@gt12 yes, I've put some long term money with then recently and it's held up very well given the market volatility. Just pick the right fund for your time horizon / risk tolerance, and seek some professional advice on that if you need it.

@Bones said in Fern Support Group:

@Kiwiwomble make her a canes fan, get her some skin in the game! Bonesetta is a canes fan and I nominated the rest of her family with other super teams, makes it a bit more fun. Of course her mum is the sith.

You cruel and unusual bastard.

Edit: sorry, read that as you'd encouraged her to become one.

The lads played an East Coast side on this weeks episode and then I see tonight that the East Coast Rising series kicked off which covers their 2021
Season. A pretty good watch really

@Frank said in Investing - Property/Shares:

How is the NZ housing market likely to fare should there be a major recession?

Watch RBNZ lending/deposits with big banks. They need to grow for market to hold up.

Bump.

Tickets to the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley secured. Foo's with an awesome line up of guests.

@bayimports I walk 12 kms every day so I will qualify but couldn't ever be assed signing up. Might go a burger though.

James Hibberd  /  May 12, 2022 Norm Macdonald Shot Secret Final Netflix Stand-Up Special Before Passing Norm Macdonald Shot Secret Final Netflix Stand-Up Special Before Passing

In a comedy first, the late actor-comedian self-shot a final hour of new stand-up to be released in the event of his death: "The material's fantastic. … I hope people appreciate that he did this."

@Dice Looks like he chipped his black nail polish there.

@nta said in Apple:

@machpants he's got a PS5 for that.

And the MacBook can handle Minecraft so he's sisterly happy.

PS5?

🤮

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@booboo in case you miss it across the ditch he now has the 5:00-6:00 am gig on National Radio.

First Up First Up

News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.

Quite bizarre at first hearing him doing political interviews etc after decades of sport and more mainstream radio

The Killers just announced Sydney in Dec. Not the Foos, but think I'll take the fam

@kirwan The Batman once again raised a interesting point

I struggle to see how THAT Batman would work in a DCEU, how the more "real" detective type Batman would sit next to actual gods, really highlights that there really are two Batman's

@voodoo i didn't...and also dont think i'll read the others

@bovidae said in Music - Top 10's!:

@mn5 said in Music - Top 10's!:

All very impressive and I do get your point. I suppose a big contrast to that is the other three guys in AC/DC who aren’t Angus and Brian. They have a cushy gig that anyone vaguely competent could manage.

Angus would say that Malcolm was the most important member of the band.

Fair call I will stand corrected on that from a writing point of view and what the brothers did behind the scenes setting the band up. He wrote some pretty cool riffs for someone who appeared to know only three chords as well !

I fucken love AC/DC but Rudd looks half asleep during their live gigs, at least Williams tries to make his bass lines appear more complicated than they are.

@nta said in Solar Power - Help Needed:

@victor-meldrew have a read of this:

Microinverters Vs. String Inverters: Which Is Right For You? | EnergySage Microinverters Vs. String Inverters: Which Is Right For You? | EnergySage

Learn how the three major types of solar inverters stack up against one another, and which is right for your installation.

Micro Inverters aren't necessarily better than Power Optimisers - just depends on the engineering of the system as a whole.

So basically you have three differences in how the panels operate:

Basic string - where some or all panels are on one circuit that feeds back to the inverter. This is how they used to do it in the old days, when people were getting 6-8 panels on one roof space. The issue is if one panel stops performing (breakage, intermittent shade, etc) it affects the whole array. Once systems got bigger you'd have multiple strings and so on, or if you had panels in different orientation, or needed to balance voltage.

With optimisers or microinverters you don't need to worry about any of that - one or more panels get shaded, the rest just power on.

On the same technical wavelength as the designer now and system set-up pretty much sorted.

Once again thanks for the help.👍

Her the feeling this will be quite bad in the outer islands nearer the volcano.

Although one of the major island groups in Tonga (cant remember uf Ha'apai or Va'avu ) seemed to be quite high lying. Think it us Va'avu. So might get quite bad in Ha'apai group. Which is closest. Isnt that the group volcano is actually in?

@dogmeat said in Phone Cases:

@hooroo said in Phone Cases:

I like a nice looking case.

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