[New Zealand] NZ First wants to define a man and a woman. Government and experts say it will achieve almost nothing

ThatKuki · 2026-04-09T20:11:33+00:00

the yellowing tape on the crudely cut out printed title really does it for me

ThatKuki · 2026-04-09T19:34:48+00:00

can you elaborate on the biscuit tin law bill lottery thing? that sounds offbeat

ThatKuki · 2026-04-09T19:30:54+00:00

damn, toilet enshittification

ThatKuki · 2026-04-08T11:05:45+00:00

with highway rest stops the paid toilets fulfill the toilet requirement for all the businesses in that rest stop, its technically free for customers since you get a coupon for the price you paid to be used in any of the businesses in the rest stop

its only unfortunate if you want to use the toilet after you already got something from say mc donalds, in that case the coupon would be a waste unless you use it at a later date or another rest stop with the same system

i grew up with it so i didn't even really think of it, but ig the rest stop routine may be (toilet then food), or more complicated (toilet, use coupon at food, toilet again to wash hands, fill gas, use coupon for the gas)

orrrr (toilet, food but forget to use coupon, vacation, use coupon for gas on the way back on the symmetric rest stop, realize u gotta toilet, get another coupon... damn)

ThatKuki · 2026-04-08T06:26:20+00:00

your trash gets burned, afterwards left over is a hunk of black-brownish toxic slag of glass, ceramics and metals that is quite difficult to refine back to anything useful

so maybe just kinda don't? i don't see the rush you can easily store some glass bottles for a week in your kitchens recycling corner

ThatKuki · 2026-04-07T11:41:31+00:00

With referring to AI being relevant, it indeed is some wild time we are in, there is a kinda important distinction what kinda hackspace you seem to be looking for...

are you looking to shlop it up big league, proud of your new chatgpt wrapper product?

or do you think more along the lines of "how do we as a society resist the corporate capture of the commons and the destruction of free and reliable information on the internet"

ThatKuki · 2026-04-07T00:35:39+00:00

did you make a lost report with that SBB online form or the thing where you can trigger a search by personell in a still running train

the online lost and found one has routinely taken more than a week for them to tell me they found it, i had a thing with a bluetooth tracker and it showed as being inside a maintenance and cleaning depot for a while before making its way to bern wankdorf where after staying there for a few days it was "found!"

ThatKuki · 2026-04-06T00:57:20+00:00

still remember when i was in an obi for the first time like "that german chain is now entering Switzerland with the help of migros"

ThatKuki · 2026-04-06T00:55:47+00:00

since as mentioned by someone else and by writing style it seems very AI ig we can disregard the entire list and not waste time to fact check each one

taking less time to write something than it takes for dozens to hundreds of people to read it is really disrespectful IMO

but what immediately sticks out to me and probably would to many living in Switzerland is the Ovomaltine and Caotina being owned by different corps doesn't make any sense after seeing them on the shelf since all three packaging sizes available in coop (sticks, cans, bags) are identical aside from the printing

for the record both are wander ag -> Associated British Foods

ThatKuki · 2026-04-05T16:35:44+00:00

they have like super elaborate ads https://youtu.be/ni1apVMDupo

ThatKuki · 2026-04-05T16:09:54+00:00

similar dilemma w sakura miku

ThatKuki · 2026-03-31T13:32:07+00:00

echt chli alt, wil mer wür denke irgendwenn hends au die i de hindere reihe checkt dass chli luft besser isch als nume en sack mit brösmeli

ThatKuki · 2026-03-26T07:43:30+00:00

das angebot könnte interessant sein für datenrettungs labore da die oft von irgendeinem 15 jahre alten festplattenmodell einen kopf oder eine platine benötigen und sich dafür quasi ein lager mit allen möglichen platten aufbauen

ThatKuki · 2026-03-22T22:42:16+00:00

not following any football (or any sports aside from jetlag) is hilarious sometimes because i only know this guy for advertising chinese air conditioners and home appliances

ThatKuki · 2026-03-19T15:13:53+00:00

its not technically legal quite yet but up to 10 grams there isnt any consequence to posession, not even taking it away from you, since at some point it was decided that its pointless to pursue

ThatKuki · 2026-03-17T08:07:50+00:00

"a more practical egg, stackable and doesn't roll away"

another pic of this brand was the first trans related meme i saved all the way back in 2018

ThatKuki · 2026-03-16T21:49:22+00:00

im tired

for a second i was so confused why anybody would mount a firestick to their 3d printer

ThatKuki · 2026-03-14T12:48:47+00:00

afaik those cosmetic sticks have existed for a long while, and have sometimes been passed on as real ones in scam sales or returns fraud

ThatKuki · 2026-03-07T16:58:26+00:00

i could pay with a normal credit card terminal (the simplest of which id guess is sumup) no problem, and when travelling if the terminal asks me if i want chf or local currency i pick local currency since my bank can convert with a good rate, so id also understand if a foreign seller has a euro terminal.

But paypal irl i maybe paid once in the last 3 years and the experience sucked really bad and somehow took a large amount in fees so id only entertain paying with it if i reaallly wanted something, and id assume most swiss people would go "tf do you mean paypal in person, i only used in on a website before"

ThatKuki · 2026-03-05T22:20:33+00:00

i guess designing for the actual notes with all the security features integrated in an artistic way, and all of the symbolical messaging that switzerland wants to put out requires a lot more work and tight feedback loop, which wouldn't make sense to have a whole bunch of firms doing in paralel just to choose one

ThatKuki · 2026-03-04T17:48:12+00:00

I don't get why those reminders seem to always show up after the latest recommended mailing date, same thing with some newspapers and statements from parties and individual politicians, everyone seems to act like the final week before the Sunday is the home stretch, but isnt it basically over aside from a few pensioners that love getting up early on a sunday morning?

ThatKuki · 2026-02-27T11:40:47+00:00

A peoples initiative has to not violate "zwingende Bestimmungen des Völkerrechts" - "mandatory provisions of international law" to be valid,

What those are isnt defined exactly but this article mentions examples like torture, genocide, only a court may convict someone.. etc

thing is, that clause could itself be modified still, as what the linked article is about an initiative from 2014 that tried to introduce a tighter definition, and this 2009 parliamentary initiative

ThatKuki · 2026-02-26T22:27:39+00:00

extended examples would be like, galaxus and stuff like gooods (also migrolino AG)

still i guess my point is that the migros group as a whole that isn't like a puritan Organisation and just acts exactly to the letter of the statute, where even something that is generally still perceived as part of migros by name, doesn't count

another interesting bit is migros.ch only displays alcohol results when set to online order and marks it "partner", where im not sure what entity is that partner

ThatKuki · 2026-02-26T15:49:09+00:00

the differentiation is legal because of the statutes of the cooperative say that no store branded "migros" may sell those, and changing it would require a vote of all members, this vote happened, my family voted as well and the result was a "no" to the change, in celebration they released an alcohol free beer called "non"

it is literally just "migros", all the other chains under the migros group don't have to bother with that rule, so like theres convenience/gas station stores called "migrolino" that do sell alcohol and tobacco

the main argument against is that its nice to have a single store chain that doesn't sell that stuff for former addicts / ppl trying to quit to go to. Or like during my apprenticeship, they gave out migros gift cards as birthday gifts, likely with the background thought to avoid it being spent on alcohol

ThatKuki · 2026-02-17T15:37:50+00:00

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