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Some years ago, I was walking with my GF through the supermarket, we were looking at the sweets section, right at the end of the isle, when I let a very stinky fart go. I learned over and said we should go.

We walked to long way so we didn’t have to walk through the cloud, 30-40s later, just after we had rounded the far end of the isle we heard:

Female voice: “oh my god, was that you! That is discussing” (loudly) Male voice: “no, it wasn’t me”
Female voice: “why are you lying to me, you are always lying to me!” (Angrily)
Male voice: “but it wasn’t me” (also angry)

I think I may have put the final nail in the coffin of a bad relationship with a fart

My partner and I still laugh about it 16 years later.

How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?

To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of...

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Probably less than 100 years, I live in New Zealand…

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I have got though these at reasonable speed on my mountain bike (when I was younger), with a very little bit of practice, riding through these is not hard.

No idea about wheel chairs though.

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But I fed my kids red quinoa on Monday, and last night we had manuka smoked garlic hummus on our harissa lamb.

I now will submit to the government reeducation camp, I am clearly a degenerate and need to be “corrected”.

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Hard to tell, still too young. Could have lasting damage.

Minister approves sweeping upzoning, rejects heritage changes (thespinoff.co.nz)

Housing minister Chris Bishop has announced his decision on the Wellington District Plan, approving a series of amendments to radically upzone most of Wellington, allowing tens of thousands of new townhouses and apartments that were previously illegal to build....

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I love this

These streets were all minor exceptions where the IHP had allowed weird density exceptions because the residents were rich and good at arguing and gave lots of reasons why their street was different to all the streets. The council rejected these exemptions, and Bishop agreed.

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I don’t really watch much.

Currently watching For All Mankind, just finished season 2.

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It is pretty good.

Alt-history space race is kinda fun. Kinda wish that humanity kept up the presence on the moon like it is depicted in the show.

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The last two seasons were disappointing.

There is some truly great watching in GoT, but Westeros is a terrible place to live and not just for the peasantry.

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This kind of comment is designed specifically to garner attention. I assume the attention being generated is why TPM leadership is standing behind the comments.

I highly doubt that any of them actually think the government is trying to exterminate Maori. If it was actually case, I would expect a case being raised at the ICJ and massive international attention. Even with the wars going on, a western democracy that is part of various international alliances going from very liberal to hard fascist in less that a year, would cause massive international attention.

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As a minor party, they need to do something to pull attention to themselves and the issues they care about.

But you are correct, there is a fine balance between getting attention for the issues you care about and becoming a parody of yourself.

Ask yourself the question, would we be discussing this and thinking about these issues if they had been less extreme?

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Oh I know, this government is being a bunch of cunts, they only seem to care about tax cuts and everything is on the table to be gutted.

The things that are getting cut, are obviously going to be the things that resonate with their older more conservative base.

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Maybe. Or would it just fly under the radar of public consciousness?

I think this particular instance has moved into the parody territory. But it is so easy to miss the mark, what gets reported on is not decided by what issues we care about, but by what will generate interest.

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Nice pictures.

I don’t use other social media, I likely miss a bunch of cool stuff like this.

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Wow, that is significant.

absGeekNZ,
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Exactly, you should be able to use disarm to remove an important item from a wizard. I see that as no different than taking the sword from a fighter.

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Not all spells require material components.

Totally true; there are some massively powerful spells that don’t have components. But it could make a big difference to the right encounter.

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Agreed, it is super useful when you are trying to be sneaky.

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Noted

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I got a notification of comments on a dnd@lemmy.world that I saw yesterday, so can’t be that far behind now.

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Whatever you do, don’t talk to the kid if you are not in the room. Two way monitor is a bug not a feature.

Made that mistake once, kid was crying I thought it would be comforting to hear me… Nope, disembodied voice freaked the fuck out of the poor little dude.

The extra 30-40s of crying while I walk up stairs is way better than the hour of hugs to get him back to sleep.

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I find it strange to defend the messenger, when they are flawed. The message is the important thing…

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