Adjustments to the template are welcome. The kiwi feet look weird, perhaps they should be a consistent colour.

Yeah over the past month or 6 weeks all of us have had colds of some sort. Took me ages to get over mine, and I’m probably still not there.

Through the school holidays everyone in our house has been sleeping longer hours. I figured there must be some low level bug our bodies are fighting but maybe we’re just hibernating.

Thanks! I think we have nicely claimed our spot now so I’m going to start tracing around the edge to make a full outline.

Yeah, a cool way to get around the lack of OAuth or proper single sign on.

I have this template I’m going to start on unless anyone has other suggestions.

At 150, 300. I think this link should work:

https://canvas.fediverse.events/#tu=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.nz%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F96826d33-de00-4472-a04c-f0352ab3a8b9.png&tw=130&tx=150&ty=300&ts=ONE_TO_ONE&x=215&y=365&zoom=1

Adjust the opacity in the settings to see where to place a bit better.

You log in using your Lemmy account, you don’t need to enter your password, instead you enter your username (like dave@lemmy.nz) and it will send you a code via DM to enter and confirm it’s you.

I am, thanks! I hope you’re doing well too 🙂

Sorry I missed posting this this morning. So instead I’ll post it now when everyone’s gone to bed 😅

Canvas starts tomorrow 4pm.

Here’s my current proposal for a template:

Well I guess what I meant is that I don’t think the government is spending tens of millions on a satellite to start a social movement.

They are the government, if they want to stop polluters they shouldn’t encourage boycotts, they should use their teeth. Whether that’s forcing the polluters to buy carbon credits (because that’s the current system), shutting them down, or some other method, they should taking action not trying to convince the public to avoid them.

Aren’t we (as the govt) trying to force them to purchase carbon credits rather than creating a social movement to boycott?

I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants

It’s the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants

Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html

Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?

They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.

The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.

Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.

I guess the point here is holding businesses accountable. If this is how we get proof to stop polluting, then it could well create less pollution than it stops.

You could argue that all pollution monitoring is polluting to find out more about pollution. You’d need to assess what they are expecting to catch vs the CO2 output.

In the grand scheme of things $40m isn’t that much, and you could use carbon credit money to fund another. If the intent is to catch carbon generators not paying their share, surely you could recoup the cost.

Their point is that (as per relatively), all movement is relative to something. So if the earth moved away then you must be measuring in relation to some other reference point. There is no absolute positioning system. So when you say the earth is moving, what is it moving in relation to? And why did you pick that reference point instead of having a time machine that uses earth itself as a reference point?

Haha it’s not work, think of it as donating pixels to a good cause! But it’s fine if you have better things to do 🙂

From random searching around it seems lanes haven’t necessarily changed (basically this route is still used) but technology helps a lot. There are definitely fewer icebergs at that location these days but despite many reddit commenters claiming none it seems there are a few icebergs that make it there: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/images/iip/data/2017/20170426_NAIS65.gif

Sinking location: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sinking_of_the_Titanic&params=41_43_32_N_49_56_49_W_scale%3A5000000

Apparently radar makes sure ships know about any icebergs well in advance, and there are also ice patrol planes and satellite tracking to make them pretty much a non-issue. Unless you’re the MV Explorer cruise ship that sunk in the Antarctic after hitting an iceberg in 2007. But that was outside of shipping lanes and monitoring areas as far as I can tell.

For sad reasons, yes. Probably a lot lower chance than it was 100 years ago.

Pretty sure you can’t draw a kiwi without someone giving it laser eyes 😆