[-] deadbeef79000 5 points 5 hours ago

Calls something "the death star".

Are we the baddies?

[-] deadbeef79000 7 points 5 hours ago

They should have rolled out their "SI air traffic tool" then it would have been winning bigly.

[-] deadbeef79000 5 points 6 hours ago

Oh FFS, I snidely thought to myself "ho ho ho, just like MS AI-slopping themselves to death, now it's the FAA's turn".

But, no. It is probably that stupid.

[-] deadbeef79000 13 points 6 hours ago

Here (NZ) the generally accepted protocol is immediately after (a natural) birth that the baby is given to the mother for "skin on skin" time. Only broken briefly to weigh and examine baby.

The idea is to keep baby as close to mum as possible. Similar protocol for multiple births is to keep everyone as close as possible.

[-] deadbeef79000 6 points 6 hours ago

In situations like this I'm always reminded of the recurring joke in Deuce Bigalow (and feel bad about it because it's crass):

Deuce escorts this incredibly tall woman...... and every time there is a guy off screen shouting "that's a huge bitch!"

[-] deadbeef79000 1 points 6 hours ago

Getting SeaQuest DSV vibes.

The vehicles will use buoyancy-driven glider propulsion in place of propellers.

I have no idea what that propulsion mechanism is, but is it really a glider if it has propulsion?

[-] deadbeef79000 2 points 6 hours ago

That evidence is not evidence of dark matter (that's the problem), it's evidence that we've modeled gravity or spacetime or inertia or whatever wrong.

It's like drawing triangles on spheres or other non euclidean spaces, but for mass/inertia. Maybe the problem with the Hubble constant is the clue.

If you need a big fat invisible undetectable magic amount of mass or energy to make it all work, perhaps some of the underlying assumptions are incorrect.

It might be a big fat invisible undetectable magic amount of mass or energy, but it's not the only option. It is an inelegant option.

[-] deadbeef79000 14 points 9 hours ago

Apparently this happened after filming wrapped. Which implies it happened during teardown of the set(s).

[-] deadbeef79000 13 points 11 hours ago

The obviousness of this eventuality (to everyone in the industry) is inversely proportional to remuneration.

[-] deadbeef79000 12 points 11 hours ago

Most of the universe is hydrogen.

I don't know if we can tell reliably (yet) what exoplanets are made of, but generally the assumption is that our solar system is chemically typical, so we extrapolate that for other star systems.

[-] deadbeef79000 12 points 11 hours ago

They'll rename it JC Comics.

[-] deadbeef79000 16 points 11 hours ago

No, not like that!

Christians, probably.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by deadbeef79000 to c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca

Just to highlight how utterly ridiculous policing in the USA looks to those of us on the outside.

This guy was waving a gun around. This is how police can deal with it. He even shot at the attending officers. He's still alive.

Context: police in NZ do not carry sidearms. They do have guns secured in the boot (trunk) of their cars. There are also special units equipped for dealing with armed offenders.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by deadbeef79000 to c/politics

A short opinion piece on how neoliberalism has affected the NZ economy in the late 20th C.

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submitted 2 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

This is the damning fact:

Epidemiologist Michael Baker told Stuff it was difficult to properly monitor influenza and other winter illnesses, because high-quality surveillance programmes were discontinued, including the Ministry of Health not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool for cost-saving reasons.

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submitted 3 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

The battle that New Zealand education forgot.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by deadbeef79000 to c/politics

Typical bullshit from Peters, trying to manufacture anti-Māori conflict.

Acknowledging both the Māori and European discoverers of New Zealand is good. Both discoveries are, themselves for their peoples, true.

IMHO the interesting fact is that not all iwi have whakapapa that asserts Kupe as the navigator who discovered Aotearoa. Some iwi have whakapapa that asserts that it was Maui*.

This isn't a problem. Both Kupe and Maui could have independently done so. The same way that one might argue that Cook and Tasman both discovered this land mass for Britain/Europe.

* if you're interested: Maui fishing up the north island is an allegory to seeing the island rise up over the horizon as if being lifted out of the water. Maui was a navigator/wayfinder of repute, as was Kupe.

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Lunar eclipse (lemmy.nz)
submitted 8 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

Not quite totality.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

My daughter's school.

I'd hazard a guess that getting the Birkenhead or Takapuna fire station's teams on site in less than 17 minutes would be challenging anyway, let alone the Silverdale team on site that quickly.

But, fuck you Simeon Brown:

At the time, Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown said he was "angry" on behalf of those impacted by the fire due to it happening during the strike.

Firefighters, nurses, teachers: give them whatever the hell they ask for. None of them do those jobs for the money you facist nationalist pigs.

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submitted 9 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand
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submitted 9 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Oof.

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submitted 10 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/newzealand

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/goodnewseveryone/p/517753/berry-nice-to-meet-you-bumper-fruit-crop-could-lead-to-huge-mating-season-for-nzs

After a four-year wait, the abundant fruiting of the rimu tree could inspire the world’s heaviest parrots to boost their population

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2025-12-14 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/theowlhouse@lemmy.world

There's something I'm missing in this one.

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An archive of posts from Tumblr and reddit (moringmark.grzegorzkoperwas.site)
submitted 11 months ago by deadbeef79000 to c/theowlhouse@lemmy.world

Stumbled across this archive.

It has some of the multi-part comics aggregated for easier reading.

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