Depends on what you drink. On a smoothie the thicker liquid will cling onto the lid while you drink until just at the moment then drip onto your clothes.

Time Machine backups rely on hard links a lot, there are files in each snapshot pointing at the same data on disk. I imagine that could be what is going on here. This person could actually have had 60Tb worth of backup data sets on a 2Tb drive, only possible because there are very few differences between the data sets.

Much better to use a phone running an os built by an advertising company who decided that “don’t be evil” just isn’t them anymore.

A product isn’t just what parts go inside.