The headline margin of error only applies at the centre (50%), and decreases towards the extremes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Specific_margins_of_error

Wikipedia says that for a poll with 1013 participants and the same headline margin of error, a 2% result would be ±0.8%.

It’s more likely that this is the crowd who deliberately gives the most absurd answer possible.

And the Blackadder equivalent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4

I’ve certainly never heard of a chicken ranch, but plenty of chicken farms.

As ‘colony breadbaskets’, with lots of land and small populations, both NZ and Aus used to export lots of meat and other primary industry products to the UK.

I believe the UK’s entry into the EEC and deprioritisation of the commonwealth led to those exports reducing and instead heading to Asia and the US.

Regardless, expecting to export beef to the other side of the world, a country with four times the cattle and a better reputation for food production, is just daft.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any UK-sourced food in NZ other than high-value small stuff like Worcester sauce, and expat reminder-of-home products.

Yeah, you can’t really say “we started the engines but #2 wouldn’t start, so we’re continuing to the destination on one engine”. Delaying/cancelling the flight due to a safety/maintenance issue is perfectly legitimate.

The issue is that after that, a) passengers are entitled to compensation depending on the delay, and b) you need to provide food/water/aircon or take the passengers back to the terminal.

It honestly seems like these are questions that don’t need asking.

You’ve provided no context about what you like and don’t like, so you won’t get any kind of a personalised response.

What are you expecting to get out of asking this as a question, that you don’t get by simply going to Rotten Tomatoes?

This would be a waste of commenters’ time, and that’s why it’s being downvoted.

It can also include situations where the worker isn’t paid what was agreed.

For example, if you were going to have a 10% commission but the employer lowers this to 2% or nothing, or where a $30/hour rate magically becomes $15/hour after hiring.

They might legally be able to cut your pay by giving notice - this will depend on the jurisdiction. In other regimes, they essentially have to go through the full legal process to fire you.

I think you mean Alaska.

It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.

Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.

They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.

Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.

Not sure if sarcastic…

Yeah, NZ & Aus both have a ‘standard drinks’ system.

My guess is that larger quantities of alcohol (particularly bottles of spirits but also wine) simply aren’t intended to be drunk by one person in one sitting. Total volume of alcohol isn’t that useful; it’s more useful to be able to work out how much is in one shot or one glass.

This is especially important when you look at the same product being sold by the shot/bottle/cask/barrel, or being able to buy a gallon of it in your own container historically.

In beverages, it’s g/100ml.

Yup. Expect that everything lasts exactly as long as you don’t want it to.

Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

Isn’t he the world’s richest person currently?

Winston Peters (NZ First leader) is a total alcohol, tobacco, and racing (horse, greyhound, whatever) industry shill. I doubt he exactly needed to be bought, but this is certainly part of his price for being part of the coalition government.

ACT (secular libertarian free market folk) probably mildly supported it, and National (general centre right; largest party) is probably much the same.

The Westminster system is supposed to separate government/crown/state funds from royal/privy purse funds.

The royalty should not have the power to point at something and say ‘I declare that mine’.

It usually goes into the state slush fund like tax revenue, AKA the crown.

In this case, it’s claimed that it was ‘donated to charity’.

In this case, it was being spent on upkeep/repairs/renovations on properties that are rented out, with the rent going to the ‘privy purse’ - the king’s personal funds, not the state’s funds. Spending the money to improve the properties directly increases the rent that can be charged, and offsets upkeep costs that would otherwise come out of the rent.

Money laundering.

Sounds like textbook money laundering/diversion of charity funds to me.

Don’t give the money to the privy purse directly - spend it on upkeep/repairs/renovation of private property that the king can ‘legitimately’ collect rent on.