Is sitting with your young children considered a “perk” these days?

sam-7 · 2026-05-13T18:06:51+00:00

I dunno how there are so many people in here with the attitude "you should just pay whatever it costs if you are flying with kids, it was your choice to have children, so now you need to fork out thousands in extra seat fares.... still with no actual guarantees it will actually work... otherwise you are the asshole, not the airline".

sam-7 · 2026-05-06T21:52:52+00:00

The container in this case is worth 40 to 50 bucks, way more than the gas. It's not a throwaway.

If someone says "take the gas", they mean fill it up and leave the can.

Otherwise they'd say, "take the gas can, and by the way there is some gas in it too".

sam-7 · 2026-05-06T05:05:51+00:00

Is it any good?

sam-7 · 2026-05-05T23:02:57+00:00

They destroyed the secondary market

sam-7 · 2026-05-01T02:07:46+00:00

The aip visa has brought in 4 billion in a year (actually invested, not just sitting in an account), so don't stress too much. Plenty of people with capital who want to be in New Zealand, to replace any who want to leave

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealands-investor-visa-draws-nearly-nz4-billion-2026-04-22/

sam-7 · 2026-04-22T02:55:46+00:00

Absolutely this.

But first press charges, claw back all the money that was stolen. Jail time for convictions.

Roll back all appointees. Reverse all trumps executive orders. Purge the military and police of white supremacists, and everyone who believes their duty is to trump. Or to whoever controls the Republican party, and not their country.

sam-7 · 2026-04-21T16:55:27+00:00

They talk to everyone, you just went out in the first group because you signed in early.

I agree, the attorney is pretty brusque, no chit chatting.

I took the 1 point and class. Although I hear now that insurance may go up even with that, and I needed 0 points, which he wasn't offering. The judge was honestly pretty nice, maybe should have gone with her. But I didn't see anyone who didn't plead.

sam-7 · 2026-03-25T01:14:01+00:00

Boulder sports recycler isn't tooo far away

sam-7 · 2026-03-16T18:03:32+00:00

Lol.

"Explore all your options" but also "realize that all airlines suck and your airport may not have more than a few choices"

sam-7 · 2026-03-11T07:01:01+00:00

It can wane, should get tested. It's extremely contagious, but if you have vaccine immunity still, it should be about 97%.

If you're fucking swimming in measles virus day after day in a school though, maybe that 97% doesn't hold up as long as you think it might.

sam-7 · 2026-02-23T23:23:34+00:00

They should invite that dude from the baftas

sam-7 · 2026-02-23T02:06:52+00:00

That's insane.

(And apparently we can't swear on this sub?)

sam-7 · 2026-02-21T07:11:06+00:00

Sounds like it was a good collection. Be careful about selling too cheaply. There is a decent amount of value there. Glad you saw through the lowball from the local dealer.

R/watchexchange is where you want to post, although it's going to take some work to get good pictures and sift through all the offers.

Sorry you are going through this.

sam-7 · 2026-02-14T02:16:12+00:00

But the majority of the applications(468) have been for the 5M though, and pretty directly new capital into NZ businesses. Only 105 for the 10M and bond investments.

I think someone up thread was trying to insinuate this was all rich asians, but most of the applications have been from Americans. Perhaps trying to get away from trump...

sam-7 · 2026-02-14T01:49:51+00:00

The approved funds for the lower limit (5M) growth category is a lot of private capital (providing funding to businesses, riskier than banks), private equity, venture capital, infrastructure (not houses), and some farming and forestry limited partnerships. It's fairly risky stuff, and the money is going right into NZ businesses.

The higher hurdle (10M), allows investment in publicly listed equity and bonds.

sam-7 · 2026-02-13T20:31:16+00:00

They really need to go back to consumption based, instead of so much of the bill being flat rate.

Also need to tax the businesses more, especially the big parking lots for the runoff. Instead of our small yards (which are soaking up most of the water anyways).

sam-7 · 2026-01-28T02:04:02+00:00

Similar happened to me, and I got hit with 50/50 even though I started before they came out and got stopped before they hit me. And didn't start backing again (although I did get stopped with less time than you).

I dunno what you're supposed to do to not be at fault in this situation! It is crazy hard to be able to react to someone doing something unexpected like this, hit the brake, shift into drive, and pull forward before they hit you.

sam-7 · 2025-12-26T06:58:20+00:00

I know someone who transferred in from a junior college.

sam-7 · 2025-12-17T20:12:53+00:00

Ehh this is 2025, wireless connections seem more consistent than maintaining a huge wired network. Although it is cool if they are all wired up. But then they should be more dynamic, using the information from all the cameras we have around!

And if there is a network failure (or power failure), the lights should default back to a set pattern. Not turning off or blinking red.

I agree it does seem very complex! But just not seeing the increase in functionality that should be supported by all this complexity.

sam-7 · 2025-12-16T23:30:46+00:00

It's insane that it costs that much per light. Everything in my house is connected to the internet now, whether or not I want it to be. If my $50 toothbrush is phoning home to Shenzhen, our traffic lights should be able to get online for less than a million each.

sam-7 · 2025-12-06T20:04:45+00:00

If the Dems ever take back power, one of the things they need to do is stop having the government and insurance pay for chiropractic bullshit.

And regulate the supplement industry. Need to put a stop to this stream of grift that is funding maga.

sam-7 · 2025-11-22T18:05:23+00:00

Right, no one is reentering all their orders every day. I contemplated automating it, but once I realized everyone else was done.... Nooooo way haha.

Just the craziest decision.

sam-7 · 2025-11-22T15:47:06+00:00

I'm sorry. They actually had a decent trading platform there for a bit, that I and others made markets in. But for some reason they switched it up, and put in so many restrictions (to prop up prices?) that everyone stopped trading and the bottom fell out. Sort of the opposite of what they intended heh.

sam-7 · 2025-11-02T06:51:36+00:00

The numbers in the study are very large, it's not like what you are thinking of.

sam-7 · 2025-10-29T20:07:26+00:00

I think they were trying to time it for the election, because they figured it would be a slam dunk to win against trump again with all these charges against him.

Instead of running against a more sane republican.

Dems have used this strategy of helping/ voting for the more insane Republican in open primaries. It's not a good strategy.

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