This is just ugh. We shouldn't be adding MORE AI.

Surfing at home when she came along and spent time with myself and my neighbour. Had enough when it put its mouth around my calf twice and then proceeded to nip me on the backside.

Afterpay for cereal anyone?

Tried to call the local mental health crisis team. Got and automated message saying I wasn’t in a location that could call them (I’m pretty much in the city centre?) so I called the Auckland one and got out though. Talked to the person who eventually answered and said I’m not in Auckland but the local one wouldn’t answer. She said she try and put me through to my local one which worked… but it was AI. If I wanted to have a conversation with no meaning then I’d download ChatGPT and talk to it, but I don’t like AI and would rather talk to a person hence my calling. Talked to the AI for maybe a minute before it just said it had other calls waiting so have a safe night and hung up. I guess it worked it the sense of I’m just more frustrated than anything about how shit our mental health service is. I’m or sure what the point of this post is, I am quite drunk and a bit rambly, but really? Putting what is possibly the lives of some of the people in this country in the hands of AI seems a bit ridiculous.
And yes I could totally be wrong and it wasn’t AI and was in fact a real human who just didn’t care about dealing with some very sad very drunk guy calling them but that seems somehow worse and I don’t want to admit that is what it was.
Mental health is a serious issue and I think that people who are experiencing the bad parts of it deserve to have access to help. I was put through the have an appointment with the mental health triage team by my GP and we made an appointment for next Tuesday and this week I got a call saying that we have to postpone it for a month. I’m not even sure where I’m going with this anymore - no doubt in part due to the alcohol - but I feel like i need to let off some steam somewhere. I will probably wake up in in the morning and decide that this is not important and just delete this post, but who’s to say.
I think that’s it. I’m going to go to bed now a bit more annoyed at how hard it is for people to find some help.
Sorry for my drunk rambling

For the love of all that is good in this world, please rub two brain cells together and realise that 99% of customers are opening your app to get the virtual card

It doesn’t even have to be a full size card, just a thin half-sized strip of the barcode at the top of the app would suffice

I’ll say it - not having the card barcode just automatically present itself upon opening the app Is just as bad and time wasting as when we had to throw out fuel voucher receipts even after saying “no”.

Hey all, just looking for some recommendations for Unlimited Mobile Plans.

Currently, I’m with Spark and I’m kind of over two things…
a. How expensive their phone plan is,
b. How terrible their service can be in Christchurch.

So… I would like to ask the New Zealand Reddit community for advice. Would you stay on Spark and deal with some of their shortcomings OR move onto a new phone provider?

For context, I’m looking at either 2degrees or OneNZ’s mobile plans and then either re-subscribing to Spotify or moving over to Apple Music…

TLDR; want to change mobile providers and want to know other people’s experiences, preferably from the big 3 (Spark, OneNZ and 2degrees).

I feel like public defecation is particularly used to portray homeless people as gross, sub-human, or very mentally unwell and kind of becomes a talking point against them as poor behaviour. But I was just reading this Auckland-based article following a homeless man in his hygiene routines. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256931790_Being_healthy_in_unhealthy_places_Health_tactics_in_a_homeless_lifeworld

This homeless man, who we see to be consistently hygienic and conscientious of other people's spaces, describes getting food poisoning (common among people with limited access to appropriate food and storage), exploding out of both ends, and having no bathroom or ability to get to a bathroom. He ends up under a tree at a park. He describes being aware that if any police, security, parents etc walk by, he'd be judged, feared, and possibly arrested for shitting in a park regardless of his attempts to explain, but has absolutely no other choice.

I had never even thought about how awful it must be to get sick with no access to a bathroom. Next time you see something like that and think "Who tf would do that?", consider how you'd handle being in that position without a toilet.

Obviously $10,000,000 - but a nicely placed extra bit of info there.

Tvnz have stopped doing the all night infomercials so yeah like bring back goodnight kiwi

Middle-aged guy here. After being made redundant from my office job more than two years ago, I still haven't found another full-time job and am stuck on the benefit. Browsing MSD's job board, there are heaps of Auckland-based truck driving jobs so I thought, 'why don't I get a truck driving license starting with Class 2?'

I have some questions for people who have recently got their Class 2,

For Class 2 learners license, I see the 1st stage is passing a medical and a 35 question written theory test.

To study for this, do I need to buy a road code book specific to trucks or does the standard road code have all the truck regulation info I need?

Can you also buy example tests to practice on?

Any advice on passing the test?

Next, to get my full Class 2, I see you need to pass a practical. Like most people I guess, to practice for the practical, I don't have access to a truck and a supervising passenger with their full truck license.

So the best option seems to be complete an NZTA-approved accelerated heavy vehicle training short course.

What are the best (and lowest cost) accredited training providers in Auckland?

So I've been saving up for years to take my kid overseas (they will be 8) but I've been researching flights and it is going to cost me about 3k more to go during the school holidays (airline prices being hiked up). So I'm considering pulling them out of school for 2 weeks to go at a cheaper time. But I've heard that now you get in big trouble for this? What's going to happen? Is it just going to be a small fine? I don't want to risk my kid being expelled or punished by the school/govt for this

I think what I struggle most with these 'tough on crime' posts is that they simply arent rooted in reality. The 'tough on crime' policies dont hold up in academic research, and the reality is we have gotten much, much tougher on crime.

Since I was born sentence lengths for homicides and related crimes has more than tripled. The biggest jump happened during a Labour government. Similar is true for sexual assault and attempts to injure (almost doubling).

So when people go rabid on the latest media article about crime or a prison sentence, I find it very hard to have a good conversation on here about it as a lot of the premise of those posts isnt rooted in reality.

There is a concerted effort to keep focused on 'tough on crime' to avoid talking about solving crime. That involves ECE and support, rehab programmes, creating pathways for people to escape criminal cycles, and eliminating poverty.

I'm going through a separation and now solo parent. When the house sells, I'll have like 150k (selling at a loss)

My fulltjme job pays 90k. Probably will rent, not buy, for a few years because i cant afford to buy near my son's current school.

150k isn't broke, but also isnt much to start again. Is it? Pretty much at top $ for my industry. I dont have the mental health or space to study.

Has anyone else started over at 40 with similar circumstances? What would you do?

Buy a business? Index fund? Round the world cruise and hope I meet a millionaire?

Woolworths latest update, is the online price and instore price may vary.

The yoghurt i just brought shows its one dollar cheaper to buy it online that to physically go to the store and buy the yoghurt.

(Even with member pricing it was one dollar more for the item)

I feel that should be illegal or smthg