Great that Ukraine is now getting western aircraft to go with their tanks, armoured vehicles, and artillery.

Such great service from Aramex. Definitely a suitable place to put a parcel marked as fragile in winter. Never mind that the front porch was only 3 metres away.

For some bizarre reason, the algorithm behind the adverts on Tinder has decided that what I need in my life is a 135 hp, 13 ton tractor.

I have absolutely no need for this, it would barely fit on my section, and I certainly don't need it for work.

This is the only advert I've seen for weeks on Tinder.

Catching the bus is my main way to get into the city centre, though on rare occasions I drive or e-scooter. I found that catching the bus is sometimes useful on short trips, such as going to the bakery (if the bus is every 10 minutes). Really great for me since I don't have a job right now, but if I get a job again I'll need a car, because employers insist.

I don't like owning a car because other tenants can suddenly move in and block me off with their car, which they expect to park on the driveway too. All the nearby streets have problems with parking. An e-scooter would suit me most of the time. I could sell my car, buy an e-scooter, motorcycle helmet, rain-repelling pants and gumboots. ** Just a couple of problems:**

1. safety - a guy I know recently had an accident in the Opawa/Sydenham area and broke his shoulder + other bones. I was told that he wasn't hit by a car, apparently he lost traction and fell off. Maybe he was going 30 km/ph if not 40 km/ph, but I don't know. Based on the injuries he wouldn't have been going under 20 km/ph.

2. winter - traction problems and visibility at their worst, potentially for months. So far, this winter has been mild. Most times 11am - 5pm are good temperature for an e-scooter, without too much moisture on the road. Next winter might be colder and less suitable for an e-scooter.

I could use the bus in winter, borrow a car from family, or rent a Zilch vehicle for 4 hours every 1-2 weeks. Everything else should be possible on a scooter, most days. Part of the trick is to buy a large enough backpack from the Army & Outdoors store!

Transport in Christchurch is troublesome, because of the city's one storey high design. Employers expect me to pay for fuel and then drive several kilometres to get to work, because there's no way I can find a rental that's near a job, or which has a suitable bus route for getting to a job. With the increases to rent, fuel and food, I think I'll give up driving before I give up anything else. To hell with what employers expect.

So I guess the reason I made this thread is to speculate that I'll be one of the test subjects for e-scooter ownership in Christchurch. I'm not a competitive, angry person who tries to flex on other road users. I used to speed constantly in a Mazda mx5 without giving a damn but now I drive a more modest vehicle, and I notice how many people overtake me even when I'm driving slightly above the limit. Sometimes I like to drive 30 or 40 km/ph on narrow streets because I don't want to kill a cat or someone's child. It may be legal to drive at 50km/ph but that's not always safe. Luckily, motorists are surprisingly courteous on narrow roads when they are forced to yield or get through a small gap.

Affordable apartments (complete with bikesheds) are still 5 or 10 years away, so I expect that public transport won't get more routes or become much more popular. E-scooters may be the fix we require. I'd rather ride my bike but I can't store that in my bedroom. Most boarding houses are just a bedroom and nothing else, so I think an e-scooter is the way to go.

If it makes me unemployable to some employers that's just too bad. In the current situation I doubt I'll save up enough money to buy a car again (cue for someone to suggest I buy a piece of shit for $1,000)

We have to move with the times and accept that not everybody can own a car and afford a place to park it, where it won't be blocked off by new tenants moving in, who also wish to use the driveway. We've been warned since last year that 91 fuel could reach $3 a litre and we're only a few months away from that. If I give up my car this spring-summer-autumn it will save me at least $1,000 on insurance and fuel. Not even that much, but I think the lifestyle change will be the selling point. I just hope I don't get killed lol

See this photo. https://imgur.com/a/xxvKKCU

It's growing and spreading across the wood chipped part of our garden. According to Google Lens it's liverwort, so I've bought Yates Moss and Algae killer, which also lists Liverwort. I've done this twice, but I see very little change. I've also tried generic weed killer.

It's also growing on our footpaths between rocks and that's very hard to get rid off by hand. For other areas I could use garden tools to clear it, I'm aiming to get rid of using weed killers. So it's just for small areas.

Any tips for a weed killer that works on this?

Just laughable...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2515668

Please note this is just a beta and there are going to be bugs, but it works and it works nicely. Have fun.

I've been looking for some old films to watch online and I'm looking at

• On The Beach (1959)
• Patton (1970)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Those last two inspired parts of the video game series, Metal Gear Solid. In Metal Gear Solid 3, a lot of films get mentioned by characters throughout the game.

On The Beach is one I heard about because Alex Jones was talking about nuclear war earlier this year, and he showed a scene from that particular film. There's a newer version of On The Beach but I'd always go for the original, or better, read the novel it's based on.

Recently I watched 2 old Soviet films

• Amphibian Man (1961)
• Only 'Old Men' Are Going To Battle (1973)

Some links

Patton

The Guns Of Navarone (this one costs $ on YouTube)

Amphibian Man

Only 'Old Men' Are Going To Battle, black and white version

Only 'Old Men' Are Going To Battle, colourised in 2009

It's disappointing that many films are 48 hour DRM'd and cost $4 or $6 despite not being restored

but...

https://www.aliceinvideoland.co.nz/

w00t!

Got to get me some novels too.

The top three stories on Radio NZ are about her, do we really need this much coverage?

I'm looking for a robo vacuum that integrates nicely with home assistant, and ideally no cloud dependency. I don't want to buy such an expensive device that doesn't work when the manufacturer goes out of business or the Internet is down.

Valetudo seems to be the only option. However, even the so called easy installation involves many steps. I'm technically pretty capable as I work in IT, but I'm reluctant to possible brick a device worth hundreds of dollars. FYI more info here https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/getting-started.html

Would someone be able to assist? Or know a company that provides this service? I'm based in Wellington.

This video doesn't discuss NZ specifically but it does show some pretty interesting patterns that affect us.

TL;DW: Southern Hemisphere is

• 2C cooler
• 24% stormier
• somehow protected from pollution from the north

Well Apollo has shut down so time to get rid of Reddit. I am currently using Power Delete Suite https://codepen.io/Deestan/full/gOQagRO/ to overwrite all of my old posts with some random text, then tomorrow I will run it again to actually delete all of the posts / comments.

Apparently if you just delete they can be easily restored.

Anyone else going down this path?

Hopefully it's okay to ask here, but does anyone have a Calckey invite they'd be willing to share? I'd like to check it out and would prefer a local instance.

If this is the wrong place let me know.

I call it “Enlarged Prostate Dribble” on a Coffee Workshop / Herrick Creek Distillery Bourbon-barrel aged espresso.

Ok so this is a bit weird out of context, so here's some context.

• @nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev shared this post.
• Here they suggested trying to use a plunger to foam a long black
• So that's what I did. There's no milk or milk alternatives in here, just coffee and water.

~~I tried to do some art on the top but it's all the same colour so didn't work.~~ So here is my beautiful art, I call it "A dirty polar bear in a sand storm"

Featuring some art I did on a flat white I made.

Mostly linking it because of the name :)

The five people aboard a missing submersible died in a "catastrophic" event, a Coast Guard official says, bringing a grim end to the massive search for the vessel that was lost during a voyage to the Titanic.

"The debris is consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," Mauger said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/831266

Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

• Material U
• Dark and Light themes
• List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
• Filter lists for hiding posts
• Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
• Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
• Search and community autofill
• Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
• Saving posts
• full sort types
• NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
• copy text and url on all posts and comments
• add comments, replies, and new posts
• comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

• Improving the inbox
• Swipe actions
• Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1421735

The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments.

No more "Landed Gentry" here, just a total shitshow of deleted comments and lack of cohesive moderation.

They can't ban all of us

Bonus sexy John Oliver on holiday in the South Island:

I asked DALL-E for "A shitpost that could be found on the new zealand subreddit", and this is what it gave me. It's pretty spot on.

The poor spelling is commentary on the state of literacy in NZ, especially following COVID where school kids have missed out on a lot of learning.

"it be fint" refers to how we tend to think "it will be fine" or "she'll be right", but the "fine" has been adjusted to fine't as in it's a contraction if "fine, not" showing how it won't actually be fine. This contracting is further misspelt due to the above literacy commentary.

It's typed not hand written to show how the world has moved increasingly online. The handwritten part at the bottom repeats parts higher up to show that people are becoming less creative.

The fish represents our waterways, and the fish is having trouble reading the text because of the poor state of the waterways causing it to be in poor health.

The fish is orange, like the Orange Guy from the voting ads, and has it's eyes wide open - this shows how the younger generation are "woke" to social and environmental injustice and willing to challenge the status quo.

The lines are all horizontal showing the passage of time, but they never meet showing the generational divide and how values from different generations don't converge.

The coloured squares in the corner represent the range of opinions that divide us despite them being close to each other.

For better or worse, I wrote that. It's not generated by ChatGPT or copied from Time Cube, despite similarities.

Dubstep is still cool right?