Agreed, but at fewer than 10k people, it is not exactly a city.

Going a little further north, I spent a lot of my teenage years in Athenree… Current population 920… It has grown since I left.

If you mean people from my country… All of them.

New Zealand only has like 10 actual cities. It is not some great feat of memory to know them all.

It can happen, but statistically adult man vs adult woman is not a fair fight.

I knew a guy at university; started going out with this smoking hot girl. She was a regional champ in jujitsu; it didn’t last long, turns out she was a violent piece of shit. Beat him up twice, he left after the second one. She had major anger management issues.

But you turn that story around a little, similar situation, girl has same anger management issues, but without the training etc, she is unlikely to be a threat to any adult guy.

There are so many pessimistic comments.

To those who are saying, something along the lines of, aliens wouldn’t come because they wouldn’t recognise us as intelligent.

That is a really stupid augment, even if they were significantly more intelligent than us, we still standout from all other minds on this planet.

We literally study everything, just for the sake of knowledge.

A high intelligence civilisation that has the ability to reach us, would also have to a high level of curiosity to archive that ability.

To answer question posed. There are two ways to look at this:

• if we assume that, at some point an alien civilisation will contact us, the next 10 years is as statistically likely as another ten year timeframe.
• from a background rate, of the actual likelihood of being contacted at all. I have to say, it is exceptionally unlikely. The travel distances/times, and the time a civilisation exists for, all count against contact especially physical contact.

Trump is an idiot. If he actually cared about US power, he wouldn’t give Xi this opportunity.

It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit or not, the fact that Xi can even make these comments, in a credible manner will hurt US trade relations and by extension, power.

I’m wondering what exactly people raising privacy concerns are worried about?

Even if I tell you my ASL, what can you do with that info?

I’m usually very privacy aware.

The big tech firms already have the information, it can also likely be brought on the dark web.

44/M/NZ BTW. Even if I tell you which small town I’m from, it doesn’t get you to my doorstep.

I hope this is real.

What a great story. I especially liked that the cousin had joined a badminton club and was going out to enjoy opera.

s/main/only/

Search on DDG, maybe “Candling”

Candling : The process of illuminating an egg with a bright light to examine its contents.

My 3 boys, and various friends loved that toy.

Yes; a lot of things get hit, even themselves.

To anyone saying that these are a bad toy. You are wrong! There are so many learning opportunities for babies and toddlers in this toy.

It is super cool seeing a really little kid “building” the duplo with their little hammer.

But why are the rainbow rollers crushing etcetera?

Are there additional unspecified things just out of frame…that is kinda ominous.

Climate change.

In the mid 90’s when the data was becoming more mainstream, I felt that there wasn’t enough info to make a decision on it, looking back from now there was but the O&G lobby was muddying the waters as much as possible.

A few years later, ~97/98; I had read enough studies and seen enough data to accept that, yes; we were changing the climate, and yes; we need to do something about it.

It has shaped a lot of the decisions I have made in the last 25+ years.

BTW electric power tools kick arse.

I have a boox note 3. It’s great, ReadEra is my default reading app, syncthing and Netguard are the main things I use.

I once long ago worked in the incoming mail department for are insurance company. It was basically data entry.

Thing was, there wasn’t enough work.

There were two teams of five, plus a supervisor for each team, and a manager above them.

So what would happen was, we would arrive in and go to our spots, a few minutes later the main would arrive. Most days there was 100 pieces of mail to process, a really busy day may have twice this amount.

Even the most complex items would take me 10 minutes to process. The bulk was around 3 minutes, given the above, could personally have processed all the mail on an average day, with 3hrs to spare for complications.

On an average day, I got in the order of 30-40 minutes of work.

On slow days, it was more like 20.

I started coming in late, sleeping at my desk. Wandering around, going up to the upper management offices and the roof.

I eventually got fired, after months of this behaviour. Not because I was underperforming, no! I got fired, because I was “effecting the moral of the team”

I can see the point of why I was fired. I was an arse, I wasn’t suitable for the role.

This fucks me off sooooooooo much; in NZ there are a lot of (a fuck of a lot) of roads that don’t have overtaking zones for a long way.

Getting an opportunity to overtake the slow prick you have been following for 20 minutes, just to have them speed up…forcing me to go faster than I’m comfortable with, then being in front and have them sitting on your arse for the next 10km, even though you are going faster than before you overtook them…FUCK OFF!!!

This is the only correct answer

And socks…

That is exactly the same for your kids, it is not until their world expands a bit when they are 3-5YO; before that you are literally everything to them.

Even though it is an Australian movie The Castle is pretty good

You have to remember these are just simple farmers.
These are people of the land.
The common clay of the new west.
You know…
Morons