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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was making the point, that despite the fact that this is mildly ok. The test for anything that gives one group power over another, is to switch the groups.

If it's still reasonable, than it is probably OK to keep it. If however it seems wrong after the switch, the bar to keep the power imbalance should be very high.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 0 points 5 days ago

Agreed, but it is worse the way I put it...

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There is some joke in there about no "D" but I can't quite make it work.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 31 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Change the target to any other group and the outrage would be 100-10000 fold bigger.

Try it out, instead of Women rating men, try subbing in various minority groups or races.

Bonus points for the most offensive combinations.....

e.g. Russians rating Ukrainians in your area....it can get pretty bad...I can think of many worse combos.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago

I thought that list was about NZ, until I got to fire trap....we don't have that particular problem here.

The rest, well fairly spot on.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well he is really unpopular; and the economy is in the shitter....largely due to his governments handling of the place since his crowd got in.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 days ago

You are forgetting about the chemtrail chemicals...how hot do they burn???

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

Initially thought it was some closeup of a micro-fluidics experiment.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Performative politics it the goal here.

They are trying to distract you from the state of the economy.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

The reason that this is not more shocking, is because well....of course they do. Killing world leading anti-smoking policy as one of their first action in government.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

New one is supposed to have a 30 day battery life..... That is amazing, my OG pebble is only getting 5 days now.

 
 

Is it really a dismissal level event? I mean, everyone sees how the world is turning....he just said it out loud.

 

I'm making the bold assumption, that most people here are not running, in either local body or national elections.

Everyone loves the complain about what "public servants" do. So why not step up and do something about it?

No accusation intended or implied. Just curious.

 

I've been getting a connection timeout every now and then

 
 

I built her a desktop in 2019, has always had Linux on it.

She has had a chromebook for a couple of years, but this weekend she finally got annoyed enough to ask me to fix it, so that she could have all her applications work correctly.

It is an Asus CX5400; I had to unplug the battery to over write the firmware to allow me to install any OS I wanted. Then had to fix grub manually.

It took around 4 hours, a lot of that was opening the case without breaking anything.

I followed the guide on this site

 

I'm using Mint, I keep it updated.

I have the Shokz open run pro headset.

When connected to my phone, they work without issue.

When connected to my laptop, they also work without issue.

When connected to both my phone and laptop, I can get good sound from my phone, but the laptop sound starts well but usually within 60s it becomes very unreliable. The sound just doesn't seem to transfer to the headset.

 

I was thinking about this the other day.

I can't see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.

Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn't have to be.

I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/50252669

 

The government once again shows how incompetent they are.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22597332

Summary

New Zealand’s royal commission into its Covid-19 response found vaccine mandates were reasonable based on available data but acknowledged they harmed social cohesion.

The report praised the country’s elimination strategy for achieving one of the lowest Covid death rates among developed nations while preventing healthcare system collapse.

However, it criticized prolonged lockdowns, weak health system preparedness, and a lack of planning for future crises.

Commissioners urged broad investment in pandemic readiness and emphasized the importance of both frontline and planning staff.

A second phase of the inquiry will review vaccine harms and conclude in 2026.

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