nomadladnz.bsky.social
Dude born and raised in the UK before escaping to a reclusive life in NZ. Author of "The Disillusioned" 2004 novel, covers the drinking years under Thatcher, to sober tranquillity in NZ.
Fan of science, evidence, and kindness. Foe of BS.
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Dress someone like a stormtrooper, especially ones with anger and power-trippin issues, stick 'em in the sun to bake a while, and this is the result.
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Kiwi here. Conspiracy cookers fed misinformation from over there. The same sort that fuelled the Canadian ones against their PM
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Hail Hydra?
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They literally painted a, well, you know, on themselves.
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Important to remember the US officially entered World War I in 1917. Not 1914, and the United States entered World War II in 1941 only after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Johnny come lately. And in any war with Russia, Trump would rollover.
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Same. TF that I stopped end of 2019 - this last 5 years would have been the ending binge
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She should not have given up her day job for this. And talk about irony her whining about pretend oppression. Sad.
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A good point, but also, pot meet kettle
www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1...
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Himmler likely slept very easily. Sociopaths do.
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Vote them out, in huge numbers
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The UK did the same with Brexit to prove all those distrusted experts wrong. lol
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Now he can go fuck himself
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If anyone can bankrupt the USA, the multiple casino bankrupter and convicted felon in chief can!
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This Kiwi approves of this message.
The science that CO2 acts as a heat trap is well understood and can be reproduced with simple desk equipment since the late 1800s, 18!!! The extra CO2 in the atmosphere since then also has unique isotropic fingerprint pointing to us burning fossil fuel. End of.
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Victim blaming, bullying, mob mentality, abusive relationship gaslighting and backstabbing. Utterly deplorable. Shameful. And patently obvious to the whole world a) who's side he's on, and b) what kind of morally bankrupt ideas he thinks are 'art of the deal'
Slava Ukraini!
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Bizarre. Utterly bizarre. Unless we examine the real motivations and supposed expertise of DOGE and Musk in particular
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Wait until they discover that polygraphs are not real technology. Their answers are as unreliable as guessing.
Despite claims that polygraph tests are between 80% and 90% accurate by advocates, the National Research Council has found no evidence of effectiveness.
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And even then, it's theoretical - because the cuts they are making will undoubtedly have longer term expense outcomes.
A lot of govt spending has a return on investment far in excess of the up front costs. USAID might be the perfect example.
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I'll say it every time I see something like this... we need to see a small handful of NPCs welding shit on hangars when we disembark our ships in stations. Want.
Another exploration-suited cmdr waiting... hmm.
I really want an exploration-variant carrier that sips at the tritium, 1/4 the size.
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Probably won't work. But what are the better suggestions? There has to be some right? Because parents don't give enough of a shit.
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Wholeheartedly. Anything less is being a coward to bullies and appeasement on the level of Chamberlain. That also did not end well.
To paraphrase Greenland's PM, fuck off Putin.
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The big problem is that though the tools are moderately useful (while also prone to confidently spouting nonsense) the vast majority of the usefulness will be in their abilities to siphon more profit and wealth to the already top 0.01%
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If they even had a concept of a plan actually implemented on the same day in a grand re-invention of each of the agencies that would at least be something. But no. Just utter bedlam. Demented and lamentable.
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Because now more than ever we all need to find a little zen.
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As a kiwi, I'm proud to see this local newspaper get the nod for recognising facts and speaking of it 100 years ago.
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I really like Whitehouse. I hope he does not permanently stain his reputation by letting personal connections cloud his judgement responsibilities. That's the other side's job. Don't be like the other side.
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Clean out, like the blatant ethnic cleansing already underway by Bibi. These fuckers stink of history's hell.
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Yikes. Man going wild! Let 'em have it my dude. I may copy and paste this verbatim for similar spam - add it to comments please lol 🫡
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Ha! He must be upgrading his suit
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Frankly they both look and act like late 90's Star Wars prequel CGI with questionable stereotypes.
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The pudding.
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Yep, I fear the Star Trek future is forever out of reach... or that the ST calamity before getting there is required.
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Used car sales folk and scammers use the same lines.
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Another true fact, these all ALSO have private for profit healthcare companies too. The two are not mutually exclusive and having universal healthcare does not equal communist! lol. Universal healthcare is not always perfect but it it the societal safety net needed.
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Each square of my bingo card throughout the year will be a picture of my hard facepalm from every face angle/palm combo.
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Only the Sith (and JK) deal in absolutes. Estimates of the percentage of people born with intersex conditions range from 0.018% to 1.7% - so those children alone if they were incorrectly assigned on their birth certificates deserve to not be summarily dismissed, and to have a say.
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Humanity will struggle with that nomatter where we go, a small number of fanatical die-hards in an enclosed space led by a fickle ego godking will not be a promising place to start trying
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The party for small business and reducing onerous regulations. lol. Suckers.
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Fuck my face, that's as batshit as I thought this would all be.
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Language and grammar is always evolving and we should embrace that, but sometimes it can devolve because some adept at seizing upon catchy words and twisting them around to serve an agenda. History is full of those people - they rile up and get whole nations to act against their own self interest.
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ideas.ted.com/20-words-tha...
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www.mentalfloss.com/article/6187...