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@livus@kbin.social

If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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Smart contact lenses and also smart built-in lenses that work like cataract surgery lenses.

These are given away free and basically make traditional optometry have to change to a lower volume higher cost model. We also outlaw lasik on the grounds that it is more dangerous than smart lense implants.

The smart lenses track you and interact with personalised location specific advertiser content at each surveillance point, allowing them to show ads directly to your retina.

who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

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That's the perspective I need. Clicked follow.

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As a late gen x/"xennial" myself I've noticed there's proportionally more of us here than on other social media.

Tends to be left of centre even without factoring in the communistanarchistsocialist nexus, but also wider political range.

Tends to skew STEM.

Loves cats as much as the rest of the internet but proportionally loves FOSS more.

Strong rainbow presence.

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This is true.

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@JetpackJackson this community had a thread on them last week, scroll a bit and you'll soon see it.

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Too lazy to find it but somewhere on the fediverse there's a community called priestarrested which is full of stories like this.

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Thanks!!

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I'm not thanking you out of any kind of enjoyment, that's for sure. But it's good to have the reference point.

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Me too. Fantastic actor and underrated.

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Fantastic interview! He's smart as well as a great actor. This bit stands out to me:

Because the content — Native American, Latino. They keep saying that they want to be inclusive and have us on board, but they don't green-light. They don't green-light our stories. We’re 30% of the box office in America — Latin people — 30% of subscribers on streaming, 30% of the sports fans, and you're not going to have our stories.

It's crazy, man. They're taxing us without representation. We have to do it ourselves. Tyler Perry said it. They're not going to give us a seat to the table. We got to make our own table. I agree.

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Winter's Bone

Frozen River

Melancholia

Seven

Dark City

La Haine

Nil By Mouth

The Road

The Mist

Double Indemnity (a lot of noir really but that's one that comes to mind)

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Oh wow. That's a weird pose, like it's really straining to pull its beak out of the ground.

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Um, yeah???!!! We're not a tropical island or something, if that's what you're thinking.

If you can find a map that includes us, you'll see we're halfway to Antarctica.

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I was briefly mystified as to why it wouldn't be obvious that a long narrow land mass at this latitude would get a bit cold, then I remembered none of you can see where we are!

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Hush, lest your idle boasts encourage them to attack us.

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@PugJesus fair enough. We're near it, but the distances involved mean we're about as near it as New York is to Florida.

Australia itself is so big it spans several climate zones too.

The difference in land mass and weather patterns is part of things as well. This article has some cool maps where they map northern hemisphere cities at the equivalent latitude onto New Zealand - turns out my comment was misleading insofar as, as well as getting less heat we also get less snow than we would if we had more land mass.

Tagging @thesporkeffect

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It's funny timing because we're in the middle of a cold snap right now.

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Cool, we're hardly ever in search results.

Thanks to your lead I soon found the info. This is a portrait of Mere Tawhara and daughter Kimiora Maata Kotahi, both of Hawkes Bay, taken by Napier photographer Samuel Carnell.

Here is a more conventional picture of them not smiling.

The format is carte de visite so it's quite likely that Mere Tawhara or her whanau commissioned it.

I'm surprised I can't find a whole lot more about these people because both mother and daughter are wearing fine clothes and are obviously high status.  On the daughter we can see a satin ribbon and tartan dress as well as what looks like a kahukiwi which is one of the most prestigious cloaks. However they do appear on some family trees so they are probably known about.

Tagging @PugJesus cos you like detail.

Bonus: here's the current weather in Napier, Hawkes Bay

Mars Express is a smart and stylish addition to the sci-fi noir canon (www.theverge.com)

Mars Express is a futuristic detective story about the autonomy of synthetic beings — which is to say, it’s the latest in a long line of sci-fi influenced by Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner. But while its premise may be familiar, the movie makes up for it with style and energy. The debut feature from director Jérémie...

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Cool! Hopefully it will come here too.

I've only just heard of it but it looks really good. I like the OG Ghost in the Shell a lot so they sort of had me at that comparison, but the premise sounds super interesting.

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"Fetch my catheter"

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I would quite like to see them on the big screen.

When I watched them it was with so many breaks I didn't get a sense of how they play as movies, it felt more like binge watching a series.

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I think it's the first in Ireland. It's a well respected university so very encouraging.

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In what way (good or bad)?

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This "warning them beforehand" fig leaf only works if you think of everyone as fit healthy and mobile.

Anyone with disabled people, chronically ill people, terminally ill people and elderly people in their own lives knows it's not that simple.

Most of us don't have people physically weakened by famine in our own lives but it doesn't take Einstein to know this is a problem too. And from NGOs we know there's a lot of parentless children and a disproportionate number of child amputees in the mix as well.

If your response to this many civillians being killed is "it's their fault for not getting away" you need to examine your logic, I think.

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No, it's really not necessarily what it looks like at all, though you could be forgiven for thinking it. I think perhaps this is the difference between those who focus on this issue because they're interested in Israel, versus those who focus on it mainly because they're interested in human rights.

You could blindly drop a bomb quite literally anywhere

Blindly dropping bombs on densely populated areas is a war crime.

Yes, killing this many people this fast is a consequence of the choices the IDF is making. No, they are not inevitable choices.

For instance, in its entire war against Islamic State the US dropped just one 2,000lb bomb. Israel is dropping hundreds of them.

Roof knocking and leaflets are a fig leaf - a fiction with the aim of avoiding international condemnation, a bit like the peculiar interpretations of "occupying force" and international law we see from them.

I've seen footage of those leaflets raining down on innocent people in Gaza, the panic and despair. It's not humanitarian at all. Ironically some of the people best equipped to get away in time are Hamas fighters, which is probably why the IDF uses "Where's Daddy" to kill suspected Hamas leaders when they are at home.

continue with their plan

Israeli politicians and public figures have been pretty clear in their national discourse about what their plans are. I don't think we need to speculate further than that.

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