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NZ had very strong lockdown but once the country had zero covid there were months of no lockdowns at all. Other countries had longer lockdowns or even when they didn't people were …

I guess you've never come across electric heaters or if you want to go into the bedroom electric blankets ( 5000 fires per year in the UK in 2011 )

The "PGA Tour Champions" ( formally the Senior Tour ) has golf players over 50 and pretty much does what you suggest.

"who failed to live their faith" - ie if they had lived up to their faith would have been good. I'm saying that the practice of "faith" and being "good" are largely unconnected. Th…

I was mainly replying to this sentence: " Others have been hurt by Christians who failed to live their faith or were otherwise misguided in their actions or teachings. "

A thing you might want to consider is that how "good" a person is is largely independent from their level of religious faith. It is common for religious people to assume they are l…

Good creator of AI music videos (with human editing etc) is "ALFfx Visual DJ" Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lWArXcsxYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-4lIFhybA https…

Well just live somewhere that is so lacking in density there is no congestion. Or a small town that is surrounded by farms. Just avoid suburban housing as far as the eye can see wi…

Remember you are only seeing a selection of the thousands of times this has happened. The drone operating side will release more of the ones where it didn't work. It does work at l…

Left out Charles Hamilton It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, ma…

> massive overspend until someone notices and has to painstakingly go round checking what all your instances are for. and when you reduce your companies AWS spend by 30% (which is …

If copyright was shorter blockbuster movies could still recycle comic book characters from the 50s. It just means that any filmmaker could do it rather than just who can afford to …

Except that the timezone in British Columbia has now changed. Lets say you stored the appointment for November in UTC. So you set the time to 10pm UTC to match 2pm British Columbia…

Because traffic laws work for cars and pedestrians. Anything else in between in fuzzy and hard to define or legislate

Did you read the article. Half the problem is the government regulations ( stairwells, elevators, parking ) that force the developer to build things worse.

I've also seen people using the term "slop" for low quality human-generated content (lowbrow movies etc)

One of my favorite tunes ever is from Northern Exposure: Expeditions The Silence by Mike Koglin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan

Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the C…

But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondri…

I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforwa…

They charge for a lot of things "by the hour". Things like S3, load balancers, storage. Deleting those when a customer hits a limit will lose customer data or remove things that mi…

20/68 is for human comfort/health.

Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.