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#3024522 20-Jan-2023 07:30

Photo caption on CNET this morning:

"The view of the Jan. 15, 2023 Falcon Heavy rocket launch from the International Space Station."

Nek story: "ISS reveals new launch capability"?

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#3024823 20-Jan-2023 13:57

Rikkitic:

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Not a headline, but she forgot to mention inter-tribal warfare, slavery and cannibalism.

She did get the racism right, though.

No racism (unless you want categorize the Moriori as a separate race), but tribalism, which is the same thing in a smaller package.

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#3024827 20-Jan-2023 14:16

I was referring to the comment, which I found gratuitous and unnecessary. Most people know the history.

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#3024835 20-Jan-2023 14:41

Rikkitic:

I was referring to the comment, which I found gratuitous and unnecessary. Most people know the history.

You find a lot of things you disagree with gratuitous and unnecessary, but no culture is beyond reproach. If one criticises another like that, they should expect to have hard truths thrown back at them. European colonial culture was beyond awful, but that doesn't mean that early Maori culture was the untouchable paragon of virtue like you seem to be implying everyone should think.

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#3024852 20-Jan-2023 15:31

It's not a headline, but typical stuff where they repeat the same information multiple times.. where are the editors now

https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/300787494/first-the-house-scam-then-the-bank-scam-then-kindness

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#3024873 20-Jan-2023 15:48

Kyanar:

You find a lot of things you disagree with gratuitous and unnecessary, but no culture is beyond reproach. If one criticises another like that, they should expect to have hard truths thrown back at them. European colonial culture was beyond awful, but that doesn't mean that early Maori culture was the untouchable paragon of virtue like you seem to be implying everyone should think.

Of course no culture is beyond reproach. The comment you were responding to is naive and one-sided. I still don't know why you felt compelled to rake up something ugly from the distant past. What purpose does that serve? We all have ancestors who made mistakes. We all need to try not to repeat them.

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#3024910 20-Jan-2023 17:51

Rikkitic:

Of course no culture is beyond reproach. The comment you were responding to is naive and one-sided. I still don't know why you felt compelled to rake up something ugly from the distant past. What purpose does that serve? We all have ancestors who made mistakes. We all need to try not to repeat them.

I was responding to your comment, so I assume that you actually mean the comment you were responding to, unless you're suggesting your own comment was naive and one-sided.

If my assumption is correct, the comment you say is "naive and one-sided" that you "don't know why [the author is] compelled to rake up something ugly from the distant past" is in response to a sign that... appears to also be one-sided, and rakes up something ugly from the distant past. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Everyone should be learning from and letting go of the past (especially when not one of us alive today was involved in those events), not just the white New Zealanders.

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#3024928 20-Jan-2023 18:57

Kyanar:

I was responding to your comment, so I assume that you actually mean the comment you were responding to, unless you're suggesting your own comment was naive and one-sided.

If my assumption is correct, the comment you say is "naive and one-sided" that you "don't know why [the author is] compelled to rake up something ugly from the distant past" is in response to a sign that... appears to also be one-sided, and rakes up something ugly from the distant past. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Everyone should be learning from and letting go of the past (especially when not one of us alive today was involved in those events), not just the white New Zealanders.

Apart from the fact that you seem to have misunderstood the sign, your choice of aphorism seems rather vapid. I take it you mean that if someone says something good about something, you are compelled to say something bad. Is that correct?

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#3024932 20-Jan-2023 19:17

Not dumb exactly but this from the Herald (Auckland not Sydney)

“People navigating using their iPhones in Australia will see a raft of new features on Apple Maps from today.”

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#3025571 22-Jan-2023 17:20

ok someone tell me how it happened then

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/empty-bus-crashes-into-shops-in-remuera/HZEZ2VCB3BGQNAJUMUKPVYDVD4/

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3025578 22-Jan-2023 18:17

Is Remuera Rd flat or inclined? Handbrake off (does a bus have a handbrake or something else?), bus in neutral?

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#3025581 22-Jan-2023 18:37

Behodar:

Is Remuera Rd flat or inclined? Handbrake off (does a bus have a handbrake or something else?), bus in neutral?

decent slope, maybe 30cm over 3-5m

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#3025603 22-Jan-2023 20:08

Kyanar:

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What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

IME what’s good for the goosee is good for the gooser. 😀

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#3025982 24-Jan-2023 07:21

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/golf/131042623/speed-golfer-smashes-world-record-for-number-of-holes-played-in-a-day

Putting with a wedge? They should have sent a Stuff reporter, and camera person that had at least small vague knowledge of the game

(Yes you can equator putt with a wedge if up against the fringe, but his pose isn't that )

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#3027145 25-Jan-2023 19:53

NZH today: “Hipkins has not spoken to any other world leaders since it was announced he would become prime minister. The only leader he has spoken to is Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.”

Apparently NZH thinks the Aussie PM doesn’t count as a world leader.

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