That's a great response to the article! Covers other issues I had with it as well.
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Interesting to see overseas coverage of this. There seems to be a few errors or misunderstandings. One key one repeated in the article:
There are currently 978,246 Maori in New Zealand, constituting around 19 percent of the country’s population of 5.3 million. They are represented by Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, which currently holds six of the 123 seats in Parliament.
This implies the Māori Party is the only representation, and implies 6/123 MPs represent 19% of the country. In reality, there is nothing special about The Māori Party, and Māori people vote for who they want to represent them like anyone else (yes there are Māori electorates but that's different and Māori can choose if they want to be on that system).
At multiple points they present the Māori Party as if they are the designated representation for Māori, which isn't true.
I've always used rechargeables. While I agree to some extent, the action to pop them out makes it a lot easier to get them out than in the Xbox 360 controller from around the same time. The Xbone ones are easier now but perhaps they will do steam controller 2 in a similar way to the 1 but leave a little extra clearance.
Better battery placement, because the original is a nightmare to get batteries out.
I'm curious about this. There's a little switchy button thing and the batteries pop right out. I'm not sure what makes it a nightmare, I quite like the battery placement.
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.
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.
Are you talking about the app specifically, or about Bluesky as a platform?
I find this quite interesting. The rules about blocking a driveway don't only apply to being on the side of the road but also the public property part between the road and the privately owned section.
I wouldn't have parked there but I wouldn't have complained if someone wasn't blocking the route along the footpath. It's pretty common that places around Wellington don't have anywhere else to park.
I guess I can see both sides of this argument. Yes the council might be following the law (or might not be, based on the later part of the article), but it's not exactly well known and it's a bit of a dick move for the council to change their stance and not tell anyone, just double the fine then start handing out fines.
Who's idea was it to have busses replace trains on the weekend when RailEx is on 🤦
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.
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I suspect the “Slow The Fuck Down.” one is the one they're saying is offensive.