DazzaNZ / is on Nostr

I literally fix robots. I am surprised as much as anyone else.

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2025-04-04 19:11:29

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@nprofile…0a73 I don't think I have even been in a bank here for five years. I don't think that getting money out of a bank is a thing in New Zealand.
The last time I got money out of a bank. The teller just used a special ATM in their desk to take the money out.
Photos of my bank. I don't know what you go there for. A cup of coffee? I don't know what the food is like.
The furniture is cool. I would like the couch and floor mat for my living room.
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2024-12-30 18:18:37

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@nprofile…zfmq I think they had that in eXistenZ. It's an interesting movie.

2024-12-18 18:05:10

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@nprofile…mj3l I love magic cars. They are ok if there is a place to charge them.
New Zealand is as long as the distance from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
I could drive my car with 100km hops between chargers. It would take a week.
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2024-12-15 17:54:06

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@nprofile…zw4s I know a 20 year old, who just bought a used Corvette. It's a very cool looking car.
He skipped university and became a steel fabricator. Turns out that building factories pays well. He has been building diesel tanks for generators this month.

2024-12-12 17:45:11

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@nprofile…zmej I think surf is a laundry detergent brand.

2024-12-11 17:53:03

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@nprofile…rlzq Expensive tunnelling to allow railway services in suburbs with populations too low to support public transport.

2024-12-07 21:28:06

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@nprofile…zvrn @nprofile…ttcn @nprofile…732y
Yeah, New Zealand, being a long separated island is like that too. The imported mammals were terrible for the native birds. But good conservation reserves on islands, or with stainless steel fences have made many native birds common again.
The fence on this city reserve goes one meter down and one or two metres out underground so mice, rats and rabbits can't get under it.
The curve up over and out, stops animals from climbing it.
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2024-12-07 20:11:10

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@nprofile…zvrn @nprofile…ttcn @nprofile…732y Yeah, what was a pine forest out my window, was cut down a year or two ago, is now a scrub covered hill. At least the scrub will hold the mountain together through the next few storms. They may have replanted it, but I can't see any seedlings, it's a bit far away.

2024-12-07 20:03:46

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@nprofile…zvrn @nprofile…ttcn @nprofile…732y Yeah, pinus radiata grows at twice the speed in New Zealand than in North America. I don't know why, perhaps it's because our winters are not as cold, and they basically grow 11 months per year, rather than five months per year.

2024-12-07 18:14:47

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@nprofile…ttcn @nprofile…732y @nprofile…zvrn Pine forest plantations in New Zealand take 25-30 years. Pinus radiata - Monterey Pine. I have seen whole forests, cut down, replanted, go through several pruning and thinnings and cut down and replanted again. Like the one on the hill I can see behind my computer monitor.
See the squares on this satellite view.
They are not really real forests because they have nothing in them that native animal can eat. Dry pine needles are poison to local plant species.
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2024-12-06 19:41:31

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@nprofile…em78
The package arrived with glee,
A surprise from Amazon, or so it seemed to be
But as I opened the box with a curious eye,
I found myself face to face...with a llama's sigh.
A courier mix-up, oh so divine,
Left me with a new roommate, quite sublime.
Fuzzy ears and a spitting fit,
My morning routine, now in a bit.
Who needs coffee when you've got a llama friend?
To brighten up your day till the very end.
So here's to this unexpected twist,
A furry surprise that's sure to persist!

2024-12-06 19:30:21

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@nprofile…yg20 Well then just build the tip into the price, and say you have a no tip policy.

2024-12-06 19:28:43

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@nprofile…hadd If you think that is fun, you can search online for "Pharmac schedule pdf". Where you can get a list of common prescription medicines and the price that the NZ government pays for each treatment. Where you might find that the medicine that you got charged $900 for actually cost 73 cents.
Here is one, insulin costs $98 USD, but it is 17.68 NZD=10.38 USD.
In other new the Mac auto complete does exchange rates.
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2024-12-02 17:38:03

H7N6 in New Zealand, they are killing off 40,000 chickens out of 200,000 on the egg farm.
It's not H1N1, but they are killing them just incase it mutates into a pathogenic strain.
Also in other farm news sheep measles, which is caused by a tape worm from dogs. Dogs that visit sheep farms have to take worming medication.
I did not have sheep measles on my bingo card, but you guys can add it to your 2025 bingo card, along with H7N6.

2024-11-23 19:39:21

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@nprofile…8cq2 And when they do, they can be cancelled for cultural appropriation, and probably copyright violation.

2024-08-30 01:47:46

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