Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
Per capita plots are a proud Kiwi tradition, but has anyone seen this one? (Hat tip to @planet4589.bsky.social for the data)
New Zealand is neighbourhood two... 😕
Aw this is so exciting! I wish I could cross the ditch to attend
someone should tell all the songwriters they arent allowed to use the same chord progression ever that'll show them
#nzpol
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Kia ora, I think you've made a place value mistake
2.8e^-3 = 0.0028, or 0.28%
Still cause for concern, but not quite so bad
What if you built a billion-story building?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!
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The National party and coalition government have outdone themselves in showing that they are not responsible economic managers, or responsible managers of any other area. So far they have:
- borrowed 12 billion dollars to give tax cuts that really only benefit the very wealthy. #nzpol
Even cooler! Near null island, there's a set of points shaped like the US (you can see Florida in the lower right.) But when you zoom out, they're off the coast of Liberia, exactly where they'd be if the latitude and longitude were both divided by 10 (eg so NYC is at 4.1, -7.4 instead of 40.7, -74).
I love him so much!
Every so often I think about what it would be like if the Tron had commuter trains, to TA and Morrinsville and Huntly... And then I think this is just idle fantasy, but *then* I see an article suggesting how this could be done. Could we? Pleeeease? 🇳🇿
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