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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
#Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling

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strypey, (edited ) to random
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"If you’re over 18 and below the superannuation age (currently 65), the Government will (if you’re eligible) contribute 50 cents for every dollar you contribute, up to a maximum Government contribution of $521.43 each year (1 July to 30 June). This is paid directly
to your KiwiSaver account around late July each year."

https://simplicity.kiwi/assets/Uploads/Product-Disclosure-Statement-Simplicity-KiwiSaver-1-February-2024.pdf

So... if we're not putting a minimum of $20 a week (on average) into KiwiSaver, we're turning down free money?

(edit: corrected dodgy maths)

strypey,
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to @Daveosaurus for catching my maths fail. I did the division in my head, and forgot to factor in that the government contribution is 50c on the dollar, not dollar for dollar.

strypey, to brainfood
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Next Wed (12 June) there's a film screening of Outgrow the System, followed by a panel discussion. The event is at the The Hive, 11 Somerset St, (new home of Impact Hub), hosted by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa NZ. RSVP here;

https://events.humanitix.com/outgrow-the-system-kirikiriroa-hamilton

#documentary #OutgrowThe System #WellbeingEconomyAlliance #TheHive #Impact Hub

strypey, to ilaughed
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If you have a video channel, and you want to help us reduce the power YouTube have over online video, here's an idea...

Consider posting only a teaser clip of each of your videos to your YT channel, with links back to the full video on a PeerTube server. Or some other ethical video hosting service you trust and endorse. That will help more people find your videos than only posting them on the ethical server, and help more people learn about replacements for YT.

#video #WebVideo #PeerTube

strypey, (edited ) to Podcasts
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A good summary of what recent housing policy changes add up to;

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"If you look at what this government have done, right, so they've dialed back the state house building program, they just cut half a billion $ out of that last week in the budget."

, 2024
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-LIVE--Nicola-Willis-on-QA--TPU-Beehive-Stunt-e2kfoni

strypey, to Podcasts
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"Steel production generates almost 10 percent of global carbon emissions and has long been considered 'hard to abate'. Enter Boston Metal, a startup that aims to make carbon-free steel using only (sing it with me!) clean electricity. In this episode, CEO Tadeu Carneiro explains 'molten oxide electrolysis' and its potential to transform the industry."

https://www.volts.wtf/p/making-carbon-free-steel-with-clean

strypey, to random
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Tinezone (n.): The end of a fork.

strypey, to Podcasts
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"One of my favorite nuggets of writing advice comes from James D Macdonald. Jim, a Navy vet with an encylopedic knowledge of gun lore, explained to a group of non-gun people how to write guns without getting derided by other gun people: 'just add the word modified'."

...a gun person’s imagination gnaws at that word 'modified', spinning up the cleverest possible explanation for how the gun in question could behave as depicted.

, 2024
https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/02/against-lore/

strypey,
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"'Modified' puts the expert and the bullshitter on the same team, and conscripts the expert into fleshing out the bullshitter’s lies."

, 2024
https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/02/against-lore/

I haven't listened to the podcast episode yet, but the excerpt I'm quoting from intrigues me. Are there words that propagandists use to trigger the same effect? Eg a word that conscripts political reporters into adding flesh to the bones of "tax relief"?

strypey, to aotearoa
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"Complex Conversations is a research programme based at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures focused on innovating and improving citizen involvement in public decisions around complex issues.

...

From digital tools to citizens’ assemblies, our research is committed to making public engagement more inclusive, informed and constructive."

https://www.complexconversations.nz/

strypey, to Podcasts
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"To the extent that this is an argument between left and right, it is the left right now, most often raising the complaint that its speech is being suppressed. They see students arrested on trespassing charges as being denied their right to protest peacefully against Israel's recent action, and for many its record over decades."

, 2024

https://opentodebate.org/debate/free-speech-threatened-campus/

strypey,
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"This all sets in relief an earlier debate of ours, where we looked at free speech on campus. It was in 2016 and at that time it was largely the right raising the alarms over free speech repression on campus. While arguing that the pressure to silence was coming from the left."

, 2024

https://opentodebate.org/debate/free-speech-threatened-campus/

strypey,
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"We must consider the possibility that what is really happening is that the language of free speech has been co-opted by dominant social groups, distorted to serve their interests, and used to silence the marginalised. All too often when people cry for justice, and are represented as threats to free speech, what is really meant is just, be quiet."

, 2016

https://opentodebate.org/debate/free-speech-threatened-campus/

strypey, to Podcasts
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"I am the Minister of Resources. I look forward to leading the debate, changing the law, enabling gas and oil exploration - wealth development - to take place yet again in NZ. Mining is coming back as well, and if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity, and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye freddy."

, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018940142/destroying-the-seabed-for-green-reasons

strypey, to Quotes
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"I'm sick of people throwing away friends and family like there's plenty more where that came from. There isn't.

Work it out."

Gillian , , s03e05

strypey, to random
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Goggle's app store gatekeeping disrupted a social enterprise competing with their chat services;

"During this period we have had multiple people sign up for hosted Snikket instances, and then cancel shortly after. This is almost certainly because a vital step of the onboarding process (installing the app) is currently broken. This is providing a bad experience for our users and customers, negatively affecting the project’s reputation and income."

@snikket_im, 2024

https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-google-play-removal/

strypey, to random
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High altitide (n. phrase): Surf's up!

strypey, to tv
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Paul Darrow, actor, 1941-2019. Best known for playing Avon in the 1970s British sci-fi TV series Blake's 7, a character famous for his unapologetic self-importance, and sardonic quips like;

"I’m not expendable, I’m not stupid, and I’m not going."

strypey, to random
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Some people might be struggling to understand why Palestinian civilians in Gaza can't just avoid places the IDF is attacking. That's because none of the countries on their borders - including Israel - are allowing civilians to leave Gaza, which is tiny.

For a sense of scale;

Aotearoa: 268,021 km2

Canterbury: 44,503 km2

Ōtautahi (Christchurch City Council territory): 1,426 km2

Ōtautahi (urban area): 295.15 km2

Gaza: 365 km2

strypey,
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@bigblen
> also population
> Ōtautahi about 400 thousand
> Gaza about 2 million

Is 400,000 the population of the territorial area or the urban area? If it's the latter, the comparison becomes even more stark.

strypey, to random
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@AccordionBruce
> North America is so damn big

Bigger than China, where you can get almost anywhere by train, many of them by electric fast train or sleeper train?

@Br3nda @tbaldauf

strypey,
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@sj_zero
> There's additional risks to lines where you're constantly having to change speed.

You argue pretty effectively with yourself here, so I hesitate to get between you ; ) But...

I've described how alternating between fast and slow speeds was a key part of the incremental roll-out of fast trains in China. It doesn't introduce unmanageable safety risk, any more than does firing a giant missile full of high-octane fuel and people between cities.

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@fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

strypey,
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@sj_zero
> It does take a lot more resources to do a milk run and presumably would also be so with a high speed rail line

I doubt it. Rail corridors run through many population centres between A and B (eg, NY and LA). To service those places, all a train has to do is stop there on the way from A to B.

Doing the same thing by air requires a scheduled flight between each place on the milk run. Using far more fuel than a high altitude direct flight.

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@fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

strypey,
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A couple more points on fast trains;

Earlier you mentioned the carbon emissions associated with smelting steel. The Volts podcast just put up;

"Making carbon-free steel with clean electricity"

https://www.volts.wtf/p/making-carbon-free-steel-with-clean

Me:
> alternating between fast and slow speeds was a key part of the incremental roll-out of fast trains in China

Also, if the people driving trains can't be relied on to vary their speed safely, how do they stop at stations? ; )

@sj_zero
@fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

strypey, to chat
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has launched a hosting service;

"Our goal, as a not-for-profit organization, is to run this sustainably. Our business model is a simple one that does not involve data harvesting/mining. Instead we charge a simple fee per instance that you host with us... This fee pays for the servers, maintenance and other associated costs. Any extra revenue is used to further our goals - building and promoting sustainable communication solutions."

@snikket_im

https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-hosting-launched/

strypey,
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@RedRobyn
> Needs to have different rooms/channels/chats so as to allow clarity of communication. Can Snikket do this?

Yes. Other XMPP hosting service can probably provide this too. But paying for the Snikket service supports the project's work on improving the XMPP experience for the average person.

Disclaimer: I've done a bit of paid work for Snikket. Also, the answer to your question is yes for Matrix too, and there may be a Matrix hosting service that also meets your needs.

strypey,
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Shameless self-promotion; Bridge Seat Co-op plan to eventually offer Aotearoa-hosted chat servers for both XMPP (probably Snikket) and Matrix. It will go up the priority list for testing if there are signs of strong demand.

https://bridgeseat.substack.com/p/coming-soon

@RedRobyn

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