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#3478551 6-Apr-2026 17:48

It's a boring answer but "original paste" is the type / the texture: gel, paste, gel‑paste hybrids, whitening variants, etc.

It's like "Coca-Cola Original Taste: New Recipe with less sugar"

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#3478558 6-Apr-2026 18:46

All those words and nothing about the most important thing. What does it taste like? Probably some mint crap. Ugh.

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#3479540 9-Apr-2026 15:28

My mind cannot comprehend the process behind creating a file named "New Text Document - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy (3) - Copy.txt".

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#3479546 9-Apr-2026 16:09

Behodar:

My mind cannot comprehend the process behind creating a file named "New Text Document - Copy - Copy - Copy - Copy (3) - Copy.txt".

I am somewhat familiar with this process; it's partially the result of being elderly, if my 90 year old Father's document names are a guide.

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#3479551 9-Apr-2026 16:31

Documents folder and text files may be easier to find than the notepad app and guarantees the new doc is saved in the expected place. Not renaming the file, guarantees the correct extension always remains.

That process used handily jumps opening the app and then dealing with all the options in the save as dialog and it's often confusing caching behaviour for location and options.

There are other possible explanations. The process outlined is essentially failsafe and achieves multiple objectives in a single simple step.

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#3479552 9-Apr-2026 16:33

It's in a folder that only system administrators have access to. The contents of the vaunted file? "123".

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#3479554 9-Apr-2026 17:17

Read and write = success ; )

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#3480298 13-Apr-2026 05:37

Metric typo:

RNZ header - Cyclone Vaianu brings 220m of rain to Coromandel in 24 hours (13 April 2026)

text:

'A Coromandel weather station recorded more than 200mm of rain as Cyclone Vaianu swept over the North Island.'

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#3480717 14-Apr-2026 08:59

Another example of failure to deliver justice.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360963826/horse-trainer-who-repeatedly-mauled-teen-stable-hand-has-record-cleared-save-his-career

A harness racing trainer who “repeatedly mauled” a teenage stable hand has successfully appealed his convictions after a court found the price of losing his career was too high.

The man, who has interim name suppression, was found guilty by a jury on three charges of indecent assault in 2024, but successfully challenged the judge’s decision not to grant him a discharge without conviction in the Court of Appeal.

The offending occurred in Canterbury during Cup and Show Week in 2021. The trainer, then 25, had been drinking when he and a friend, who also worked in the industry, tried to convince a 19-year-old stable hand to drink with them at a gathering near the stable she worked at, but she refused.

The men then got into her truck and drove it to the event. The victim was driven there by a co-worker.

The jury found that over the next few hours, the trainer indecently assaulted the young woman, touching the top of her legs, above her breast and kissing her on her face and neck.

The Court of Appeal judges accepted it was “a borderline case” given the significant impact on the victim, but ultimately found the consequences of the indecent assault convictions were out of all proportion to the gravity of the trainer’s offending.

“The material before us suggests that [the trainer] has spent all his working life in the harness racing industry. He has no other work experience and no other career path,” the court’s decision said.

What a joke of justice.

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#3480920 15-Apr-2026 03:14

I always thought that a conviction for a crime was supposed to be a punishment, because you should be clear about and consider the risks beforehand. It seems to be the politicians' solution: risk everything, take responsibility for nothing. A joke, indeed. No wonder Epstein was ignored and tolerated for so long. Nobody wants to be held accountable for their misdeeds.

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#3481059 15-Apr-2026 15:56

>What a joke of justice
> I always thought that a conviction for a crime was supposed to be a punishment,

You are, of course, entitled to your views...

I do feel that you are being a bit knee-jerk.

The criminal justice system quite often must balance the damage done by conviction - with the damage done to cause that conviction.

EG: There was a lot of such balancing done when a marijuana conviction would cripple a young athlete's ability to travel & represent NZ.

In our society, where sexual rituals include alcohol, drugs & provocative flirting, dancing & physical contact... the borderline between acceptable behaviour and 'serious sexual misconduct ' is on a continuum. Establishing when that boundary is crossed - turns it into a binary decision.

In this case, a jury decided the boundary was crossed - which would have resulted in this guy's trade being taken away from him.
If convicted of 'SSM' - there is no option to avoid that result in the horse racing world.

In this case, clearly stated to be 'borderline', the Appeals Court (who do think about these issues quite a lot) decided to give the guy a chance.
There just wasn't any other way to give him a chance.

I don't think it was a joke...

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#3481063 15-Apr-2026 16:02

„In our society, where …“ - That‘s the problem, not the solution. 🙂

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#3481142 15-Apr-2026 18:17

The lack of conviction on this one bothered me and I wondered if it should be appealed:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jury-finds-hamilton-dentist-rahul-gautam-not-guilty-of-indecent-assault/JWRTV5K2RRAWLOVWC76SZJFBJI/

From the complainant's point of view it was clearly consent under duress after a firearm was mentioned. The Herald does not explore that in detail so I can only assume the prosecution did not dwell on that either. I'd like to think the crown prosecution service cps will review the prosecution at least.

Anyway, prosecution was the right thing to do, the name is published, and that does give any potential past victims the opportunity to come forward and discuss the circumstances.

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#3481163 15-Apr-2026 20:32

pdh: The criminal justice system quite often must balance the damage done by conviction - with the damage done to cause that conviction. EG: There was a lot of such balancing done when a marijuana conviction would cripple a young athlete's ability to travel & represent NZ.

In the trainer case above the industry is regulated mainly because gambling is involved and they want to exclude people who may bring criminal influences. I'd guess the trainer would be granted an exemption on that basis and there is no need to escape conviction.

As a separate matter - it seems very likely the trainer's current employer already knows about the incident(s)/issue and would be negligent if it did not initiate a formal warning followed by a review of that trainer's employment if it has not done so already. A future employer checking a reference is likely to gain that information.

Discharge without conviction does not prevent those kinds of outcomes and nor should it.

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