Last night I dreamed I was in a string quartet performance that was somehow a talk about satellite pollution. I wish I could figure out how to do this... playing angry music sounds way more fun than giving an angry lecture.
@strypey It does occur to me that if supposed libertarian Seymour wanted students to be able to have a say in an "acceptable" way, he would support lowering the voting age to 16.
It's Thursday, and we've got a Thunderbird two in one tip! If you use tags to organize your emails, today's tips are all about activating and moving tags in the Folder Pane.
Click the Folder Pane Menu (three dots on right side of 'New Message') 📁
Hover over Folder Modes ➡️
Enable Tags ✅
Want to move the tags around? Click on the vertical three-dot Tags menu to shift them up or down.
@thunderbird This is new to me, and would be useful.
But I find that when I select a tag, the message list is empty until I disable the Quick Filter. I can enable it again and still see the messages. #Thunderbird
Yep, I can do a lot better. The radius on that point is a smooth 2 microns (big blob in the lower right is the hypodermic tip). The smoothness is beyond my current optics, but shows no significant deviation at 0.25 microns/pixel. Woohoo!
#ShowerThoughts: I'd like to be part of a digital age version of the old record club.
I'm imagining getting an email every time a kiwi music act releases a new record. The email tells me where I can listen to the record. It also tells me the best way to give money to the act if I like it, so that most of the money goes to them rather than intermediaries.
The cool thing is that an email newsletter like this is totally platform independent, and requires minimal coordination.
Anyone have any idea what this is hiding in the shrubbery. It looks like a spy microphone. t is connected to the grey box that is beneath the shrub. I spotted this on an old stretch of Highway 1 in Waikanae.
"The Māori part of the name for the glacier was also being standardised to Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere, meaning tname he 'tears of the Avalanche Maiden'."
A quick reminder that after 6 years of Labour government, Aotearoa still has a housing crisis. Despite what the NatACTs continue to claim, it's still not going to be solved by just doing anything you can get away with justifying as "increasing supply";
@futuresprog@strypey "Nact" may be Winston And National and aCT - WANCT. In my head they are already the Coalition of Chaos. I'm sure this is what Luxon meant when he repeated the phrase ad-nauseam
What's the best self-hostable tool for adding a survey to your website. Looking for something that's 100% Free Code, not a mostly proprietary tool with source code released for a few non-essential bits released for openwashing purposes.
It annoys me that the news media elevated the leaders of the legacy parties to their own private Chrisfest, instead of having a leaders debate that included these 4. That would have been a much more robust and insightful debate than listening to two sheets of human wallpaper dribble talking points at each other.
@strypey I was just saying I'd like RNZ to pre-record (or delay) interviews with the understanding that any time the interviewee repeats their talking point verbatim, it gets deleted. The audience has heard your f***ing talking point already
"... an unusually bad 'flu season is buffeting the country. Doctor say the strain, originating in China, is particularly severe. Children and the elderly are most at risk."
... and Sheldon, panicking, says;
"We're all gonna die!"
... then his mother Mary says;
"But you need to understand that sometimes the news says those things just to scare people."
@strypey@nu " But that's not the comparison I'm making." - that is how I (and it seems others) have read your original toot.
Please clarify what comparison you were trying to make.