deadbeef79000 15h ago • 100%
Pickling the onion
deadbeef79000 2d ago • 100%
All our vowels are just "u" (or schwa as I was once told).
- Nuw Zulund
- Fush und chups
- Uh nu, u'm buchd, u'm buchd us.
deadbeef79000 2d ago • 100%
I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.
Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.
deadbeef79000 3d ago • 100%
That's only being consistentl with the rest.
deadbeef79000 3d ago • 100%
Zebras probably took it the worst.
deadbeef79000 3d ago • 100%
The Adama Manoeuvre.
OMG.
deadbeef79000 3d ago • 100%
Yeah. I was going to expand on that in the comment and decided not to for brevity.
It was only in the final two episodes that the timeline is established and it was the final two episodes that annoyed a lot of fans.
deadbeef79000 3d ago • 100%
I still consider the 2004 series the actual serious BSG. I was around for the original and it was typical 80s schlock, though I loved it as a preteen.
Likewise. I watched the original as a child and loved it. The 2004 series is some of off the finest TV ever made.
deadbeef79000 5d ago • 100%
The reboot of BSG places it 150,000 years before our present.
This made a lot of people very angry. I, for one, liked it. YMMV.
deadbeef79000 6d ago • 77%
I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
deadbeef79000 6d ago • 100%
It took me many many runs to get the hang of the meta. It's a reasonably chaotic meta anyway.
The final battle is dubious too: if the RNG slaps Soo-Won's tail one too many times the whole thing times out and fails.
At least I don't have to listen to Aurene anymore.
deadbeef79000 6d ago • 100%
management lacks the problem solving skills to come up with a real solution
Spot on. This kind of rot comes from the top down.
It also smells like the manager in question has absolutely no experience with or tolerance of multilingualism. There are times when a multilingual person needs to clarify a translation, usually in the translated language, to be able to properly translate. E.g translation or explanation of idioms.
The article also had a weird segue to the patient requesting non-Aisan nurses... so there's evidence of management acquiescing to racist bullshit.
This is the thin end of the wedge. Whichever racist PoS manager at TWO whom sent this is simply emboldened by our current racist PoS government. It gets worse from here. Objectively, even to the stupidst person, that a distressed patient and stressed nurse will be most effective when using a shared native language in interactions _with the patient_. Communication with the rest of the staff obviously should be in the common language. It's extra stupid because while we can assume a nurse has competency in English _there's no guarantee the patient or patient's support does_.
deadbeef79000 7d ago • 100%
L
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 100%
TY!
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 96%
suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm
How is that even a thing in the US?
I mean, isn't that his constitutional right, outside the checkpoint, presumably on a public road?
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 87%
Trump casually applying the CIA playbook to the USA.
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 100%
Why would crickets end such an event?
Because anything that's slightly inconvenient to these people, or apparently anything that is contrary to their prejudices, is intolerable.
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 92%
He's so thin skinned that it's only the orange gunk holding him together.
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 100%
imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out
That's it. That's all they need to do to influence a country or population at the scale that billionaires operate at. They all have very similar opinions and preferences (otherwise they wouldn't be billionaires).
That so e people think that a publicly funded editorially independent press is somehow worse that this is maddening.
It's also not a zero sum game. We can have both, yet somehow some people think it's one or the other.
deadbeef79000 1w ago • 83%
The latter. Six billionaires' opinions are not diverse enough.
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> I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving. Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though. Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates A special _fuck you_ to these kinds of people.
This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind. IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).
I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest. I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month. I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction? Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
www.newshub.co.nz
What in the actual fuck. How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get? This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil. Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens? This is _Captain Planet_ level evil.
_This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind._ There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover. It seems to manifest in two ways: - distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy - cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling". Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it". In this case there's one of two root causes: - ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses _they'd_ negotiated - malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
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TL;DR: - Alcohol $7.8b - All illicits: $1.8b - Meth: $0.365b I wanted a figure for cannabis and found this from 2020: > PDF https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/the-nz-illicit-drug-harm-index-2020-10-feb.pdf - All illicits: $1.9b - Meth: $0.824b - Cannabis: $0.911 I notice that the per kilograms measure for harm is also useful to account for volume of usage, but think that per 'dose' would be better. - Meth: $1.1m per kg with 743kg consumption - Cannabis: $0.35m per kg with 58000kg consumption These figures include 'associative crime' as harm. So it apparent counts the cost of buying it as harm, it also counts the tax loss of that expenditure, so IMHO it skews unfavourabley to higher expenditure. But put that aside. These figures show that all illicit drugs combined are less harmful to society than alcohol, and tautologically the harm is inflated by illegality.
www.rnz.co.nz
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'. The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children. Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something? How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?
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A _quarter of a century_ ago TVNZ knew that "digital", or rather the Internet, was the way of the future. I know, I was there. It created nzoom.com for those that remember it. A decade ago, it was still a "broadcaster" with an adjunct "digital" presence with TVNZ Ondemand. Only on the last few years has it started to truly operate "digital" (internet) first, I'm afraid that it might be too late and we see another newshub-scale catastrophe in the next few years.
www.rnz.co.nz
> Councils in cyclone-hit regions staring down a _decade-long roading recovery_ say they simply cannot afford it. Emphasis mine. The duration of the remedial works is the problem more than the cost. If it takes a decade to recover from an event that is likely to reoccurr more frequently then it's a losing game. It's a shame that local and central government in NZ just can't/won't maintain infrastructure.
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Alternative headline: *National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster*. > The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads. That's all there is to it.