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2026-04-17 21:41:25 GMT

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I had my first Linux computer 15 years ago but kept coming back to Windows for compatibility problems.
But now changed my main game and entertainment PC to linux and use a Mac for productivity.
There is no reason to go back now.

2026-02-17 17:41:58 GMT

We had a huge storm.
The airport in the capital had 220klm/h winds. They had to cancel some flights.
And the Banks peninsular had 10 months of rain in 48 hours.
There were power cuts all over the place. I think they said 18,000 homes at some stage.
A tree blew down in my garden, and the neighbours lost part of their fence.
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2026-01-07 17:50:38 GMT

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It's interesting how most people I know, have a home fireplace, some kind of wood burner, because no one really believes that the electricity will be reliable anymore.
They wasted all the gas on making industrial methanol, so gas heating is unreliable now.
One of my friends had the power out over new years, for four days, after a wind storm bought down trees over a 50km span north of me. It's summer here. He has backup solar power for the fridge/freezer fortunately.

2026-01-02 20:50:02 GMT

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Funny.

2026-01-01 20:37:28 GMT

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I saw a plunger for a moment.
So are they fence posts that you can't pull out of the ground?

2025-12-31 20:19:23 GMT

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Hmm. Don't they just own a bunch of land and houses and make money from rent?
They are just a big, old, rich family like many other, but just with more stuff to rent than most. They had an empire.
I think they had some wars or something back in the day, and they owned just about half the GDP of the world a century or two ago.
So they seem to be getting poorer in the grand scheme of things, but they started way richer than most.
Low income on 30 billion of assets. 0.1%?

2025-12-29 20:02:10 GMT

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For a moment, I thought it was a new flavour of Monster Energy.

2025-11-29 21:44:52 GMT

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I think you need to look up the model of your access point to see if it supports mesh.
If so, buy a same brand mesh node.
If not, buy an extender of any brand.

2025-11-29 21:26:45 GMT

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Mesh wifi, they have several separate stations. One connects to the internet wire. The other ones plug into power outlets around your house. They all connect wirelessly to each other and spread the wifi around your house.
On your devices, it all looks like just one wifi network, but it means you can be up stairs, or down the other end of your house, and your device will connect to the closest station with strongest signal. You can buy extra station for more coverage.

2025-11-29 21:13:17 GMT

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I think some of them work with a specific mesh system. I have three boxes that are all the same and they work as a team. I would want to buy one that woks on that mesh system to add to that. So buy a specific type.
Others just connect to the existing wifi and make a second wifi point to connect to. I had one like that to extend the wifi to the other end of the house. I could plug a computer into it, or use wifi for a few more device down there. So buy from many options.

2025-11-05 17:51:20 GMT

On the radio in New Zealand: People are planing to increase buying red meat. This is because of health and nutrition reasons.
They say people want to know where their food comes from and to know what it is made of.
They said that young people are interested in cooking red meat due to social media influencers.

2025-10-31 19:38:00 GMT

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Oh yeah, I remember that from when I was a little kid.

2025-10-26 19:14:04 GMT

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Yeah, there is something odd about that. Hand axes have been made for 1.2 million years in Olduvai Tanzania. I wonder if people were entirely hunter gatherers all that time?
Ah, who am I kidding? Half the people I meet day-to-day have never planted a plant to grow a crop.
I mean, I was picking apples at the park in my neighbourhood, and someone, over the fence, said to me: What, you can eat the wild apples from the trees in the park? I replied, yes they are apples.
This house.
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2025-10-25 21:31:36 GMT

This guy is tired of AI slop already.
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2025-10-25 20:53:00 GMT

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Talking about it, but not doing it.
NZ did this for Diesel about 30 years ago. Because tractors and machinery do not drive on roads. Which makes sense.
EVs last year. There was no march on parliament for that one.
So ... all petrol cars next year.
I hope we get something cool for all that new tax revenue. Or pay down some government debt.

2025-10-25 20:38:34 GMT

We live in the new dystopian future already. Because they can't get tax from petrol in an EV, they get tax from the odometer.
Road User Charges.
They made bank! They're gonna take the tax out of petrol, 30c/Litre and replace it with $76 per 1000km.
So a hybrid might use 60Lfor 1000km. Thats about $20 tax, so they get 3x more tax from RUC economic cars.
In a monster truck, you might use 150L for 1000km, about $60 tax. Everybody pays more!
Don't worry vehicle registration is about $260/year.
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2025-10-10 21:23:07 GMT

Something going wrong with the fire service equipment budget.
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2025-10-10 21:22:09 GMT

This car has dog-bone tail-lights.
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2025-08-04 18:51:47 GMT

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Most people don't need that rapid charging time or range. My EV, that I
have had for eight years, now has about 140km range. I am looking at replacing it for one with 240km range.
Just look at the longest round trip you fairly often take, and add 50% range for a cold weather trip.
So I often take a 120km round trip I need about 180km, which is what my car had when it was new. But now, I am often charging for 5 minutes, in the city, before driving home.

2025-07-30 05:23:01 GMT

I think every phone in New Zealand got a tsunami alert about an hour ago.
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2025-07-28 18:11:33 GMT

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I know, it's amazing.
The current right-ish government realises that you can't nanny-state all of the people, all of the time.

2025-07-28 17:59:56 GMT

New Zealand government said today that they are changing the advice on flood and tsunami evacuation.
New advice is, if it has been raining and you see rising flood water, don't wait for authorities to tell you to evacuate. Use your eyes to see and use your own judgment and evacuate.
Also, if there is a long or strong earthquake and you are near the sea or a river mouth, then evacuate, don't wait for official advice, there could be a tsunami, self evacuate.
Rough weather today.
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2025-07-25 20:53:45 GMT

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That is the exact reason I fired my old phone company and moved to another company that cost more, but gave me two or three times more data and minutes.
But it turns out that while everything in computers, cost less and you get more over time, it does not apply to phone companies. You get more but it costs more.

2025-07-15 19:01:32 GMT

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Every town and city in New Zealand now.
We have:
100 or 110 km/h on the highway.
90, 80, 70 on the approach to a town
50 in town,
40 or 30 in shopping streets or by schools.
20 or 10 in the car park.
Electronic variable speed motorways, the speed signs change with traffic conditions.
Variable speed rural intersections signs change if cars on side roads.
Low speed at school times with electronic signs.

2025-07-11 20:35:11 GMT

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Comical. That's not a real thing. It is just a thing that someone made in a video editor with an AI voice overlay.
Anyone who has ever seen a real machine knows that things don't work like that.

2025-07-05 23:27:26 GMT

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I think* (*high uncertainty) they are people we call Celtic*. I think* they are the people that knew a lot about star navigation and used it to travel. I think* these people traveled all over the world and you can find them, generically and artistically, in various places around the world.
I think* you can find this artistic (art design and ship build design) and genetic evidence in various places.
Look at the pattern on my shirt.

2025-07-05 20:48:37 GMT

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The people with red hair have been sailing around the world for about 11,000 years.

2025-07-04 20:34:40 GMT

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Why is this surprising?
The researchers concluded that 80% of his genetic material came from ancient people in North Africa while 20% traced back to people in West Asia and the Mesopotamia region.
I thought Egypt was in North Africa, so 80% of his genetics are from where he is. The other 20% is from, just over there, a thousand km. A three month walk. Not like from another continent, a 5000km ship ride.
Family trees of royal families are often not the same as the locals.

2025-03-07 20:10:30 GMT

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Consider getting the whole thing cut off, not a partial biopsy. I had a chunk cut out of my face. The surgeon wanted to be sure to cut the whole thing out, so not to have to do it twice, or leave any abnormal cells behind.
I don't like the idea of cutting a hole in the defective cell mass, that could let the defective cells leak defective cells into your blood.

2025-03-07 20:01:17 GMT

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I specially do not encrypt USB hard drives so I can put my photos and stuff on there, so that if my computers lock out, I will still have my photos on ordinary compatible disconnected hard drives.

2025-03-07 19:52:39 GMT

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I tried to lend my friend my old iPhone to take on a trip, so he could have two phones on his apple account. So he could buy a local sim to use while he was overseas.
Between log in problems and verification problems. We just gave up on the idea. We got to a thing where we had to wait one hour to add the phone to the account, and it did not work and we had to wait another hour.
He said that it just got too hard.

2025-02-22 23:30:21 GMT

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Yeah. Trees grow exponentially, more leaves gather more energy, so they grow really quick once they get bushy. My apple trees were just random ones I found sprouted in the middle of an apple I was eating.

2025-02-22 23:06:32 GMT

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Yeah, you can graft on, from a mature tree to get fruit faster.
I grew some apple trees from seed. Stared in 2009, I have started getting apples after about even years.
Avocados grew from seed, I have had three avocados on the tree. That took about 10 years.
I am growing dozens of trees in pots, so I can plant them out at my next house. I will have a large and random orchard. I guess I will buy a couple dozen trees to get a good mix of fruit at varieties.

2025-01-25 10:41:00 GMT

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In New Zealand a basement would likely fill with water. In Australia snakes and spiders?
There are, sort of basement houses in New Zealand, where the house is on a hill and the ground floor, is half underground, but usually it's a garage.
My grandparents had a half underground basement with a boiler in it. Garage and laundry were there. It was nice and cool in summer.

2025-01-25 02:13:08 GMT

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The sushi place is consistently great. I have tried their other bento boxes, but I like this one the most.

2025-01-25 02:08:41 GMT

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$8.90NZD = USD 16.46
Got the pork at the top and the chicken and salmon sushi. I think you get extra rice and miso soup if you eat in the restaurant for the same price.
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2025-01-25 01:56:54 GMT

Gonna take the train on Saturday, into the city to go to a birthday party.
The train ticket is $5.52 each way, by metro card. $14 each way cash. 50km trip.
Basically, they don't want your cash.
by contrast, I noticed that the Japanese food place I go, has a $30 bento box. Which they charge $28.90 for - unless you pay by credit card. They want your cash, or any other payment, not credit. The credit card will have the fees added to make it up $30.
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2025-01-11 19:26:50 GMT

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In New Zealand, we had the Christchurch earthquake 2011. My house insurance is 4x or 5x more expensive now. So that sux. There were entire areas of suburbs where all the houses were demolished and not rebuilt. It's a wild park now.
All those streets, now just a huge empty space. The soil got too soft to build on - they say - something like that. The land is lower and the water from the river makes it slushy.
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2025-01-10 20:17:44 GMT

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Looks like an AI image.

2025-01-10 17:53:22 GMT

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Speculation: I wonder if that has anything to do with the location service being blocked on your phone?
See the little chevron with the line through it by the clock? Location not being accessed.
Also would your rather get a warning and not need it, or not get the warning then burn in your sleep?
Getting boy who cried wolfed is annoying though.

2025-01-07 18:07:36 GMT

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That looks like you are saying the cost to build an iPhone 14 is $10. That seems completely unbelievable to me.

2024-12-30 18:18:37 GMT

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I think they had that in eXistenZ. It's an interesting movie.

2024-12-28 19:11:45 GMT

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If my data is correct and my maths is correct, then investing there would have lost 90% of the money invested over the last year.
The people there probably would have done better buying gold, silver, foreign cash or non perishable goods. Or just spending all of their weekly wage on food and rent on pay day.
I guess if your economy is down the drain, normal people just have to spend what ever they get right away, because working class and don't have spare money.

2024-12-27 19:24:27 GMT

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What's this one?
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2024-12-27 19:21:07 GMT

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What was their inflation rate? 17 to 57% per month.
Monthly, not annually.
So to calculate back of the napkin style, doubling time (halving time):
70/interest rate. Lets say mid point interest rate 37%
So 70/37=1.892. Less than every two months.
So you need to double about 6.5x per year to stay even.
Getting abstract, worked example:
$10 x 2^6.5=$905.10
$10 x 900%=$90.00
So if the stock market is up 900% annual, then the actual purchasing power loss is about 90%.

2024-12-25 19:35:06 GMT

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That's why most western countries have graduated tax schemes.

2024-12-15 17:54:06 GMT

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I know a 20 year old, who just bought a used Corvette. It's a very cool looking car.
He skipped university and became a steel fabricator. Turns out that building factories pays well. He has been building diesel tanks for generators this month.

2024-12-12 17:45:11 GMT

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I think surf is a laundry detergent brand.

2024-12-07 21:28:06 GMT

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Yeah, New Zealand, being a long separated island is like that too. The imported mammals were terrible for the native birds. But good conservation reserves on islands, or with stainless steel fences have made many native birds common again.
The fence on this city reserve goes one meter down and one or two metres out underground so mice, rats and rabbits can't get under it.
The curve up over and out, stops animals from climbing it.
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2024-12-07 20:11:10 GMT

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Yeah, what was a pine forest out my window, was cut down a year or two ago, is now a scrub covered hill. At least the scrub will hold the mountain together through the next few storms. They may have replanted it, but I can't see any seedlings, it's a bit far away.

2024-12-07 20:03:46 GMT

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Yeah, pinus radiata grows at twice the speed in New Zealand than in North America. I don't know why, perhaps it's because our winters are not as cold, and they basically grow 11 months per year, rather than five months per year.

2024-12-07 18:14:47 GMT

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Pine forest plantations in New Zealand take 25-30 years. Pinus radiata - Monterey Pine. I have seen whole forests, cut down, replanted, go through several pruning and thinnings and cut down and replanted again. Like the one on the hill I can see behind my computer monitor.
See the squares on this satellite view.
They are not really real forests because they have nothing in them that native animal can eat. Dry pine needles are poison to local plant species.
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2024-12-06 19:41:31 GMT

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The package arrived with glee,
A surprise from Amazon, or so it seemed to be
But as I opened the box with a curious eye,
I found myself face to face...with a llama's sigh.
A courier mix-up, oh so divine,
Left me with a new roommate, quite sublime.
Fuzzy ears and a spitting fit,
My morning routine, now in a bit.
Who needs coffee when you've got a llama friend?
To brighten up your day till the very end.
So here's to this unexpected twist,
A furry surprise that's sure to persist!

2024-12-06 19:30:21 GMT

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Well then just build the tip into the price, and say you have a no tip policy.

2024-12-02 17:38:03 GMT

H7N6 in New Zealand, they are killing off 40,000 chickens out of 200,000 on the egg farm.
It's not H1N1, but they are killing them just incase it mutates into a pathogenic strain.
Also in other farm news sheep measles, which is caused by a tape worm from dogs. Dogs that visit sheep farms have to take worming medication.
I did not have sheep measles on my bingo card, but you guys can add it to your 2025 bingo card, along with H7N6.

2024-11-29 18:52:45 GMT

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I live in a county where there is not much of a tipping culture. Most places there is no way to give a tip.
You can tip in a fancy restaurant with white linen and wine glasses. But it's optional there too. If you just paid $160 for a bottle of wine, they don't need the tip.

2024-11-23 19:39:21 GMT

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And when they do, they can be cancelled for cultural appropriation, and probably copyright violation.

2024-11-12 17:55:57 GMT

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Probably, 500,000 watch TVNZ One News at 6pm every night, that's in a county with 5 million people.

2024-10-31 18:10:42 GMT

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In New Zealand, KiwiSaver was set up about ~15 years ago.
There were 4 default investment companies that had different schemes that the money that your employer cuts from your pay, puts into an account.
When you die, retire, or buy your first house, you can get a pay out. Retirement money pays gradually from your personal account.
Current retirees get money from weekly wage tax on people working now an a bulk scheme, both getting phased out and KiwiSaver.
https://www.ird.govt.nz/about-us/tax-statistics/kiwisaver

2024-10-17 18:30:36 GMT

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We played that game at school, when I was a kid. Bullrush. It was banned because it was dangerous. I mean half the school played at lunchtime, and it was 5 year olds to 12 year olds.
"It started to make a comeback in the early 2000s because some teachers and parents felt that children were too sheltered and unable to express their energy in a physical way."
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2024-10-15 17:56:03 GMT

The morning metro trains in my city are disrupted because a sealion is on one of the rail lines.
I remember going to a conservationists talk, a decade ago. They said that as seal hunting has stopped, the population will rebound. The entire coast of New Zealand is habitat for sealions and seals, so they will be prevalent on all the roads and suburbs by the sea.

2024-10-10 17:53:56 GMT

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I don't know what's in the video but when I was a kid my neighbours had a stainless steel vat, that they rotted stems from plants in, they used the gas produced to run their petrol tractor.

2024-10-09 17:48:04 GMT

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There might be a good bar, up that tower building, with a great view of the farm.

2024-10-06 08:46:03 GMT

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On the global market? That currency unit would be gold troy ounce coins.

2024-10-06 07:05:39 GMT

Here is a tui, just eating some flowers or nectar in the suburbs.
They used to be rare, but conservation efforts have made safe nesting places where rats don't eat their eggs and chicks.
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2024-10-04 20:32:05 GMT

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That's an interesting question.
A couple times a week, I need to repair equipment where the staff don't speak the same language as me. They have little ability to explain what the problem is, and I suspect they don't understand when I give them training.
You need really comparable language skills to communicate technical information.
It's true and false, in some cases you will get better perspectives, in some cases you will fail to communicate those perspectives.

2024-09-23 19:04:28 GMT

I saw this police chase in a rural kiwi town yesterday.
The van had a huge dent in the side. I suspect that the police rammed the van.
I literally saw 12 police cars involved.
Classic quotes:
"... spikes and everything being thrown out, and like, he was knackered. He was running on like one, maybe two tires and just flying around the corner.
"I was worried that he was going to bloody lose the arse of it or something and clear us out, which I wasn't keen on."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528769/man-allegedly-rams-police-cars-during-two-hour-chase-in-wairarapa
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2024-09-18 18:31:50 GMT

@npub1mns…xx52 I have heard the term, spondooleys, to refer to money. I wonder if it's a Commonwealth term?

2024-09-14 20:44:25 GMT

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No supermarket eggs are washed in New Zealand. They are stacked on the normal shelves, just like bread. They are also all free range or barn eggs, and are expensive. They doubled in price over the last 4 years.

2024-09-02 18:38:46 GMT

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I have seen a road side service van in my city, which has an EV charger, for people who drive until their EV goes flat.
I got to 1% on my car one time, but I was out in the country, driving up the costal road. I got into a head wind. This charger outside a cafe.
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2024-09-01 18:38:48 GMT

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Pop down for a test drive on your coffee break.

2024-09-01 18:36:45 GMT

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I think that the problem with EVs is that they were suppressed by the big car companies, and then boosted by governments so they achieved market distortions.
In hindsight, I think both groups should have boosted plug in hybrids earlier on. Because the car companies can sell parts and service, and the infrastructure could have been developed earlier and normalised. Something like that.
EVs are great commuters cars and as second cars for a household.

2024-08-31 19:31:34 GMT

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In certain cases EV dump trucks can be much better than diesel.
There is a mine, here, on a hill and they worked out that driving down the full trucks can regenerate power, and use that power to make the uphill return empty.
It's from four years ago. https://evsandbeyond.co.nz/ev-mining-truck-hailed-as-nz-first/
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2024-08-30 21:30:12 GMT

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No, I live elsewhere.
It was boring. What did she say? Did Tim speak?
She has a pleading voice tone, like kids have when they are asking for ice cream that you already told them they can't have.
To me, she sounds like a liar who is doing a fairly good job of lying about who broke the lamp, but you know that the dolly didn't do it.
In my country, a bunch of politicians have a dumb flat tone, that sound a bit like a farmer, I hear it as fake rural tone. Others hear it as genuine.

2024-08-30 01:47:46 GMT

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2024-08-29 21:58:31 GMT

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I wonder if fizzy poweraid would taste any good?

2024-08-29 21:12:42 GMT

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Cyclists seem to be in a bi-modal distribution here.
There are the ones that wear yellow jackets, have lights and helmets, follow the road rules and stay in lane... And the other ones, no lights, cross diagonally across an intersection, wearing black jeans and an ac/dc hoodie in the dark.
I think that a bunch of day drinking drunks, loose their licences, and then get any old bike and ride home randomly in the evening.

2024-08-28 20:57:51 GMT

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Social media is good until our judgy aunts turn up, judging everyone like this cat.
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2024-08-27 23:00:56 GMT

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Here.
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2024-08-27 22:48:58 GMT

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The guy who invented the Ferris wheel was called Ferris.

2024-08-27 19:33:50 GMT

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Albert Einstein: 'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.'

2024-08-27 19:10:04 GMT

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Basically, phone calling will be over if you can't trust what you are talking to.

2024-08-27 01:59:39 GMT

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I did a toxic chemical clean up at 35C, taped into a fully sealed suit, with a firefighting breathing apparatus. I am for sure certain, it's the humidity. I could only last about 35 minutes. But I used up my air anyway.
But, by comparison, I could work for 2 hours in overalls, on a dry day at 35C in the shade, without much problem.

2024-08-25 21:38:10 GMT

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True. Americans could save themselves a whole bunch grief and just use STV voting for president. But they will not, because their system appears to run on deals for campaign donations.
I am not saying that the system is any better in my country. "The list" in MMP elections is clearly faulty, because people can be put on the list to become MPs and they can get a seat in parliament without anyone voting for them. And they could just be paid consultants after the election.

2024-08-25 01:00:51 GMT

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They would reform in an almost coherent pattern and then adjust back to a grid.

2024-08-25 00:58:50 GMT

I saw these standing waves the other day at work.
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2024-08-24 22:58:24 GMT

This new price jump on butter is another 30% from two months ago. From about 5.50 to 8.50. It was about 3.50 or 4.00 pre pandemic. I think I got a pound of butter, 500g, a couple months ago for about 4.50.
I think that New Zealand has the most dairy cows vs population of any country in the world. So what is happening?
NZ produced butter is NZD8.50, that is $5.20 USD per pound. NZD 1.70 per 100g. The other brands were around NZD $3 per 100g.
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2024-08-23 20:42:49 GMT

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I bought a house on a small hill, because I was aware of flooding of houses that are below street level.
It is kind of odd, in my neighbourhood, they slowly built houses on all the good spots, then subdivided off the low spots, and built houses there too.
A couple blocks away, there was a swampy acre or two, and over the last few years, they drained it and built several new houses in the hole.
Those houses will flood in a storm, in the next 5 or 10 years. it's obvious.

2024-08-23 20:33:10 GMT

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There is obviously something wrong with money printing.
But you can get out of money printing, by converting your cash into any non cash asset, like: shares in companies, precious metals, other long term storable goods, and a house or two to live in.
And a few random items, things for you, like a classic car, some collectables. Some kind of personal experience, like a tour around the castles of Europe.
All the rich people and politicians have always know to do that.

2024-08-23 20:20:35 GMT

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Ok, so is that an ounce coin? Is that 90/20=4.5 oz.
Ok a US 20 Round is about an oz of gold. ~$2500 today.
Sure, thats about $11,500 per month. 138k per year.
Internet say 49,500 to 63,700.
Something around half the pay.
Is there a supply and demand thing going on?
I actually think there are way more unskilled and worthless jobs now, than in the past.
More people have derivative jobs down the value ladder from resource harvest.
So the average earning power is way less.
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2024-08-19 18:29:22 GMT

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We went from 25 or 30% EV sales, to 3% back to 8% since the companies started their own discounting programme.
Interesting thing is that it looks like the used EV market came down after the incentives went away also.
We have pretty good nationwide reliable charging networks, so cheap used EVs are pretty good for a second family car.

2024-08-18 18:51:45 GMT

The current NZ govt scrapped EV incentives at the start of the year, a refund discount of NZ$8000. Some of the popular EV models have hand their price reduced by approximately the same amount over the last several months.

2024-08-17 23:07:21 GMT

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Yeah, that is a problem. I don't have solar because my roof is old but thick steel.
I tried regalvanising, and some other rust reversion method ~5 years ago. The regalvanising worked pretty good. But I was worried I would have a roof failure and the solar would be a pain and just lead to more grief.
I considered building a garage or car port with the solar on it to isolate it from the house, I don't use enough power to justify it.

2024-08-17 23:03:04 GMT

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Lack of reliable batteries? Try LG. Panasonic or Tesla.
Or do you mean for power distribution?
In NZ, power, gas and internet are all decoupled between distribution and retail. (we don't have cable tv) So you can get power or internet from several providers at any address.
So we have market options.
I think that these types of policies are tested in NZ and then picked up by other western countries, if they are found to work. Because we can revert when it goes wrong.

2024-08-17 22:47:32 GMT

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Yes, you should only get time of use if you have a battery. So my two older brothers have battery and solar.
One uses SolarZero. Which cost nothing to install. But the company keeps most of the profit, but fixes prices. You need an acceptable roof for the install.
My other brother has Tesla power wall, and solar, and the Tesla system buys and sells automatically on the spot market to pay for itself. But because he paid for the equipment outright, he keeps all the profit.

2024-08-17 22:41:00 GMT

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Ecotricity is a rip off because almost all the power in NZ is renewable anyway. At the moment, it is 80% renewable.
In our market. Most people getting solar now are getting batteries, and they are forming distributed wholesale supply.
But households get rubbish feed in tariff on normal plans. But wholesale companies can sell at spot rate and give you your profit on those rare peaks.
One peak event can pay you back all your equipment purchase price if it lasts long enough.
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2024-08-17 22:33:02 GMT

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Here are some of the power providers in my neighbourhood. (200NZD = 130USD) This is a winter month bill.
The PowerSwitch website says for two people, in a house, with electric heat pump heating, and electric hot water and kitchen. That the most ordinary power plans are cheapest.
GlowBug and Power shop are pre-pay. GlowBug has a lamp that changes colour as your power runs out, green -> orange -> red.
Ecotricity, spot price plans are the most expensive.
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2024-08-17 22:14:02 GMT

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Rhetorically, wouldn't time of use power plans be free market. And fixed price power plans be socialist?
In NZ we have options for fixed price plans and time of use plans (spot price).
Fixed price providers buy hedges on the power market ahead of time, 1 - 12 months.
Generally spot price is super cheap, 1/2 the hedged price. But if there is a power shortage, spot prices can go to $6000 per kWh. They will text you in advance to turn off your house and get a hotel room.

2024-08-17 22:05:46 GMT

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In New Zealand, my brother has a household battery, 15kWh, and the company that manages it, charges and discharges it for time of use, to earn money.
So he has a power plan where he pays half what I pay per kWh, and he has a 20 year contract for no price increases. There are solar panels also, so he can keep the power on in an extended power cut.
There is an out clause where he can opt to break the contract, and the company will remove the equipment, at no cost to him.

2024-08-08 18:57:15 GMT

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I love it how people post something like that without explanation, like you can spend 10 seconds learning another language to understand it.
Translate app says it says: Jesus, the son of Mary, is the messenger of god.
The second line I don't understand.
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