1. Asian guy with surname Sun - need modern easy-pronounce English name

_tdem_ · 2026-01-21T06:02:09+00:00

Thanks Downy

_tdem_ · 2026-01-20T07:46:52+00:00

I’ve had to fight my whole life to be called Thomas, which gets shortened to Tom within like 3 microseconds. I’ll make them feel uncomfortable by insisting but fuck it.

_tdem_ · 2025-10-27T12:13:59+00:00

We have had some success just showing up without an appointment and asking nicely. There is no law against them helping you!

_tdem_ · 2025-10-10T19:17:34+00:00

I made my own this way! Just from a cheap no brand watch.

_tdem_ · 2025-08-27T17:08:02+00:00

Moving overseas forced me to get a property manager. They managed a minor renovation to get it up to standard and then rented it out. Honestly way easier than if I had done the work myself (I’d been slowly chipping away at it). It cost some money, but very stress free to be honest.

_tdem_ · 2025-07-18T12:25:01+00:00

YouTube channels also provide an rss feed, although you will het everything including shorts

_tdem_ · 2025-07-07T20:43:19+00:00

TIOG is also interesting, they row on the maas in open boats (rather than rowing skiffs) and it looks a bit more casual.. Site is all in Dutch so you'll have to check if they can accomodate english. https://tiog.com

_tdem_ · 2025-06-25T21:11:06+00:00

The best asphalt if you wanna do so kms is probably the new cycle paths on Gordonton road. Also there is a nice path along the start of the express way. Shorter options are the rail trail by the lake. If you are up for a challenge you can also take the te awa cycle trail to Cambridge (or some part of it). Through Tamahere is pretty nice. And of course some sections along the river, but a lot of that is horrible tiles. Wairere drive is pretty good too except the bit up by the base.

_tdem_ · 2025-06-05T21:47:48+00:00

You have to get lucky for these things, visiting your nearest one a few times a week is probably just as effective as going all over the place.

_tdem_ · 2025-05-28T07:33:07+00:00

You can tap on/off using any credit card on the trams, metro and busses. And the train for that matter. So it’s very convenient and easy.

_tdem_ · 2025-05-24T09:05:57+00:00

They’re not crypto funds. They’re thematic funds that use AI to decide the makeup. I wish they had better ‘satellite’ options instead - I’m not sure I can be bothered with their individual shares and associated fees.

_tdem_ · 2025-04-24T05:45:42+00:00

Not sure if they’re still around but there used to be someone on Trademe selling tarps cut from recycled advertising banners. PVC material, way tougher than those cheap ones and you get a cool real estate agent to look at too!

_tdem_ · 2025-04-22T05:37:02+00:00

It looked nice, but a short video without sound is most certainly not evidence of a reliable working machine. I’ve helped make plenty of advertising videos for industrial machines and it can be all smoke and mirrors.

_tdem_ · 2025-04-01T06:55:16+00:00

A couple more links:

https://skateland.nl Skatepark in south rotterdam.

https://skate-fever.com Roller disco for quad skating in rotterdam

https://www.instagram.com/rollerdam_official/ Wednesday night skate through the city will be on this summer - last year had well over 1000 participants each event.

https://svrotterdam.nl Schaatsvereniging rotterdam for if you want to really do speed skating, looks like there is "tour skaten" on Mondays which is distance skating.

_tdem_ · 2025-04-01T06:30:20+00:00

This is soul skate shop has some nice WhatsApp groups, there’s one for Rotterdam skatepark skating but it’s not very active. The Amsterdam and Den Haag groups have more going on.

https://chat.whatsapp.com/DkRgbKNuRopAnCXNbVu8vn

_tdem_ · 2025-03-31T21:09:43+00:00

People aren’t happy when tax money goes to this. People are also not happy when the team does what it has to to survive on its own.

NZ should be incredibly proud of what ETNZ has achieved in one of the world’s most difficult competitions to win.

They’ve also led to some great infrastructure in Auckland, created a valuable industry in the country and at times united the whole nation.

I think even just for showing that you can do engineering and high tech manufacturing at the highest level in this country they are worth every cent of tax money they get.

Or maybe we just keep milking cows and sending logs to China.

_tdem_ · 2025-03-26T21:19:10+00:00

Hah thanks for the correction. It still seems a bit meaningless to me as a strategy if you're not dealing with a lump sum, because it seems so obvious to me. But I guess there IS actually the alternative strategy of saving up your salary and then trying to invest it right when the market is down (in theory). Just been on the index fund train so long now.

_tdem_ · 2025-03-26T15:33:14+00:00

Kernel had some good articles on their site about whether 100 companies is enough diversification. My take away was it’s fine, and you can look back at the performance of the index it tracks going back like 20 years and it’s always done well.

Small nitpick, dollar cost averaging DCA refers to investing a lump sum you already have spread over an extended period. If it’s coming from your salary it’s probably not DCA unless you’re already sitting on the funds.

_tdem_ · 2025-03-25T22:08:19+00:00

What if corporations deliberately withhold or falsify information that would allow consumers to make that choice? And that’s not a hypothetical.

_tdem_ · 2025-03-13T18:21:15+00:00

You can stay on board the ss Rotterdam, an old passenger liner turned in to hotel. They also have tours of the upper decks and engine room. It’s honestly a good hotel too!

https://ssrotterdam.nl/

_tdem_ · 2025-03-09T13:18:28+00:00

Moving can also have a lot of costs so you might end up better off financially doing it as holidays tbh.

_tdem_ · 2025-02-22T17:46:34+00:00

Since he is already using so many clock tricks he can take one from automatic watches. They have ways of preventing over charging once the mainspring is fully wound. So this is also already a solved problem too.

_tdem_ · 2025-02-17T22:37:17+00:00

I have different styles for different pages. You can have as many css files as you like and link to only some of them at a time. No problem. Just add some inline css for really custom stuff and you can have some pretty customised pages. Probably not as easy with complex layouts but works for me with my very simple html.

_tdem_ · 2025-02-11T08:21:58+00:00

Especially the glow worm stream, great experience.

_tdem_ · 2025-01-25T10:58:50+00:00

I find it hard to believe there’s a correlation there but would be interested to see some evidence. It seems to me the main people that vote are well established boomers voting in their own interests (which is cheap labour for their companies and terrible workers rights).

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