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IIRC, third cousin is pretty close, n times removed is just generation gap. I mean it makes little difference, genetically, but being that close to a royal within written history is probably a good indication of generational wealth.

People who believe (because they've been lead to believe) that driverless cars are safe still have a right to live without injury. Being credulous or fooled doesn't remove your rights.

Seems to be polynomial growth, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Which makes more sense, but still; a 44 tonne lorry is doing 44^4 times as much damage as a 1 tonne car, which is 3.7 million times as much.

I assume the exponential doesn't hold up for some reason, maybe because of the amount of wheels they have. Otherwise it would seem that an LGV (maximum weight to cross borders in the EU is 44tonnes), would deal 16^44 times as much damage as a normal car, which is a large enough ratio that I think it would be safe to say that either the road would be immediately obliterated under any vehicle of that weight or normal cars do so little damage that it would be misleading to represent it as anything other than zero.

To be clear: I'm not trying to say you're wrong. There's another option for the growth rate, given the two data points given, that probably makes more sense. I just found it amusing to entertain the thought and go through the process.

Given how much heavier freight vehicles are than any passenger car, what percentage of road damage do they cause, given the damage seems to grow at O(n^16) ?

I'm honestly not sure; I expect it varies from person to person. I certainly find it difficult to look at either way around.

Full-contrast black-on-white is also a common eye strain and/or migraine trigger.

Far Away by Jose Gonzalez.

We're still European, no?

I don't like that this is an ad. Really undercuts the seriousness of the message.

Could well be that that was the effective treatment.

You might also try basically any essential oil mildly diluted. I've had a lot of luck with lavender oil.

(I think aphids are just tiny so they get engulfed in whatever you spray on them, essential oils are actually relatively nasty chemicals that just smell nice)