The 'This is fine' comic of the dog sitting in a room on fire but now it is also filled with rising flood waters

Do nothing.
Win.

Doesn't help that Metservice seems like just some company.

Basically the same as relying on your Android weather widget for emergency advice.

Yeah exactly.

I think some of it is a COVID hangover where there were largely unambiguous and universally applicable rules to respond to.

Most disasters/crises aren't like that.

That's not what it is. It's about giving permission to responders to do things that would otherwise be illegal.

There isn't really a unified "bad thing happen" alert system.

Metservice's warnings are the rough equivalent for weather.

We probably need better public education about how disaster response works because everyone seems to think "declaring a state of emergency" is a communication to the public that a bad thing is going to happen.

Do nothing.
Win.

Disagree. A lot of that NZ First support is soft and only there for lack of any alternative.

Labour throw in Jackson or McAnulty and they'll pinch 5% of it back overnight.

Exactly one year ago today:

Two parties lead by Chrises, and whichever knifes theirs first wins the election.

Trees taken down, shelter removed amid legal fight over 500-apartment development The Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Gardens in Auckland is unhappy after parts of their garden were removed to accommodate early construction works.

Rocking up and setting up a farm on someone else's land then using legal trickery to stay there is definitional pākehā culture.

Like it's our whole thing.

www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

"The 1900s" is bad enough.

Oh wow thanks for that.

Hahaha fuck I love it.

"This could be us babe".

Idk, I think a couple who have knowingly chosen "No Children" as 'our song' are dying in the same bed aged 85.

That kind of shared perversity can endure anything.

Starting a Give-a-Little fundraiser to buy Meow Nui some ceiling fans.

"Hurricanes beat Auckland" headlining both the news and sports sections of the Sunday papers.

The Mountain Goats watching the New Years Day playcount spike for "This Year" get slightly smaller every year, year after year.

Because I got the 503 error and assumed I was doing something wrong.

Ah thanks. Okay if it is the API being down I will make me feel a lot less stupid.

Man it being people with 2000s loser cruisers getting fucked over is a bummer. Why can't a crisis come that only hurts people I specifically resent?

A proper truck surely??

Even a Mercedes Child Mangler or Ford Ego Tripper is only like 80...

All our data is available in One Big CSV File as God intended.

Do any of you nerds have experience with getting data out of Metro Canterbury's API?

All I want is a simple static GTFS zip which the other providers all just have on their website.

Reluctant and self-loathing is the only way to be about them.

Regrettably their shit works and that Capture Clip and I have been through a lot together.

@ItsBCJim The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane

I'm serious if Trump ever steps inside St Ignatius Loyola in Rome, the mf is having a beatific vision.

No this is incorrect.

Leo (like Mamdani) has the sauce. And on top of that, no one does gilded aurafarming like the Church.

One audience from the Chair of St Peter and Trump is going to convert.

I mean Ferris winning TT Tonga for you is prolly not the worst plan.

It's not a good one but it's not the worst.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted