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#3333156 19-Jan-2025 11:28

Time wasters on Facebook marketplace. Having a clear out and trying to sell a few things - I know Trademe is more reliable but can't be bothered with paying a success fee when the thing is only $10-$20 anyway. And marketplace allows you to message people to organise pickup much quicker. Would use TM for anything of value.

When you list something, within minutes you get a message from someone asking if they can arrange postage and pay via NZ Post which is obviously a scam. Then there's people who ask you to drop it off to them, and again for $10 I can't be bothered driving across town just to find they are not there or don't want it anymore.

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#3333241 19-Jan-2025 14:31

invisibleman18: Was the same at Coldplay at Eden Park, and on the bank at the Basin Reserve which had announcements of being a smoke and vape venue before play. As much as you can try and ask someone to not do it they are just going to tell you to f*** off.

It all depends on how you phrase the request. If you say "Would you mind not vaping in here?" you'll be told to f--- off. If you say "Would you mind not vaping in here?" while wearing a Mongrel Mob jacket and with tattooed arms thicker than their legs, they'll comply. It's all up to the how you phrase the request.

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#3333756 20-Jan-2025 18:15

Please tell me this isn't the norm for all the newly built "homes" that you see all around AK?

Terraced houses in Auckland overheating due to poor design, demands for Building Code fix - NZ Herald

We had the displeasure of staying in one via AirBnB. Three levels - ground floor is the garage and laundry. 2nd floor is a toilet and kitchen/dining/family space. Top floor had two bedrooms and a bathroom. The 2nd floor has a heatpump but of course that's not at all going to cool down the bedrooms. Our son ended up stripping the couch of its cushions to make a bed on the floor under the heatpump.

There's no local park and the great surrounding concrete or pavement expanse just adds to the heat

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#3333940 21-Jan-2025 07:54

MadEngineer:

Please tell me this isn't the norm for all the newly built "homes" that you see all around AK?

Terraced houses in Auckland overheating due to poor design, demands for Building Code fix - NZ Herald

We had the displeasure of staying in one via AirBnB. Three levels - ground floor is the garage and laundry. 2nd floor is a toilet and kitchen/dining/family space. Top floor had two bedrooms and a bathroom. The 2nd floor has a heatpump but of course that's not at all going to cool down the bedrooms. Our son ended up stripping the couch of its cushions to make a bed on the floor under the heatpump.

There's no local park and the great surrounding concrete or pavement expanse just adds to the heat

Yup, looked at several open homes with a friend last year in summer and with the stupid window restrictions they had on them you couldn't even get a breeze thru it, and it was unknown if all the BS rules about being in a newish development and not letting you modify things that you own would allow for install of proper aircon in the place. Token heatpumps in living areas (where you need it least IMO) are done to meet healthy homes crap standards that should have been made to address this problem too but because dumbasses only cared about people living in obsolete 50s housing being cold they didn't bother to include cooling in that.

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#3334057 21-Jan-2025 11:14

Building Code and local District Plan all need an overhaul to improve these things. Wayyyy too many areas are prescribed and lead to these outcomes. I live in a townhouse myself and experience many of these same issues. It was rather shocking to see that, when I requested the Property File, there was over 1,500 pages just to build one of a group of less than ten homes.

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#3334096 21-Jan-2025 12:56

Websites that are deliberately annoying. We've all seen the cookie consent popups, but this was a new one.

"We see that you've opted out of cookies via your browser settings. We respect your choice! But we're still going to pop this message up in your face, telling you about it!"

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#3334099 21-Jan-2025 13:03

Behodar:

Websites that are deliberately annoying. We've all seen the cookie consent popups, but this was a new one.

"We see that you've opted out of cookies via your browser settings. We respect your choice! But we're still going to pop this message up in your face, telling you about it!"

What sometimes works for this kind of thing is a javascript switch. However I notice it doesn't work as well as it used to.

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#3334212 21-Jan-2025 15:58

MadEngineer:

Please tell me this isn't the norm for all the newly built "homes" that you see all around AK?

Terraced houses in Auckland overheating due to poor design, demands for Building Code fix - NZ Herald

We had the displeasure of staying in one via AirBnB. Three levels - ground floor is the garage and laundry. 2nd floor is a toilet and kitchen/dining/family space. Top floor had two bedrooms and a bathroom. The 2nd floor has a heatpump but of course that's not at all going to cool down the bedrooms. Our son ended up stripping the couch of its cushions to make a bed on the floor under the heatpump.

There's no local park and the great surrounding concrete or pavement expanse just adds to the heat

the 2-story ones have living kitchen and garage on the ground floor and bedrooms on the 1st floor. if you want a decent through breeze you need to open the garage or front door, which is not always practical, some dont even have a garage. And depending on orientation, they might not get a decent breeze most of the time to help move that air. Upstairs will also be a greenhouse and they use the cheapest double glazing which lets all the sunlight and heat in, and again you are restricted to windows on safety stays to allow a breeze through.

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#3334244 21-Jan-2025 17:05

The creeping growth of fake channels on Youtube: AI-generated stories with AI-generated voiceovers for AI-generated images, and judging by the large number of singleton comments (a single comment saying how wonderful the video is with no follow-on discussion), bots boosting their ratings with generated comments.

I wonder how long before it degenerates into a circle jerk of a thousand channels of AI slop feeding AI bots posting slop in response.

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#3334245 21-Jan-2025 17:11

Jase2985:

the 2-story ones have living kitchen and garage on the ground floor and bedrooms on the 1st floor. if you want a decent through breeze you need to open the garage or front door, which is not always practical, some dont even have a garage. And depending on orientation, they might not get a decent breeze most of the time to help move that air. Upstairs will also be a greenhouse and they use the cheapest double glazing which lets all the sunlight and heat in, and again you are restricted to windows on safety stays to allow a breeze through.

Those safety stays have a hell of a lot to answer for. People I know that own their places will blast them off but if you're renting that's something that they inspect are still working for liability reasons.

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#3334248 21-Jan-2025 17:20

From the looks of some of the complexes, you have to take turns with your neighbours as to who can open a window.

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#3334359 22-Jan-2025 07:51

MadEngineer:

Please tell me this isn't the norm for all the newly built "homes" that you see all around AK?

Terraced houses in Auckland overheating due to poor design, demands for Building Code fix - NZ Herald

I often wonder as I'm driving around Auckland, what's with the lack of eaves? Just gone out of fashion? Cutting costs by literally reducing materials used?

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#3334385 22-Jan-2025 09:16

I am annoyed by all the English place names in this country. Every time I do a search, I keep ending up in bloody GB. We have perfectly good Māori names for our places. Why can't we just use those?

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#3334386 22-Jan-2025 09:27

cddt:

MadEngineer:

Please tell me this isn't the norm for all the newly built "homes" that you see all around AK?

Terraced houses in Auckland overheating due to poor design, demands for Building Code fix - NZ Herald

I often wonder as I'm driving around Auckland, what's with the lack of eaves? Just gone out of fashion? Cutting costs by literally reducing materials used?

I would have thought they'd learn from previous mistakes - lack of eaves was one of the major contributors to the leaky building plague of the 1990's/2000's.

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#3334398 22-Jan-2025 10:19

cddt:

I often wonder as I'm driving around Auckland, what's with the lack of eaves? Just gone out of fashion? Cutting costs by literally reducing materials used?

Eaves count as coverage but not inhabitable area.

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