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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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strypey, to random
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Any suggestions on the best place for someone in Aotearoa to get a durable, USB-charged electric arc lighter (plasma lighter)?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a31133313/how-plasma-lighters-work/

I've seen them for sale in a Z station, and hell, I buy vegan pies there. But if there's a more ethical supplier, I'd much rather give them my business and have someone other than Z to send people if they want one too (same with the pies if anyone knows of any good vegan baking retailers in Waikato).

strypey,
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According to that Popular Mechanics article, they were a successful KickStarter project, which supplied backers with the goods, and as of 2021;

"...the company has opened its own shop and added a new pocket lighter...

... and there is a thriving, competitive market, with other companies marketing their own versions of the concept. This is exactly what crowdfunding was supposed to do; replace predatory Venture Capital with customers funding businesses they want to exist.

strypey,
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Me:
> I've seen them for sale in a Z station, and hell, I buy vegan pies there. But if there's a more ethical supplier...

@jomangee
> Supercheap Auto, Warehouse, Dick Smiths

Big box retail franchise corporations aren't quite what I had in mind ; )

strypey,
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@jomangee
> I’ve seen them on Trade Me too

Right, but searching there is a bit like walking into a random greengrocer. Some of them have good quality veges cheaper than the supermarket. Others buy seconds and mark them up to supermarket prices. The best way to learn about a good one is from a satisfied customer, or someone who's spoken to one.

strypey, to random
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Seems Biden is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. While some are calling him "genocide joe" for his handling of the campus occupations...

"I Morton Klein, as an American Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors, have become frightened at the Biden-Lipstadt administration legitimizing antisemitism and Israel-bashing and making it extremely difficult for Jewish groups to fight [the BDS movement] on campus as antisemitic and antisemitic members of Congress as antisemites."

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/01/biden-touts-cair-splc-antisemitism-push-muddies-waters-israel-hours-major-jewish-holiday/

strypey,
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@icedquinn
> they aren't just using antisemite as an excuse to shut down protests

That's exactly what Morton Klein and his ilk do. What he's criticising there is Biden not helping them do that with sufficient enthusiasm.

I posted the quote to highlight the weirdness of both sides of the Israel/ Palestine culture war in the US claiming Biden is working for the other side.

strypey,
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@icedquinn
> russia and china fund green protests because they know it hurts america

ROTFLMFAO. This reminds me of the tankies who used to claim back in the 90s that environmentalism was a borjwah plot to stifle industrial development in the third world.

@sun

strypey,
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News flash, green politics doesn't come from the left or the right. It doesn't prefer industrial capitalism or industrial communism. It has come to be aligned with the left in the West only because the right has mostly aligned itself with ecocidal corporate capitalism. To the degree there's a green movement in China (there is effectively no civil society there beyond WeChat groups), it's just as critical of corporate capitalism with special Chinese characteristics.

@icedquinn
@sun

strypey,
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@sun
> is there something wrong with BDS?

Only if you think that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic, which this guy clearly does.

Natanox, to random
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What the hell, where does the sudden #enshittification on #Startpage come from? There even are two additional "sponsored" entries on the bottom of the page, barely more results than ads. Doesn't get caught by µBlock Origin or another addon either.

Time to move to a better search provider. Probably a self-hosted one.

strypey,
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@Natanox
> I know a lot of engines, I'm tired of switching though once the one I'm using is becoming trash again.

Here's one advantage of a shared meta-search instance. The more people there are using it, the more anonymised the searches get, and the harder it is for the datafarms being searched to put you in a filter bubble.

> Just going to self-host

Which meta-search package? I know of Searx. Are there others?

@tokudan @MetaGer

strypey, to random
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"[Nicola] Willis says she's not an austerity minister, but cutting taxes, holding down wages and slashing government spending are austerity measures. There is no evidence they will reduce the wage gap: Australia is doing the reverse, which is why people are going there.

Britain, meanwhile, has spent 14 years doing very much what Willis has introduced. The result: Gross National Income per capita is on track to be eclipsed by Poland within about 10 years."

, , May 30, 2024

strypey,
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@musicman
> no doubts these measures are dumb but Brexit has got to be a big contributor to the Poland note

That would certainly knock the UK economy off its perch. But if austerity policy worked, you'd see a big dip as the effects of leaving the EU kicked in, but the overall trend would be a growing economy and/or an increase in standards of living. Do we see either of these if we look at the last 14 years worth of data?

strypey, to random
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"The Invidious docker image is only available on Quay because, unlike Docker Hub, Quay is Free and Open Source Software."

https://docs.invidious.io/installation/

strypey,
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Me:
> If you were starting from scratch today, would you use Docker?

@lightweight
> definitely

Docker Hub?

strypey, to random
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Thatchet (n.): A blunt tool used to axe welfare benefits and close coal mines.

gsuberland, to random
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someone put a bunch of Ayrton Cobras (laser engine moving heads) near the lake at EMF and they're literally lighting up the clouds.

strypey,
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@gsuberland
> someone put a bunch of Ayrton Cobras (laser engine moving heads) near the lake at EMF and they're literally lighting up the clouds.

I'm intrigued but I'm struggling to parse this. What are...

> laser engine moving heads

... and why are they lighting up clouds?

What does EMF stand for in this context and where is it?

strypey, to aotearoa
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"A new Bill... was introduced to Parliament in April 2024: the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill.

This Bill seeks to take us one step closer to creating a Right to Repair in New Zealand. It would do this by changing the Consumer Guarantees Act to require manufacturers to make spare parts and repair information available to consumers and to independent repairers so that we can get our belongings fixed if they break down."

https://www.repairnetworkaotearoa.org.nz/right-to-repair

strypey, to random
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Once again, the fediverse article on Wikipedia has become a mess;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

Part of the problem is a lack of canonical history documents that would meet WP standards as sources, ie articles in an edited publiation, or papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Does anyone know of any? Anyone with a knowledge of the history, or time to do the research, have the capacity to get something published?

strypey, to TeslaMotors
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"Backed by billions of dollars in venture capital and established aerospace giants that include Boeing and Airbus, startups across the world such as Joby, Archer, Wisk and Lilium are spearheading this technological revolution, developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that could transform the way we travel."

#JameyJacob, 2024

https://theconversation.com/electric-air-taxis-are-on-the-way-quiet-evtols-may-be-flying-passengers-as-early-as-2025-228664

#EVTOL #EV #ElectricAviation

strypey,
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Just because it's what we're used to, there's no reason passenger air travel has to look like a train with wings and jet engines, whether it runs on kerosene, electric batteries, or something else. It's been fascinating hearing a bit about new, natively-electric passenger vehicle ideas like Seagliders (Wing-in-Ground effect vehicles) and eVTOL (electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing).

strypey, (edited ) to til
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that the NZ Grocery Commissioner gets paid $455,000 a year. That's $8750 a week. Lucky for some. Thanks to the Tova podcast for 23 May forv that little titbit.

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The corporate wing of the Democrats has objectively terrible political instincts, because the corporate wing of the Dems wants things that are very unpopular with the electorate (this is a trait they share with the Republican establishment).

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/#nothing-would-fundamentally-change

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strypey,
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@MisterMoo
> the whole Gaza thing may be beside the point. Young voters rank it 15th on the list of issues facing the country

"The Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll surveyed 2,010 young Americans between 18- and 29 years old nationwide, and was conducted between March 14-21, 2024."

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024#key-takeaway--id--1567

In other words, this poll was done before the campus occupations and Biden's woeful response. Let's just say it may no longer reflect current attitudes among the surveyed group.

@pluralistic

strypey, to Podcasts
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"I think [the government are] putting the money into the wrong areas. When you've got money that's taken off people that could be in their first home, and giving it to people that own multiple homes, there's a bit of an issue."

Vanessa, single Mum on Supported Living due to a spinal injury, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast/

#podcasts #Tova #NZPolitics

strypey,
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"You've got ways in NZ at present in which you can generate income and not pay tax on it. I'm not going to advocate for a Capital Gains Tax, but I will advocate for a Capital Income Tax. In other words if somebody sells an asset, and they take the increase in [the value of] that asset] and use it for everyday expenditure as if it was an income stream, then that should be taxed."

Gavin, retired, adjunct academic, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast

strypey,
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"I don't have a problem with tax breaks for people in business, whether that's running a business or being a landlord or whatever else, as long as the tax system across them is actually equitable."

Gavin, retired, adjunct academic, guest on the Tova podcast, 23 May, 2024
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/tova-podcast

(edited slightly to reflect intention stated in his comments)

strypey, to journalism
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What distinguished television from film as a medium, from its very early days, was live broadcasting. As time went on, and more and more TV shows were prerecorded, this was kind of forgotten. But until VHS came along and allowed audiences to timeshift both films and TV shows, television still retained that live event quality; be there or you missed it.

(1/3)

strypey,
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I just reworked these ShowerThoughts about what makes television unique into a new Disintermedia article;

https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/a-future-for-television-in-aotearoa

#Disintermedia #TV #television #PublicMedia #NewsMedia

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