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Check BHN on YouTube as they had an Australian academic pointing out that the same tactic used to defeat the voice referendum over there is what Seymour is doing over here. Its Atlas Network funded gaslighting so the extractive & destructive funders can make more money while the world burns.

Yeah, lawn weeds are frustrating, I compound it by refusing to water the grass when it dries out so its on me (and climate change) in part as well. One consolation is that you can't eat the grass, so in some ways it would be better to rip it all up and turn it to some more productive use anyway :)

On the topic of the berm; I don't mind mowing mine but I really wish the council had free green waste collection for it given up here its pretty much 90% weeds and I don't want to compost those clippings into my own garden just to introduce their weeds :)

Compared to the photo I agree; but I wonder if its just some people don't get that if you like mushrooms, you want lots of mushrooms! Maybe its just the staff put on what they think is a sensible amount of 'shroom but they just don't get why one would want more.

i'm becoming a linux nerd and this power button thing would be fine for me bc ive discovered how good suspend is and never power off my desktop anymore anyway, just spend then bump the keyboard when i want it back.

Wouldn't you just pull the power cord at that point? If the device has become completely unmanageable such that it needs a power reset i'd be surprised if there's much more harm that way than holding down the power button until it turns off.

I can't remember where I watched it - but I saw some video a while ago now where (I think) the engineer was explaining that shutdown & power on does less of a cleanout than restart on Windows. Something to do with shutdown going through steps more similar to a sleep/suspend than restart. Made little sense to me but would be interesting to see if post restart or post power-on the computer was "fresher"

I wonder if power buttons are a Windows thing? I recently switched to Linux on my desktop and have a MacBook as well. On the MacBook i'm not sure if i've ever used the power button - it just goes to sleep & I wake it up.

And on Linux the suspend is so good I don't power off at all, but on Windows I always did so needed the power button all the time.

I still have one of these, I bought it & set it up as a server 14 years ago so its been powered on the majority of its life, and still functions ok. I've slowly moved most stuff off it and now it kinda just exists as a computer to buy & download albums from iTunes on if I can't get them on bandcamp etc.

If I didn't need OSX for the iTunes part i'd have rebuilt it a long time ago with some more lightweight linux distribution but its doing a job and now i'm reminded of how old it is I kinda want to see if I can get it to 20 years.

Even with the normal expectations and earning possibilities etc.

If you've been advertising a job at a certain rate and nobody has applied, then either the location, conditions or pay are not meeting the market. You can't change the location for a business like this, so you have to change the conditions and/or pay. ie, the true hourly rate for any given job is what you can hire someone to do it for.

There's lots of interesting stuff in your reply, and I don't have a lot to add, but I thought maybe context around my interest in coastal shipping.

I'd never really given it much thought at all, but coincidentally in 2 months i'd been to the maritime museum in Auckland which has models of all sorts of coastal ships that used to ply their trade around New Zealand which made me interested in the subject.

Then I read a post somewhere talking about how changes had been made around the late 80s early 90s designed to crush NZs maritime union power that would supposedly have replaced our coastal shipping effort with international carriers bringing their large container ships down here and then doing pickups & dropoffs as they bounced around the various ports. Apparently that never really happened, or at least didn't take off much so the net result was that we killed most of our coastal shipping and were left with road and rail.

In & of itself, road and rail probably seem like a good option because we had ferries linking both networks and around the time those changes had been made was a lot closer to the heydey of NZ Rail. Of course in hindsight we can see that the neo-liberal reforms that sold off the railways led to massive under-investment in the rail network, lines closing, being unmaintained, worsening rolling stock and in the end we went from 3 modes of freight transport to 1.

But what really made me think again about coastal shipping was the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle and the likelihood that they will happen again, sooner than we thought 20-30 years ago, and more often thereafter. Gabrielle (briefly) entirely cut off the northern half of Hawke's Bay over land in all directions, North, West & South. Even when things were opened it was initially via a single road route to the south and took a long time to open the crucial Napier-Taupo link and even longer the Napier-Gisborne.

Smaller settlements around Tairāwhiti were cut off even worse as their roads & bridges between each other meant towns were isolated from each other as well. In the end because the road between Napier & Wairoa was so damaged a temporary shipping link was made from Gisborne port to Napier port.

So long as port facilities survive then the most resilient transport for freight & aid for coastal provinces after a cyclone will be coastal shipping. If we have a thriving network then its possible we don't notice the impact anywhere near as much as we might.

Personally i'd go back to the future a bit and look at reverting the 2014 changes to reduce weight and thus damage. I would also start providing a similar amount of subsidy to coastal shipping as road freight gets and build the coastal network back up. I'm a huge fan of rail freight, and would like to see it used more as well but most of the existing infrastructure around that is ok for now.

With a strong coastal and rail freight networks we can then start putting restrictions on road freight distances again - with a carve out for time critical / refrigerated going to either domestic market or air freight routes.

If we can reduce the speed & weight of trucks, plus the amount of them and the distance travelled then in theory (to a pleb) our roads aren't as expensive to build, and don't suffer as much pot-hole damage so the maintenance costs are reduced. For mine, the National Party's all in on road just sets us up for huge ongoing cost maintaining ever bigger and more expensive roads, with a huge emissions cost compounding the whole problem.

Well, given the road freight companies pay a fraction of the true cost of the wear and tear they cause on the roads, and the elevated cost of building roads that can safely cope with how large National let trucks get in 2014, they do get benefits that other forms of transport don't. But yeah if the point is to unlock regional economic gains then it should be paid for as a public service.

And in the comments section this popped out from someone - which with the benefit of hindsight we can see was not true in the long-term.

3. The supposed costs of “upgrading” Picton were massively over stated and were in fact only actually 50% of the supposed cast in stone costs given by some consultancy company in 2012, so Picton is actually the cheaper option.

This is a really good write up of the last time the Clifford Bay plan was canned; includes a map of the route and a summary of the economies of it all.

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2013/11/15/clifford-bay-decision-raises-more-questions-than-answers/

Oh I don't disagree at all, but the problem is the National Party scupper any public investment in these services, eg:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/interisland-ferries-to-stick-with-picton/POXPKGCRWSTJ6HAOXGNQKJG3YI/

There's been so many proposals to do that, and they've never managed to get into proper planning phases before getting canned for one reason or another.

It seems like BS eh. Other folks I've seen are suggesting its just because they want to ditch easy anti-cheat to go with EA anti-cheat which (apparently) is windows only with no plans to develop for linux.

Same advisors as the austerity obsessed UK tories, so no surprise there - nor is the result much of a surprise but to the economically illiterate english literature grad.

I used Smultron for yonks as well; very good app.

One thing I like about neovim (and its taking me ages to learn & improve) is being keyboard first and having less time with fingers away on mouse etc, its helped my concentration, as has full screening my terminal session and not having anything pop up in eye lines!