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Where I live, we have a sea breeze so we get a handful of days above 25C each year, but also only the same of mornings below freezing.
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2026-04-27 18:38:11 UTC

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Did that form over land?

2026-04-24 20:40:52 UTC

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Good point. Around here no one made pasta sauce in the 1800s. But in Italy, I wonder?
What could cookware be made from in the 1800s.
Copper, cast iron, ceramic. What other metals? Bronze. Tin.
Is there pewter cookware?
A bunch of these would leech possibly poisonous metal ions in to food.
A little bit of iron would be good for vegetarians and bad for those with hemochrombtosis.

2026-04-24 20:15:14 UTC

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I have gone though my cast iron stage and moved on to my stainless steel age.
Tomato + cast iron = bad.
I like to make the pasta sauce in my big flat stainless pan with a glass lid.
I have the halogen ceramic cook top. I considered the induction, but the magnetic thing freaks me out.
I have kept the cast iron, I am sure there is a use for it. I baked ribs in it one time covered with foil and that was awesome.

2026-04-22 18:43:53 UTC

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That's the kind of thing that you need to know about before you buy a house or build a pool.
You don't need to feel sorry for millionaires who should have had lawyers and stuff. I would imagine most of them knew what they were doing.

2026-04-21 19:03:25 UTC

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That looks like a solid health and safety fail in my workplace. That is about as dumb as walking under a loaded fork lift.
https://pickled.nz/down-to-earth/start-the-case/tate-slab

2026-04-18 22:24:19 UTC

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New Zealand has about two weeks of fuel on land, but "a few ships" out in the ocean.
Diesel is the equivalent of about USD 11.50/Gal including taxes and Road User Charges.
There is obviously less traffic where I drive for work each day.
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2026-04-17 23:16:09 UTC

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Good ideas, horrible video style.
It said something like the dog might persistently lick a spot because it asses illness there.
But licks your face for decontamination or to request food.

2026-04-17 22:43:01 UTC

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I think that squirrels can fall from any height safely, they have some kind of parachute stance.

2026-04-17 21:41:25 UTC

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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.

2026-04-17 21:30:40 UTC

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Yeah, that makes sense.

2026-04-16 18:30:45 UTC

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I went a few weeks ago, but before that, two years, and two years before that.
So once every two years.
Reason, tickets and snacks expensive, content repetitive and boring, other people in theatres.

2026-04-10 20:42:19 UTC

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New Zealand dollar per litre.
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2026-04-10 19:49:19 UTC

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I liked it, it's interesting.

2026-04-05 21:18:22 UTC

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That was excellent.
I think that galaxies are like that too, the spiral arms are waves, the waves go around the galaxy but the stars themselves are not actually moving much, they are just getting closer together or further apart as the wave passes the groupings of stars, clustering the stars into arms, or speeding them into voids.

2026-04-03 20:20:59 UTC

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Ok, the AI says orange is for search and rescue reason, like life jackets.

2026-04-03 20:04:53 UTC

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Looks like it's upside down.

2026-03-31 17:18:16 UTC

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Classic Reddit.

2026-03-28 20:07:44 UTC

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It's different in different places.
We have tiny suburban threeplex theatres with like 40 seats, where all the seats are two seater couches, with cushions. Wooden table armrest to put your coffee or wine or beer on.
It cost $2 more than going to the big 200 seat theatre at the mall.
There's no popcorn and fizzy drinks. Ice cream cost $7. Perhaps they don't play kids movies?
I went to Hail Mary project.

2026-03-27 19:37:24 UTC

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New Zealand is around US $7.50 to $8 per gal.
Remember that Diesel does not have Road User Charges included. RUC is another ~USD7.6 per 100 miles driven. Add that on Diesel driving and EV driving.
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2026-03-27 19:20:16 UTC

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I heard someone say that the current situation has done more for the adoption of renewable energy and EVs than all the words of the last 20 years.

2026-03-27 19:17:48 UTC

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Good video. I learned a lot.

2026-03-24 18:08:19 UTC

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All the fast food shops and supermarkets here have ordering kiosks and automated check outs.
It's interesting, when I worked in the city 25 years ago, burger places had 30 staff and there were 150 people in there getting lunch.
Those places have no one in there now, and half of them have shut down.
I think the price and speed has gone off the scale. Price up, speed down.
If a meal costs $20 and takes 20 minutes, I can go to a cafe for real food and a barista coffee.

2026-03-21 19:16:40 UTC

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Is that petrol? Looks like you are paying the New Zealand price from a month ago.
We would have CAD135 for that.
I filled my work van and it was over NZD150 last week. Diesel does not have Road User Charges (tax) in it.
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2026-03-21 00:20:50 UTC

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I wonder if brake cleaner is flammable?
For sure, I do not recommend pumping pressurised air into a cylinder containing flammable gas.
Do you know how internal combustion engines work?

2026-03-18 18:00:15 UTC

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My favourite warring sign I saw in Australia:
Blue Ring octopus inhabit this area.
I thought cool, I might see some octopuses in the rock pools at the beach.
What they don't say is, poisonous blue ring octopus, that will kill you, if they touch you, inhabit the area.
Also, you can't see the blue rings, unless you make them angry enough to turn blue, but they are still poisonous when they are happy. And then they look like non poisonous octopuses.

2026-03-15 17:26:45 UTC

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Bathurst 1000.
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2026-03-13 18:39:09 UTC

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I have a friend who watches that sometimes. I think he said he likes that one of the characters is smart and works out the caper.
I have seen a couple of episodes ages ago. From memory, are the episodes all kind of formulaic and they catch the bad guy at the end. It's a bit like scoobie doo.
I think, perhaps, it resolves at the end of each episode, and you don't have to cary the anxiety until next week. That sounds like a little bit of drama that's relaxing at the end.

2026-03-11 17:47:30 UTC

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On the radio yesterday: New Zealand has ~20 day supply of petrol and ~14 day supply of diesel and aviation fuel.
Some dude was asking for the govt to implement the fuel rationing plan this week, rather than to wait until we have 5 days supply and then starting a three week parliamentary debate about it.
Govt did nothing, because global warming, when fuel companies stupidly deconstructed our fuel refinery and moved it to India a couple years ago. India's not on the globe apparently.

2026-03-11 05:00:47 UTC

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That's interesting if they fill back up.
I wonder, if you have a cavern that is open space and was filled with oil, you pump it out, then it slowly refills through a network of small cracks from spongy rock, or other small caverns?

2026-03-10 17:59:54 UTC

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My brother said yesterday that some of the people who work at his shop quit driving to work, they are taking the bus now.
My mum called yesterday and said I must be happy to have an electric car. He is pretty happy with her hybrid at 3.7L/100km.
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2026-03-08 04:23:53 UTC

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If you want to walk around Kmart for old times' sake, you can take a holiday in New Zealand. There's like seven of them in Auckland.
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2026-03-08 04:21:03 UTC

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Oreos taste like chemicals with salt. Yucky.

2026-03-07 22:28:34 UTC

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Oh, that reminds me that in the big wind storm a few weeks ago, this big tree fell on this house. This is from a city park, so the council eventually arranged the cleanup on Friday.
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2026-03-07 19:43:45 UTC

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Petrol is NZD266/Litre so that's USD5.94/Gal.
I don't follow petrol or diesel prices because of I only pay for driving my EV.
Diesel is a bit cheaper because Road User Charges are not included in the Diesel price, because of possible off road use. But RUC is about $7.5/100 miles.
I plug in my EV and it costs about USD11.5/100 miles. $4 fr the power and $7.5 for the RUC.
My hybrid car would be about $13/100 miles.
My work van, costs my employer about $19.6/ 100 miles. 12 + 7.5.
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2026-03-06 22:28:03 UTC

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I see the Neo as a good general use laptop for basic stuff, that would be done with an iPad, but is better done on a laptop.
I would recommend it to people who want an iPhone companion device for stuff too complicated to do on a phone.
I have a friend who makes short humorous tictok videos, he could use the Neo to make more complex edits to 30 second videos.
Most the apple stuff is limited by small or expensive ram and storage options. It's kind of a shame.

2026-03-06 20:07:10 UTC

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I guess Hilux was sold out already.

2026-02-28 19:39:24 UTC

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Replacing a plug on an electrical appliance was a lesson in 13 year old science class at my high school.

2026-02-27 20:08:48 UTC

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I thought BBQ grilles were cast iron, don't you just turn up the flame and incinerate until clean?
Kind of like the self cleaning ovens, that you set to max and leave for 40 minutes, let it cool and wipe out?

2026-02-27 19:59:57 UTC

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We have more expensive petrol, but trended down over the last month, I wonder if that is exchange rate?
We have road user charges for diesel and electric vehicles. Which is about $7USD per 100 miles. Diesel has less tax at the pump. Diesel machinery not driven on roads, does not have road user charge tax (RUC).
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2026-02-20 19:05:20 UTC

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Try to explain to people about soil types. People who have never worked on a farm don't know anything.

2026-02-17 17:41:58 UTC

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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2026-02-08 17:28:26 UTC

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A plug in induction plate here would work fairly well, we have 230V 10A standard outlets.
I watched a Monroe video about an induction stove with a 3kWh battery in it, which can deliver 10kW. Impulse Labs.
https://youtu.be/Sue70X7ZeS0

2026-02-07 20:14:23 UTC

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I changed my stove, and I thought about getting an induction model. But having worked on high power radar, I get a bad vibe about induction.
You can tell me anything you want, but magically transferring massive amounts of energy, and putting your biology in that field, every day exposure risk.
I got the halogen coil in ceramic thing, that gets hot with an inviting red/orange glow.
I have no problem with Xray, MRI and CT scans for occasional necessary medical imaging.

2026-02-07 20:05:21 UTC

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Do magnets stick to your cookware? if they don't, generally they won't work with induction cook tops.
Years ago, we were staying at a rich friends holiday house - thanks of lending us the house. No one could work out what you had to do to make the induction cook top work.
We had people with various engineering degrees, we gave up and cooked dinner on the barbecue grill.
All the lights came on, but noting got hot. Surely some of the cook ware was compatible?

2026-02-07 18:30:55 UTC

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Caffine, mistakes were made story:
I still remember, humorously, seven coffee Sunday.
When my flat-mate, ages ago, organised to go out for coffee on Sunday with several different people, and because it was the 90s, he did not cancel, and went to every planned cafe visit.
And then had the caffeine jitters. On Monday, he said he got no sleep overnight.

2026-01-30 20:17:09 UTC

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So you are saying buy the dip?

2026-01-23 23:39:58 UTC

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That's cold.

2026-01-23 23:39:23 UTC

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We have hundreds of electric busses in the city near by. My mate is a bus driver and he said there are always a dozen or more that are broken down. That could be normal for plenty of diesel busses, I don't know.
They are just made too cheap, he said. He said that often the AC does not work, or can't keep up with the heat in summer. He said, at leat on the old busses, you can open the windows when it's hot.
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2026-01-23 21:35:06 UTC

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Is that a line that runs the 405 freeway but under ground? Westwood to Encino?

2026-01-17 20:19:43 UTC

I went to the AP&I show, Agricultural Pastural & Industrial. The county fair.
Saw the cattle the won prizes. Wood chopping and faming equipment.
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2026-01-10 21:45:42 UTC

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Yeah, thats about US $14.30. Egg burger for 4-6 people.
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2026-01-10 20:07:29 UTC

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I can read and write my own longhand, but I can't read others longhand very easily. Ironically I learned to read Arabica dn forgot once I stopped using it, which is always cursive but usually annoyingly small fonts.

2026-01-10 19:15:49 UTC

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That keyboard solo at the end.

2026-01-10 19:04:17 UTC

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Play stupid games....

2026-01-07 17:50:38 UTC

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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 UTC

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Funny.

2026-01-01 20:37:28 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2025-11-29 21:44:52 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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

2025-10-26 19:14:04 UTC

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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 UTC

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

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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

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

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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Looks like an AI image.

2025-01-10 17:53:22 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2024-12-28 19:11:45 UTC

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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 UTC

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

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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 UTC

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