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

I’ve been looking at our electricity usage and discovered our meter stopped reporting it’s usage a few months ago - that really skews things!

I chucked in a manual reading which wasn’t too far off their estimate, but I’m irked that ‘something’ has stopped talking. Gave it a few pokes to see but no new data. On the ph to provider now, jooyyyeeee. Powershop really do have some strangely funky hold music, it’s quite enjoyable - pity it’s mono and basically 8kHz or whatever the phone lines do to muddy everything!

Also, is it just me or have many of the gentailers stopped publishing their actual rates / seeking new customers?

My son bought a cold home last week which is working it’s way through the house. Sucks…

I thought this was a sad closing paragraph:

“But if we keep asking the questions, and we keep agitating and we keep presenting the evidence, then hopefully we will get some traction sometime.”

Oh sure, that’s what the 3 horsemen are doing, but the schools could play this too… It’s risky, but every teacher I’ve met had indicated things have been bad for decades

I’m starting to wonder if this is a chance for school boards/principles to get away from ‘the MoE overreach’ and constant curriculum alterations…

I can see how it would be tempting to be given funds and get back to teaching how they think is the best way to do it (rightly or wrongly!).

Hear, hear!

Gosh, it’s amazing!

I’m loving the deviant energy in this!

Maybe I’ve had too many bad felafel dishes, but I reckon the yogurt is a better choice over avocado. Definitely less woke, though… Maybe I need to boost the humus?

while it’s great there’s robust debate (elsewhere in this thread), gven all the other self-serving things this govt has done, I think we can take this as unlikely to go well for ‘the rest of us’…

Considering the crazy shit they’re pulling with their nationally orientated IT projects, it’s madness. I’m all for change (and leadership!) but it’s like a scorched earth strategy currently…

I’ve been waiting for the external agencies to recognise we’re all talk lately. This is good (in a way), hopefully there will be some consequences, but I doubt it, or if so, it’ll be so delayed that these clowns will continue willfully ambivalent

So what now? If I remember, reading were talking the council into buying it and leasing it back to them, or something similar?

I just hope we end up with a better outcome, somehow - presumably it’s wholly left up to reading however? Not sure if that’s more likely without the council involved or not (yes, that’s a dig at our council, but also I imagine reading are just profit-seeking corporates if they own a cinema chain).

• I can’t see this ending well…

I always hated that building and felt like the last thing we needed was yet another cinema chain (then mid-city collapsed and that helped somewhat)

That sucks!

I realised there’s the cable car too, although that’s a funny great area.

Certainly the prospect of building a tunnel under the guts of the city for several km (where it’s likely to cross a fault line) is edging towards this kind of nightmare: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/files/2011/03/10_10-Canterbury-22.jpg

I can’t see how a tunnel would sustain that, which seems like a death knell for the whole idea…

So there’s 3 tunnels that we run vehicles through, day to day (that im aware of). Terrace tunnel, mt Vic and the bus tunnel. The city would struggle with either of them collapsing, and I understand the ones under mt Vic are already in dire straits, going by some of the points hopeful mayors that they were campaigning on. I’m no expert but your claim feels like a huge stretch.

As for earthquakes, there’s one that was readily found via a search in 1855 and that “considerably reshaped the geography”, so, respectfully, I completely disagree. https://www.wcl.govt.nz/heritage/earthquakes.html

edit sorry, I should have clarified earlier, it’s the major quakes I’m concerned about. Not the frequent little ones