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Ōtautahi/Christchurch 2nd Law of Thermodynamics in the form of a middle-aged man Let us fix our own stuff "Don't serve rubber bullets in a bowl, and call it Irish stew"
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IPBES
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From fish to fungi, the world is filled with beautiful glowing creatures. 🍄🐟 Here are just a few of the many bioluminescent organisms present in various ecosystems around the planet. 🌏🧪 🖌️ Infographic by Eleanor Mohren.
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Quentin McDonald
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Great hedge against the effects of agism as people will mock you for wearing these at _any_ age.
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Quentin McDonald
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More satisfying to make your own.
learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/di...
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Quentin McDonald
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And I managed to embarrass myself with a stupid typo trying to compliment it. Good alt text never fails to reward. I’m surprised how often I miss interesting details.
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Quentin McDonald
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Always read the Alt text people. One of the best as it.
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Super grateful they are though.
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Quentin McDonald
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Know what you mean but there are times when somebody makes such a dick of themselves that it's just natural justice.
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Quentin McDonald
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Great, powerful summary. I read the UoA response as being in essence: "It's true the court found us guilty of the murder and cannibalism, but in good news they found no grounds that we'd violated any parking regulations. Parking is a key part of our mission and we intend..."
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Quentin McDonald
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I fully intended to once you'd seen my lame joke
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Quentin McDonald
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Yeah, was for some time the only way to keep in touch with some former colleagues but that's pretty much passed. Arguably worse than FB as doesn't have sad lost/found cats and dogs.
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Quentin McDonald
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Right now I bet there's an administrator at VUW looking at the salary budget for the English Department and stroking their chin thoughtfully....
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Quentin McDonald
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I've been trying to have minimum engagement with it so I really hope they know *nothing* about me.
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Quentin McDonald
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Linked-in waiter hands me the menu "And sir would you like the filet mignon or a steaming pile of fresh NZ mini-Musk?"
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Quentin McDonald
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Sadly true. If you are foolish enough to look for a self-described "disrupter", ya gonna get disrupted in ways you may not wish upon anybody.
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Quentin McDonald
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I fear that if the Press Statement is anything to go by they actually think they won and may consider it money well spent.
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/noti...
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Quentin McDonald
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Dear BlueSky people. I am no longer liking your posts. I am instead printing out those that take my fancy and pasting them into a scrapbook for future generations to be amazed and baffled by.
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Quentin McDonald
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BTW I am not a lawyer and don't play one on TV. Basing this on one personal experience with Environment/High court judgement from some time ago. Have contributed to the fund as I believe there are "costs" that will never be properly recopensed regardless of any judgement.
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Quentin McDonald
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Also since many (most? all?) or our medical educators are also practicing it raises questions about unconscious bias in treatment of patients. But apparently we don't need a Māori Health Authority because we are "all equal"
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Quentin McDonald
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What is this "too loud" you speak of? In the same sentence as KJ. Just doesn't compute.
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Quentin McDonald
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I wonder if this will inform Dr Reti's review of medical school quotas. Feels like it's not the quotas that needs reviewing.
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Dr Neil and Mr Price
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Māori Medical Student and Physician Exposure to Racism, Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying Donna Cormack, PhD; Claire Gooder, PhD; Rhiannon Jones, MDiet; et al JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(7):e2419373. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.19373
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Quentin McDonald
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You captured the microsecond where they look graceful!
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Quentin McDonald
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The irony is that applying for costs will also increase costs!
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Quentin McDonald
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It takes a lot of guts, and some resource, to get justice unfortunately.
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Quentin McDonald
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Judgement asked parties to sort it out. But costs awards are often 50-75% of actual costs. I think based on some misguided anti-gouging and moral hazard arguments.
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Quentin McDonald
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I'll get you started (milk|thick)shake(s).*\s+ Q[e,E]D\s+ strategic\svoting These things just write themselves at this point. I bet Mastadon will have full Regex support before we'll see it here.
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Quentin McDonald
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I do worry there'll be a lot of persuadable voters who see this enshittification as "getting shit done" and as such will approve.
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Sensory Ecology Lab - SEL
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“An acoustic analysis revealed a high-pitch component in these solicitation purrs, resembling a cry. This hidden cry taps into our innate sensitivity to distress sounds, making it nearly impossible for us to ignore.”
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Quentin McDonald
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Enriching the uranium would have been a guaranteed first prize. Or some sort of equally validating attention.
I just love this story also:
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Quentin McDonald
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At least you can bask in the warmth of the envy from folks like me.
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Some of the stuff this coalition is doing well be relatively easily undone. Some will be expensive and take thought. But the signaling to society that "expertise doesn't matter" may take a generation to fully unwind.
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Quentin McDonald
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Super good alt-text as well. Taking the trouble to say "bicorn" for example.
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Long time since I was at university, but from the outside it looks like we now have institutions that are not good employers, don't care for student welfare, treat their primary mission of education as an inconvenience and are focused on consolidating administrative power.
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Quentin McDonald
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There are some real burns against the university in this judgement. As they deserve.
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"Associate Professor Wiles is due compensation for the unjustifiable disadvantage she suffered and general damages for breach of contract. These awards overlap, with general damages covering the full period and therefore encompassing the distress caused by the unjustifiable disadvantage. "
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Quentin McDonald
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Some research suggests I might have fallen for an urban myth with respect to animal fat in those shakes. But in this post-truth era I'm just going to double down and say if they don't actually use pig/chicken fat, they probably want to and in my opinion that thought-crime is just as bad.
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Quentin McDonald
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Finally a trans-generational culture war I'm on the right side of.
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Quentin McDonald
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Secondly - the fast food ones are disgusting. Being thick is not the only criteria. A shake made of depleted uranium is plenty thick. The fast food ones are made of the same base ingredient used to simulate the drool on this:
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Quentin McDonald
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OK, two things. Firstly nobody in dairies buys the "milkshakes". They are just there to make those of us who buy the divine anointed thickshakes be able to pretend there's a mythical lower class of peasant who can't afford the premium experience.
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Quentin McDonald
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Appreciate you supporting my family business though. When my Uncle Ronald dies I’ll be rich enough to buy BlueSky and sort all you heretics out.
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Quentin McDonald
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Bloody annoying BlueSky has a “like” button but not a “cancel” button
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Quentin McDonald
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Also those chicken fat constructs from fast food chains are thick but not thick shakes. Thickshakes come from dairies and you must personally witness the ice cream being scooped in.
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Quentin McDonald
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I know people who describe their strategic voting as 5D chess. But they are actually still voting on the vibe like the rest of us.
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Quentin McDonald
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One issue I see is that it requires careful analysis. I didn’t expect all four major candidates in my electorate would end up in Parliament.
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Quentin McDonald
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Yes a good electorate MP might be helpful. One of the strengths of MMP is you might choose one good for the electorate even if they are not in your preferred party. But in a situation where the Governing Coalition is fucking the whole country, a good local MP seems little consolation.
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Quentin McDonald
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You mean those RWers who would not have otherwise got in from their list positions?
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Quentin McDonald
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I'm listening to Rachel Maddow's podcast "Ultra". It details American fascism around WWII. There were plenty of home grown Nazis by all accounts, including those undermining war crimes trials. von Braun etc would have found plenty of people to make them welcome.
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Quentin McDonald
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One situation that makes it difficult for people is that predatory lenders have ways of obscuring what you actually owe. That makes budgeting tricky to say the least. Once it becomes apparent, you are truly stuffed.
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Quentin McDonald
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery”
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Quentin McDonald
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My 2010 iMac survived the Christchurch Eqs, was removed by crane from a 12th story window and was used by me for many years including running models overnight. When I retired I had an SSD fitted and it's now used every day by my (nearly) 90 year old mother. Not sure who will last longer.
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