New Zealand Declares A National Emergency For The Third Time In Twelve Years
That’s how bad it is getting .. and not just in New Zealand.
Bernard Hickey reporting that New Zealand has declared a 🔗 National emergency for Gabrielle. The massive storm and floods two weeks ago where 4 people died did NOT have the same focus. In fact, it’s only been enabled twice before. Though in fairness, the Hawke’s Bay earthquake in 1931 would have resulted in it being declared a National Emergency had there been such an organization and in later years, with other earthquakes, it was the Department of Civil Defence that was called into action.
That all said, these challenges do seem to be accelerating.
I have flown this route many, many times (sorry - Twitter), so when I read that 🔗 United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean, I explored.
Not reported at the time (this wasn’t news?) and revealed in The Air Current, an organ that surely everyone reads?
February 13th.
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In light of my daily reading of 🔗 The Daily Stoic, this one seemed to connect to some recent themes I have been reading. Not the first time this 💬 has been on the site, but three years ago, it wasn’t as pretty.
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If you are a SetApp user, you might have received this in an email.
Let me help your relationship … NO.
You are welcome.
Thankfully my friend knew that the line would be this long and got their early so by the time I joined him he was near that arrow - which only put us about 15th in line. This is for coffee folks. When I left, the line was just as long. The funny thing is that once ordered, you could choose pretty much any table - the place was half empty!
The stuff came out pretty quickly, so the hold up comes from a single person taking all the orders. Apparently, this is always like this.
Something in me wants to drill down and explore their strategy, because without me meeting my friend for a coffee, I would have just moved on.
Just to say that even if I don’t intend to implement what I am being shown (yet), I thoroughly enjoy reading the @moondeer posts that accompany his plugins.
I’m closely tracking the cyclone down under, Jax is still there, hard to get a single headline or video of what is going on. That said, here’s a headline that might make you sit up …
Cyclone Gabrielle: 50 Auckland apartments evacuated after fears 30m tower will collapse.
Most people I know will resonate with this 🔗 video. A great example of ‘truth in humour’. And yes I know there are exceptions … which is why OUR fitted sheets are always perfectly folded!
Substack is designed for writers, not business owners.
💬 Ellen Donnelly
What she means is that Substack doesn’t have all the data tracking guff and stuff that comes with the marketing ESPs like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.
I think the term is ‘grandfathering’.
I read a ‘waste of space’ of an article - and for some reason I still went through and commented on it. HERE
One word they used was ‘aigiarism’ - as if it was commonplace.
Not according to Google - and this is what ChatGPT had to say.
/endrant
Remember Y2K? Here we go again … The year 2038 problem - and I am guessing the end result will be pretty much the same.
A set of links from Jono Hey’s 🔗 Sketchplanations where he uses his image talent to help us understand meanings, spellings and usage of words. Really good, something for everyone.
It all started here the old c or s question in spelling
Spotify’s move into podcasts siloed radio shows is an attempt to keep people in their walled garden concrete parking lot, because music was having significant impact on their bottom line. Looks like they have hit on their next ‘bottom line improvement’.
‘We’ have always wondered why people post their ideas, thoughts and I.P onto a public site over which they have no control and are not paid.
With the ‘twitter long post’, you can now pay them to post your ideas, thoughts and I.P onto a public site over which you have no control and are not paid.
Got it.
February 12th.
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Export from Overcast to OPML.
Import to iThoughts. (odd - right?)
Export to Markdown.
Post Markdown into an MB page.
… and voilà … 🔗 a list of podcasts I follow.
Next job is to work out how to automagically organize the list so it is easier for the average passer by.