That's really cool! A few years back my Dad mentioned seeing kōkako fly over (in New Plymouth). Turns out there were some released up that way a couple of years prior to that.
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Chris Bishop claims this in the article, yes.
He said the code of practice for traffic management risk assessment had been overly prescriptive, and the New Zealand Transport Agency has now stopped using it for work on state highways.
"They have instead moved to a far more pragmatic guide which allows contractors to use their experience and common sense to keep everyone safe on a worksite, rather than specifying road cone use down to the centimetre."
Bishop said many councils, which own and maintain local roads, were still using the code of practice.
"Which is why we still see ridiculous temporary traffic management measures on local streets, such as quiet cul-de-sacs covered in road cones because of minor work on a footpath.
So it seems there is an old guide that did prescribe the distance, but it's no longer used by NZTA.
(how true this is may be in the eye of the observer)
All good! I'm glad it was that. Initially I thought they might be doing tricky stuff with hard coding their DNS server but apparently not, just needed the right block list 🙂
As per a response I found on the orange site, try adding these block lists in pihole: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist
How do siblings argue over TV channels if you can't put your hand over the IR receiver to stop your sibling (who was quickest to get the remote) from changing the channel?
I guess they all have their own screens now.
From what I understand if the new laws, you have to ask permission to have pets, your landlord can't say no without reasonable grounds, and they are allowed to hold a pet bond.
Landlords (as you say, especially property managers) definitely put in clauses they know are unenforceable. I believe there was a different law change that meant if you won at the tribunal you don't get your name published, because in the past landlords would refuse to rent to people seen as trouble makers even if they were in the right. With all the complaints about lack of action, Labour did manage some strides for the working class.
I've just had a browse through this PDF explaining the process.
I actually thought the quarantine was much longer than 10 days, but it seems there's a huge amount of work prior to this in getting vaccinations and tests at the right time and get a rabies antibody test at the right time, among other things but it seems rabies is the biggest concern. I'm assuming you're not coming from Hawaii, the only part of the US that's on the category 2 (rabies free) list.
It mentions that some airlines won't even let you fly your pet unless done through a pet travel service, so it seems like a no brainer to let them work it out if you have to pay them anyway 😅
Upcoming law change:
Landlords will only be able to refuse a tenant's request to keep a pet in the property on reasonable grounds
The current page also says it's pretty dubious as to whether a landlord is actually allowed to ban pets, but I guess the new law coming into effect makes it clearer that pets are allowed unless the landlord has reasonable ground to deny it.
The plug won't be, you could get a universal plug converter or if it charges through USB C or is internationally common (e.g. Mac) then you can just buy a charger in NZ.
For voltage differences, I'd expect more issues in hair dryers or toasters or that sort of thing. Many these days support both so they can be sold in different markets, I'm not sure how much of an issue it is these daysbut it's worth checking. They normally have it printed/engraved on them.
Just as a warning, I have heard there are hideous costs to bringing a pet. NZ has very strict biosecurity requirements, our ecosystem is quite fragile due to being completely separated from another other land mass. So you'll be paying for weeks of quarantine, plus travel costs to fly them here. Thousands of dollars. So waiting to see if you'll stay long term seems like a good move!
Well being an adult is taking a giant bite through a bunch of giant kitkats, then putting the rest away for another day.
There is an announcement post here: https://lemmy.nz/post/25124710
We drew this last time:
Any suggestions for what we could draw this time? I'm happy to put together a template, it would be nice to have some new ideas for this year.
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It clearly does. I point you to number 3, tacos, in the original link. Where it classifies "Slice if pie" as a taco. Clearly being sliced gives it it's class.
This is also true of hot dogs, where if you didn't slice the bun it would be class 1.