Yes

(And all owls are superb)

Any trump "I did that" stickers showing up?

Huh. What was 5 months ago?

That's kinda how aws got companies into cloud storage.
A truck that would duplicate a companies disks, then drive to a data center and make the data available on s3 or whatever.
Retired now, tho.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/

This makes sense in 2 ways:
If they didn't have the offcuts, they would have to buy the materials anyway. So accounting for that cost is required.
If they didn't use the offcuts, they would have to bin/recycle them. This is a good reduce/reuse policy.

It's similar with event kit hire companies. They might have 2 of one item on the book, and know they can subhire a further 2 items from a different company.
If you request to hire 2 of the items, it will likely be at the cost of what the other company charges (well, b2b rate at least) plus a margin (to cover delivery, processing, insurance).
Because the company you go to may or may not have 2 items on the shelf. They might only have 1 or none. And they can't suck up the cost of subhiring.
If they hire out the items on the shelf, great. Probably a bit more profit.
If they have to subhire, no big deal. Just slimmer margins

I hope this is a pausing strategy.
A few more days to see what shakes out of the EU and other allies.
EU and US are about equal for contributions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o

Considering that the eu is looking at €800bn spending to help arm Ukraine (https://apnews.com/article/europe-defense-ukraine-united-states-trump-c1f12e685afc3e2ca94c9a15ea28d8bb) I don't blame Ukraine for stalling to see what happens.
Monitarily, the EU is the biggest ally. The US is the biggest single ally, but not the biggest ally.
I expect big things from the EU in the next few days, and - in a dream scenario - Zelensky goes back to the white house to "capitulate" and tells them to fuck themselves on live television.
Because you KNOW trump wants Zelensky bending-the-knee to be televised

Need some of those "I did this" stickers.
Except with trump, and next to basics & essentials required to not-starve

You have my sympathy, but not my compassion.

My compassion ran out when America continued to embrace - even celebrate - right wing rule

but they aren't doing 35 at least any more!

You wouldn't have a car left if you tried to go 30 on most Edinburgh roads, tbh.

I have no issues with 20 limits, both as a driver and a pedestrian

"Spicy autocomplete" is a great way of describing an LLM

Didnt water systems used to be nationalised?
If water companies can misbehave to this extent, shouldnt there be more oversight and regulation?
I think its fair to put additional blame on the government, alongside the blame on the water companies.

I agree that critical infrastructure should not be privatised

I was expecting a "remove before installing" sticker.