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#2850379 14-Jan-2022 08:23

That a 94 year old lady in my sister‘s neighborhood has signed a 400/200 fibre plan for her house in the rural area as well ‚to improve the digital situation abroad with FTTH and to reach 40% signatures in front of the start of the project.‘

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#2851036 14-Jan-2022 21:58

Tinkerisk:
That a 94 year old lady in my sister‘s neighborhood has signed a 400/200 fibre plan for her house in the rural area as well ‚to improve the digital situation abroad with FTTH and to reach 40% signatures in front of the start of the project.‘

I think you need to adjust your speech-to-text, it's misrecognising a lot of words there.

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#2851051 15-Jan-2022 00:10

This:

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#2851067 15-Jan-2022 04:21

neb: I think you need to adjust your speech-to-text, it's misrecognising a lot of words there.

I hope this says it in a better way ;-) ?

That a 94 year old lady who lives in my sister's neighbourhood has taken a 400/200Mb/s fibre contract in order, according to her personal belief, not to stand in the way of fibre rollout in the rural area and to increase the value of her house.

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#2851076 15-Jan-2022 08:17

Cicada’s, a fire pit and whisky.

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#2851113 15-Jan-2022 12:26

Handle9: Cicada’s, a fire pit and whisky.

Marinated roast cicada doesn't really do it for me, but if it brings a smile to your face...

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#2851558 16-Jan-2022 17:12

Seeing this at Seatoun beach today.

New Zealanders, on average, have one testicle.

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#2851703 16-Jan-2022 20:37

A goat would stabilize the boat at least. *g*

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#2852462 17-Jan-2022 20:19

So far this year zero losses to the possums and not too bad losses to birds:

For the first time ever, we're gonna need a bigger ~~boat~~bucket:

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#2852753 18-Jan-2022 11:39

The rise and rise of Rocket Lab. Go you beauties.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/us-giant-initiates-rocket-lab-coverage-outlines-bull-and-bear-cases/MP4J22JCQ6PAHR5IKZ27XYOQHU/

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#2852755 18-Jan-2022 11:41

Falling asleep with an 8 week kitten in your arms happily purring.

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#2852890 18-Jan-2022 14:31

Watching BBC News live just now and saw a story on the Tonga volcano.

They said “The NZ Government has just confirmed that two Royal Navy ships will depart Auckland shortly to go to Tonga”.

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#2853007 18-Jan-2022 16:57

This is very scary but also made me smile a bit, it's the first time I've seen "code brown" used in serious media:

Code brown called for Victorian hospitals under pressure from COVID-19.

Note how the "What is a code brown?" section carefully avoids explaining why it's called that.

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#2853009 18-Jan-2022 17:04

Being offered a new job on your second day back at work...

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

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#2853017 18-Jan-2022 17:27

neb: Note how the "What is a code brown?" section carefully avoids explaining why it's called that.

For those who missed the reference, here's the definitive explanation of the terminology, from its military use.

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