It’s a fairly profound contrast, I gather, between the urban/young vs. the rural/aged.

Dunno what we can do about that, really - but it’s looking more and more like the divide in America, unfortunately (and I think Seymour butts is consciously pushing for that, sadly)

I’ve had good luck with windy

Good point, the travel disruption and congregation on parliament grounds was the protest

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)

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

Yeah, it is!

Originally they had a wee shop where Victoria and manners street meet, but went mobile at some point

I had a random thought today - Any (ex?)Wellingtonians remember Ed’s Juice Bar?

I miss that place…

Well put!

I wonder how much it actually cost though…

Yes, unfortunately, it still feels like there’s really only two telcos in the country - with various rebadged products (skinny, et al - I’ve list track of who’s actually who).

Then again, our population density is probably off putting for any prospective telcos eyeing up the market!

Fucking bootlicker.

God, I bet he’d barbeque well…

/s

That certainly sounds like the work they’ve got me involved in (migrating staff onto a common computer platform)

there’s just no way moving the users and computers away from the hospital where all their data and systems reside is going to be an improvement for anyone…

Honestly, I’m thinking of getting my whole team to apply. Fuck these assholes

That’s really quite gross

We should get comcom to look into it so they can do absolutely fucking nothing, like the last few scams they’ve rubber-stamped

Yes! Beach waves and bird noises or something? Sounds great!

I kinda sympathise though - the shops there have always struggled as long as I can remember (which, in fairness, probably isn’t that long). Newtown has been dead for about a decade, easily.

Yes both parties are being dicks and the florist is probably conflating issues and blaming the bike lanes incorrectly.

It seems like one upside is, countdowns expansive parking is, I believe, available for people to use (I vaguely recall signage about it)

I hate how the music gets stuck in my head or has associations I’d rather not mix with my displeasure when dealing with.

That and my cynical view of aussie companies trying to look local using kiwi music (while the call taker is wherever is cheapest)

What would your ideal hold ‘music’ be?

I’ve always hated these things and think music is a terrible choice as it can only ever reinforce the ‘middle of the road’ tastes (something I have big problems with in NZ).

But the ringer sound just reduces your brain to mush after a few minutes as well…

Would silence work, with the occasional ‘you’re _n_th in the queue’ update? I think that’s my best choice

Oh wow, I forgot about APOD!

I loved some of their colourised nebula images