Notices by Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: (niall@mastodon.nz)

While falling asleep to a podcast last night I was interrupted by an ad. Not the usual Wise ad but one from ACT.
It claimed crime was out of control under Labour but now the gangs have been put back in their place thanks to ACT's bold work. Do ads have to be factual and which authourity is responsible for this?
Fucking dog whistling pedophile-friendly rascists stay out of my ads.....
#NZPol #PedophileAdjacentParty

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116526874529154629

I'm sure I've asked this before...What does the terrorist state of Israel have on the UK?
This is some weird sh!t.
Edit: Here's the story directly rather than you having to click through 19 or so quote-posts:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/barrister-palestine-action-trial-facing-contempt-of-court-proceedings

I'm bloody sick of people talking about the cost of cutting CO2 emissions. According to them I'm poorer for having spent a fortune on an early EV back in the day. I was a dupe for buying solar 12 years ago. Sure its cheaper now but I've had 10 years without buying fuel and 12 without energy bills.
For the car that's no engine repairs, no servicing, no stink or noise. Sure it was expensive to buy and for the price I could have had a brand new Maserati. Imagine how much that would have cost in fuel and repairs! For the electricity no power bills, lines charges or unexpected power outages.
Best of all, it all still works and my transport and electricity costs aren't going up with the fallout of this stupid Israel-US-Iran war.
Making the same decision to go solar & EV now is so obviously the right decision financially that to even stop to question it is laughable, regardless on your thoughts on climate change.
We (society) can make this change right bloody now if our leaders get behind it. We can insulate ourselves from dependency on sketchy, expensive fuel supplies. We can stop pushing CO2 into the world every time we nip down the shops. We can do away with the fumes. We can have abundant, FREE energy more or less for life if we invest in this infrastructure.
Instead we're building a terminal to bring in more fuel for the metaphorical broken Maserati that is our energy system. Gah.
#Abundance #ShortSightedLeaders
#ClimateChange #EV #Solar

@dalias yeah I wondered about what it might be doing given that it wants permission for seemingly *everything*
@boogah

This is darkly hilarious. The presenter, Ryan, is a very good American military analyst. He used to do great stuff about the Ukraine war. Here he's talking about the loss of a fancy AWACS plane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJXlHTFBAI

Feeling quite aggro today. Hopefully I don't upset any of my usual correspondents.

I have actively engaged a couple of folks on here who rubbed me up the wrong way, rather than being my usual polite self. One of them is now blocked.

I am tired of cookers telling me renewables can't take the place of oil and/or that it was simply not possible to prepare for this oil situation in a way that wouldn't have caused the problems we now see.

I am tired of 'deep greenies'* telling me that renewables won't save the world and that even existing is bad, m'kay.

We absolutely could have prepared for this situation with much greater investment in renewable tech. No, it wouldn't fix absolutely every ill on the planet but it would put us in a much better position to do so than we currently find ourselves. It is not too late to act and every act towards building renewable, sustainable energy infrastructure will help us towards a better future.

If you don't agree, that's fine. But don't waste my time telling me why you disagree, you'll get a rude reply.

*not sure this is the right term but hopefully my explanation is clear enough.

@inthehands @johannab @ai6yr that two-parter was awesome. While the tech may have improved between then and now, no decent solution to the fundamental problem of paying attention/ being ready for failing automation has been proposed.

Wonderful use of 'This is Fine' meme.
Reminds me, I should probably get a new profile pic.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/15-12-2025/new-zealand-will-fail-its-paris-agreement-climate-change-targets

If you put 60V through a 12V solenoid and wait about a minute you will get a blue flame accompanied by the sound of fireworks. If you did this accidentally you will realise that you need to run towards the fire not away because you need to disconnect it. After disconnection there will be a nice calm orange flame which will self-extinguish after a minute or so.
Every day is a school day.
Oh and my mower's broken for the foreseeable future...
#Fire #Fireworks #Oops

@annika I just add my own tracking param for them. eg:
?si=yellowlobster1234
I doubt it will end capitalism but it makes me smile.

It's in! It's not properly installed (brackets to wall mainly) but it fits and looks great :-)
#Woodwork #DIY #Furniture #DogsOfMastodon

Stolen from @rbreich
He/ his team never puts alt-text in. This one has it.
I also wonder if the artist gave permission...
#USPOL #alttext #inclusive

Added two more panels to the temporary* secondary solar array to help us get through midwinter. 2kW total, these are only 250W panels. You can get these for pocket money, nobody wants the small output panels.

*This temporary array was built 3 or 4 years ago.... It's real basic trestles made of rough 4x2 wood.
#pv #offGrid #selfsufficiency

@KiwiEV I see you're leaning heavily on the wheel to stop it going far right...

@sidawson @KiwiEV its still up 57% over a year and 366% over 5. Hopefully people take their money and run making it down over 5 years soon.

@feld @ojala maybe but if turning the tap off is easier than emptying the bucket with a teaspoon I suggest focusing on turning that tap off.
We have so much we can easily decarbonise right now. We just don't have the political will mainly due to FUD spreaders paid for by the fossil fuel lobby. Carbon capture at present is just a part of this fog of FUD.

@feld @ojala I've yet to be convinced that any of the carbon capture schemes are a good use of money vs decarbonising. Until we've changed all the easy stuff to renewable electric I think it is 100% a waste of money, talent & resources.

@ojala f*** carbon capture, it ain't real.

@SlicerDicer you misunderstand your role in society. You're meant to buy new stuff not fix it! /s
Out of interest, what brand/spec is your cleaner? I've been considering one for a while.

@codinghorror I can't wait for us to use the tech we have to its full. We can ditch most of our CO2 emissions this way.
Electrify baby!
#ElectrifyEverything #StopBurningStuff