eagleeyedtiger

joined 2 years ago
[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And this is a massive problem. Why is he continue to act like this without any accountability or consequences? This wound is going to continue to fester until we have own eruption of Christian nationalists storming the beehive.

I mean I agree with you and I've already signed the change.org petition, I'm not sure what else I can do. I don't know anyone who supports Destiny Church or Brian Tamaki. Like I said, I don't think much will change with the current lot in power.

I can't make much comment about what the Police should do, I don't really know all the details. Hopefully they get the right people who incited it too.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nice. Mines an older Clara I bought about 5 years ago. I personally don't have the use for a color screen, but for $10 I guess why not! Most books I read don't have any images besides the cover

I installed KO Reader as soon as I got it and never looked back. Not as pretty as the standard Nickel (?) OS but more customisable.

I love having an e-reader. I read so much more because of it. Much more convenient, not having to worry about heavy books, holding open pages, no need to worry about proper lighting for reading. Light and small enough to bring everywhere. I will buy another immediately once this one dies.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

To be honest there's very few people posting here, so we can expect not everything is going to be posted. But I don't think there's anyone here that would be a Destiny Church supporter. I mean you posted it and now we're discussing it, I'm not sure why it's an indictment on the few people still active here that it didn't get posted sooner.

I agree with your sentiments, but this is nothing new for Brian Tamaki and his cult. The same issues get brought up everytime they're in the news for something. I would love the Government to cripple them financially, but it seems unlikely to happen so far.

I'm guessing the police have to work through the statements to figure out exactly who to arrest or something?

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 2 days ago (8 children)

What would you like to discuss about it? Most people know Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church are scumbags who do scumbag things.

Would love to see their charitable tax status removed (as with most religious institutions), but I'm not holding my breath with the current government.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I love my Kobo. I installed KO Reader on it and have Calibre for managing my ebooks.

Get all my ebooks from z-library or Anna's archive.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah it's nice to see a sane and reasonable CEO of a space launch company

[–] eagleeyedtiger 4 points 3 days ago

I think the Stremio + RD combo made piracy too easy and lots of users newer to piracy panicked when they saw the announcement and started asking for refunds and alternatives before anything even happened. I also started using RD a short while before the announcement and there has been no change for me at all, everything still works like when I first started using it.

 

Hopefully this is allowed!

I found it pretty interesting, Sir Peter Beck's insights into the space industry seem very "down-to-earth" and realistic.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you guys really wanted cheap EVs, maybe not having 100% tariffs on Chinese EV's would help. You can make an argument about not letting the Chinese government into the market, but as it currently stands the US government isn't looking much better.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 17 points 3 days ago

Tesla stock makes up a big portion of his net worth. The recent drop in the stock price has wiped $12.5 Billion off his net worth. According to Forbes' calculations his net worth has dropped $42.8 billion since the end of January.

He's still ridiculously wealthy, but hurting his companies will definitely be something he cares about.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 8 points 4 days ago

It's the typical conservative mindset, "It doesn't affect me so I don't care."

[–] eagleeyedtiger 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's not exactly what I mean.. they should be experts in their respective field or at least something related to their role in the government. Not just everyone's a tech engineer.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Agree with your points, stupid people still existed, but would be shunned from important roles once others realized they were stupid. Social media and the systematic underfunding of education and science also is a factor of dumbing down the general population and overall lack of critical thinking. It's one of the reasons so many mistrust scientist or experts and think watching youtube or tiktok videos counts as "research".

Can you imagine, governments made up of highly educated people that are actually experts in the fields their role is responsible for? We might actually progress as a society.

 

I'm reading them in the author's recommended reading order and I'm currently up to The Vor Game. While the first Cordelia books are decent the Miles books are real page turners so far. So if you were put off by the cheesy looking covers like me, give them a go!

 

Pretty happy with our choice to move here 6+ years ago. For all the shit it gets, Hamilton is a pretty nice place to live. I think it's only going to get busier in the coming years, especially once projects like the Ruakura Super Hub gets completed.

 

On March 18, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station in the east Antarctic recorded the largest spike in temperature ever recorded with the region experiencing a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average.

Unfortunately, it's not an isolated event with an increasing number of meteorologic anomalies being reported on the continent in the past two years.

The sea level rise map that was linked is interesting, I propose Hamilton to be the new international airport since both Auckland and Wellington's will be underwater

 

Sorry, I had to share as it's been stuck in my head since yesterday.

 

I see it's based on the book by Hugh Howey, who also did the Silo series which I really enjoyed the TV adaptation of. I'm wondering if it's any good as I don't have a lot of time for starting too many TV shows at the moment.

 

Jokes about Hamilton aside, this kind of sucks.

As someone who lives here it's sad to see and I'll get to pay for it through rates rises too!

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