't have thought a typical mobility scooter would be within even an overweight baggage allowance: you have to actually lift it into the plane. It's not going to be palletised airfreight on a domestic flight.

No, but apparently there's an electoral mandate for it.

We have that on Wellington's trains. Bright green doors (and wheelchair symbol) indicates the wheelchair section.

Picture relevant, not story