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I've found that unsubscribing then subscribing again usually fixes it pretty much instantly. But then I was only having the problem on earlier versions of Lemmy so I don't know if that still works.

I don't think it's bad karma. I've spent years on Reddit watching other people's TikToks, reading other people's tweets, watching a repost of a repost of a repost of a video ripped from someone's Facebook... If you give them credit, that's more than most people get in the world of social media.

Reddit has a way to embed posts and it would be cool if links to Reddit embedded the content here, but I don't think that's happened yet. If that happens, all you'd need to do is link to someone's post.

I was considering making a bot that automatically cross-posted stuff from Reddit, but it seemed pretty unpopular with the community. The more I think about it, they were right - a bot doing that was a bad idea for this community. I was thinking of setting up another instance with a bunch of communities that had the top posts from their respective subreddits, but I just haven't got the time to figure all that out at the moment.

But I'm going way off track. I think reposting stuff from Reddit is fine.

Edit: @luthis@lemmy.nz - I meant to reply to your comment

By the way, if you want to make sure you don't accidentally gain access to those Herald articles behind a paywall (and a bunch of other sites), make sure you don't add this to the filter lists on uBlock

I'll admit I knew very little about Matariki before it was made a public holiday, but I've been reading about it recently and it's fascinating. I'm intending to put a few posts up about it as we get closer to the celebration period. I think one of them will be about the meaning of the individual stars. But I'll probably start off with a guide about how kiwis of all ethnicities can celebrate Matariki.

Back in the day I wrote hundreds ~~thousands~~ of Wikipedia articles and I kind of miss reading about something in depth, distilling the key info and then summarising it. No idea why I enjoy it, but I hope other people get something out of it.

Edit: Looking back on my edit history, there weren't actually thousands I wrote from scratch, more like a few hundred. I made tens of thousands of edits which is where I must be getting mixed up.

Just because you chose to reject the evidence I presented; doesn’t mean I didn’t present it. And I'm sorry if you see being called ignorant about something as an attack. It's not intended to be. I will gladly admit I'm ignorant of many things. If a person thinks they're ignorant of nothing they have no space to learn or grow. The fact is, someone who doesn't know about something is ignorant about it. And that was the case with you about China. I certainly didn't call you stupid (please stop with the straw men - you've done it several times on Lemmy and it's a bad faith way of arguing which only devalues your opinion).

If you actually listened through all four episodes of that podcast and all you heard was accusations and weasel words, I don't know what to tell you. In my experience talking to you on here, you seem reasonably intelligent, but it really feels as though you choose not to learn about and/or understand things that challenge your beliefs. That means there’s no point discussing things with you that you’re not already knowledgeable about. It’s why I initially stopped engaging with you on here. I thought I’d give you another try, but I won’t be doing that again soon. Have fun out there. Mānawatia a Matariki!

I don’t want to pretend to be an expert on te reo at all. “Mānawatia a Matariki” is a phrase developed by Professor Rangi Mātāmua and Hēmi Kelly:

“Matariki doesn’t come out of a western context, it’s Māori” Rangi says, ”so if you’re trying to apply a greeting to the Matariki celebration where you say hari (happy) Matariki or meri (merry) Matariki – it doesn’t make sense.”

So Rangi and Hēmi developed the phrase Mānawatia a Matariki – meaning to honour, acknowledge, and welcome in Matariki. “It’s important that if we’re going to celebrate something that comes out of a Māori context, we use the correct terms and the correct language around the celebration.”

Hēmi Kelly explains more of the origin and meaning of the phrase in a video on Facebook. Mānawatia a Matariki has been chosen by the government as the recommended phrase to wish each other a “happy” Matariki.

The other one, “Ngā mihi o Matariki, te tau hou Māori”, is how Massey University recommends you say “happy Matariki” in te reo. I ran that one through Google translate so if the translation is wrong, someone please let me know.

Thanks. I'm glad it worked out. It was a good idea. But I still want to tweak it slightly because I'm a perfectionist.

As I said, if you're interested in learning about it, listen to the podcast. It's a good introduction to what's going on. The article only details recent bias in some publications.

The comparisons you make to our government, The Herald, the US, etc. show me that you really don't know how extreme and extensive China's activities are here. If you want to know, try listening to that podcast and evaluate the evidence for yourself. Of course, you're welcome to remain ignorant if you want. But that won't change the reality of what's going on with China.

It's quite hard to make that work for a little icon. That, and we already have our own Laser Lemmy for the Lemmy.nz instance icon.

Have a look at that article, which goes into it a little. But China's influence in New Zealand is extensive, especially amongst the NZ Chinese community. It is far worse than most kiwis realise. They operate a network of Chinese "police stations" and undertake all kinds of intelligence, influence and intimidation activities. They attempt to interfere in almost anything related to China here, including local Chinese-language media.

It's not a topic that can be easily summarised in a Lemmy comment. But if you're really interested in learning more about it, I recommend RNZ's Red Line podcast from a couple of years ago. It's eye opening.

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