Well that's fairly interesting

Am I going clockwise or anticlockwise round the track?

It's getting so convoluted at this point just knowing clockwise/anticlockwise is infinitely easier.

It doesn't even bloody work, lefty tighty righty loosy is every bit as valid if the spanner is at the bottom.

Locost 7 is a generic name for replica Lotus/Caterham 7 type cars that are built by people in garages, there's no centralised body beyond "The Book" the original design came from. As far as I'm aware the book's author has defended the design in court as being too generic to be protectable (which presumably precludes their design being used as a basis to prosecute anyone building something similar).

Most of the cars are built custom to the donor vehicle, taking the original design as a basis, there's 100s of variations online with drawings - none of them are going to be protectable and no-one's really tried in the 30 odd years since the book came out. No-one's published anything with a libre license, I'm not sure if there'd be any point.

Where are the EFF fighting this?

There are definitely open source-ish options. Google locost 7

As much as I'd advocate for a professional rectal woodwind orchestra, I can't help but feel we wouldn't have invented the instruments in the first place.

It is what the masses engage with, not necessarily what they want. FB have literally done studies into the negative impact this has on people and it's well within the power of these companies to normalise this kind of post. They choose not to because it drives engagement. If they were unaware - that's a different thing, but it's not the case.

On the algo front, outrage drives engagement by multiples compared to any other emotion, Facebook literally did the research. So comments and posts that cause outrage get more likes, more retweets, more comments, they've literally gamified outrage generation.The big social media companies have way way too much power.

Not a USer, what I find utterly bonkers is seeing clips of them discussing the dark Brandon conspiracy on fox news, like it's real and relevant political discourse. Wtaf is wrong with that portion of you population.

Rental has its place, there have been plenty of occasions in my life where rental suited me better than ownership. Regulation and enforcement of said regulations would do a lot to protect people in this situation.