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If you like that style of humour it's very good! I think I must have rewatched the entire thing about 4 or 5 times.

It's a hard thing to find an image of but by gates I mean kind of like the ones in here only instead of sliding the sim in behind it you had to undo a little catch and swing it open first.

I think you are right. It's bizarre the number of US "culture war" talking points and polarizations seem to be creeping in. I think the other thing is probably a huge number of New Zealanders now have spent their entire lives in the neoliberal economic paradigm and it's hard for them to imagine alternatives to things like SOEs and revenue-driven media.

but we don’t have one now and is the Govt helping you right now?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this question. It feels rhetorical but I'm not sure what conclusion I'm intended to come to? The answer is in some ways and not in others.

That's awesome!

That sounds like a really interesting field. I just realised there are Silicon Valley scenes that are about this as well...

Do you know what they were trying to learn?

Not really but it took ages and paid better than most. We had to read a set of written instructions so I think they were testing those, because everyone got given the same model of phones and afterwards we had to talk about how we found the instructions and how easy was it. The phones had those annoying little metal gates in them that some candybars used to have. I remember being completely weirded out by it.

That cat is adorable .

I think what happens is sometimes brick and mortar shops don't update their online pricing regularly. I have found a few good deals over the years that way on pet things and dentist things.

One of my parents was very fond of that proverb. <3 Literally as well as metaphorically.

I meant more I have a mindset in terms of society's scarcity.

The messaging drilled into me is always that the government can't afford to give us all the things we need. So when people say the government should give everyone, say, a UBI, part of me panics thinking at that rate the day when the government decides it can, say, finally afford to help people like me to get a wheelchair, or help the homeless people up the road get shelter, or cut hospital wait times to under 12 months, will never come because all the money will go to UBIs.

But that's a false dichotomy.

They’ve spent more money administering it than actually providing

I get the impression this happens a fair bit with change to social programmes that is designed to send project an ideology. Sometimes it almost feels like there are two NZs, one that wants to help everyone become a prosperous society and one that wants to not have social support at all.

That's so cool! I love old "modern" tech like old subways etc.

That list really is fascinating. Thank you Dave you always give me something to dive into! I get the sense that we are way under-utilizing solar.

That's super interesting; I had never heard of personas in that context but it makes a lot of sense. How do you come up with/discover the personas?

doesn't like the new subscription model

This is probably a defining characteristic of half a generation!

This is a rambling tangent but one of my super weird memories from the late 90s was being asked to a market research focus group where all they did was give us cell phones and sim cards and video us trying to open the backs and insert the sims. It was new tech for most of us at the time and it's really funny to me now how challenging we found it.

Some gems in that conversation.

I used to use that exact same circle method in photoshop back in the day, before I learned how to use shapes and paths! (All my photoshop skills are self taught over the years, but I've used it for a long time, like you have with GIMP).

The idea of "intuitive" in software interface kind of fascinates me. So much of it is cultural or built on the shoulders of years of habit, but it feels so real and objective even though it isn't. I wonder about what it does at the level of synapses etc. Like, do you and I have a tiny piece of differing physiology at this point because of GIMP vs Photoshop?

Fascinating out of the box idea. It does have geothermal at Ngawha which is relatively near a forestry and could be expanded significantly.

While looking for that website I just stumbled on a tiny, rickety old hydro station so turns out I was wrong about that!

Oh, yeah I agree with the gist of this. I think you are right. In our legal system we have the principle that jailing innocent people is worse than accidentally letting a guilty one go unpunished, and I really wish we could apply that same logic to social programmes.

The kind of witch hunting that goes on mostly affects and hurts those in need.

I think my problem is I have a mindset of scarcity and should probably study macroeconomics or something.

For workplaces that constantly deal with documents from other workplaces, even making your own one switch wouldn't work. Microsoft's evil strategy works - it really does have it sewn up unfortunately.

Wait what why does GIMP not have shapes!? Kudos to you for being able to find your way around its GUI. It hurts my brain.