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 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…

Shiiit, I’d pay to see that

I’m going to put my tin foil hat on here, stand back and all that…

…maybe that was the result of some ‘influence’ someone applied?

These are the same muppets that have the great kiwi duopoly a free pass

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!).

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’…

That sucks!

This is a great cover for doxxing as a service!

/s - sorta…

Nice PoC!

This is really interesting - will done (I know, it’s not done yet)

I fear you’ll spend months occasionally retraining it though? (I have no experience in this, I just knows how brittle my code is)

I’ll take some!

Nah, just surfing the tension headaches all weekend :(