I’ve had a opportunity for a couple of dives in a pool, but the one time I did it outside a pool was in Vanuatu when I was on a school trip as a teenager.

My friend did it while on his OE, went diving all around UK and western Europe. Now he lives in SE Asia and has done a bunch of stuff there too. Loves it!

He has no kids, so can do that sort of thing. I haven’t even left the country since my first kid was born!

Awesome, thanks!

Does it? I guess I don’t know much about how public transport is funded.

Is there any more info about that? I wasn’t able to search up anything relevant.

I guess we have public transport for many reasons, which save money in other ways so it isn’t really about the money (fewer roads to build, better air quality which means fewer hospital visits and deaths, fewer road accidents, etc).

I’m still keen on knowing if it’s true that it’s 90% subsidised, you’re right why not 100%.

Thanks for being here!

Weird. It’s still linked from the website. It’s just not there. Maybe they messed up?

Yeah for sure. Every $6B road could be 30 years of free public transport 😟

This is one of those times when my response is “you’re telling me we could have had this all along for only $65M a year?”

Very interesting! While I see that many of the National MPs outspend the Labour ones, National is in government at the moment so this probably doesn’t point to anything unusual. I would expect MPs in government, especially ministers, to travel and spend more.

With that said, National MPs seem to spend more on accommodation. I’m assuming “accommodation” is that thing where you buy a house in Wellington and get the government to pay your mortgage.

Haha I got it straight away, it was a super popular song when I was younger, and the line in the meme “Despite all my rage” clearly identifies it. But I can imagine it would be easy to miss the window. Be born a few years later. Be from a country that doesn’t commonly have American rock bands at the top of the charts. Or just not being into rock or having time to listen to the radio at that point in time.

Then you have to also know who Nicolas Cage is. And also be on lemmy enough to understand how people think.

Ok I can see how this could be pretty obscure.

Sorry, 1800s was a bit vague. 1879 apparently.

I would be so excited if a wealth tax was properly implemented, but given those with wealth are the ones that fund political parties I’m not keeping my hopes up.

One of the ideas mentioned in this video is one from the 1800s saying that taxing income disincentivises productive work, and that we should only have a land tax (and no land improvement tax) since land itself doesn’t change and can’t hop on a plane and head to Australia.

A band called The Smashing Pumpkins have a song called Bullet With Butterfly Wings. A line repeated a lot in the chorus is “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”.

The image shows a rat behind Nicolas Cage.

My app of choice at the moment is Summit, after playing with the settings to get something that feela comfortable. I am not sure there is any app that is just what I want, but I switch around them as I’m just not sure what I want anymore 🤷

I haven’t heard of this guy before, and a top result when searching for his name is how he plagiarised the NYT… (not this video, a different one)

Interesting part in the middle of the video where it’s mentioned that globalisation caused everything to decrease in price, so central banks could just keep cutting interest rates without having to worry about inflation. Now that goods can’t really get any cheaper, it no longer works, and now inflation is rising and there’s no clear path to solving it other than increase interest rates and cause house prices to fall - which is political suicide.

The whole concept that rising house prices are bad for almost everyone is so easy to demonstrate, but virtually everyone is happy when their house value goes up for some reason.

I just went down a bit of a rabbit hole on YouTube but I can confirm there are other songs that people play on bagpipes! 😆

Apparently it’s a bit hard as there aren’t that many notes and the nature of them means you have to play notes constantly so you can’t use pauses, but there’s still a lot they can do.

There’s Amazing Grace that you hear occasionally, but also stuff like:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hDw9IHmgN4s

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-m0F-7e6ELM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7uqoJ1_spiQ

From the link in my comment:

Over the course of 2026, we’ll migrate all existing Proton Drive features to the SDK, and build all new features on top of it.

Our priorities are to:

• Complete the SDK rollout across all Proton Drive clients, so the desktop, mobile, and web apps use the same codebase.
• Upgrade Drive’s encryption algorithms to use on‑device hardware acceleration, delivering faster operations while reducing CPU usage.
• Add the still-missing Drive features to the SDK, starting with Photos uploads and downloads, file sharing, devices, and file revisions.
• Gradually move toward a single, well‑documented integration path that third‑party apps can rely on.
• Build a Linux client using the SDK, which speeds up development and keeps it consistent with the other Proton Drive clients.

I guess this only covers Drive and not Mail

Very cool!

Why do bagpipes always play that same song 🫤

It’s a priority for 2026 which they mentioned in January: https://proton.me/blog/drive-sdk-january-2026

Out of those 5 priorities it’s listed last, and the current blog post is about number 2, so assuming they are in development order, having a Linux drive app before Christmas seems like a 50/50 chance.

Well in NZ we have one big electric network and a system for how load is balanced and payments flow between generators and companies supplying to users of the power.

So while there are exceptions, in general we can choose any company, of which there are about 40.

Yeah pretty cool to have so many options! Heaps of mobile apps too, there’s a list of both here: https://lemmyapps.com/