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#3338566 3-Feb-2025 12:40

RNZ Headline.

Maybe the free level of Chat GPT knows the value of a 'baitful' headline.
Actually you do get a higher level of free GPT for a while each day before the dumber one shows up now.

With the big globals Google, Facebook, X, TikTok, etc eating up clicks and revenue, you have to.

BBC Headline went for a different angle.

Fighter expected 'stick' over Taylor Swift name
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj91yr3zewro

However ...

It looks like the Daily Mail did have the same headline but changed it from its link below.

Probably copy for XYZ news service that was just copy pasted.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14337285/cage-fighter-taylor-swift-considered-changing-name.html

""
British cage fighter called Taylor Swift says he almost changed his name because 'the crowd laughs at him' - but has learned to shake it off!
""

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#3340037 6-Feb-2025 22:34

Thanks for this one Herald:

“Many residents posed about the fire on social media.”

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#3340058 7-Feb-2025 08:11

In this day and age I'd believe that one!

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#3340172 7-Feb-2025 13:43

sigh, its getting to be like shooting fish is a barrel at the moment...

"‘No sign’ of jet skier who went missing in Cook Strait"

paragraph 3.

"A police spokesperson said a jet ski believed to belong to the missing man was found on Monday night near Cooks Rock in Cook Strait."

Hmm, not sure if a jet-ski is a sign or not, but i'm leading to warward it might be :)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360573208/no-sign-jet-skier-missing-cook-strait

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#3341356 11-Feb-2025 07:30

Bryan Adams backup singer has bout of diarrhea, forcing the concert to be cancelled?

Even if you didn't know who Bryan Adams was, surely you would assume he was a person, and not a band? E.g. Pablo Cruise.

Not ruling out the possibility that collectively "Bryan Adams" also refers to the entire ensemble, but the headline isn't consistent with the article.

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#3341506 11-Feb-2025 13:59

"US Lawmakers hit back at restrictive abortion laws with calls for curb on erections"

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/us-lawmakers-hit-back-at-restrictive-abortion-laws-with-calls-for-curb-on-erections/7CROIKS63RC4HP6HJS5HDTKWBQ/

Made me chuckle more than anything, no more solo/self love, or any other fun act that doesn't involve deliberately trying to get someone pregnant -

Responding to ongoing Republican efforts to restrict abortion access, Mississippi Democrat state Senator Bradford Blackmon introduced a bill last month before that state’s legislature that would ban men from all sexual acts where there was no “intent to fertilise an embryo”.

The “Contraception Begins at Erection Act” proposed outlawing “discharging genetic material” without trying to make a baby.

It included exceptions for donating sperm and using contraception to prevent fertilisation.

Guess they are going to have to arrest 99.9% of teenage boys.....

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#3341961 12-Feb-2025 13:40

Are we allowed to put Geekzone headlines in here? 😁

Chorus upgrading fibre plans Feb 2025 - quoted press release says June.

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#3341962 12-Feb-2025 13:41

Yeah, well got the announcement today, so it's that. I can change it.

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#3342610 13-Feb-2025 18:46

Nice attention to detail by the Herald:

Luxury train rides in Singapore and Malaysia

What: Eastern and Oriental Express

Where: Malaysia and Singapore

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#3348711 28-Feb-2025 13:42

The story starts out stupidly and then manages to quote people with even less knowledge of things aquatic ....

"A live mako shark washed up at Sumner Beach, prompting a police call out.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-sumner-beach-shark-live-mako-washes-up-later-dies/R2AQ4WAIDNG25AZWEUD4J4HXUY/

I particularly liked the

"Christchurch resident Kristy Crates says she was so disappointed to hear authorities were not attending immediately that she went to Sumner Beach to see if she could help.

“I just thought it’s not going to survive the night,” Crates told Newstalk ZB.

It didn’t. Crates says the shark was dead by the time she arrived.

Hmm...

Funny thing about fish, they tend to die pretty quick when they are out of water... unlike mammals which actually breath air

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#3349810 4-Mar-2025 07:20

Pilots ground aircraft in Sydney minutes after danger detected onboard. NZ Herald 3 March 2025

The aircraft got airborne, had smoke in the cockpit, declared an emergency, returned to Sydney Airport and LANDED safely.

Grounding an aeroplane implies not getting airborne in the first place, or at least a prohibition on flying at all. The error was repeated in the text of the article, so not just the sub-editor at fault.

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