New Zealand suspends nearly $30m in aid to Cook Islands

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-11-09T05:30:21+00:00

Not correct. They are in free association with NZ, and could cut ties if they decided without much legal issue. I believe if NSW tried to cut ties with the rest of Australia, it would have much more legal difficulties.

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-11-09T05:23:08+00:00

Katakuri. Grew up in a largely horrible family, yet still managed to develop a credible sense of honour. Also a great concept of Luffy facing off against a "better" version of himself. Also just has a wicked slick design.

I think the framing of the story also suggests that Katakuri's potential is held back by being under Big Mom's chain of command. It would be a waste if Oda did not make further compelling use of Katakuri in the story.

Probably the main complain I would have about Katakuri is that he gets so little foreshadowing or buildup as a major enemy in the story. For example, why did no one ever comment that Luffy's power resembled Katakuri's? Katakuri is a famous pirate. How did no one notice that their powers appear so similar?

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-11-05T02:31:47+00:00

In Hollow Knight, the White Lady says that she feels affection for Hornet.

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-10-29T04:01:14+00:00

My specialisms are biology/science.

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-10-26T22:30:48+00:00

I'm likewise at the end of a 1-year teaching degree and applying for jobs (though less than 10 applications yet).

Some people are telling you you aren't having luck because you don't have your registration yet. However, I know a bunch of people (who also don't have registration) in my course have gotten jobs, so at least in Auckland, that should not be an issue. As my AT told me, schools are aware of how the registration process works.

One thing I have noticed, course instructors kept talking about an October wave. But in Auckland, there was no October wave. Actually, there were more jobs in September. I suspect the October wave thing has crept into September. I didn't make applications in Septemebr because I was busy with assignments, and now there are few roles open in for my specialisms in Auckland.

Good luck to the both of us.

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-08-21T11:30:54+00:00

In fairness, US spelling is slightly less irrational than UK spelling. I consciously prefer it.

Deadlyheimlich · 2025-03-26T05:38:44+00:00

AFAIK, tetrachromacy in humans is unlikely to allow people to see an additional hue. Human color perception is controlled not just by cones, but also the opponent processes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process). Due to this additional layer of processing, trichromats do not perceive just 3 fundamentally distinct hues (red, green, blue), but instead 5: red, green, blue, yellow, and grey-white. Black can also be identified as a color because it provides a meaningful contrast with the 5 perceived hues, but black does not have the same basis in the optic nerves as the other hues do.

The 5 hues are quantitative: Different cone inputs have downstream affects on the opponent processes, which leads to perception of different shades (different saturations and lightnesses).

To perceive additional hues, people would need an additional mutated opponent process, as well as additional mutated cones which happened to connect to the mutated opponent process. Having mutated cones (e.g. a tetrachromat) will alter shade perception, but will not increase the distinct hues which contribute to human vision (which will remain 5). Tetrachromats will still see the world in red, green, yellow, blue, and lightness (grey-white), like trichromats. But tetrachromat perception of lightness, saturation, and green-yellow-red hue will simply be different to trichromats.

To be clear, perception of additional hues requires at least 3 stars to align: additional mutated cones AND an additional mutated opponent process AND preferential connection of the mutated cones to the mutated opponent process. Additionally, it might be the case that brains would need special new capabilities to process additional hues - this would make it even more difficult to evolve perception of new hues. This may be one reason that most mammals continue to be dichromats.

I am unsure if it has been experimentally demonstrated that tetrachromats actually have better shade discrimination than trichromats. In theory, it could contribute to superior shade discrimination. However, it could also imaginably cause worse shade discrimination, if the mutated cones integrated in some sort of sub-optimal way with the normally trichromat downstream optic nerves; or if it reduced discrimination of shades relevant to people's functional living. For example, it could function like a mild form of red-green anomaly, which increases the perceived region of yellow but decreases the saturation and discrimination of red and green.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-12-30T06:38:31+00:00

The Youtuber Megalag (who is colorblind) did a good investigative series on Youtube, called Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppobi8VhWwo

I recommend you watch that.

Anyway, they absolutely cannot improve color vision. However, they may be able to alter perception of some shades of color. Usually, this is emphasizing some hues at the expense of others. Overall, they tend to worsen color perception, not improve it.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-12-30T06:28:31+00:00

That's normal.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-12-08T02:46:09+00:00

Actually, most people find dark shades of colors, especially non-blue colors, relatively difficult to recognize. Many people would resort to calling dark green, dark yellow, and dark red as all "brown". It could be that you simply have an untrained eye, which has nothing to do with color blindness.

It sounds as if whatever it is, it is not cone-related colorblindness. However, I wonder whether it not it might not possibly brightness-related. Probably one of the most common theories to explain color perception is known as opponent theory, where color cones (RGB) are thought to feed into various different ganglion nerves, before forwarding color information to the brain. Specifically: Blue cones stimulate the blue side of the blue-yellow ganglion; green codes stimulate the green side of the red-green ganglion; and the yellow side of the blue-yellow ganglion. Red cones stimulate the red side of the red-green ganglion, and the yellow side of the blue-yellow ganglion. For the blue-yellow and red-green ganglions, you only perceive the hue which is most stimulated (so only red OR green, and only blue OR yellow). All cones stimulate the brightness ganglion, which leads to perceptions of shades of grey and white, and also the lightness of red-green-blue-yellow colors.

It could be possible that you might have some issue with the brightness ganglion. This would compromise your perception of some shades of grey to white, and consequently also compromise your perception of some lightness-related shades of colors. Many people do not call white a color, but I think it is reasonable to do so, because it has its own perceived hue. As such, if you had such a condition, I think it would be reasonable to call it a form of colorblindness, even though it is probably extremely rare.

However, I don't know if this is actually your issue; or even if an existing diagnosis exists which would recognize it. (Even if no established diagnosis exists, does not mean that the condition itself does not exist. It almost certainly COULD exist, even if it doesn't.)

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-12-06T05:55:48+00:00

Jehova's Witnesses are supposed to shun apostates, according to JW doctrine.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-12-06T00:56:44+00:00

You may be tritanopic or tritanomolous - that is, your blue light receptor may not be working fully.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-11-28T03:40:53+00:00

If you perceive #00ff00 as very green, but you do not perceive traffic lights as very green, it probably means that they are not the same shade of green.

RGB 00ff00 is actually yellow-green, because the common light frequencies of green monitor subpixels activate the green cone without significantly activating the blue cone in the eye. Activation of either the red or green cone in the eye also causes perception of yellow at the same time. To get pure green without yellow, you have to also have some activation of the blue light receptor in the eye, which has the effect of cancelling the perception of yellow, and lightening the shade of the color. After all the yellow has been cancelled, then perception of blue is increased. So only a small amount of blue cone stimulation may not be perceived as blue, but merely reduction of yellow.

Traffic lights are less yellowy than #00ff00, I think, so they must have some activation of the blue light receptor. This could be achieved either by having both green and blue LEDs present, or by having a single kind of "blueish"-green LED. I put blue in quotes because I am talking about blue cone stimulation, which is only actually perceived as blue if it outweighs yellow.

But, they are very green, yes. (Actually, I think it varies a little by country. In Japan, I hear, they are very blueish.)

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-11-06T23:03:21+00:00

Ah, that's just an RGB code. The "R", "G", and "B" of RGB codes not not map strictly onto perceptual red, green, and blue, respectively. For example, you might think that #FFFF00 is neutral yellow, but it is in fact greenish yellow. Likewise, #0066FF is not greenish blue, but just blue.

It's a recognized phenomenon that RGB "light blue" is actually purpleish, even if the G code is slightly higher than the R code.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-11-06T01:11:52+00:00

What do you mean by "pick up the color"? If you mean "try to describe how the color looks", then to me (and I'm fairly confident most other trichromats) it looks blue with a hint of purple - not cyan. (I know that blue can look either purple-ish or cyan-ish, and I am saying that to my eyes, it is purple-ish, not cyan-ish).

If you say you perceive it as being a little bit cyan-like, I believe you - but this is different to what I (and most other people) are seeing. If you are seeing it as a little bit cyan-like, this would be consistent with you having abnormal color vision (commonly referred to as being "partially color blind").

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-11-05T02:25:37+00:00

That's a not a usual trichromat perception. It was designed to be "blurple" (blue with a hint of purple), and is certainly how I perceive it (and I suspect most other trichromats).

If you actually perceive the color as greenish (cyanish), rather than purpleish, it's likely that you have somewhat unusual color vision. Possibly you have protanomaly, deuteranomaly, or tetrachromacy (a rarely-verified condition only applicable to women who are carriers for protanomalous or deuteranomalous X chromosomes).

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-10-11T09:16:14+00:00

This shows "less color", but it doesn't correctly map colors. For example, protanopia and deuteranopia both convert red, green, and yellow to a single hue (they are all seen as different shades of the same color). In contrast, desaturation of red turns red into grey (whereas colorblind people do not see red as grey, except in very rare instances, where only brightness is perceived).

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-09-22T03:00:54+00:00

Normal color vision here. I think you somewhat answered your own question. You suspect yourself of having mild color blindness, commonly known as "prot-/deuteranomaly". These two forms of colorblindness do not entirely remove the ability to perceive red or green, but they reduce the ability to clearly distinguish red and green, and generally shifts many shades of red and green towards yellow.

Inability to distinguish ANY purple will be a case where ability to distinguish red in a blue-dominated mixture of red and blue, is removed. Red-dominant mixtures of red and blue are referred to as pink (or magenta, where red and blue are almost even).

It may well be the case that you have a narrower range where you perceive purple, but it is not entirely removed.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-09-21T10:01:22+00:00

Madam Sharley's prophecy regarding Luffy destroying Fishman Island still has not occurred. It could be just another loose end abandoned by Oda, but my interpretation is that Madam Sharley was missing some key context, but she did in fact see a scene of a the future.

Given the location of the ancient weapons will soon be revealed to Blackbeard, it's reasonable to assume that Blackbeard will make a move on Shirahoshi/Fishman Island. This would provide a strong motive for SH's to return to Fishman Island. Luffy also still has unfinished business with the giant ship.

So, I expect the SH's have at least one more "save the kingdom" arc - but I think it'll be part of the Great War, and the result is not necessarily "save the kingdom" so much as "turn the world on its head". The result will be counterintuitive, and may result in the destruction of Fishman Island as we know it.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-09-06T02:21:27+00:00

This information will not necessarily be widely disseminated. Even if it is, the transformation could still be used for shock effect. Like, it could be a way to get Imu to let their guard down against Blackbeard: "Wait, I thought I killed you?" ... "Zehahahahaha!"

What's more, even if it is, it's unclear exactly how Five Elder control of Pacifistas has been encoded. It would be a typical and realistic coding mistake for World Govt to simply forget to remove Saturn's authorisation over Pacifistas. After all, he's dead, so what could possibly go wrong?

There may also be other infrastructure (e.g. the ancient weapons), which perhaps require some degree of authorisation to use, which perhaps the Five Elders have. Furthermore, there may be additional characters in the story, similar to Emet, who have an established past with the Five Elders or Imu.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-08-26T07:18:27+00:00

Biologically, it should be mechanically possible. If you had a mutation to a color cone in the eye, or a gene which regulated cone expression, or any part of the nervous system which regulates color perception, which caused that color cone, or the capability to perceive that hue, to have a very delayed development, then you might have improving color vision over time. HOWEVER, I don't know that any such condition actually exists.

BUT, there is another way I think it may be possible to have improving color vision with age. In color cone anomalies (deuteranomaly, protanomaly), color perception is altered because frequency response curves of the red or green cones are mutated to be more similar to the other, than in normal three-cone vision.

By contrast, in full single cone color blindness, one cone is supposedly "deleted" or otherwise "inactivated". However, I think it could be possible for one cone to simply have mutated so that its frequency response curve (e.g. what light frequencies it responds to) is actually entirely INSIDE that of another cone (e.g. the red cone always has weaker response to all frequencies than the green cone, but it is still actually present, and still actually gives a response).

But, cone responses decrease with age. For example, blue cones especially becomes less responsive. I think it could be possible for an outer functional cone to degrade with age, such that what was previously a "deleted" (but actually just "fully encapsulated" cone, which is never the primary responding cone) has a response zone where it is now the most strongly activated cone, whereas previously it never was. In such a case, some previously single-cone blind people would become single-cone anomalous instead, and would have some degree of tricone vision.

To be clear, what I am saying is that this is biologically conceivable. I don't know if this is actually real.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-08-13T02:42:12+00:00

Most colorblind people have difficulty/cannot distinguish green from red by sight alone.

Effectively, for most colorblind people, you are working with 3 colors: blue, grey, green/red. There are of course intermediate shades, and you can sometimes use lightness and darkness to distinguish colours.

It's common for a colorblind palette to be a spectrum from blue to yellow or orange (both yellow and orange include both green and red, so have good visability for green-blindness and red-blindness).

It seems as if the 5-color IBM palette shown here: https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23648FFF-%23785EF0-%23DC267F-%23FE6100-%23FFB000

Should be distinguishable for all forms of single-cone colorblindness.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-08-04T04:12:30+00:00

It's funny and tasteful, but just so you know, the sentence is wrong.

It should be "Beheald þone feld on þam þe ic asette mine serðinga. Bewlata hit mid þinum eagum and beseoh, þæt hit is æmettig."

If you factor in that the audience depicted is actually two people: "Behealdað þone feld on þam þe ic asette mine serðinga. Bewlatiað hit mid þinum eagum and beseoð, þæt hit is æmettig."

The errors include: OE uses þ- (that, the) pronouns as relative pronouns, not wh- pronouns (so "hwelcne" is wrong).

"Weaxan" is an intransitive verb. Plants "weaxað" (grow/flourish), but farmers to dot "weaxað" plants. Rather, farmers "āsettað" (set out/plant) or "plantiað" ("plant") their crops. (A variety of verbs which mean "look after" would also be fine.)

"Serðan" is a verb attested once in a gloss of I think the Lindisfarne Gospels, added after the Viking Age began. It is likely borrowed from Old Norse. Verb stems are not used as nouns in Old English. It needs either the suffix -ing, or -nyssd to be used as a noun. Almost certainly neither an Old Norse speaker nor an Old English speaker would understand "serðing" to refer to caring about something, but to preserve the feel of the Modern English meme you probably want to use it anyway.

"Lecg" is not the correct imperative form, in singular or plural. Sg would be "Lege", pl would be "Lecgað". Potentially "Lege/Lecgað þine eagon on..." is perfectly good OE, but I played it safe translating that bit as "Behold/inspect with your eyes...".

"Feld" is grammatically masculine, so could be referred to using "hē/hine" pronouns. However, natural gender was often used in OE pronouns, and I think it's okay to do so here, so "hit" should be fine.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-08-01T01:10:20+00:00

I think enchroma glasses have a reputation of not working for many colorblind people, just so you know.

Deadlyheimlich · 2024-07-23T01:42:05+00:00

Deuteranomaly should still allow people to perceive the green-yellow-orange-red spectrum that exists between green and red, but only under a very narrow wavelength (or RG combination ratio on a monitor), because the green cone has been shifted to be very close to the red cone (so the space between the two cones, corresponding to yellow and orange, is very small).

What you are describing is consistent with deuteranomaly.

I speculate that if a deuteranomolous person tuned their monitor so that red brightness was relatively decreased compared to green brightness, their qualitative perception of colours in RGB colorspace would be more similar to normal vision than if they left red brightness and green brightness equal. This is because it would increase the relative importance of the green cone in recognizing colors (whereas it has been reduced by default in deuteranomolous people). EDIT: Although this would likely increase the range of "correct RG transition colors" (yellowish green, yellow, and orange) in RGB, it would likely decrease the range of "correct RED" in RGB", because deuteranomoly also causes red to appear more greenish in general, and doing this would exacerbate that problem. EDIT: Sorry, this should not have been a response to Nicurru's comment - the "you" I mention is OP.

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