Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 8/8/2023
Welcome to today's daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there's no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it's just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how's it going?
Light rain this morning cycling in, nothing too bad, and fortunately I've got waterproof overpants to avoid the worst of it....
If only I'd remembered to put them on....
Yeah, cycling today made me wish I'd packed my face mask and snorkel
Yesterday, I found my new favorite potato chips - Heartland's nude (no salt) and nearly nude (209mg/100g). Prior to this Proper Crisps had the lowest amount salt (300mg). I still like Proper's Big Cut chips though, hopefully they bring out a low-salt variant as well.
Do you suffer from a salt induced high blood pressure, or is it simply the taste?
No blood pressure issues here, just trying to cut down on my salt intake. Also, I absolutely love potato chips , so I'm always on the lookout for healthier chips (and food in general).
My next goal is to find chips which are cut with their skins intact, and baked (not fried). Maybe I should write a letter to Proper and Heartland...
Morena everyone. Off to recycling later, got lots of bottles (hic) both plastic and glass to get rid of.
A few years back, I remember a NZ business set up to turn waste plastic into a road topping. Not seen anything about that recently, I wonder if it’s still operating? Might make a search.
I've heard that old tyres are being used for roads, or part of them at least. Maybe plastics are included too?
With all the concern about micro plastic in our water and pretty much everything now, maybe there’s less enthusiasm for it, especially something that degrades into the environment
Remember when people used to be concerned about plastic bags because they can take a long time to break down? Turns out they were breaking down into smaller pieces of plastic, so in reality they weren't "breaking down" at all as people would have imagined.
Future generations are going to look back at us like we look back at the Ancient Romans. They knew lead made you crazy yet they still used it for their aqueducts. We are gonna get that same look of disbelief from future school kids.
The disposal of waste, especially plastic, is a real issue. I heard recently that up here in Northland, land-fill is still the most used method.
There was some talk of using old plastic to make new playground equipment too but I'm not sure if anything ever came of it.
In the late 90s there was a show called Beyond 2000 that showcased up and coming technologies. Most of it was about recycling and what we call green tech these days and I often wonder how much better off we'd be if any of it had actually been adopted.
Apparently there are 2 NZ companies using waste plastic to produce road surfaces. Apparently Downer have a contract to lay roads using Plas Mix in New Plymouth for the next 10 years.
I guess it’s new technology atm so the pollution impacts are to be determined.
Morning! I'm testing out the new Lemmy version. It's not released yet but the Show context bug is super annoying so we might end up doing the update with a pre-release version.
I'm currently running it in a test environment and it's been going longer than 10 minutes and still appears to be starting up. I used to be able to do updates in under a minute up until the last couple. I probably need to schedule some downtime to update it, when I do I'll put a post in !support!support@lemmy.nz but there may not be a lot of notice.
If you're not on Lemmy.nz, you won't notice anything except perhaps some missing images and a lack of lemmy.nz users.
Fixing the show context bug would be great!
The test instance is not running at all with the update, so it's not going to be as easy as I'd hoped. I'm going to try to spend some time today working out why it's not working.
We recently moved (Auckland) and noticed that there were two "recycling" bins only.
Can we just use one of them as a "Rubbish" Bin by putting a Rubbish Bin Tag on it?
The blue one with the yellow lid is the old recycling bin and they gave us a new and bigger one (green). You can now either use the old blue on for rubbish with the tag, or buy the pre-paid rubbish bags. Bin + tag is cheaper I think.
Ahh thank you for that explanation as to why they were both labelled "recycling" :)
Ended up looking at what the neighbors were doing last night and copied what they were doing haha.
You will have a glass bin and mixed recycling bin https://wellington.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling-and-waste/when-to-put-out-your-rubbish-and-recycling/suburban-and-inner-city-collections they go out alternate weeks. Rubbish goes into yellow bags you get in 5 packs from the supermarket, usually kept at the checkout. Ask for them there.
Looks like they are in Auckland and you've linked to the Wellington page. But likely it works in a similar way.
It's also possible you can get a rubbish wheelie bin from a local company. I'm not in Auckland but normally the cost of collection is paid for in when you buy the rubbish bags, so you aren't paying twice if you use a wheelie bin from a private company. They also often let you choose a smaller bin, have fortnightly collection, and other options like that.
For those following the saga, I finally got to taste the bourbon barrel aged coffee this morning. It definitely tastes bourbon-y. I guess you could describe it as tasting like bourbon coffee. It was pretty nice to sip on but I think it's something to try for it's uniqueness, not really an every day blend.
It took this long because I ordered it, then I had to chase it up because it hadn't arrived, then it arrived about an hour before I headed to the airport to visit my parents for a week and they don't have equipment to deal with beans and I was only taking carry on... I'm home now and finally got to taste it.
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Your parents live in the airport?
Yeah, my Dad is a 777 and my Mum is an A380.
@SamC@lemmy.nz @eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz an update above. Jokes on you, "Show context" doesn't work on the website so you might have trouble finding the comment I'm replying to 😀
At least it got sorted! I’m too lazy these days to do good coffee at home, we just buy instant now.
Funnily enough I had a post haste delivery shortly after you mentioned it. Didn’t show up the whole day it was scanned as on board, then the guy knocked on our door at 9.30PM because he was driving by and didn’t want to come back the next day.