livus

livus, 1 day ago

Unlikely. Jackson is Darth Vader to Warners Palpatine.

He literally lobbied the New Zealand Government to change the labour laws to avoid paying his employees any benefits on The Hobbit movies (they became "independent contractors" so no sick pay, job security, or holiday pay).

Actors Guild went on strike over it. If anything, Jackson will be the one using Weta to create AI versions of those pesky actors.

livus, 1 day ago

Really? That's so interesting, and a bit disappointing.

I'm still on kbin so I can't see downvotes from other instances, only our own. So most downvotes for me indicate actual spam.

livus, 1 day ago

I've noticed it too but I don't think it's only because of the exodus.

I think it's also because by removing mod tools and opening the floodgates for bots, Reddit has enabled all kinds of vote manipulation and content manipulation by all the shill armies.

Everything from the Hasbara, the 50 centers, Putin's troll farm, Musk's troll farm, whatever Zucc runs that used to come and sealion me anytime I talked about facebook's role in genocide ... all those things have come into their full power now.

livus, 1 day ago

Those roofers are kind of horrible. If someone homeless is sheltering somewhere weird you don't rush off and tell on them.

livus, 1 day ago

Well yeah that's the big picture for sure. I live in a country where there is no capital gains tax on houses and consequently no cheap housing anywhere in the country, because capitalism.

We have universal healthcare, but our housing situation creates a huge drain on it. It's infuriating.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with them looking, it was the telling management part that bothered me. As a society we're too quick to throw each other under the bus.

livus, 1 day ago

Not everyone is turning a blind eye. South Africa and Nicaragua are complaining to the international courts and some other presidents like Lula and Petro are denouncing it.

livus, 1 day ago

That usrname tho. What you just said hits different.

livus, 1 day ago

Probably the 1840s in use. Ruins probably go back to the 13th century or thereabouts but they are no longer buildings..

livus, 2 days ago

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.

livus, 2 days ago

That's the perspective I need. Clicked follow.

livus, 2 days ago

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.

livus, 2 days ago

This is true.

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

Thanks!!

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

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.

livus, 2 days ago

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!

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

@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

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

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

livus, 2 days ago

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.