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We started to go to Bin Inn for this, but then COVID happened and we never went back. I should try to make a special effort to get back to using them, because you're right, a lot of the time the packaging is not necessary at all.
Companies are buying 25kg bags of flour and repackaging it into smaller bags, when we should just be taking a container to a store and scooping in what we want.
edition.cnn.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24799790 > Dunedin Airport CEO Daniel De Bono weighed in on the topic in an interview with New Zealand’s RNZ radio. Describing airports as “hotbeds of emotion,” he pointed to a study suggesting a 20-second hug is enough to get a burst of the “love hormone” oxytocin and argued that moving customers along quickly allows more people to get more hugs.
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If you're seeing it and you're not subscribed here there you must be browsing Local or All rather than your subscribed communities.
- Subscribed - only stuff you're subscribed to (called Home in some apps).
- Local - all posts from communities on your instance, and this Stardew Valley community is on your instance.
- All - all posts your instance knows about, everything from your Subscribed and Local feeds plus every post from every community that someone on your instance has subscribed to, including communities on other instances
So the answer is that you're seeing a lot of posts because someone is making a lot of posts, people are upvoting them (the game is from 2016 but it's still very popular and still getting new content updates) and you're viewing feeds where they show.
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Ideally, yes, if we are talking about communicating critical information to patients.
However, the first issue is that the translator needs to be medically trained. If they aren't, they risk translating critical technical information wrong. We can't even get enough medical staff, let alone extras to be dedicated translators.
There are also other circumstances where I don't think a certified translator should be needed. For example, day to day interactions with a patient that aren't about communicating critical medical information (e.g. asking how they are doing). I think most nurse interactions with patients would not justify a translator if the nurse spoke their language. Many doctor interactions would, but those are generally more structured and could have a translator organised in advance, unlike most nurse interactions.
But also, as I mentioned there is likely a valid problem the memo is trying to address. The issue I see here is that the memo just decides the solution is that everyone has to speak English. This is just bad problem solving. They need to address the specific issues not have blanket rules that make the environment worse for patients.
I suspect speaking to patients isn't the problem (it's not specifically mentioned in the memo), and so translators may not actually be relevant.
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Oooh, I'm going to have to try that one! Though they might actually want to clean the house since I often use "we can't do <fun thing> until the house is clean", so there might be an expectation of doing fun things!
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Who can be quiet the longest works briefly on my kids, the only problem is their capability is pretty low.
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I have a parenting hack for a 5 minute break. Last night one of my kids was saying "Dad, dad, can you give me a challenge?". Expecting things like hop around the house on one foot, or that sort of thing.
I said "I bet you can't sit still on a chair for 5 minutes", this being a child who regularly falls off their chair at dinner time. They thought that was a great challenge, so I set a timer and the challenge was on. The look on their face made it look like they were concentrating harder than they had ever concentrated in their life, but they were really determined and managed to do it! And I got to sit down for a 5 min break 😮
After that, the other kids wanted to have a turn too, but one of them decided that they could just pause the timer and do some thing they wanted to do. Of course that defeats the purpose, but they didn't think so, so I think the hack won't work again.
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Do you think she will finally resign, or will she go kicking and screaming?
Given the events to date, my money is on kicking and screaming.
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Ah nice, will see how the kids like the animals, though they get to see plenty of real life animals.
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Ah nice, that seems much more reasonable 😆
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Nice shot! I haven't done the walkway, did you do the full thing? You link says it takes 6 hours, it was a pretty sunny day today!
I couldn’t figure out how to upload multiple photos so picked that one that shows the most of Wellington.
I think most people upload one for the post, then upload extras to the body. Unlike reddit, you can have both a link and a body in your post.
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Awesome, thanks! I've been through this list and added a bunch to my list.
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It's really going to depend on what you're trying to do.
How did you set up your lemmy instance? Did you use the ansible script?
Which part in particular are you having trouble with?
One puzzle piece you may be missing is that you're going to have two different websites (a photon one and a lemmy-ui one) and they will (I'm assuming) both be on the same server. You'll need a way to direct traffic to the right place, and that way is a reverse proxy. You might reuse the nginx that Lemmy uses, but I find it's cleaner to leave Lemmy to do it's thing and set up another reverse proxy (which might be another nginx or it might not). Some other popular ones are nginx proxy manager, caddy, traefik, haproxy.
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I'm hoping by the time we get another car it won't be a concern anymore 😆. We also had to get an extra anchor put in the car because cars mostly seem to only come with one on each side, none for the middle.
The car industry says you're only allowed 2 kids.
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I'm not aware of an NZ example of a private company doing the full thing, but in the wider text I took my quote from they talk about trying to follow a Singapore model.
The government has to be involved somewhere, firstly because they are the only ones that can take the land (and most projects would be unfeasible if they couldn't do that), and secondly because the roads need to connect up to the state owned roads. Plus I guess resource consent and approval type stuff.
Other than that, I don't see why a private company couldn't do it, if it was worth it economically. Which brings me to your point: is it worth it?
I would guess that it's very difficult to find a route that is valuable enough to users that they can charge a decent toll and people will pay it instead of going around, but also that has a high volume of traffic. Ultimately, we probably don't have many (or any) such routes because these would be the first place that the government owned roads are built.
What was that toll road north of Auckland with the big tunnel, one of the first ones? I wonder if there is data to show the cost of building it vs the revenue gained over the first 10 years or so.
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Exactly. Not the over a million that it looks like at a glance.
The user count isn't helpful anyway, active users is a much better measure.
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That graph is so misleading. Makes it look like almost all the users disappeared but the Y axis only covers a small range at the top.
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adjustable distance between lenses and the display
Does this help focus? For the headsets that have this, I thought it was so you could fit your glasses.
I used to have an Index, and moving the lenses didn't seem to change the focus in the way that glasses do.
Edit: Oh, in your picture, it's specifically a focus wheel, so must be something different about it.
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It said it was free to download and use but a convenience charge for getting it on Steam.
But like you, I'm also happy with Heroic, and there's also Lutris.
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One of the main factors in bedtime procrastination is human behaviour.
Come on, can you at least give us a better excuse? I have to wake up in 7 hours and I need someone else to blame for still not going to bed.
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20 years ago, if someone said 'u' for 'you' then I assumed they were young. These days if I see someone use 'u' for 'you' I assume they are 60+.
> Submissions on tolling the replacement gorge road have now closed, but Woodville residents are refusing to give up fighting. > > Under the current proposal, those driving between Palmerston North and Woodville in a light vehicle could pay $4.30 per trip, $8.60 for a return - and up to $17.20 for heavy vehicles. > > The former State Highway 3 through the Manawatū Gorge closed in 2017 due to rockfall.
> Companies and shareholders associated with 12 fast-track projects gave more than $500,000 in political donations to National, Act and New Zealand First and their candidates, RNZ analysis shows. > > The projects include a quarry extension into conservation land and a development whose owner was publicly supported by National MPs during a legal battle with Kāinga Ora. > University of Otago legal expert Professor Andrew Geddis said the Cabinet Manual doesn't cover whether receiving a donation is a conflict of interest. > > In a political system where a lot of the money used for campaigning comes from private sources, it would be difficult to bar parties from being involved in decisions which impact donors. > > "The unions give lots of money to the Labour Party. If that was then to mean that the Labour Party couldn't pass workplace relations legislation that impacts on unions, it would take a huge policy issue just out of play." > > If this was the rule, donors wouldn't donate, he said.
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Over time I've been on the lookout for social media for family to use. I haven't really found anything suitable, key thing is that posting photos and videos needs to be user friendly. For example, Friendica all but requiring you to upload your video to YouTube and post the embedded video is just not gonna fly. I've seen [Zusam](https://github.com/zusam/zusam) in the past, which looks like it could become something but I don't think it's ready for me to try to get extended family into. (It's worth mentioning here that certain extended family have shown interest in using something like this) Recently I've had a look around at some Enterprise social solutions, and have had a play with [HumHub](https://github.com/humhub/humhub). It has a much more familiar look, things are separated into spaces that are similar to Facebook groups, and while media uploads aren't perfect I think they will work well enough. HumHub has modules, many of which cost a decent amount of money, because they target the enterprise market. However, the community version is open source and the base features and free modules seem to work well. Does anyone have experience using it? Any warnings I should know about? Any similar software that does a better job?
> Aotearoa has reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the largest haka from France after thousands performed Ka Mate at Auckland's Eden Park on Sunday. > > The previous official record was 4028, held by France since 2014. > People travelled from far and wide to support the kaupapa, with American TV host Conan O'Brien, director Taika Waititi and boxer David Tua spotted in the crowd. > > Gates opened at 4.30pm before the haka attempt itself just after 8pm. Local entertainment included Six60, Alien Weaponry, Che Fu, Rob Ruha and the Topp Twins. > > The haka had to be performed for one minute, so those present performed Ka Mate four times in a row.
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I have kids ages 4-7 and they quite like watching a little snippet of something while they brush their teeth. One thing they have been into recently is these stop motion videos on youtube on a channel called Peapea. However, it's obvious that M&Ms and Coke give them lots of money because it's all you see in many of the videos. But these are good videos, as the kids like them and while the full youtube videos are 30 mins long, within this there are lots of shorts only a few minutes long each. Perfect for bushing teeth. Also a bonus is those videos don't rely on sound, so they can watch and understand it without telling each other to brush queiter. Does anyone have suggestions for anything similar that isn't plastered with Cocacola and is suitable for the 4-7 age range?
I didn't "watch live" but I guess that's a warning the article may change. Here are some snippets as it currently stands: > Schools won't be able to hold teacher-only days during term time and parents of students absent for 15 days could be prosecuted, Associate Education Minister David Seymour has announced in a new truancy crackdown. > Schools must have a stepped attendance response (STAR) plan in place by the beginning of the 2026 school year. > > Seymour set out an example: > > - Five days absent: School contacts parents/guardians to determine a reason and set expectations > - 10 days absent: School leaders meet with parents/guardians and student to develop a plan to address barriers to attendance and "the obligation goes onto services such as attendance, Oranga Tamariki and the local police" > - 15 days absent: Ministry takes over the response, including possible prosecution of parents > > Each school would also be asked to share attendance information with Oranga Tamariki, police, and MSD, he said.
> The police powerpoint presentation, released to Stuff under the Official Information Act, said members of sovereign citizens group Mauri Nation used fake ID to reach the Prime Minister's floor at Parliament. > > The presentation from the Police Security Intelligence and Threats Group in November last year, does not say whether the Prime Minister - then Jacinda Ardern - was present.
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> Budget documents show the government was told of "profound" wellbeing benefits from the free school lunch scheme months before it decided to trim its funding. > The research was supposed to be published in June but was still under wraps. > > However, Budget papers published this week referred to the study's early findings. > "Emerging findings support previous evaluation findings, but also highlight further benefits of the programme, including improvements in achievement and the importance of universality," said a December briefing note to Minister of Education Erica Stanford. > > "This includes that learners are more settled and able to engage with classroom activity and learning, with some schools showing increased academic achievement resulting from an enhanced learning experience from being more settled and less distracted. Initial findings also indicate that the programme is having a profound impact on the wellbeing of learners," it said. > Earlier this year, the government cut annual funding for the scheme by $107 million, reducing the per-student spend for children at intermediate and secondary schools to $3. > > A March briefing paper about changing the model for Ka Ora, Ka Ako said it was not clear whether lunches could be provided at that price. > > "The most significant risk from the proposal is that we have not market-tested or otherwise analysed the proposed $3 per head price. We do not know whether sufficient supply exists to offer lunches to the specified standard at this price across the full range of schools," the document said.
I'm looking at getting a gateway device to replace the ISP router that sits between the internet connection and the mesh WiFi. I am running pi-hole on a (very old) raspberry pi, but I know some gateways get quite fancy so I'm wondering if it's possible to have pi-hole on the gateway itself, to run as DNS and DHCP servers? Other things I'm looking for in a gateway are VPN as a client (preferably Wireguard) and PoE ports for cameras. If it's possible to host something like pi-hole directly on the gateway then hardware recommendations are appreciated!
> We're paying higher prices, specials are confusing and loyalty schemes aren't delivering overly significant rewards. > > Those aren't just the musings of a frustrated supermarket shopper - but are some of the findings in the Commerce Commission's first annual grocery report, issued on Wednesday. > Rewards schemes were only giving a return of between 0.71 percent for Flybuys and 0.75 percent for Everyday Rewards. >Between 2007 and 2019, the average weekly spend on grocery food increased 7.3 percent every three years but the latest data showed a leap of 28.9 percent. > The commission's report said supermarkets would point to their own rising costs as the reason for price rises. > > But it said margins had continued to grow - all of the major supermarkets had experienced an increase in price-cost margins, which meant that retail prices were increasing faster than the cost of the goods. > The report said supermarkets "continue to achieve higher levels of profitability than we would expect in a workably competitive market". > It was not likely that Costco would be able to expand to the point where it could become a serious third supermarket contender, it said. > > The report said the Warehouse could be an option - its network of shops meant it was in a good position to encourage shoppers to split their shopping in many cases - but it had said it had no intention of raising the capital needed to compete. The "five things" don't work that well as a list, but they are: - High prices aren't in your head - Competition is not bringing down margins, or prices - Other competitors aren't finding it easy - Innovation, but is it what we want? - Would fines make a difference?
> A man has been arrested after five central Wellington shops had windows smashed or damaged overnight. > Wholly Bagels owner Junwei Hu said the damage had been been done on purpose with "lots of force". > > He said he had no idea why someone would break holes in the windows and push mushrooms through to the shop floor. > > "There's quite a bit (of) mushrooms... I don't know how they did it, but like, it's inside everywhere. Maybe they squashed through the hole." > A dairy on Lambton Quay also had windows damaged. > > Security footage at Lambton Mart showed the glass was shattered by a hammer, manager Mayank Patel said. Cards similar to bank cards had been dropped inside. > Patel said the hammer hit a letter 'o' on the Lotto logo at Lambton Mart, Patel said. > > The same part of the Lotto logo at TJ Superette was targeted, as was the letter 'o' at Coco Wellington and in the word 'Hottest' on window of Mecca on Lambton Quay.
> Just after 4pm this afternoon NZ5366 travelling from Christchurch to Wellington landed safely after smoke was seen coming from the engine," Air New Zealand Head of Flight Operations, Hugh Pearce said in a statement. > > "The aircraft was met by emergency services and all passengers have disembarked safely. > > Pearce later added that the cause remains under investigation.
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> A suspected boat burglar has been arrested after jumping into the tide and leading police on a slow-motion chase in the Bay of Islands. > He refused to come ashore, instead rowing towards the ferry ramp then abandoning his dinghy and swimming towards Russell. > > Officers, including a police dog, followed him in an inflatable boat. > The police spokesperson said the man had missed his calling: "He should have been a marathon swimmer."