Stuff again with today's pointless picture:
That's just a 12v to 240v power supply...
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Stuff again with today's pointless picture:
That's just a 12v to 240v power supply...
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freitasm:
URL still there: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/auckland-driver-arrested-after-feeling-police-across-the-city-faces-multiple-charges/5KUFVMY4NRCUTJICKHCL6LBL5Q/
We have a family member ‘A’ who works in middle management at NZME. I sent the above post to A (purely as a joke) - who alerted the editorial people at NZH - who changed the headline to the much-less-funny intended wording.
I understand that the new AI content-checker tool (that I mentioned a few months ago) , designed to reduce cock-ups in NZH and NZME news reporting, has been implemented. Apparently it’s not working so well so far - but it’s probably hard to detect errors like one above. Let’s hope it continues to be a bit useless because we get so much fun out of this stuff.
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Who or what is he now, one wonders?
(From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350441799/dog-steals-gareth-bales-golf-ball-after-near-perfect-chip)
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Who or what is he now, one wonders?
(From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350441799/dog-steals-gareth-bales-golf-ball-after-near-perfect-chip)
Typo - meant to be farmer? 😀
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I am advised that it's not NZH's fault this time - apparently it's due to Apple’s new AI summaries of notifications. Very poor and potentially dangerous.
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I'm no psychologist, but the children would implicitly trust their parents due to family bonds. That would probably come before "Stockholm syndrome" would play here. But that's my opinion based on my understanding of the Stockholm Syndrome and family relations.
Perhaps they are just trying to apply a "known concept" to the situation to get some clicks?
Missing Marokopa family: ‘Stockholm syndrome’ likely to affect children - NZ Herald
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It sort of gets worse. Of course the semi-colon indicates a separate story but some people may not realise that - and it's much more interesting as one headline.
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It seems I keep picking on Stuff at the moment; but they make it so easy...
a) What's the point of a blurry photo of a random person who has no connection to the article at all, and
b) Isn't EVERY mausoleum, by definition, man-made?
mausoleum
/ˌmɔːsəˈliːəm/
noun
a stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs.
I doubt they build themselves...
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
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Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos
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