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I have a random brain fart, that in trying to measure just how curmudgeonly it is: going to the hikoi today was great, but I seem to have trouble accepting protests having live performance and other 'party atmosphere' elements.
Presumably the party elements attract hangers on and waters down the focus (but I'm a grumpy old bastard that doesn't enjoy fun, for perspective)
Yeah I've often had this thought about protests too. As a student, the student's association would organise protests with a free BBQ to get the students to come.
In this specific case, I think the entertainment was at Waitangi Park? So it's an event for protestors, but in my mind the protest itself was the walking from Cape Reinga/Bluff and gathering at parliament.
Good point, the travel disruption and congregation on parliament grounds was the protest
Anyone else usually have DNS ad blocking but suddenly the Metservice app is full of ads?
Just normal Google ones. Did they change something or is something broken on my end?
Edit: I seemed to have solved it by disabling Private DNS on my phone. Not sure why it was working until now.
Random... I've always felt like the metservice is just another get scenario where the app is cancer and the website (again, with adnauseum of multiple layers of ad blocking) is perfectly adequate
Oh the metservice app is almost unusable without blocking the ads. Even with the ads blocked it's full of sponsorship.
I want to like the NIWA app, but I can never tell what the actual weather is going to be.
Maybe I should just use the website.
I've had good luck with windy
Who's idea was it to have busses replace trains on the weekend when RailEx is on 🤦