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Check out yesterdays Press article about Hanmer Springs Trapping group: thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360994…

@Becs I don’t eat meat normally. But can’t resist the Farlie pork pie when I’m passing through. Probably only 2-5/year.

NZ Twitter: are you eating 15 meat pies a year? Or more?

@ProfRobAnderson Its big water bottle trying to sell you stuff

Was there some kind of dramatic discovery of new benefits of hydration in the last ten years? We never carried water bottles around all the time until recently and nobody I know of shriveled up and died of dehydration in all those years.

@KylieInTheBluff @jeffcthomson There’s a lot of quality stuff coming from China now. Why not India?

@shaunryan @jeffcthomson So we get cheap shit from India instead of just China. Great. 🙄

Tariffs on higher valued NZ exports to India phased out over 3 to 10 years (50% of exports). Tariffs removed on All Indian exports to New Zealand immediately. This has to be the most lopsided FTA I’ve seen.

This video shows how you can see the motion paths of an animal on a video and a heat map of where different species are seen. These are available on the Cacophony Portal for videos taken with the DOC AI Cam.

@RealDanODowd @elonmusk Is it lying if he was simply mistaken and overly optimistic?

Today marks seven years since @ElonMusk lied to investors and customers at Tesla Autonomy Day in 2019, where he promised: ❌ 1 million Tesla Robotaxis by 2020 ❌ $30,000 a year for Tesla owners from their cars operating as Robotaxis ❌A $38,000 Model 3 would appreciate to $200,000 ❌ A drivetrain that would last 1 million miles with minimal maintenance On today's $TSLA earnings call Musk will make similarly fantastic claims, which also won't come true.

Cool - so I can estimate how long I’ll live based on my current heart rate data. Yes, absolutely! Heart rate is generally higher when you’re younger: •Newborns: 100–160 BPM •Toddlers: 80–130 BPM •Children: 70–110 BPM •Teens: 60–100 BPM •Adults: 60–100 BPM (average ~70) •You now: ~43 BPM resting (very low/athletic) So you’ve almost certainly been “spending” beats faster in earlier decades. A very rough adjustment: •Ages 0–20: maybe ~90 BPM avg → ~950M beats •Ages 20–40: maybe ~70 BPM avg → ~740M beats •Ages 40–58: maybe ~55 BPM avg → ~520M beats Subtotal already used: ~2.2 billion beats That leaves only ~800 million remaining, which at your current rate of 27.4M/year = ~29 more years, putting you at around 87. That’s actually pretty close to average life expectancy, which is a fun sanity check that the “3 billion beats” theory roughly holds up! 🎉

Most mammals are born with a "budget" of one billion heartbeats; the faster you spend them, the sooner the clock runs out. Modern medicine lets humans cheat that limit, but a slow resting heart rate is still the ultimate biological insurance policy!

@pilgoth I just refuse to do it, unless there is any other option

I hate, hate, hate being forced to watch a video to learn something when I could read at 10x the speed. Videos are for cattle. "Hey guys, today we'll be talking about X -- X is a fascinating topic, and a lot of you have been requesting I talk about X, so..." - Shut up, Shut up!

@EVCurveFuturist @PCarterClimate Without any sort of legend this is just a bunch of colours.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS

@cb_doge People are crap at predictions, especially about the future. My guess is that this will be massively wrong.

NEWS: Europe is running out of people. EU’s population is projected to collapse by 50+ million this century as birth rates hit record lows. • Fertility is ~1.4–1.6 children per woman, far below replacement • Deaths outnumber births in many countries This is exactly the civilizational demographic collapse @elonmusk has warned about for years. Low Birth Rate = Decline of Civilization Humanity is dying.

@mischamartijn Only European countries. Add in NZ and I’ll sign up

After I hung up, Tesla closed my case immediately. Email from no-reply: 'Your question is closed.' With a link to book a test drive. 3.000 owners. €6,2M in purchases. Case closed.

Just got off the phone with Tesla. After 7 years of waiting, their answer: 'just be patient'. Are you kidding me?! Called them about the €6.400 I paid for Full Self-Driving in 2019. Recorded the entire thing. Here's what they said.

@bluewmist A friend told me she never felt bad after doing a run. I remind myself that I’ll feel good after I’ve done this, even if it’s hailing outside.

People who exercise even when they don't feel like it, what's your trick?

@kendalljamaal @MarkCranfield_ Easily fixed. Stop looking at twitter all day!

can Twitter please figure out why I'm seeing the same 25 tweets all day!!!

Check out the latest article from the @PredatorFreeNZ newsletter, discussing how the Hanmer Trapping group are using the DOC AI Cams predatorfreenz.org/research/techn…

Mid autumn ducklings. Either very late, or very early.

Latest newsletter: Our new portal is live, our solar battery pack available to buy, tips for creating long term outcome reports, and an update on the High Interaction Rate Trap, including details of what we will be developing as part of the @docgovtnz Tools to Market funding.

I'm pretty sure @Google knows where I am within a few metres, but sure I might want to book this in Philadelphia.

Nice to see our customer, Orkney Native Wildlife Project, having some success with their stoat removal. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Why imagine when you can calculate. If we kept selling about 2500 more evs than we did after the CCD stopped then there were about 38 3 week periods since then and we would have sold about 95,000 more electirc vehicles. NZ has about 3 million petrol vehicles - so that’s about a 3% difference. Arguably the EVs would be used more than average, so it would be a bit more than that, but still pretty small difference. Still would have been worth doing.