I like NZ.

When you’re done, you get up, walk to the counter, pay, and leave.

Card never leaves your sight. No timing issues. No tipping.

The only thing I dislike is that the food is expensive and disappointing.

Even nightly doesn’t seem to be necessary; I’ve used those for years without issue

Get your parents to write an actual will.

Where things seem to get messiest is if someone gets an ‘advance’ on what they’ll receive in the will, except it’s not written into the will so there is disagreement on whether they should get a full share or not.

~10 elections with ~100M votes each puts that in the ballpark. Might only be looking at presidential elections?

The most obvious one for me (maybe because I live there…) is that NZ is basically vertical, rather than being on a big angle.

I work in post, but not in Canada.

Postal facilities often move >100k items a day. Or much more. Occasionally, a parcel will go missing, lose its label, be destroyed and unrecognizable, or end up in a place no one thought it was possible for something to fit. Thin items are especially bad for this.

There is only so much that can be done to try and follow it via CCTV and/or scans. Whether they have done everything practical, I don’t know.

We don’t machine sort passports (which reduces the chances of it getting lost/destroyed), but I think that’s only new passports coming from the printers. Your passport may have been treated like any other courier item - assuming Canada’s processes are similar.

The rest of it is probably a question for a travel sub.

None of that is necessary these days; all you need is to scrub the encryption keya from RAM and cache.

The issue is reliably detecting tampering without undue false alarms.

Generally speaking, you want panels to:

• Have minimal shading (especially by e.g. poles for overhead traction)

• Not get contaminated by dripping oil/grease/brake dust.

• Not complicate access (either by being in the way or by being damaged and live) for repairs or rescue efforts.

• Not be subject to vibration or impact.

• Be located densely and near connections to the electrical grid, so that the cabling per panel is minimal.

This breaks just about every one of those.

Go put panels on every house/mall/supermarket and then panel roofs over every carpark and railway station first, then we’ll talk.

No, but it does mean that basically everything built for standard domestic/commercial use is unsuitable and instead you have to use rail/marine/heavy-industrial grade equipment, and maintain it regularly.

And maybe they can maybe reuse use of the electric railway infrastructure to wire the panels?

Way too high voltage to be practical.

Still dumb. Less dumb than on roads, but still dumb.

Why the very dense section on the left (hallway?)?

It’s like transferring software licenses.

I’m pretty sure most login managers have a drop-down hidden somewhere where you can select what desktop manager it launches once you log in.

Also, a number of them will still fail quickly. Survivorship bias.

Council democracy isn’t based on electoral parliament, but on general assemblies.

Oh yes, so different.

So, add a recall election mechanism and let everything else play out the same?

Because most parts of the US would probably reelect the same candidate if an election was held tomorrow (literally the standard polling question).

Renaming things doesn’t make them work better.

You’re forgetting the ~600 CRJs that are the backbone of the US regional fleets.

For staying out of it and trying to convince liberals to stay out of it, so that the motivated fascists outvote the staying-at-home liberals.

That’s the whole goal of accelerationism; it’s not an accident.