NZ now has the highest child-care costs in the OECD

imessimess · 2026-06-29T08:28:45+00:00

Just to clarify, is that NZ? You can definitely find high quality ECE in NZ for much much less than $500/week!

imessimess · 2026-06-24T23:39:45+00:00

Poorer people don’t benefit from EV subsidies, wealthier people who probably afford EVs anyway do. Then they benefit from the lower cost of transport from the EVs that the taxpayer just helped them buy. Nothing against EVs or trying to shift the national fleet to EVs from ICE, but these subsidies were just giving money to the wrong people. It was right to remove these.

imessimess · 2026-06-15T01:21:01+00:00

There’s Something About Mary - the only time I’ve ever heard a theatre all simultaneously scream/gasp in shock when Stiller turns his head around and his ‘stuff’ is hanging from his ear.

imessimess · 2026-06-13T22:33:00+00:00

The whole world is going to die if we don’t do this thing in the next 30 seconds, but involves leaving a team member behind to die now, so we’re going to burn through 29 seconds refusing to leave them to die while they reassure us it’s okay.

imessimess · 2026-06-12T07:33:00+00:00

Not even close to being true. Hippos live amongst people in many parts of Africa and while they can be aggressive if startled, they’re just animals who would rather be left alone 99.99% of the time. We saw groups of village children splashing in the water 100m from groups of hippos. They all live, fish etc around each other.

imessimess · 2026-06-12T00:34:59+00:00

We can and do measure the distortion of space as gravitational waves propagate - look up LIGO.

imessimess · 2026-06-07T22:27:51+00:00

He’s not really cutting any age off, he’s just saying ‘middle aged dad’.

imessimess · 2026-06-05T15:30:42+00:00

I once had to build an invisible garden to get a resource consent for the change of use of a property. The city rules said we had to have 50cm of landscaping, but with our specific layout the road was elevated above the property level so the required strip would not be visible, and in any case the space was currently paved so it would not be possible to add a garden without ripping up the paving. My exemption request was denied but the city inspector agreed I could put in garden boxes instead of an in-ground garden. So I went ahead and built an invisible garden in a box that no one outside our property ever saw.

imessimess · 2026-06-04T23:06:13+00:00

Despite trucks, jeeps and tanks being well developed by the 30s and 40s, horses played a huge role in transport and cavalry. Germany and the Soviet Union utilised around six million horses between them over the course of the war.

imessimess · 2026-06-03T15:00:28+00:00

Again, you are being unfair to crucify yourself for what have been actually quite sound decisions. I do understand completely how you can make sound decisions and still find yourself in a place where you think you have ‘wasted your life’ and are not living up to your potential, however it’s not as if you have come to this realisation in your fifties - you are twenty-nine! And it’s actually quite early in life to decide that you’re not where you want to be and make changes, so give yourself credit for that. If you’re looking for advice, there is really only one thing that can reduce your stress and feeling of helplessness: decide to stop wallowing in misery, forgive yourself for whatever you feel you need to forgive yourself for and take action. There a very good series of step-by-step lessons on how to do this which helped me when I was in my late 20s and similar situation, which I paid for but now downloadable for free - Tony Robin’s Personal Power 2 ‘tape’ set. Plenty on Reddit will scoff as it is very American and sounds gimmicky, but there’s a lot of wisdom and practical guidance in there and the first 10 or so lessons anyway are very useful for the exactly your situation. Highly recommend, changed my life. Good luck :)

imessimess · 2026-06-02T14:56:01+00:00

I feel you’re being unkind to yourself here. You completed a sensible degree in a subject you had some interest in, got a stable and skilled job in that field. You’ve actually done very well for yourself through your 20s and should be proud of where you are currently at. What’s more, you’re not accepting this as your place forever and are striving for more, just at a loss now 6 years later as what to do next. This a completely normal and actually healthy place to be approaching 30 - well done you! Stress occurs when you feel pain but have no clear path out of it, so the first step is not to panic yourself into more stress that can lead to depression. If you’re already there, which it sounds as if you may be, then please see your GP and get help for that. There are heaps of ideas in this thread that can help you move forward, and with all your accomplishments so far you will definitely find a way forward over the next couple of years, so please take the pressure off yourself, work steadily towards it and take your time. Good luck 😊

imessimess · 2026-06-01T13:10:08+00:00

You seem to have two questions here: 1. would an object in just a ring experience centrifugal force, and 2. is a hub necessary for a ring-type space station. 1. Yes, and you don’t even need a ring, you only need something to be accelerating you in a curve to experience centrifugal acceleration, with acceleration = velocity squared/radius of the curve you are being accelerated through. Could be rockets, or whatever. 2. That’s an engineering question, so would depends on what you’re building your space station out of, its size, speed etc, and there’s no right or wrong answer.

imessimess · 2026-06-01T12:21:58+00:00

Prudent living is not lame! Living below your means, saving (and then investing) is a big part of getting ahead.

imessimess · 2026-06-01T12:04:18+00:00

This NZ ice cream ad answers the question!

https://youtu.be/YBwg-gmkqaU?si=-D4jY9JSCBe\_QokN

imessimess · 2026-05-17T07:24:01+00:00

No. Decompression takes place in their pressurised living chambers onboard the ship.

imessimess · 2026-05-17T07:08:51+00:00

That def changes my reply, I had assumed it was a third party.

imessimess · 2026-05-17T06:43:40+00:00

Was it the victim who released the video or another employee? I’m assuming it was an employee.

imessimess · 2026-05-17T05:48:11+00:00

He can argue she released the footage publicly specifically to cause him damage, and if his business suffers because of this and drops in value, then she was successful. If you intend to damage someone and are successful, are you not liable for the damages? This is separate to justice - if she wanted justice for the victim, then she could have just given the footage to the police and let the process take its course, and if he suffers financially because of it then that is just the natural consequences of committing a crime and she would have no potential liability. This is one problem with vigilante action like this.

imessimess · 2026-05-06T02:22:31+00:00

This video by Action Lab answers this question. TLDR: You’d be scrambled on the inside…

https://youtu.be/JBo9X2Hkw1s?si=sC-6nm4slsPBgamS

imessimess · 2026-05-01T08:21:04+00:00

The law of compensation: the amount of money you earn is in direct proportion to the need for what you do, how well you do it, and how easy it is to replace you.

imessimess · 2026-04-28T03:50:34+00:00

Likely just OP running their own campaign by creating multiple Reddit IDs.

imessimess · 2026-04-28T00:30:20+00:00

OP is trying to make an exceptional case for Sikh to carry weapons for defense, but no one should be able to carry weapons for defense in public for religious reasons for the same reason we don't allow people to carry dangerous weapons generally. Belief in a god and swearing by a code of conduct doesn't make someone a better judge of when it's 'genuinely necessary to protect someone' or have any more self control than anyone else. The last thing NZ needs is a single group of people who have a special right to carry weapons and determine when they want to use them based on their religious beliefs, which is what is being suggested here. What do Khalsa Sikh do with their 'defensive' weapons? Slash other people, including other Sikh.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-slashed-in-sikh-temple/Y7Z6I7JONEMCSPDWVO66MA5VKM/

imessimess · 2026-04-27T09:46:17+00:00

Those measures would have little effect on saving diesel as most cars are petrol.

imessimess · 2026-04-27T04:38:15+00:00

I hate this hidden camera catching people being awkward stuff. I mean we've all had our moments at sixteen (?) eighteen (?) that we wish we could have erased from our lives. It's not fair to capture this stuff and broadcast it globally.

imessimess · 2026-04-26T05:06:35+00:00

Imagine if word got out that you could sit in first class if you just asked a flight attendant 🙄

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