People think that teens don't care what their family thinks as much as their peers, but that's not true at all. Teens understand that family is forever and important, which is why it's so emotionally fraught to separate and individuate.
Peer relations are where low stakes experimentation happens.
It's a BIG piece of work. With fancy lawyers, travelling roadshow, the works. Doesn't take long to rack up $30m.
And also, you can't really cheap out on it. The entire point is that you've got to do a process that no-one can complain about, which is why you send in the big names and dot your i's.
100%. And that thus far it appears to be a minority (not zero; there's some good solid reporting out there) who can is quite depressing. & an indictment of those in the majority.
Facts from an expert body. Spin from politicians. If their job isn't holding one up to the other for us what is it?
bsky.app/profile/dred...
I'm scanning up and down the NZH homepage and NZ page, because I'm convinced I missed the *actual* Covid story. This thing is a podcast writeup, below the fold in the NZ section, and is explains the findings of the report *entirely* by direct quotes of Brown, which is wild.
One News, Spinoff:
RNZ, Stuff, NZH, Newsroom:
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
Uploaded an old Listener article of mine into Grammarly. It told me it was channelling the ghost of Janet Malcom while criticising my intro. That piece won magazine crime story of the year in 2008, you insipid machine: The intro is fire.
Mid air fueling
Picture of planes historians will call just friends
I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.
Me, a man: yeah I think I can swim out of that
there's always a tweet/limerick(?)
Because Iran's being bombed right now, I figured I'd share a thread of home videos of Iran (20+ years old) recorded by members of my family, just so people can see what Iran looks like without smoke/fire everywhere and to preserve those memories
January 2006, Tehran (I think)
Christopher Lloyd as uncle Fester holding a knife with the subtitle “you fought well, Atreides”
I think I downloaded the wrong Dune 2
I can follow the reasoning, but it certainly puts the difference between this view and "the library should be an open and inviting space for all" into stark relief.
Did not expect to see an argument for "theft prevention should be prioritised by the library" in there 🙃🙃
“The just give me a fucking PDF” act
This act binds the crown to making a complete, searchable PDF copy of all regulations, acts, council plans and secondary legislation, etc etc.
"survivalist libertarians being locked inside their own off-road apocalypse-proof cybertruck on the canadian border while MPs come to pick them up to be sent to the iranian front" is the cyberpunk dystopia i signed up for
The school bldg had been part of the mil compound until about 15 years ago—FIFTEEN YEARS—but was completely walled off by 2016. Same was true for a health clinic that was also hit by the US attack.
US was either targeting with ancient intel, or didn’t care about all-but-certain collateral damage.
The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
[3 hours of "maybe i would like to watch some tv" later]: "why is aws charging me $3/month for ec2 in oregon"
man I thought I was kidding but now I'm setting up my own vpn so I can give them money out of spite
I'm mostly just waiting for the AI bubble at this point...
Me, actually: digging out my encrypted thumbdrive where I store my single-use tokens and also the name of my best friend
Gotta say, getting me more invested in circumventing their system (ie logging in) than pirating their content is genius. Apple sure know their customers (Linux sysadmins)
"Hey Apple, I live in America now. I'm just visiting New Zealand that's why I have e NZ credit card."
"Okay! What's the name of your best friend when you were eight...
What's the name of your best friend when you were eight?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR BEST FRIEND WHEN YOU WERE EIGHT"
