The best way I've found of making people realise how much waste they generate is to ask them to imagine having to bury it in their back yard. Every week.

That's pretty much what we do: bury it somewhere else.

Yeah, it's totally not the length they're upset about.

Read the other books in the three body problem series! The story is wild.

Iain M. Banks.

Tell me you're beholden to big oil without telling me you're beholden to big oil.

"LA LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU".

-- Dairy farmers probably.

As well thought out an opinion as he is well known.

There are no good reasons to federate with Oz.

I guess they don't have $400m spare for a rebrand then.

2degrees: 8/27

Mainly because:

• their service reliability has gone to shit in the last few months
• they literally just today sent me a notice that my bill is increasing because their costs are increasing.

Hang on, you've just had the entirety of MyRepublic dropped in your _wallet lap, and you're merging with Orcon/Vocus... Wasn't all of that to make you more cost-effective?

Do I get anything for my extra fee? Nothing?

Well fuck you then, I'll just change ISP because that's actually really easy.

And if you're sick of all the utopia, there's always Contact and SC.

We just wash on the driveway once or twice a year!

Given that you are (rightly) concerned with run off, finding a suitable wash/detergent is key. Do note that all the pollutants you are washing off are still going somewhere and if they were not stuck to your car they'd be on the road and washed into stormwater anyway.

IMHO washing your car in an eco friendly manner is ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, all those pollutants are already in the environment. We're just figuring out which mattress to stuff them under.

All businesses build all their costs into their pricing, except for some reason credit card surcharges.

It's odd.

Also, there no way in hell that the cost of an electronic transaction is even a millionth of the cost of the transaction or even proportional to the value of that transaction at all.

Someone's making bank.

The schadenfreude is palpable.

Issues with building RPM's. There's no specification for what an RPM is (unlike say deb).

Well the specification is "whatever rpmbuild version x.y.z does" and whatever other tangential packages happen to be installed on the build system.

Try building an RPM for CentOS 6 on a RockyLinux 8 system, or building for both of those on Fedora.

You can do it, but it's real ball ache, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops.

Compare to building a deb for any version of Debian/Ubuntu on Fedora/RHEL it's a doddle and predictable.

Homeopaths: thoroughly confused by cordial.

Anything even tangential to Red Hat.

RPM's are hot garbage when it comes to packaging formats.

Having said that, I use Fedora at work and Ubuntu at home.

NZ produces enough foodstuffs to feed 40 million people.

That only works when there are 35 million people in other countries willing to buy our stuff.

So from a domestic consumption point of view we can afford to lose something like 9 out of every 10 dairy farms and still feed all of NZ with dairy.

As it happens, approximately 35 million of those buyers are Chinese, whom are rapidly gearing up their own dairy industry, that market will crash/disappear in a few short years.

Dairy farmers should be planting trees on 90% of their paddocks right now or at least starting the paperwork at MSD.

"The customer is always right" conveniently missing the second part: "...in matters of taste and style".

Also misinterpreting "customer" as an individual rather than as the aggregate of customer demand.