Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 28/11/2023
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?
Just heard on BBC global news podcast, first thing about the new NZ government....removal of the smoking ban.
Yeah, it was recently in the news about other countries considering adding them, then bam here's NZ way ahead of the rest of the world suddenly deciding to reverse it.
It's not unexpected, but I do feel like we need to streamline our thinking as a country. I know there is opposition to banning it for people born after a specific year, but the first question is whether it should be banned at all. And if not, then there's a whole lot of other stuff that should probably be legal.
If opponents think it should be illegal but not in such a discriminatory way, then perhaps they can suggest a better way.
I just hate how its so predictably flip flop everytime the government changes on so many things. Govt X does something, next Govt Y reverses it etc.
Havent really done much deeper thinking into it, which I probably should, but its getting quite old...
I mean, we get to be first to enact and first to repeal it, so there's that?
What do you have for breakfast?
I switched to making my oats with water instead of milk and now realise I’m basically eating gruel like some old time peasant
Every night I make overnight oats; using steel cut oats with water, with cinnamon, dates and chia seeds.
This all goes in the slow cooker, it is ready for me before I go to work and it is ready for the rest of the family for before school/kindy.
I used to love eating oats in the morning - just with hot water. So simple and easy. However I figured it was making me quite gassy, and so I've stayed away from it for the most part (which is a shame, because I have like 3 unopened bags in the pantry lol).
These days I'll usually have a couple of pieces of toast, or whatever bread the partners made the day before.
On weekdays, smoothies: oat milk, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, chia seeds (or walnuts), pea protein, hemp protein, arepa (blackcurrant+L-theanine), spirulina.
On weekends I usually don't bother with brekkie and go straight for brunch or lunch, depending on how late I get up. If I'm going to the Sunday markets though, I grab something from the carts, like empanadas and a coffee, and have it whilst enjoying the early morning sun at the waterfront.
I eat whole wholegrain oats with cold water so I guess that makes you a more sophisticated medieval peasant than me!
When I was growing up there was something called creamoata. They don't make it anymore but it was basically ground oats, so I like to blend the oats in a blender then cook with water 50/50, then milk on the top with brown sugar. Tastes like my childhood.
These days I mostly make it for the kids though.
I don't eat breakfast. I generally don't eat before 12, but will make an exception for brunch.
After someone recently deleted their account and a bunch of posts completely disappeared, I've been thinking about the daily posts. I've always been against having a bot post them, as I feel like having a person post them is an indication that someone is interested in a chat, and you know if you post in the diaily post that at least one person is following and interested.
However, if the person who posted the post then later deletes their account, the post is gone.
Anyone have thoughts on if this is ok, or if we should be using a bot account so the content is preserved? (of course people could still delete their comments if they wanted to - but this work prevent the OP from deleting all the content).
Another down side of using a bot is that Lemmy lets you disable seeing bot posts, so if you have this then you wouldn't see the post.
Can you remove bot posts from everyone that is non-local?
Or potentially whitelist a specific bot?
Haven't been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn't be able to memory hole all the replies.
I am not too worried about bots posting discussion threads. Sometimes there are probably people who might post in the discussion threads but don't want to create the thread.
Potentially you wouldn't have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don't have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.
Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.
I'm not aware of any real functional changes to Lemmy being worked on. I'm also a bit out of the loop, but they are working on 0.19 and I'm pretty sure it's backend stuff like a rewrite of the API.
Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.
It just seems wrong 😆. I guess if there were no objections we could do this. You're right, so long as we stay in our corner, it shouldn't affect others too much. It would still be a bot post showing in All for many people, though.
Just saw that they have proposed to increase Public Transport Fares in Auckland.... Not what you want to see when you're trying to increase usage.
Something bit my foot! Literally the first day I wear sandals. I mean, yay, summer?
Summer...well kinda. The weather doesn't feel that much like a normal summer.
Well it’s technically still Spring isn’t it?
Katipo, Weta, possum, snail, cockroach,...? Need more info.
Mako shark
Dog? Cat? Small child? Colleague? Could be anything really.