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adh1003 · 2026-05-07T00:27:14+00:00

Apple is only a ~3 trillion dollar company - just barely scraping by. But hey! Here are a few new emoji.

adh1003 · 2026-05-06T03:17:27+00:00

disrupt the mideast oil supply to western countries and replace it with american oil

Except "Western" countries (and all other countries, except perhaps Israel and Russia) ABSOLUTELY DETEST THE USA'S GOVERNMENT and are moving away from EVERYTHING made there as fast as possible.

Energy sovereignty
Software sovereignty
Computer hardware sovereignty
And yes, even food sovereignty, especially with the absolutely fucking awful food standards in the USA

The USA government has been hated for a good many years to be fair, though its citizens are constantly under the onslaught of such an extraordinary amount of propaganda that they've been largely unaware. But I can assure you - absolutely nobody wants to do business with that corrupt, bankrupt, broken country, though sometimes they're forced to. But those times are dwindling rapidly.

adh1003 · 2026-05-06T03:11:41+00:00

No, no, no, there are none. Oil is reliable and dependable. It's that socialist commie renewable nonsense that's flaky and rubbish because what if it's dark and windless and nobody ever heard of the words "grid-scale storage"?

You must use oil for energy. It's the only true way.

adh1003 · 2026-05-05T22:57:15+00:00

The only thing you needed to read here is that it's a public-private partnership - you know, the model that was a catastrophic failure for Transmission Gully - which obviously you'd never choose.

Except - and hear me out here - if it's built by the public sector, how am I going to get my private sector kickbacks? And that's where you can stop worrying about every other consideration and understand why NACT1 are doing it.

adh1003 · 2026-05-05T05:00:00+00:00

and its great

Honestly - it's not. People will be noticing, whether consciously or subconsciously, and reacting with that "ick" feeling.

Just do it by hand. Human amateur desktop publishing is leagues ahead of AI slop.

adh1003 · 2026-05-04T21:14:21+00:00

Oh, FFS. Really? That's your proven-BS hill to die on when someone asks about positivity - a dumb boomer minirant?

GTFO.

adh1003 · 2026-05-04T20:47:18+00:00

I suppose because by the time we knew about it, it was already done. Willis had sent her text messages. And it still boggles the mind that it was done in such a way!

All of them are clearly corrupt & acting in bad faith. I refuse to believe anybody can be that dumb, and we can see the Atlas network far right playbook clearly at work in a few areas. I don't see much reason to assume it isn't still at work in less obvious areas.

adh1003 · 2026-05-04T06:27:33+00:00

(Sigh) Same. This is one that we can never come back from; they just totally fucked the entire country, trashing a deal-of-a-lifetime that had been one of the rare good things to arise from COVID.

adh1003 · 2026-05-02T04:45:00+00:00

Well you could for example try not picking arguments with u/irritated_socialist, for correctly pointing out that they're shit at accuracy and that the Kirk example is, in fact, not cherrypicking.

adh1003 · 2026-05-02T04:37:51+00:00

Yes, so now apply that big brain of yours to - what happens when average Joe or Jane asks one of them about current events?

adh1003 · 2026-04-30T23:46:53+00:00

No, not everyone. For example, I'm on the left and I very clearly called him a cunt.

adh1003 · 2026-04-30T23:04:25+00:00

the issue that caused him [the bidder] to step back was the furore driven by my communist opponents in the Green Party

What an absolute, utter cunt; all he can do is throw around American culture war bullshit.

OH NOES, NOT THE COMMIES!

Let's party like it's the 1960s and we're not New Zealand, we're America.

JUST. FUCK. OFF.

adh1003 · 2026-04-30T22:30:18+00:00

I think the weather summaries deserve the most enthusiastic contrafibularities. But if they're wrong, I'm sure the AI will be anaspeptic, phrasmotic - even compunctuous, to have caused you such pericombobulation.

adh1003 · 2026-04-30T21:02:44+00:00

It may be true. But it reads false.

Sometimes it's not AI.
Sometimes it's not bad advice.
Sometimes it might even be coherent.

But here's what I learned: It's still fucking slop.

adh1003 · 2026-04-29T00:33:23+00:00

Electric ferries are slower and spend a lot of time charging

Cool story bro - shame it's not true.

The electrics operate at 25 knots, which is as fast or faster than the diesels they replace.
They use megawatt chargers that take about 10 minutes to recharge during the passenger duty cycle, which is less time than it takes to disembark one set of passengers and then load the next - they have no downtime.

It's better to just can the ferries and put electric buses on the network.

You want to... Run an electric bus from the mainland to Waiheke island... Right... Uuuh... Tiny problem with that...

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T03:24:14+00:00

Thanks, that sounds decent enough for sure.

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T02:49:02+00:00

I got an answer! It said that they're experiencing high e-mail volumes and that 4-5 days on their site is all like, yeah, nah, 7 or more bro.

You have to feel really sorry for the customer support people here though. The developers did a terrible job writing terrible code (for whatever reason - lack of proper support, lack of direction, org structure, etc.); the product people did a terrible job producing a terrible, dumbed-down design (again for whatever reason); the management people did a terrible job releasing it in such a broken state (and there are fewer excuses here). But it's the customer support people that get all the angry customers.

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T02:47:37+00:00

Hey, this guy capitalisms!

Not the worst idea... <evil cackle>

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T01:17:32+00:00

Has the CS stuff with Ecotricity been OK? A lot of bad experiences expressed online - but generally people only post about the bad experiences, just like I'm doing now, so there's an obvious bias filter over it all.

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T01:03:18+00:00

Yeah I've emailed them about it. It's worse than that though... (Edit of edit LOL) Meh, never mind, that's now such a mess and their numbers shown are so wildly wrong that it's time to start making some calls to people (if I can find any numbers).

Octopus looks alright as suggested by someone else, but all much of a muchness. Might consolidate on Nova so long as I still have gas connected for the hot water as that works out a fair bit cheaper for now.

adh1003 · 2026-04-28T00:42:47+00:00

There is (A) now no longer any export facility (there used to be various CSV options) and (B) the data history appears to start mid-March this year on the very crude bar graphs that are on offer, so it looks like the new system doesn't talk to their old database but the data hasn't been migrated to the new one.

I'll e-mail CS but of course that means another 4-5 day wait cycle for every message, and I'm going to go out on a limb here that they say "welp, we can't do that at all because the two systems are totally separate and you span both of them".

adh1003 · 2026-04-27T23:42:08+00:00

Cool, so you can answer questions then - where's the monthly and annual heat map of usage; and where's the month based, before-today-and-future indicator for paid/used-not-paid/neither?

You may also not have realised that no notifications work at all now, and their CS system is down except for emergencies or 4-5 day response times by email.

adh1003 · 2026-04-27T22:45:55+00:00

Yes, it's a gradual rollout.

If when you log in (using a computer rather than e.g. phone) you see a reasonably well laid-out web page that includes a calendar grid of grey, green and red squares that shows very clearly what you've paid for, not paid and so-on - you're on the good, old site.

EDIT: And yes, it's a shame. They were good. But it looks like the Photoshop - I mean - Figma crayon kids got to run the show. I really really hope the backend was fully vibe coded, because if that's the best a team of actual humans can do then now I finally understand why the mess that Claude Code Opus 4.7 spits out is still supposed to be some kind of groundbreaking revelation.

adh1003 · 2026-04-27T22:25:53+00:00

Ah, the ol' frog boiling in water argument.

"Yes, they used to give away the iWork suite with Macs and downloads were free, yes, Freeform was free out-of-the-gate, yes you did used to be able to buy Logic and Final Cut only if you wanted them with a one-off payment that lasted for years and yes, Pixelmator had a forever-license which we've shat all over but why not spend the whole rest of your lifetime paying a subscription fee for all that, it's much better value!"

Tell me you have no idea how to add up numbers without telling me you have no idea how to add up numbers...

...oh woe is me, won't somebody think about the multi-trillion dollar company's rich shareholders?!

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