flambonkscious

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago

Don't bother with the lotto ticket bud, and maybe rethink those life changes you were fantisizing about...

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago

Ha - We've got this new hybrid proto-sheep going on. I've got one 17 y/o and a 15 y/o and they're basically thick as two planks, bleat about irrelevant things and shit everywhere, so yeah, I've probably got sheep :)

  • Nah, the kids are alright, I just like teasing them for being trolls (and I get it back, don't worry! Bald AF and regularly reminded)

I haven't seen Germaine in a while but Brett's doing well. He hasn't taken me up on the millionaire munchfest or billionaire BBQ though, so it seems like we're stuck with the 1%ers for a while yet...

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Oh, one wish?

That's hard.

I think I'd wish for humanity to not have insecurities. I figure then we'd just have to figure out how to neuter greed and we'd be sorted from our own annihilation... (and inordinately better off both individually and as a species)

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Oh this is easy!

Lasagne - its so versatile. I'd usually keep it realy light on mince and boost the vegetables, though. So many textures and ways to play with flavours, it'd be ages before it got old.

Alone? I dunno. Sleep or gooning, probably

Largest animal: a med-small dog? Like a whippet or something.

I don't understand the dragonballs stuff. Probably just too them down a hill (we've got some really steep streets for this in NZ)

Pick a vowel, any vowel - they're all the same...

Yup - looks like both bottom images ate the same people

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

This is a great random question. Me likey

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago

Seems kinda obvious, on the face of it. There's the completely voluntary recession so the landlords could get a fat payout. The constant scuttling of environmental protections (mining, fishing, etc) for a quick buck and the brazen destruction they've done to the health system and government function.

We're rapidly decaying our quality of life, whereas they're less isolated, have economies of scale and natural resources to tap into (we do too, it's just in a nature reserve, etc)

As a kiwi - fuck those dirty cunts!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32753121

Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (1985)

Wed Jul 10, 1985

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Image: The Rainbow Warrior in Marsden Wharf in Auckland Harbour after the bombing by French secret service agents. © Greenpeace / John Miller [greenpeace.org]


On this day in 1985, the French government, in an act of state-sponsored terror, bombed the Greenpeace-operated boat Rainbow Warrior, which was en route to protest a nuclear weapons test planned by the French state. The bombing, later found to be personally ordered by French President François Mitterrand, killed a freelance photographer on board named Fernando Pereira.

France had been testing nuclear weapons on the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia since 1966. In 1985 eight South Pacific countries, including New Zealand and Australia, signed a treaty declaring the region a nuclear-free zone.

Since being acquired by Greenpeace in 1977, Rainbow Warrior was active in supporting a number of anti-nuclear testing campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including relocating 300 Marshall Islanders from Rongelap Atoll, which had been polluted by radioactive fallout by past American nuclear tests.

For the 1985 tests, Greenpeace intended to monitor the impact of nuclear tests and place protesters on the island to observe the blasts. Three undercover French agents were on board, however, and they attached two limpet mines to Rainbow Warrior and detonated them ten minutes apart, sinking the ship.

France initially denied responsibility, but two of the French agents were captured by New Zealand Police and charged with arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder.

The resulting scandal led to the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hernu, while the two agents pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to ten years in prison. They spent a little over two years confined to the French island of Hao before being freed by the French government.

In 1987, after international pressure, France paid $8.16m to Greenpeace in damages, which helped finance another ship. It also paid compensation to the Pereira family, making reparation payments of 650,000 francs to Pereira's wife, 1.5 million francs to his two children, and 75,000 francs to each of his parents.


'Hold my beer' would've been a panty dropper. Amateur...

That's a good point - which of my 14 registrations should I pick, I wonder? 🤮

There was just something much nicer about the tangible decide that an all app can't come close to

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That sounds great!

 

Silly question: Having CNAMEs for A records just makes sense, but why can't we have a PTR redirect?

 

Really thats all...

 

Auth plz

 

Riding into work yesterday, somehow while upshifting my chain slipped off the smallest cog onto the frame and hopped off the jockey wheel in the derailleur - all very drastic, but it suggests to me the derailleur twisted?

Historically getting down out of the 9th or 10th gear would need 'a little extra thumb' past the shifters click, that now seems to be the case for the top few gears - but the rest of the 11 speed cluster works great still

Does this sound more like I've worn the cogs somehow or twisted / bent the derailleur?

If it was bent, I thought it would affect all shifting...

It's a shimano HG 11 speed with their reasonably recent chain that's supposed to be really long lasting (possibly intended for e bikes? Mines an old analog, mojo geometron)

I should really double check what the parts are (being a Muppet), and get a photo of the alignment, but I'd love to be able to something on my own before wheeling it into the LBS

 

This is a phenomenal (but short) album, has anyone got other equivalent they're sleeping on?

bandcamp

It's very proggy, which I love, but also very heavy. Super-tasteful use (sparse!) of blast beats, etc

 

A sign for cyclists indicating to perform a hook turn with graffiti "abolish all forms of government"

Dunno why, it just seemed funny

 

I just skimmed through the leaflets and realized they got almost as many as lab/nat.

Who do they think they're fooling?

 

I'm delighted about the chance of this even happening. I'm under no illusions, however after the abortive duopoly review of our supermarkets. But this isn't comcom and had a clearer harm to the community, so maybe it'll happen?

God, I'd love to see it revoked entirely, but maybe there'll be some clearer oversight...

The company said it had invested significantly in systems to maintain the highest standards of host responsibility best practice, and prioritised minimising the impacts associated with problem gambling.

As. If.

 

With Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh buying the land, that seems like a surprisingly agreeable outcome...

Thoughts?

 

I've been starting to play around with rct2 and am amazed at some of the dense examples I've seen - this game is really deep!

I'm still using the premade rollercoasters (honestly, just getting the pathing right for them is complex enough!!) and am really struggling to get the ramps to connect without massive amounts of stuffing around. I've only just realised with the elevated ones I can have the path coming off them remaining elevated which tends to help with the pathway / track collisions, but I'm not even sure how I did it!

I hate sitting through mindnumbing YouTube videos as typically they're completely uninsightful (rct2 might be a different situation, I suppose, especially being a beginner), I feel like jumping in and learning as I went might've been a mistake...

Are there some tips I'm missing and how the hell am I supposed to see the entrances and plan the paths without buying the coaster and hoping it going to work? (I've rebought the same thing several times when I can't get it working!)

Cheers

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