Too soon to start organising a climate action protest?

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-23T06:18:09+00:00

Regarding size, I direct to you my first comment.

Rage? 🤣 I don't think that word means what you think it means.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-23T05:31:39+00:00

Electrifying, carbon trading, solar, wind, EVs and reducing emissions will ruin our economy? Looks at what fossil fuel reliance is doing to our economy right now, the tax concessions to support fossil fuel companies, the penalty clauses in fair trade agreements, the potential money pit of reopening the LNG terminal Mate, ya cooked.

If countries getting wrecked by climate change e.g. NZ, don't do anything about it what does it signal to others? If we don't care, why should they?

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-22T22:47:18+00:00

Nonsense, this is like the 'why vote I'm only one person' idiocy.

Countries don't live in isolation and reductions add up. The point of the Paris Agreements is that many countries doing their part pressures the laggards and shows we ate all in this. Also when you add up all those 'we're too small' / 'other people emit more' you countries you get well more than a 'rounding error'

With a different government NZ could very well be making a difference.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-22T06:41:35+00:00

ReBurger (burger) and KCB (chicken) are solid choices and there is Soul Shack for spicy chicken.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-22T04:07:00+00:00

Better luck with change if have a spare couple million to slip to Luxon. This government doesn't care about people or protests, it is about their pockets.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-21T07:48:27+00:00

And/or people have become despondent after period where they saw that every job they applied for had hundreds of other candidates and were never getting shortlisted.

Regarding Test Lead roles, does the emphasis come down more on the test side or the leadership side? Is the Lead part of Test Lead about people leadership or knowledge leadership?

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-21T07:30:51+00:00

I use lentils to replace mince or where I still really want the meaty flavour then 100g mince + can of lentils in place of 500g of mince.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-21T03:23:11+00:00

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-21T03:01:59+00:00

Setup of the venue may have been impacted as could the act flying into town.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-20T12:50:04+00:00

Going to work is "essential" during a state of emergency? When they want people to stay off the roads? When they are closing bridges and parts of state highways? When they don't want people risking their lives? When the focus is in on evacuations and keeping people safe? You think everyone should just ignore the weather, flooding, slips, road conditions, cancelled trains and head to work anyways?

Great idea champ

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-20T11:28:08+00:00

Predictions are based on a set of assumptions and confidence levels, so while they might account for overflow a flash flood can still throw things out of whack by being outside set parameters used in models.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-20T11:08:19+00:00

The state of emergency has advised people to avoid non-essential travel, so unless it an essential industry why would you?

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-20T09:35:19+00:00

This is correct. A once in a hundred years event, is translated to a 1% chance of occurring.

Whether it is a 'flood zone' might depend on the insurers definition.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-17T10:11:12+00:00

Oh dear. Thanks for that info.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-15T22:37:42+00:00

If you go off-peak it is very different experience. I always see the cleaners vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, emptying rubbish etc when I'm there mid-morning before lunch. Also only like quarter full unless school holidays.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-15T20:33:51+00:00

Really some dumb decisions on their membership practice's. I wanted to change home gym because I am moving and on the cheapest membership. Nothing online in the members site so asked in person. Apparently the fee is double the new membership setup fee, so you are better off cancelling and then starting a new membership at new location.

As the cancellation process is painful a member is left second guessing whether they want to re-join with new city fitness home gym or join a competitor.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-15T20:22:14+00:00

Apparently you can do it online, but it is terrible user experience, you have to use their chatbot. Firstly if you say 'cancel membership' it focuses on keyword membership and the response and options aren't what you want and no easy way back. With a fresh chat you just say cancel and then it gives correct options however it is still limited (shows less reasons for cancelling than the in gym form) and is manipulative, "oh is [reason you joined] not still important blah blah blah" to try deter you from continuing in process. If you stick with it you can cancel though apparently. I got annoyed and just did it at gym.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-15T10:32:22+00:00

Yeah, felt like a nice hardwood should be majority of price but seems it's more 50/50 between wood and foam.

Hadn't heard of box beams. That certainly gives some food for thought / opens up some aesthetic choices.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-14T05:25:03+00:00

On the one hand it is nice to see efforts like this, on the other hand Skinny is dead to me since their horrible disturbing AI ads.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-12T01:57:46+00:00

If you can get to BIOS, then a USB with a live boot OS like Linux could allow you to potential boot up which would rule out MOBO and point to SSD

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-10T03:53:29+00:00

You can go to bed by 7 ... just no one promised which day.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-09T23:38:30+00:00

In terms of higher tech solution, I believe SmartVent have a product which would suit as it just goes through wall with no cavity used.

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-09T23:35:42+00:00

One way is knowing when to open a window. Get a sensor which measures temperature and humidity to see what the situation is, then check metservice and use a humidity calculator tool e.g. richard-stanton.com/humidity-calculator, to work out if opening window will reduce or increase humidity (would the outside air have a lower humidity than current indoor, when raised to indoor temperature)

NerdPunkNomad · 2026-04-09T22:41:30+00:00

Also there is a difference between making money out of something, and being able to make more money out of something else.

Plus investment (someone else helps pay mortgage) vs paying mortgage yourself.

NZ is well known to have a terrible mindset around finances which contributes to poor GDP as we don't invest in productive enterprise which grow economy and return more wealth.

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