Steffen

Oh I know, but they don’t appear to be as common. Whereas here it’s seemingly in place at every apartment building I’ve considered.

Yeah it was definitely here before based on the online listings I see. I sort of haven’t engaged with Garage Project as much in recent years. I’m not always the biggest fan of a hazy, and that seems to dominate their playbook to a certain extent.

It’s extremely annoying to learn that I can’t buy the 0% stout here. That Tiny Stout is so good.

Ah I wasn’t aware I could do that here! I’ll subscribe. It’ll help me deal with the ways I’m realising that parts of renting here are somehow worse than in Wellington.

I have not struggled to find very good craft beer, but I imagine mileage may vary outside Melbourne.

Can also easily get Whittakers at basically the same price as back home. Biscuits are certainly worse.

Things that are also worse:

- embedded utility networks at apartment buildings.

Deeply cooked.

Stop glorifying ‘build to rent’. It’s just another asset class rebranded by corporate landlords.

Any streaming platforms banned AI-music yet? I'd like to give them my money.

BBC response to Bob Vylan’s IDF chants at Glastonbury ‘not good enough’, says minister Jacqui Smith says live broadcast should have been pulled, but rapper stands by performance calling for ‘change in foreign policy’

People like Smith and Starmer simply don’t belong in a Labour Party worthy of the name.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The racism is definitely worse here. That's undeniable.

On the other hand though, their tax system is closer to decent (still bad), rent is cheaper (still too expensive), supermarkets compete more (still evil), seeing a GP is easier and cheaper, specialises are easier to find.

Etc.

I dared to jokingly say I had found things better in Australia than NZ since moving and someone I've never interacted with called me a moron and a racist.

I don't think they read much lol

Wild how so many believe their freedom limited by not being allowed to limit the freedom of others.

This is not my experience but I am happy for you

Cheers, Cheffie. Good to be here

The fuck?

Moved from NZ to Australia in March.

Things that are worse:

- Internet speeds
- Chocolate milk

Things that are better? Everything else.

Will back this forever. Thank you.

Pour the money you would have spent paying stupid hourly rates to agencies on paying creatives *more* to stand out from AI-generated videos and photos.

I'm good with AI being used for 'simple' social copy, email copy, SEO blogs etc.

I say this as someone who has made a living off that stuff. I've experienced absolutely broken economics that marketing/comms agencies depend on.

Let AI reform that world, and leave the creative to humans.

(I appreciate these things are nuanced but Christ alive watching this election has been a great way to gain appreciation for NZ’s system)

I don’t think this country knows what being representative means. At least in the lower house.

WAKE UP

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Didn't take me long at all. I don't notice them most of the time, and it doesn't bother me at all

I am desperate to see this complaint. Are they asking for the trains to be more quiet? For the trains to not run so frequently? What?

Don't move in to an apartment that is next to a train line if you are going to be bothered by the sound of trains. I mean, fuck.

Received an email from our building manager to all the tenants in our building. A building built next to a major train line.

It advised people that management, in response to residents' concerns about train noise, had raised "formal complaints with Metro Trains and the Public Transport Ombudsman."

How would one even begin to try to parse this for relevant information?

what a tune

Marketing/Consulting/Strategy/Operations. I’m one of those annoying generalists

Yep. Abandoned ship, hoped the ditch, here I am. Just need a job now