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#3209492 22-Mar-2024 10:19

Going to Sydney in the middle of the week. Looking through Air NZ flights, there's only one direct flight on Tuesdays, at 3:40 PM. All other flights are either via Auckland or Christchurch for almost seven hours travel.

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#3209494 22-Mar-2024 10:23

Lias:

I'll leave the debates to that other thread, but just a footnote because I'm unsure if you are making a joke, is that this is factually incorrect. The vast majority of Gazan residents are not Israeli citizens.

Happiness scores are based on the resident populations in each country, rather than their citizenship or place of birth.

I'm not sure of the present official status beyond "it's complicated", but if Gaza is deemed part of Israel, then Gazan residents are Israeli residents per the terms of the study.

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#3209496 22-Mar-2024 10:33

SomeoneSomewhere:

I'm not sure of the present official status beyond "it's complicated", but if Gaza is deemed part of Israel, then Gazan residents are Israeli residents per the terms of the study.

About 20% of Israeli citizens are of Arab origin. Then there's Palestinians as well.

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#3209533 22-Mar-2024 11:56

Take this to the Israel/Middle East discussion in the Politics sub-forum.

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#3209575 22-Mar-2024 13:20

freitasm:

Going to Sydney in the middle of the week. Looking through Air NZ flights, there's only one direct flight on Tuesdays, at 3:40 PM. All other flights are either via Auckland or Christchurch for almost seven hours travel.

Maybe check again? I see four direct flights in the next three Tuesdays.

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#3209581 22-Mar-2024 13:31

There are direct flights at 3 PM. Not interested in those. Booked on QANTAS instead.

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#3209636 22-Mar-2024 18:53

Lias:
neb: #999999 Israel (Palestinian) (Followups to the Gaza thread).

I'll leave the debates to that other thread, but just a footnote because I'm unsure if you are making a joke, is that this is factually incorrect. The vast majority of Gazan residents are not Israeli citizens.

I didn't say they were, I was just commenting on the W/T/F of how they got those results. Gaza and the West Bank are in effect Bantustans, but that's for the other thread.

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#3209638 22-Mar-2024 18:56

Sovcits enjoy making it worse for themselves.

Sovereign citizen jailed for disruptive behavior in court
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350222874/sovereign-citizen-jailed-disruptive-behaviour-court

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Megan Gordon has been imprisoned for 21 days for contempt of court.
She had been representing herself at a trial in the Nelson District Court when a judge found her in contempt.
Gordon had been using pseudo-law common in the sovereign citizen movement.
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According to the police summary of facts, about 8pm on July 5, Gordon failed to stop at an alcohol checkpoint on Halifax St.
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Gordon drove towards police, “reversed at speed into a bank” and then drove towards police again.

Then she locked her doors and refused requests to get out and be breath tested. Police pepper sprayed and arrested her.
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She has history.

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In 2022, Gordon was charged with wilful trespass after she locked herself inside a dog shelter where her unregistered dog was impounded.

She was also subject to civil action by Nelson City Council for non-payment of rates, and been subject to a Tenancy Tribunal ruling after a "vigilante" eviction attempt.
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#3209640 22-Mar-2024 19:05

From the bio of Minnesota Science and Technology hall of fame inductee Nancy Sherman:

In high school during the late 1940s, Sherman refused to accept the results of an aptitude test for girls that indicated her best career choice was "housewife." She wanted a career and didn't want to spend her time studying in college only to end up at home. She insisted she be allowed to take the test given to boys, which indicated she should be a dentist or scientist.

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#3209658 22-Mar-2024 21:30

A bunch of racist law enforcers (Rankin County sheriff's deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield. Rogelio V.) were sentenced to prison.

The WTF is for their actions. They are racists. The neighbours who called them because "there are two Black people living in the house" are racists.

Rankin County, Mississippi: All 6 rogue Mississippi cops got long prison sentences in ‘Goon Squad’ torture of 2 Black men | CNN

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#3209724 23-Mar-2024 02:27

Call them whatever you like. What must have gone wrong with them to make them hate their fellow human beings (regardless of race) so much?

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#3209729 23-Mar-2024 07:15

ezbee:

Sovcits enjoy making it worse for themselves.

Sovereign citizen jailed for disruptive behavior in court
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350222874/sovereign-citizen-jailed-disruptive-behaviour-court

Regarding Megan Gordon, a sign you've made bad choices with your life when you're a Karen and the newspapers keep a file photo of you.

I'm sure it's part of a governmental conspiracy in her mind, but honestly she not that special.

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#3209733 23-Mar-2024 07:31

freitasm: Rankin County, Mississippi: All 6 rogue Mississippi cops got long prison sentences in ‘Goon Squad’ torture of 2 Black men | CNN

Mississippi state motto: "First in the worst. Unsurpassed in the last"

Mississippi Sheriffs motto: "to carve and vivisect" (to serve and protect)

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#3209743 23-Mar-2024 09:54

kingdragonfly:

Mississippi state motto: "First in the worst. Unsurpassed in the last"

Mississippi Sheriffs motto: "to carve and vivisect" (to serve and protect)

As one of the victims pointed out, something remarkable has happened here. Mississippi was always the bottom of a very deplorable barrel. The fact that what happened did happen means it is still pretty far down. Yet justice was served. Brutal cops, who had always been a law unto themselves, have been held to account. White thugs have apologised in tears to black men. Anyone who doesn't realise what an enormous step this is, has never been in Mississippi.

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#3209744 23-Mar-2024 10:08

Rikkitic:

White thugs have apologised in tears to black men. Anyone who doesn't realise what an enormous step this is, has never been in Mississippi.

The cynical in me says they are crying because they are going to jail. Nothing else.

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