up to a point fully agree but there is a large but. For the Highlands, at a guess the Liberals will win Orkney (of course), Shetland and Caithness, Labour Na h-Eileanan an Iar, god knows for Moray and Inverness. So here list votes for the SNP could very well generate regional seats

agree, where I live going to the cinema is a major trip but we have a small film club in the village that shows a film every other week in winter. So you watch what you get.

And its a unique desirable experience, utterly different to sitting at home watching Netflix or whatever

Palantir of course is run by a gleefully evil CEO who smilingly characterized all Palestinians as “useful idiots” at a public Q and A session. He claimed Palantir tech was used only to kill “terrorists” in Gaza - so no connection at all to the genocide there.
Yet this firm now manages NHS data.