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No one is saying anything in the korero this week? I was hoping to hear about your weekends, everyone!

I had a really weird/bad virus recently, turns out apparently it's going around the rohe's children. It mustn't have got the memo that I'm a grown up!

In garden news I only have 3 caterpillars but they are enjoying it, feijoas are crazy, there is an incursion of Morning Glory.

Are you sure it wasn't actually giant rats? Looks more like their modus operandi to me.

That outsourcing can be ropey. You should always get your own line editor if you're dealing with one of the big academic publishers.

This, surely it's more usual? The first time I ever reached out the person sent me three recent articles and an invitation to let them know when/where my research was published, even though it wasn't relevant to their discipline.

I was a lowly grad student and he was a senior academic with his own lab. I'd heard of his research because it was mentioned in a science documentary on tv, and the whole experience really gave me a happy feeling.

I can see why ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world only did it the one time after the experience they had, though.

Ikr, it's about these cool looking frogs, but looks like a vlog from a random guy!

Great. I'm already on month 15 of waiting for an appointment that the letter from the hospital told me was going to be a 6-8 month wait.

Seems we're in a "post truth" era here in New Zealand as well. This article has Luxon saying he doesn't want spin doctors and then Dr Shane Reti literally trying to spin this story.

Omg that thumbnail is why creators should never let youtube generate a thumbnail for them.

I'd call it an attempt to use persuasive/emoyive language, not an exaggeration.

I get what you're saying though, and I think I understand it. Not just in politics either. I don't like it when people seem to be telling me what to think - and in my career I always found it more effective to give people the facts and let them make up their own minds.

But, at the end of the day there is a factual reality and I think it would be a mistake to ignore it just because of how someone's opinion on it is delivered.

Forest and Bird is a conservation group, it's understandable they're upset - with this bill we're facing the very likely chance of extinction for some of our unique species e.g the rare frogs (which are super cool, have attributes that make them unique and unlike frogs in the rest of the world).

This isn't just coming from them either, bizarrely Shane Jones keeps saying stuff about how he doesn't care about frogs and they "must go" in his speeches in Parliament, so to me it's pretty obvious that Oceana or Bathurst is going to be allowed to mine Conservation land that is the rare frog habitat.

I reckon if you allow someone's tone to dictate whether to take what they say seriously, you're doing yourself a disservice.

If someone is screaming about a house being on fire I'm going to look to see whether it is, not just think oh well they sound hysterical so it can't be true.

In your quotes they used the adjective "pristine", the colloquialism "rip up" and the metaphor "war".

But if you strip away that language the bare facts are that in that list are companies that quite literally destroyed a mountain in one case, destroyed seafloor, and various other highly destructive activities.

For example I see Oceana is on there, a company which bulldozed people's houses and shot a protestor in the Philippines and is always sniffing around Conservation land in New Zealand.

Yeah you're not wrong. It's beginning to feel like one of those little countries where it turns out the leader is just in power to benefit some corporation or cabal.

What a tragedy. Those poor people, their poor families must be so shocked and upset to lose both parents in one go.

I won't, but I'll be half expecting them to betray me.

Tempted to wait until they have made the whole thing!