I am, thanks! I hope you’re doing well too 🙂

Sorry I missed posting this this morning. So instead I’ll post it now when everyone’s gone to bed 😅

Canvas starts tomorrow 4pm.

Here’s my current proposal for a template:

Well I guess what I meant is that I don’t think the government is spending tens of millions on a satellite to start a social movement.

They are the government, if they want to stop polluters they shouldn’t encourage boycotts, they should use their teeth. Whether that’s forcing the polluters to buy carbon credits (because that’s the current system), shutting them down, or some other method, they should taking action not trying to convince the public to avoid them.

Aren’t we (as the govt) trying to force them to purchase carbon credits rather than creating a social movement to boycott?

I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants

It’s the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants

Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html

Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?

They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.

The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.

Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.

I guess the point here is holding businesses accountable. If this is how we get proof to stop polluting, then it could well create less pollution than it stops.

You could argue that all pollution monitoring is polluting to find out more about pollution. You’d need to assess what they are expecting to catch vs the CO2 output.

In the grand scheme of things $40m isn’t that much, and you could use carbon credit money to fund another. If the intent is to catch carbon generators not paying their share, surely you could recoup the cost.

The co-governance aspect was clearly a huge sticking point, and I agree Three Waters would have passed under the previous government without it. But this government has been very vocal about staying out of local government (except when they don’t like something a council did…) so a reformulated Three Waters seems very unlikely to pass in the current climate even without a co-governance aspect.

There were also councils quite against Three Waters in general, which as far as I saw were the ones doing a good job on their own. Kind of like how only people in flood zones want flood insurance, I guess.

Yeah, we really need a long term strategy. When you want to get elected, you make promises. When you get elected, you need to fulfil (some of) those promises. When people promise new spending and keeping rates rises to a minimum, your only real option it to kick these cans down the road and cut funding for pre-emptive maintenance.

Despite all the controversy, something like Three Waters was really needed.

Was it a political push from Whanau (seems to have started with the previous mayor) or is this just the point where everything was collapsing so we had no choice?

In regards to storage costs, I’m happy to self host a good solution. But right now there are none.

Your idea about streaming from phones is pretty nice but as someone who uses lots of background data, it can suck up your battery. A good idea though and I don’t think that stops it being feasible.

There was a project called Circles that used a Matrix server to host private rooms you could invite people to where it was more like a feed, with photo galleries and videos and things. It got funding pulled but as far as I could tell it didn’t really have a future because they hit the limits of the technology stack, but it was a cool idea that was simple enough that you’d be able to get non-tech users onboard. Project is basically dead now though.

I love the idea of friendica but until my mother can upload a video and view it on a feed it’s just not going to work. I’ve tried it out many times over the years and I just can’t recommend it as a Facebook replacement for nontechnical users, not even just for sharing with family.

Their point is that (as per relatively), all movement is relative to something. So if the earth moved away then you must be measuring in relation to some other reference point. There is no absolute positioning system. So when you say the earth is moving, what is it moving in relation to? And why did you pick that reference point instead of having a time machine that uses earth itself as a reference point?

Haha it’s not work, think of it as donating pixels to a good cause! But it’s fine if you have better things to do 🙂

From random searching around it seems lanes haven’t necessarily changed (basically this route is still used) but technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/images/iip/data/2017/20170426_NAIS65.gif

Sinking location: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinking_of_the_Titanic&params=41_43_32_N_49_56_49_W_scale%3A5000000

Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.

For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.

Pretty sure you can’t draw a kiwi without someone giving it laser eyes 😆

@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz I guess you’re on holiday and won’t be able to participate this year?