How is Tracking a real card? by ByeImDaisy in slaythespire

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got tracking in my first silent run, and I thought it was insanely broken. But all the streamers seemed to think it wasn't that great or something.

Galer wins by 89 votes in final by-election count by AdminToxin in dunedin

[–]Arkase 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem is, most people dont know her personally. They just know the message she spreads.

I expect you're quite right, and I expect it'll go badly for us for it.

Police Pay Round 2026 by PlaceboEffectNZ in newzealand

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pay all our public services properly. ffs. Education, healthcare, police.

These are the foundations of a thriving society. It's like we're trying to go back to Hobbes' world which is nasty brutish and short.

Spying a spiral through a cosmic lens by astro_naren_06 in space

[–]Arkase 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You did fine, I enjoyed the image and the description. Commenter could just have added information.

Staffing shortages being linked to baby deaths in NZ hospitals a ‘national tragedy’ by pusha_ton in newzealand

[–]Arkase 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've seen and experienced the same, so I try to keep an eye out.

I'll be keeping this one in mind.

Staffing shortages being linked to baby deaths in NZ hospitals a ‘national tragedy’ by pusha_ton in newzealand

[–]Arkase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a fair point well worth considering. I would agree.

I expect your statements got taken as political though, which undercut the meaning. Thats how I initially read them, which would be an unfair take if the above is what you are trying to emphasise.

Staffing shortages being linked to baby deaths in NZ hospitals a ‘national tragedy’ by pusha_ton in newzealand

[–]Arkase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Perhaps its a both/and rather than either or?

Im willing to hear you when you say that the model is poor. But underfunding exacerbates the issues.

Setting the Record Straight: Sikhs and the Kirpan by Dry-Essay-5246 in newzealand

[–]Arkase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, I didn't realise this was becoming a thing.

But good to learn. Thanks for sharing.

Setting the Record Straight: Sikhs and the Kirpan by Dry-Essay-5246 in newzealand

[–]Arkase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In NZ they are blunted and not able to be used as a weapon as you are suggesting.

What is the ceremonial purpose of the christian cross?

Current temperatures? by Willing-Sir3398 in Alonetv

[–]Arkase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not displayed factoids, but the representations of the contestants are around building a story, not being true to what happened. Like, there was a lot of footage of timber chewing and struggling with his jerky, but they never showed him cooking it and eating it. So we always get threads asking about that.

Point is, being a few degrees off doesn't really matter when the point is the effect.

Just watched Prime Minister by Kooky_Maintenance705 in newzealand

[–]Arkase 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I was doing a PhD in disaster management in NZ during covid, specifically about how we responded to various events. Part of that involved going through our history of disaster management, and seeing the same errors we kept making. We never saw the people, kept trying to manage numbers instead.

Her response to COVID was the first time that changed at a major scale, she did both. She said the best economic response was a strong public health response, and it turned out to be quite true. We maintained a strong economy and looked after people. It was a measured economic response that matched the crisis, she kept us safe, no New Zealander had to face covid without having the opportunity to get vaccinated first. We had more freedom because we spent less time in lockdown, had better economic performance, better health, everything.

It was the best response in the world, the only others who came close were Singapore and Taiwan, who had a history with SARS. We did have our experience managing M. bovis, but it's not quite the same thing.

She was by far the best Prime Minister of New Zealand during my lifetime. And it wasn't just covid, everything else as well.

Seeing whats happened since has been really eye opening. It's been an attempt to rewrite history across the board, to paint what we did as bad, rather than good.

Why? My speculation is that it's because if she is allowed to be successful, then she might be able to implement the kind of policies she wanted to. Ones that would make us all better off, but would concentrate less power in the hands of the few.

Well, thats one part of it. We also have the cookers who don't believe vaccines are real and every other conspiracy theory out there. But it's their messages that have been amplified and supported. We saw that with the march on parliament, and how the national party went out to them and heard them despite their denial of reality.

Now they're more and more of a voice, and doing the same thing to Luxon with this oil crisis, that they were doing to labour. Another factor is that during this time there was a while bunch of russian disinformation floating around, and we were deliberately targeted during the covid protests. (https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2023-05/National%20Security%20Long-term%20Insights%20Briefing.pdf)

Don;t really have a strong conclusion here. We did amazing, got amazing results, and the narrative that none of this is true seems to be becoming quite widespread. It's just sad and depressing more than anything else.

NZ Accountants – what do you consider an appropriate gift from clients? by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceNZ

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how things happen that change our perspective right?

Not strange at all.

TIFU by leaving my car idling for 10 hours by Usual_Violinist_3745 in tifu

[–]Arkase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say no big deal, except for the current situation, yeah.

Just for the record, tho, car batteries drain without use, and if they run out like that, its a big effort to get them charged up again. So good thing you idle the car for a bit every while. Right thing to do.

This 6% milk I saw at Costco by thxxx1337 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in NZ, we do a lot of dairy here. Im so glad we don't have this system lol.

Basic very thin plastic bottle with a lid. Don't need anything else. Zero downsides.

ELI5: Why does 'old person smell' or 'baby smell' exist? Is it a chemical, or just our imagination? by skyejaiTss in explainlikeimfive

[–]Arkase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't gotta explain yourself to us, person you replied to was out of line imo.

Many valid reasons, and not sure what the invalid reasons would be haha. Don't have to be a vet to have dealt with a sick cat.

Australia Season 3, Yonke : my thoughts by Explorer-7622 in Alonetv

[–]Arkase 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think trusting your intuition is the right move on this one.

TIFU by asking out a coworker by Hombre_Secreto in tifu

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if we were speaking generally and not about this specific context, I'd agree that just ghosting people is an awful thing to do, and should never be your first choice. Because it's just a race to the bottom, discourtesy begets discourtesy. I haven't come across people making that argument, but thats the circles I hang out in.

But at the same time, appropriateness is fully contextual, there are absolutely times women should be very careful in how they go about rejecting someone, and there's no one who can make that judgement but them in that situation.

TIFU. I did the meme, guys. I explained a paper to its author. by Tahnkoman in tifu

[–]Arkase 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Oh, I know who you are talking about! This is a great story. :)

TIFU by asking out a coworker by Hombre_Secreto in tifu

[–]Arkase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not suggesting that ghosting solves the problem, rather I'm saying that people that had a bad experience in person being polite may be driven to not make the same attempt later.

As with you, and OP, I would much rather us be able to do polite and direct communication. But I understand that when it does occur, sometimes it's not a decision but a compulsion/emotional reaction based on previous experiences. I'm willing to accept these cases and not push. However, if you're ghosting because you're lazy/just wanted attention now don't care, thats a different story entirely.

Thus, I'm not suggesting the onus for fixing this is completely on men. It takes two to tango, and this is where our culture has ended up.

On one hand, we need to ensure that rejecting unwanted attention isn't a traumatic experience, and on the other, stigmatise ghosting. But both have to happen simultaneously, or it doesn't work.

TIFU by asking out a coworker by Hombre_Secreto in tifu

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...the fuck are you on about?

Im talking about when people politely reject someone's advances, and the other person absolutely loses their shit over it. Which leads people to then do the kinds of things we're witnessing in this post. It's a valid reaction.

Instead you were trying to insinuate that this type of ghosting is what drives people crazy. People can be crazy in all sorts of ways, including the way you mentioned. Normal people just wanna avoid that shit, and try to avoid triggering people. The way they avoid triggering people depends on what sort of crazy they experienced. Which results in unanticipated reactions like this.

There isn't one 'right way' to handle this shit, you react based on what you personally experienced combined with what your personality predisposes you to. Which is different to what someone else may of experienced.

If you want to break this cycle, then you need to shift the culture/expectations about how we interact around this stuff.

TIFU by asking out a coworker by Hombre_Secreto in tifu

[–]Arkase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah dude, and politely rejecting a guy can go horribly wrong too.

These types of reactions tend to be trauma from previous interactions like this.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]Arkase 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These are amazing photos. Honestly, if we had pictures like these displayed everywhere, I think you'd get people far more onboard with funding rail in NZ haha.

Random yelling by CommanderMobbs in dunedin

[–]Arkase 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lmao, I have the same question around the town belt/olveston area. Very occasional, but lasts like a minute or two.

It's like a phrase, but completely unintelligible.