876 #ClimateEmergency #2Degrees

I thought we all agreed on 1.5 degrees C° ? Paris 2015.
But the last ten years we did nothing but increasing the problem.
These days we're normalizing 2 degrees C° . While all prediction shattering and we're going for 3,5 C° !

What the F are 'we' doing ? This is not alarmist, this is reality. For happy news go to Disney.

"2 Degrees Warmer: Ocean Life in Danger | National Geographic" [2:05 min]
by National Geographic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0_gDXqYeQ

Quote by NatGeo and look at the date, this is history:
"Jan 28, 2008
If the world warms by two degrees, some of the changes to the biosphere are no longer gradual."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown

THE FEDIVERSE WORKS!

An awesome chap connected to 2 Degrees took pity on my moaning and made enquiries. Apparently the disconnect comes from the UK end, and their network ops applied a workaround on Monday.

Go #2Degrees!

My #2degrees phone has started hanging up international calls after exactly 15 minutes.

That sinking feeling when you hear "We're experiencing greater call volumes than usual...".

Then after 30 minutes of awful quality hold music, they have no idea about the problem, and have to escalate to "a back office".

Thanks for wasting half an hour of my life, 2 Degrees.

I'm considering changing mobile phone provider - mostly because One is tied up with Starlink. But 2degrees T&C appear to preclude business use, which makes it kind of useless to me, and Spark is the big original incumbent which I feel negative towards on principle. Any thoughts?
I'm a prepay user (also partly for cost, partly on principle - I hate lockin)

#mobile
#cellphone
#NewZealand
#OneNZ
#2degrees
#SparkNZ

Visual / Live Voicemail has arrived for #iPhone users on #2Degrees in #NewZealand #LiveVoicemail

2degrees messaging seems to be going a bit haywire today. I've received the same messages from some of my JP clients multiple times, with no idea if the first delivery was delayed. The last time I remember messaging being like this was the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011, but this time issues with RCS might be thrown into the mix?

#2degrees #SMS #RCS #NZ #JusticeOfThePeace

#nz Just in the process of switching my mobile provider from #2degrees to "anyone else", in this case #skinny

Hopefully this means I'll have more reliable reception of SMS messages in the future. 2degrees have failed to send a reasonably large percentage of SMS to me, and cannot answer a reasonably simple question via their tech support lines. I "enjoyed" about a month's worth of back-and-forth with people who don't actually know what they're talking about (i.e. they were not the technical team but wouldn't escalate to them for answers). I think I actually know where my messages have gone, because I know things about their internal networks that most non-2degrees people do not. But would they actually follow-up? No, they kept on asking me to "check my handset settings" lol. So fuck those guys, there are other telcos out there and you can lose me in the churn.

Don't get me started on their broadband service; that's the next one to be switched but one thing at a time ...

@Firesphere
The #2Degrees management would do well to pin these lines from Eric's obituary on their walls:
"In his foreshortened tenure at 2degrees, he led the third mobile phone competitor in New Zealand to acquire over 1,000,000 customers and 21% of the subscriber market share by lowering the cost and increasing accessibility to mobile phone services throughout the country."

@Firesphere
#2Degrees lost the plot when Eric Hertz died.
Even as a foreigner Eric understood the NZ market better than any of his competition.
The current organisation has no clue, they are just another predatory telco.

Found this at the very bottom of a weather website.

Huh.

#ClimateCatastrophe #2degrees

Scientists sound the alarm as the world reaches 2-degree warming limit for the first time.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/climate/2-degree-warming-limit-record-copernicus-climate-int/index.html

#ClimateCrisis #climate #2degrees

Ok I'm going to switch from #2Degrees to #Quic because they're $20 p/m cheaper for exactly the same service.
If anyone reading this is on Quic Internet already and would like to cash in a referral code, let me know and I'll redeem yours for you.

Anyone have experience with Quic internet? Any stories one way or the other that might influence a decision on whether to switch from #2Degrees? #Aotearoa #broadband #TelcoProviders

"A recent study, built to enable local action, illustrates the extreme climate effects of 2°C of warming"
#globalwarming #2degrees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/998287

Trying to call #2degrees to give them more money. How long will it take to get through to a human this time! Place your bets!

@shawnwegner

Wow, I'm actually going to see the tipping point within my lifetime, sadly

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
#ClimateEmergency #2Degrees

@vik @lightweight I've just read the article. I'm with #2Degrees and they've been fine up to now but I have no interest in supporting an organisation who are comfortable with getting into bed with Space Karen's sky pollution. Those satellites are not the only (or even the best) way to solve the problem they purport to solve.

Today the #founders of #Debut #Bank, a next-gen bank for New Zealand similar to #Revolut and #Monzo in the UK, have asked me to speak about banking in New Zealand from a Blind person’s perspective. Our big four banks are Aussie owned wraking in big profits, so Debut wants to do what #2Degrees #Mobile did to the #Vodafone #Telecom duopoly. This is a chance to have your say in building something by Kiwis for Kiwis, and the waitlist for when the app launch is open. https://www.makingdebutbank.co.nz/?userCode=9emnod0 #Finance