Dylan Reeve

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

Hello John, it's Tim, I hope this email finds John well. Tim was wondering if John had sent in that report John and Tim had finished yesterday or if Tim should do it.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

C'mon! I'm not going to bother logging in for a 4th-6th cousin!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

Wow!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

I splashed out on a Master MX 3 for my home desktop a couple of years ago and liked it so much I immediately bought another that goes with me for contracting jobs. I now hate using other mice!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 03:40 UTC

The once powerful Ministry Of Silly Walks is a shadow of its former self since privatisation.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:34 UTC

Video here: nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-ar...

A few plainclothes cops stroll up to a guy at a table, one of them is holding a handgun in a sort of relaxed one-handed low ready posture.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:34 UTC

It's almost criminal how much this headline overstates the video. Honestly, imagine showing this video to literally any American and telling them this is what constitutes "armed" police "storming" something here.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:21 UTC

Honestly seems a bit shit that Auckland Council, in the form of Eke Panuku, is ruling out rent reductions for Wynyard Quarter eateries despite closing the bridge that brings most of the foot traffic in.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:13 UTC

"Look, here's a 1972 patent to disperse silver iodide from a specially modified aircraft!!! THIS PROVES IT!" "But you're claiming that scheduled United Airlines 787 is spraying a chemical sterilising agent over Utah..."

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

Cloud seeding is a thing that exists to an extent and is used in specific circumstances for very clear purposes (and often without success). The claim of chemtrails is usually that thousands of airliners are spraying mysterious chemicals over the world for a variety of reasons.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

Newshub posted this story on Twitter. The replies went roughly where you might expect... It's such a classic conspiracy theory "gotcha" - that one thing with a passing similarity exists means that dramatic and unevidenced claims of a vast conspiracy are real.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Sometimes I think about all the stuff my American friends don't even know they're missing out on. Like Hundreds & Thousands Cookies. And a functional democracy.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 09:00 UTC

The photo in question:

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 20, 2024 at 09:00 UTC

I'm sure these kids will be back home soon, and it'll end well. But mostly I'm pleased that, if I'm interpreting the photo correctly, the got the McDonald's they were looking for!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-se...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

Good morning Auckland

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 15, 2024 at 10:34 UTC

"will appear" with "2025" and "2027" feels optimistic, tbh

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 14, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

The website they're promoting here isn't the actual Covid Inquiry. It's their own petition.

If you want to have an *actual* say on the government's handling of Covid, the website is:
haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 14, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Although I think this has not been well communicated by the PM and Government. And any potential impact on rents from that last stage of its implementation would have been nullified by simply stopping it at the point it is currently, rather than returning to 100% deductibility.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Turns out I'm a little mistaken on this - the removal of interest deductibility as legislated by the prior Labour Government was a staggered implementation and the coming 2024/2025 tax year was the last step. So it is possible that the policy could still have increased rents.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 10:22 UTC

Sure, not your primary purpose, and the rule says it doesn't have to be the primary reason. But as I say the whole conversation around property ownership is about investment and increasing value. No one is buying and holding forever.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

"It's an investment" "This is my retirement nest egg" All we ever talk about with the property market in general is increasing capital value. And that capital value is functionally imaginary unless it's sold. Everyone is intending to sell, no matter what! That's the point.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 09:41 UTC

While I'm at it, I find the rules around taxing property sales pretty laughable. If you buy a property "intending" to sell it, then you have to pay tax. But that's literally the underlying reason, in NZ property ethos, for buying ANY property!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

I wish media would call him on that point specifically. They are doing quite a good job of keeping a critical view on his claims around this generally, but I haven't yet seen him called on that specific claim. He's talking about a past event and a current change that won't impact the past.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 09:33 UTC

Luxon keeps saying that rents have gone up because of the added costs imposed by Labour's removal of interest deductibility. And that may be true - but that change happened, and the rents went up already. They're not going up again. Returning deductibility won't lower them.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

Fuck that could be so much cooler... "Your Uber passphrase is 'The sparrow flies only in clear weather' - repeat this in person when your driver prompts you with the phrase 'I haven't seen many birds today'"

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 12, 2024 at 23:59 UTC

People who joined an online community because they were freaked out by lock down are now being told germs aren't real.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 12, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

This is such a good story! Actually taking the time to understand both the statistics and the underlying realities! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

The photo has clearly been edited in various ways. She now says she did it personally. Not that she just clicked yes on something.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 18:06 UTC

I'll be honest, I didn't imagine Princess Kate actually sitting down in front of Photoshop herself. And, to be honest, I'm still struggling to visualise it.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 10:02 UTC

This is an interesting theory from the other platform. Not sure about the specifics, but this sort of automated photo enhancement could explain a lot of this. Which is, ironically, a sort of AI. But not the Generative AI that many have speculated about.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

The paid scam ads on X making use of X branding and featuring the owner of X has reached a new pinnacle...

Linking to a twitter.com URL. An actual article on the Twitter/X site with branding and everything.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 09:38 UTC

I mean I'm fairly sure a bunch of the highlighted things aren't really wrong. The boy's hand for example - classic kid shit.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 08:10 UTC

That's a pretty accurate representation of a Sony PDW series ENG camera. I like it. Shame about the situation that precipitated your drawing it.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 08:08 UTC

We now have the Stop Calling Every Slightly Weird Photo AI Challenge for the global media and internet users.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 08:06 UTC

Although it's absolutely crazy bananas that they would actually let a photo with those sorts of errors out into the world given the wild conspiracy theories and massive tabloid interest in the family. OMG! WTF?

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 11, 2024 at 08:05 UTC

FWIW that Princess Kate photo just looks like some very standard photo merging (a few exposures mixed together to get best expressions from everyone) and normal kids being weirdos stuff. It's not AI. Just normal (albeit slightly sloppy) family portrait editing.

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