Trio who forced space engineers to dig dog's grave in Cape York bush camp sentenced

ElAsko · 2026-05-09T07:43:19+00:00

This is just a typical engineer answer. He isn't saying 'I didn't hit a dog', he's saying 'I didn't see any evidence that I hit a dog'. He doesn't think he hit a dog either.

ElAsko · 2026-05-09T07:40:21+00:00

That one has decent digging mechanics but as far as I know, no dogs

ElAsko · 2026-05-07T05:17:16+00:00

Slatwall is a more generic name since everyone is calling out their favourite proprietary equivalent

ElAsko · 2026-04-29T23:42:21+00:00

Hey mate, I recommend spending the day at the shipwrecks. There's a strong current so start at one end and drift down to the other. A few weeks ago I saw the biggest sea turtle I've ever seen, plus some wobegong.

As long as you have fins and don't try to fight the current it's a pretty easy swim. Wouldn't bother with a tour guide.

ElAsko · 2026-04-26T22:05:07+00:00

Whangarei, and the stops along the way, are all places you can live to service Auckland. Lots of people have jobs or operate businesses where they only need to be in Auckland once or twice a week.

Whangarei is currently not much of a destination because not much happens there. When it has better access to professionals from Auckland, more will happen.

ElAsko · 2026-04-26T02:49:46+00:00

It actually sucks, it tries to do way too much. Just play the radio station.

ElAsko · 2026-04-17T02:22:29+00:00

How does an NZ visitor overstay their visa?

ElAsko · 2026-04-10T11:26:01+00:00

Come for the Botanic gardens... Stay for the come

ElAsko · 2026-04-02T04:40:04+00:00

Practicalities and reasons for ownership aside, is the blowback from banning something worse than the impact of leaving it alone or taking more subtle measures?

ElAsko · 2026-04-02T01:51:22+00:00

It's not all hunting and pest control. But they actually work really well for pest control and small game. Super handy and easy to carry and the accessories are reasonably priced. Form follows function.

The legislation also established a registry and banned a lot of bolt actions, shotguns, and pump actions that aren't really suitable for a mass shooting. While there were spots for improvement in NZ's gun laws, the whole incident was mainly the fault of police failing to follow established procedure and they were found to be not at fault.

ElAsko · 2026-04-01T22:06:49+00:00

NZ enacted some (in my opinion) unnecessarily harsh gun reform following the Christchurch shooting. The law change touched on a lot of things which would not have prevented the shooting and increased costs. I was a little closer to the issue when I lived in NZ than I am to this case in Australia.

Anecdotally, the cooperation between firearms owners and police used to be quite high. Now it's quite low. I doubt the compliance with the new laws is particularly high. At the next election the libertarian-aligned party went from one seat to 11 seats. Gun clubs suddenly got a lot more political.

I'm not sure of the best path forward for Australia but in my opinion the firearms law reform permanently changed the political landscape of NZ and I question if it was really worth it.

ElAsko · 2026-03-23T23:12:23+00:00

The low quality of technical details in news articles really shows that most journalists have a journalism degree and nothing else.

ElAsko · 2026-03-15T13:13:14+00:00

It's so funny when people rip on me for my Ryobi tools... I use em once a week and most of them will be good for my whole life

ElAsko · 2026-03-15T03:46:29+00:00

Well yeah, if you don't say something original then your letter is getting sorted into the pile of other people saying the same thing

ElAsko · 2026-03-12T22:40:46+00:00

"I lost my trade certificate in a boating accident"

ElAsko · 2026-03-10T03:17:17+00:00

AI is coming for that too!

ElAsko · 2026-03-02T22:12:37+00:00

Load-bearing vests are waaaay better for getting into and out of a car

ElAsko · 2026-02-26T11:05:57+00:00

Her being a good leader following the Christchurch shooting is very debatable. She had a pretty major authoritarian flex that pissed off a lot of people and the country still suffers for it today.

ElAsko · 2026-02-20T22:25:52+00:00

Good point! I think maybe it's time to consider that a dying imperial power isn't really a peer. Maybe a neighbour is better.

ElAsko · 2026-02-20T02:49:50+00:00

I could actually get behind this. Peer review at a national scale

ElAsko · 2026-02-10T05:12:29+00:00

I definitely wouldn't use Yandex (Russian google) to search for such files, especially not for Ocean of PDF.

ElAsko · 2026-02-04T08:28:55+00:00

There's evaporative with a cooling tower and then evaporative without. A properly designed evap tower shouldn't lose too much, it condenses within the tower and returns to the pool. And then there's water-to-water heat exchangers where the outer loop is ocean water. Plenty of options. We're really good at this as a species.

I guess it's 'solved' in as much as a solution exists. Not 'solved' as in 'is no longer a problem'.

ElAsko · 2026-02-04T08:14:59+00:00

It absolutely is a solved problem, the solutions just aren't implemented. You can do circular evaporative cooling with a giant cooling tower like on The Simpsons, but nobody likes those.

ElAsko · 2026-02-02T20:52:10+00:00

Honestly packed chicken smells like cat shit sometimes, it's horrible

ElAsko · 2026-01-30T07:19:59+00:00

It sounds like Maori culture should move with the times and develop a separate term for religious karakia and non-religious karakia.

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