This joke doesnβt work, aussies donβt call it a check, they call it a bill.
2045: We are now in receivership as the impact of the Climate Wars and collapse of the global food supply means we can no longer fly. Wellington airport is 2 feet underwater anyway.
Perhaps they could consider setting new targets before axing the old ones?
Seems like an overtly political - not religious - action. Hopefully they once again lose their tax-exempt status.
What an absolute legend. Give him a medal.
Got a gull stuck in the decorative grill on the front of our office once. Spent the whole morning shrieking, seemed like he was stuck. Called the council, SPCA, building owner, nobody wanted to help.
Then after a few hours the bastard quite calmly hopped up and flew out.
That gull was a dick. We named him Greg.
New Zealand-based carmaker Rodin has let its FZero hypercar out to play for the first time, and it sounds absolutely epic.
Tim Bayley says he's done a good job building steps down a steep slope. The council says they're uneven and a safety risk.
In a rare alignment of the stars, the nationβs biggest drinking day β Crate Day β and the beloved cannabis-friendly event J Day are happening on the same day, destined to bring chaos to the City of Sails.
Nitrates in drinking water are linked to cancer and birth defects. In high-enough concentrations it can trigger blue-baby syndrome, which can straight-up kill babies.
Got an email advertising cyber monday sales on firewood. Yup, logs of wood. For cyber monday.
Tourists have rallied against paying to use a public toilet in Te Anau, so the $1 fee has been flushed down the dunny.
Seymour is gonna make it legal again!
Contaminated compost may be the cause of distorted and dying tomato plants, says the Environmental Protection Authority.
He's used to sleeping in a cave. In prison, Little John spent his first night sleeping by a crack in the door, crying himself to sleep.
Two men who, as 16 year-olds, sexually abused girls, filmed their abuse and shared it with friends say they fear online threats and violence.
Auckland police are ready to call in officers from outside the region to manage any escalation in Middle East protests in the city.
Glad to hear that Police are taking the safety of our Muslim and Jewish whanau seriously.
βArtistβs impressionβ is really stretching the definition of βartistβ on this one.
βPrior to this attack, the man arrested had been receiving support of the mental health services,β Patel added.
Sounds like a lone-wolf with some complex stuff going on. Still horrible.
Summer interns starting today, why do I do this to myself?
Update: this yearβs crop is great! I am so tired.
The "reprehensible" attack happened during a march that saw several thousand protestors take to the streets of central Auckland on Sunday afternoon.
Oh good lord, John Oliver has some clout.
Who did you vote for?
35,000 casino workers ready to walk off the job days before Las Vegasβs big Formula One race
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7940565
A Jewish community centre in Auckland was vandalised late on Tuesday night, with graffiti sprayed on the fence and a fire was nearly started.
Appalling and unjustifiable behaviour. No matter your depth of feeling, this kind of violence is unacceptable.
Education is really important. But you can lift people out of poverty just by straight-up giving them money too. A properly-funded welfare system (or a UBI) would go a long way to truly ending poverty. Childhood poverty is such a strong predictor for anti-social behaviours like gang membership, crime, unemployment, that it blows my mind we don't just funnel money to people to break them out of the inter-generational poverty loop.
Had a persistent headache all of yesterday, took the afternoon off. This morning I realised I hadn't had any coffee yesterday. I truly am an addict.
Honestly sounds like a lot of mahi for not a lot of result. Calling people "parasites" is also unlikely to win you many friends.
The firm was embedded in Commerce Commission offices working on supermarket and energy industry inquiries, which had major implications for its corporate clients.
Found this wee dude chilling on my daughterβs face after she had some play time in the sandpit.
There's a saying on the left that if you sit down at a table with a nazi, there are now two nazis at the table. I don't completely agree with that logic, but the far-right are a sizable influence in those protest groups. Sure you get the crunchy hippy vegan wellness-mummas who are only there because they're anti-vax or anti-fluoride or whatever, but they have seemed pretty alarmingly willing to jump on the anti-trans hate train recently. Anger at the system does seem to be the main uniting value, you're right, and personally I think that anger is something that needs to be healed through civil discourse and maybe politics. But that anger is currently being hijacked by the far-right to bolster their cause, and that worries me.
I donβt believe that all these middle age women at the protests are blaming Jews for the vaccine
I don't believe they are either, but I think some of the people supporting and pushing these movements absolutely are. For a movement that is hyper-aware of "agendas" and "narratives" the people in these protest movements seem pretty oblivious to the possibility their own movement is influenced in exactly that type of way.
The only term that I identify with is pro-russian.
Which is honestly unsurprising. Western intelligence groups have been sounding alarm bells about Russian attempts to interfere in the politics of western democracies for a decade or so now, as you likely know well. In my time on Telegram I've noticed a constant low-level hum of spam in major channels that has all the fingerprints of state-sponsored propaganda, likely out of Russia. Telegram itself has such intimate links to the Kremlin it may as well be a state asset at this point. Whatever your personal reasons for being pro-Russia, you have to recognise they have a clear interest in sowing disharmony in western nations, and they have the capability to do it. If I were in their shoes, these anti-government fringe movements would be the perfect tool for the job. Have you really not considered the possibility that you've bought into the propaganda platform of an increasingly hostile foreign government?
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