No matter how many times you put them in the bin, lids still can’t be recycled.
![New Zealand standardised its recycling rules – why is it still so confusing?](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/a421fcf0-e27a-4c4c-8a6d-a53812f312a5.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Yeah definitely a different standard, but as the article points out, they try and hold their own MPs to that standard.
First Kerekere, then Ghahraman, then Tana and now Genter. The Greens' uncompromising posture creates an awful pressure, one that recent events suggest is untenable.
![Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples?](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/1ebd4579-cd6d-43d5-b18d-e7a7c124deb6.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Actually, yes. Looked like they ate quite a bit. There were half eaten chocolates all over the car.
Yeah, they left quite a mess - it was pretty clean before. Don't know what they were eating but they left it everywhere. Admittedly the mud is from me :D
Someone tried to steal our Subaru in Christchurch
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We were away for a week and left it on the side of the road. Doesn't look like they were particularly competent, as they ruined the ignition but didn't manage to start it.
They left quite a mess, bit annoyed to be honest.
https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/bombs-away whoops sorry!
Source code is here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/bombs-away
Mountain Report: Current snow/ice conditions in our National Parks
Not involved at all (apart from some posts) but thought it was a pretty cool idea.
Users submit recent snow/ice/river/track observations so you can have a rough idea what you're in for.
Yeah, it's a tent :D Just a corner of it
Did you see the interview from afterwards? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUoq6Gdk-g
He's always been a pretty controversial figure, but I feel like he used to be a bit wittier and more coherent. Definitely seems like he's gone off the rails the last few years.
Already there! Good suggestions though
Also added Small Planet, which I'd somehow forgotten about :D
Sweet, added! I hadn't seen Aarn packs before, seems like they make some cool stuff!
I wanted results which would prioritise things like fiordlandpacks.nz, cactusoutdoor.co.nz and southernlitepacks.co.nz. As you can see, it was only partially successful but I feel like it's still useful.
The source for the filter is https://gist.github.com/fallaciousreasoning/c7d10b8db5449fb62b601ddf111003a3 - let me know if you think there are some NZ based sites I should include.
New Zealand Gear Search Filter
Brave Search released a feature a which lets you customize search results. It's always a bit of a hassle searching for gear which is either made in NZ or ships to NZ, so I had a go at making one which prioritises outdoors gear which is made here (or failing that, is sold here).
You can test it here
Disclaimer: I work at Brave, though not on the search team
To be honest, not heaps of gear on the pitch - it's pretty cruisy climbing though (maybe 15, in Ewbanks)
My mates first trad lead
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The traversey third pitch of Indian Summer (18), up at the Remarkables, Queenstown, New Zealand
Buildings are under threat, Te Whatu Ora has issued a health warning, and a witness says they can see flames higher than billowing smoke. Follow RNZ's liveblog for updates.
![Christchurch Port Hills fire: Firefighters responding to large blaze](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/6dcedf3c-bc4e-4b3b-b913-fa3aa3364f88.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Another whistle-stop tour through even more bizarre and regressive decisions that allow a lot less housing in Wellington.
![The second report on the future of Wellington’s housing is out, and it’s even shittier than the first](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/06917ecc-9fcd-4c8a-a66f-ad72021bc4a4.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Just not consistently full - definitely people in them, just not all the time. Only time everything is full is the school holidays...
Oh yeah, the only empty houses are all the AirBnBs (at my weekly rent every night) or lock'n'leaves. Probably 2/3rds of my street is empty most of the time. Rentals can't be had for love or money, we got lucky with ours at the end of covid.
Data released by property valuation company Valocity and reported by NZME's One Roof shows that Queenstown Lakes district recorded value growth of 4% quarter-on-quarter, and 6. 3% year-on-year.
![Queenstown Lakes property values pass $2 million average for the first time](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/bbd8f2a3-a15d-4f3e-94b3-3a7a66ffd641.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Property market is pretty crazy down here
Hope it's all good - did mine (pretty mildly) this time last year and it was easily 4 or 5 months before it felt back to normal.
Take it easy!
Presumably this is funded by the $15 they charge me every time I drive up the road :D
New $23m Remarkables chairlift on track for 2024 opening
Sorry for all the spam, having a travelling day and reading more than normal.
The former National Party leader pays tribute to his great pal from the Greens.
![Todd Muller: My friend James Shaw embodies the best of NZ politics](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/bb90a09f-2c41-48ee-8148-dc50c76d2032.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
James Shaw was great! I really like Chloe Swarbrick too, but I feel like Todd Mueller makes some good points about Shaw striving for consensus and working across the aisle. Hope the Greens can keep it after he's gone.
Live exports are coming back, says the government – but the industry is clearly worried about something.
![If reversing the ban on live exports is a good idea, why spend $1 million to persuade us?](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/897f4da1-ba3a-4886-9dbe-0994b8361de2.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Infamous America's Cup boat hauled from Queenstown Bay
The infamous America's Cup boat NZL 14 has been removed from Lake Wakatipu's waters by council after years of legal battles regarding its right to be parked in Queenstown Bay.
![Stoush continues as infamous America's Cup boat hauled from Queenstown Bay](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/7480a1e9-601c-4a51-ad25-4e3faff0fce4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)