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#3052284 20-Mar-2023 11:24

kiwifidget:

This message from Lotto Online, after I hit BUY.

Seriously, if Lotto can't issue the tickets before the draw, they should let you cancel.

In fairness, it doesn't say it doesn't issue the ticket, it just says it may not appear in your account until the following day. It's possible it's issued to you in their backend but for some reason the frontend doesn't update.

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#3052582 20-Mar-2023 22:28

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Geektastic: I was looking at a jar of peanut butter today.

1) Ingredients: Peanuts 99.5%, Salt
2) Immediately adjacent to that: Warning Contains Peanuts

Now, I realise that people have allergies but that seems to verging on the obvious. It’s also called Peanut Butter.

Then there was a special orangutan virtue Mark because the rainforest where they live wasn’t harmed.

However, the peanuts came from Australia or Argentina. Neither of which actually have any orangutans…. So they could not possibly have been harmed by making the peanut butter.

Equally, they could have said...

Contains Salt. Also no unicorns were injured during the making of this peanut butter, however many small children may have been :-)

Well, gosh darn it - they have not specifically stated that children were not harmed! In the modern way, that must therefore mean that they WERE harmed and/or that the manufacturer does not care if they were.

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#3052619 21-Mar-2023 08:34

It has been nearly two years since I first grizzled to Metlink about the lack of reliability of my local commuter bus service and their excuse was a driver shortage.

Two years and nothing has improved. It doesn't even make me angry any more, just leaves me shaking my head which is why I've put this here and not in the 'Angry' thread. (Although I did flick them another message today saying it's pathetic, that did make me feel better.)

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3052764 21-Mar-2023 11:59

floydbloke:
It has been nearly two years since I first grizzled to Metlink about the lack of reliability of my local commuter bus service and their excuse was a driver shortage.

Two years and nothing has improved. It doesn't even make me angry any more, just leaves me shaking my head which is why I've put this here and not in the 'Angry' thread. (Although I did flick them another message today saying it's pathetic, that did make me feel better.)

My wife used their trains for many years and they were equally hopeless.

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#3052771 21-Mar-2023 12:36

floydbloke:

It has been nearly two years since I first grizzled to Metlink about the lack of reliability of my local commuter bus service and their excuse was a driver shortage.

Two years and nothing has improved. It doesn't even make me angry any more, just leaves me shaking my head which is why I've put this here and not in the 'Angry' thread. (Although I did flick them another message today saying it's pathetic, that did make me feel better.)

Some interesting info to support your head-shaking is at https://www.metlink.org.nz/news-and-updates/surveys-and-reports/performance-of-our-network if you're interested. Cancelled bus services info is in the PDF's linked in the "Metlink Monthly Performance Report" drop-down at the bottom of the page. Latest month reported is January with many fewer cancellations because of the Saturday plus timetable they ran then. I'm sure it will go back to being terrible again for February.

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#3052908 21-Mar-2023 15:14

MikeB4:

Respectfully I disagree. the ethnicity of the protesters did not need to be signalled out.

And I disagree with you as it shows an 'own goal' and makes a statement in itself.

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#3052928 21-Mar-2023 16:10

JetA1:

MikeB4:

Respectfully I disagree. the ethnicity of the protesters did not need to be signalled out.

And I disagree with you as it shows an 'own goal' and makes a statement in itself.

With the quoted post being 15 months old, I think it's probably done and dusted at this point!

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#3052942 21-Mar-2023 16:40

Behodar:

With the quoted post being 15 months old, I think it's probably done and dusted at this point!

How did you even find it? I couldn't. What was it?

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#3052944 21-Mar-2023 16:44

Rikkitic:

How did you even find it? I couldn't. What was it?

I chucked the phrase into Google. The post was on page 1 and it was apologised for on page 3.

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#3053071 21-Mar-2023 22:46

Geektastic: I was looking at a jar of peanut butter today.

1) Ingredients: Peanuts 99.5%, Salt
2) Immediately adjacent to that: Warning Contains Peanuts

Now, I realise that people have allergies but that seems to verging on the obvious. It’s also called Peanut Butter.

Then there was a special orangutan virtue Mark because the rainforest where they live wasn’t harmed.

However the peanuts came from Australia or Argentina. Neither of which actually have any orangutans…. So they could not possibly have been harmed by making the peanut butter.

If we're digging up slightly dead posts...

It appears that some peanut butter also contains 'vegetable oil', which is likely to be (or explicitly is) palm oil, linked to rainforest destruction. Peanut butter with only peanut oil is not linked to this. By selecting peanut butter without palm oil you're probably having more of an (infinitesimal) impact than selecting peanut butter with palm oil but from a sustainable source.

/pedant

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#3053072 21-Mar-2023 22:50

It appears that some peanut butter also contains 'vegetable oil', which is likely to be (or explicitly is) palm oil, linked to rainforest destruction. Peanut butter with only peanut oil is not linked to this. By selecting peanut butter without palm oil you're probably having more of an (infinitesimal) impact than selecting peanut butter with palm oil but from a sustainable source.

So here's an interesting problem, if you're using peanut butter for its intended purpose, namely baiting possum traps, does the positive environmental impact of removing possums from the environment balance out the negative impact of having palm oil in there? And since you can remove a dozen or more possums for one small container of peanut butter, can you build up climate credits for that and then offset them against other environmentally unfriendly foods?

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