They seem fine to me as a passenger, I manage to tune them out. Could be different if you’re a driver hearing them for hours on end idk

I agree there appear to be very good reasons not to use these.

Foling at 500kmph (edit: more like 250kmph by the looks of it) 10 metres above the water seems to just be inherently bonkers as a means of mass transportation given the very limited room for error/failure that results in everyone on board being instantly killed. Planes and helicopters can glide/autorotate, ships move slower.

The 3d mock ups and carefully shot video of the first flight (that obscures the fact it’s a very small scale model prototype) suggest vapour ware scam startup.

Honestly for the love of god, can we just have trains?

Off topic but what youtube version are you using atm to patch to revanced? Mine broke a while ago, haven’t been able to get it going again

Ah yes I have heard of onlyoffice, it looks great. I had assumed you need a backend given how much it pitches it as an online collaboration tool thing so hadn’t gotten around to it. If you can run it locally like a ms office type thing I might check it out soon.

And the settings ever since windows 10, like the main interface is the slick new style but it doesn’t provide all settings info, so it ends up back into the old layout/control panel that traces back to windows 95 (but is still better). It’s all just a mess as far as ui goes.

I switched to Linux again for my home laptop last year and pretty much use it full time. The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you’ve sent them in ms office.

Plus when I troubleshoot in Linux I can use the terminal and feel like a real hackerman™ (even if I am mostly just copying stuff off Google).

How are you going to solider on with Codral if there’s nothing to solider on against

I like the idea of a weekly megathread type thing.

I agree that the daily threads don’t seem well suited to the number of people on here. One of the good things about here is that conversations can carry on across multiple days, unlike reddit was where stuff got buried very quickly.

But having a daily thing sorta sends the message that that thread is done after that day. Sometimes I’ll read something from an old daily and think of replying, but then think “nah its moved on” because of this.

Yeah exactly. I think it gets interpreted, and unfortunately misrepresented by some, as a rate of long-term truancy when it’s actually that, plus a whole bunch of other things, many of which are perfectly reasonable.

It doesnt have to be large amounts of complete non attendance. Regular attendance is defined as attending for more than 90 per cent of the term. Terms are about 10 weeks so 50 days, to be counted in the non attendance figures you have to miss five days in a term. A couple of illnesses can easily knock kids under that, not that there aren’t more long term absences for other reasons as well.

On illness, term 2 2022 is the middle of our biggest covid outbreak when omicron got in and all the rules were being relaxed. Attendance has gone up again since then but is still lower than pre covid. Seems cynical that Seymour would pick this period as the end point when these stats were being collected until term 3 last year.

Yes it was. See the numerous references here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2017/08/committee-elimination-racial-discrimination-examines-report-new-zealand

This is from the UN committee that recommended the action plan in 2017, which the RNZ article also mentions

That’s ok, I’ve seen what you think is a good point

It was the original plan until this government decided how much focus there was going to be was “none”, which is why Iwi Chairs have pulled out

You’re talking absolute nonsense

You’ve missed the point I was making, but quick with the insults as always.

Yeah maybe but in honesty, all this hand wringing about the messaging and the “right way” to protest is just a derailing tactic that comes up no matter what people do.

Protesting too many things at once? Not focused enough

Protesting one big thing? Too vague, not practical enough

Doing a peaceful march, signalled ahead of time in coordination with the authorities? Useless, what does it achieve

Carrying out civil disobedience? How dare you interrupt people’s daily lives, this only hurts your cause

Etc etc etc. I feel like if people actually care about the underlying cause they have to move past just doing their best political pundit impression about the optics and they how think it plays with the public, as if they’re somehow above it all

Because the fundamental thing about climate activism is you can’t just separate the environment from everyone and everything that happens within it. This includes political structures, which is why the voting age thing is in there.

I don’t understand how this isn’t more self evident to people when the most common point that comes up about personal solutions to reduce your emissions like EVs and solar panels etc is that many people can’t afford them. This speaks to more than just ‘environmental stuff’ being part of addressing climate change.

Why can’t it be about anti-racism for other groups, and be about systemic and colonial racism? It doesn’t have to be one or the other but gee this government sure loves playing the two off against each other.

It reads a lot like the kind of colonial and institutional racism theyre wanting to address in the first place.

“what I can say is we looked at a range of boys for these jobs. We make no apologies for choosing everyday New Zealanders who all happen to be former National Party Ministers”

Repeat ad nauseum to any follow up questions until the next scandal comes along in about a day and a half.

What parts of what I said do you find confusing?

I’m blaming the government for emboldening it through their constant culture war bullshit, not for this actual act. They are definitely connected issues.

National aren’t the whole government. ACT and NZ First are well into this to try and stave off the coalition curse, and National is unable to control them.

Nah they won’t act against their base - those are “operational matters for the police”. We’ll see it when there’s counter action akin to the anti TERF protests last year.