[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 16 points 18 hours ago

The only thing I dislike is that the food is expensive and disappointing.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 days ago

Even nightly doesn't seem to be necessary; I've used those for years without issue

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago

Get your parents to write an actual will.

Where things seem to get messiest is if someone gets an 'advance' on what they'll receive in the will, except it's not written into the will so there is disagreement on whether they should get a full share or not.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 days ago

~10 elections with ~100M votes each puts that in the ballpark. Might only be looking at presidential elections?

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 9 points 4 days ago

The most obvious one for me (maybe because I live there...) is that NZ is basically vertical, rather than being on a big angle.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 134 points 2 weeks ago

Also, a number of them will still fail quickly. Survivorship bias.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 106 points 1 month ago

The non-Hydrogen, non-Helium atoms are a larger proportion of total mass, but that's just because they're really fat.

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After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

https://explainxkcd.com/3080/

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 101 points 1 year ago

You're probably not going to save 95% of the trees given the major earthworks likely needed for managing sewage, stormwater, and other utilities. You'll probably save most of them, though.

40k looks pretty optimistic for the size and number of buildings, too.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 90 points 1 year ago

As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.

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"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

explainxkcd.com/2998/

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[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 196 points 2 years ago

Electric buses have a battery from a probably reputable supplier, with a decent BMS.

Escooters often come from AliExpress.

There is a difference.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 125 points 2 years ago

Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

Isn't he the world's richest person currently?

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 217 points 2 years ago

“Spotify already pays nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music to the record labels and publishers

Sounds like the issue might be with the record labels...

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