Agreed thieves are terrible.

Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.

Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.

Well…there is a fix for this issue.

Don’t watch broadcast TV; use ad-blockers; learn to sail.

The economic model would have to be based on energy supply.

But assuming the replicators were perfect to the atomic level; making the parts for power generation would be easy. But the fuel would still have to be found / collected / mined.

Assuming that fusion is the most common type of energy generation; hydrogen fusion would probably be the dominant form of energy generation. Hydrogen collection would be a huge industry, but it also could be fully automated.

While the economic model may not be noticed by the majority; it would still be there.

Maybe, but he can also rip your arm off and beat you to death with it…

When wrestling with a toddler, your stance doesn’t really matter.

Yes, but I believe you about the fart.

Agreed.

And the causes are probably broadly similar; lack of education about how to cook, lack of time to cook, lack of education on healthy food, too much food advertising, ultra-processed foods are too common, healthy foods are expensive…

No, but your weird obsession with ridiculously unhealthy food is somewhat interesting.

So the answer is to not visit the US then.

There is also the growing awareness, that you shouldn’t send sick kids to school.

My 8yo had a flu, was off school for 8 days until he felt well enough. That was one incident…if you have a one bad sickness and a couple of minor ones throughout the term, you are going to hit your 15 days pretty quickly.

He actually went back to school a day earlier than I would have liked, because he was missing his friends; and he was mostly better.

Some families are sending their sick kids to school; they simply cannot afford to miss work. This causes issues for others. This happens every year, worst in winter.

Maybe if we encouraged kids to be at school, making it easy to get there and feeding the ones who don’t have enough food…supporting the families in need. Na, lets just punish our way out of the problems. NB the beatings will continue until morale improves.

What is the flavor “it looks like orange, but is actually just a tub of shit”

You are correct, the US needs to increase speed limits to even things out again.

I have 3 hungry boys to feed, I’m not sure I could carry all of our groceries in one trip. , 😁

If it wasn’t for our massive moat, I’m sure Act would have suggested something similar already.

The populist rhetoric that lot spout is quite worrying at times.

Most NZ supermarkets just stack the boxes at the front after the checkout.

Are also keep a few in the back of the car.

Or boxes; we use boxes. Carrying 3 - 4 boxes up stairs is much easier than 10 bags.

We did it a while back, you will adapt pretty quickly.

Gather round children; as I tell you the story of Georgie Pie, it offered cheap local (to NZ) fast food, in this case meat and sweet pies.

Highly successful and well loved, it was a common sight across the country. Unfortunately, the corporate entities from off shore came in, diluting the fast food dollar across many more options. MacDonald’s brought the struggling Georgie Pie; mainly for its locations and to remove a competitor from the market.

Every few years; to maintain the trade mark, MacDonald’s runs a Georgie Pie promotion where you can get a pie from MacDonald’s. It is like the zombie of local “cuisine” reanimated over and over again to server its master; for the only job it is good for.

Medical and electrical insulation. Two places where plastics are better than the alternatives.

NO!