[-] deadbeef79000 9 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000 1 points 2 hours ago

American jingoism is the gift that keeps giving.

[-] deadbeef79000 8 points 2 hours ago

There is a new model that I read about the other day that avoids the need for dark matter/energy and extends the age of the universe.

I've always (armchair astro physicist) thought that the dark matter/energy was always just a fudge to fit an ill-fitting model to observations (which isn't inherently wrong). It just means the model is wrong.

[-] deadbeef79000 3 points 2 hours ago

I agree.

One has to take it in context. Particularly when we simultaneously say "don't judge a book by it's cover" (despite that literally being the point of a book's cover in a bookstore).

[-] deadbeef79000 5 points 2 hours ago

Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive vice president of Copilot, Agents, and Platform, said in a statement.

Click bait title indeed.

I mean, we just know that this is all because they've AI-slopped themselves into this situation and that the headline practically wrote itself, but...

[-] deadbeef79000 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000 10 points 3 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 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Carl Sagan famously said that from his 1980 television series “Cosmos”:

“The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the Universe to know itself.”

[-] deadbeef79000 9 points 3 hours ago

They'll rename it JC Comics.

[-] deadbeef79000 13 points 3 hours ago

No, not like that!

Christians, probably.

[-] deadbeef79000 2 points 3 hours ago

His biggest frustration? The haka in parliament. Can't have those uppity Murrays doing their uppity Murray stuff in parliament.

Good riddance to a racist piece of shit.

[-] deadbeef79000 3 points 3 hours ago

Sigh. No, I don't.

First, I apologize for the insult earlier, it was not constructive nor warraned.

You've failed to divine Dahl's meaning behind the quote from The Twits. Or more likely I've failed to explain it in way that saticfies your needs (which is on me, not you).

Dahl's point, which I generally agree with, is that a person's demeanour is shown on their face by their expressions. A person with an 'ugly' demeanor probably has 'ugly' expressions.

Dahl's point is that your expressions convey information and he draws a distinction between having 'bad' features versus having 'bad' expressions.

In the vast and complex field of neurodivergence that generalisation can fall apart when one's expressions no longer convey information about your thoughts.

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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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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