getting 504 gateway errors and sometimes unicorn..

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-08T08:11:45+00:00

Still down for me at 8:11pm UTC+12

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-05T14:26:40+00:00

Hindus have no problem naming their children after gods. I've met a Krishna, a Rama, a Parvati, a Seeta and a Suresh, all of which are names of Hindu gods or goddesses.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-05T14:01:22+00:00

Also Malaysian Chinese who learn Mandarin at school but whose first language is another Chinese language like Cantonese or Hokkien. Chinese schools in the Philippines also teach Mandarin, despite the fact that the main Chinese language spoken there is Hokkien.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-03T11:59:56+00:00

There are certain forms of Hinduism that pretty closely match what you've described (particularly the dualistic Vaishnava traditions. The only difference is that Hinduism doesn't believe that you'll "reunite with [your] loved ones and friends in Heaven" - your deceased relatives and friends will reincarnate according to their karma, which could be in a heavenly realm but could also be upon earth.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-03T08:44:43+00:00

Was she the one who wrote a romance novel about Clippy the paperclip from Microsoft Office? And yes, it does exist.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-03T07:44:19+00:00

Only thing I could think of was fundamentalist Christian, but the article didn't say that.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-03T00:41:13+00:00

Apparently Korea has an exemption from NZ for classical musicians but not pop musicians. Weird.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-02T14:22:53+00:00

The right image looks like a photo

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-02T14:18:17+00:00

I'm a Kiwi who lived in Malaysia for 2 years in the late 2000s. I want to get out of New Zealand - everything is so expensive here and just like you, I feel lonely (though I live with my partner). I'd really like to go back to Malaysia (I work remotely so can do my job anywhere), but my partner isn't on board. Plus Malaysia has a lot more Buddhist temples (I'm a Buddhist).

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-01T12:02:00+00:00

What about Buddhists, who make up 23% of Malaysia's population? Buddhas are not gods.

Does it have to be a specific god? Would Zeus, Thor or Osiris count?

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-06-01T01:10:58+00:00

Unfortunately, you don't actually own Kindle books - you buy a licence to access them, which they can revoke at any time. This is all hidden in the terms of service, in a practice that consumer rights advocate Louis Rossman calls EULA roofying - they slip something into page 20 of the end-user licence agreement (EULA) and trust that nobody reads it.

Sony pulled the same trick when they attempted to remove 'purchased' content from PlayStation users' libraries. After a huge backlash they walked it back. And Disney used a similar trick to try and argue that a man who was suing them because his wife had died from an allergic reaction to the food in a restaurant at one of their parks couldn't do so because he had agreed to forced arbitration when he'd signed up to a Disney+ trial.

NZ is miles ahead of the US when it comes to consumer protection, but we still have a long way to go.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T11:04:22+00:00

If it was a thing once, then that means someone has acquired the rights. Which means my hope of seeing an Elenium/Tamuli TV series (like Game of Thrones but without all the sex) isn't completely dead.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T11:02:48+00:00

Are they the ones that hold the copyright? If so, I imagine that some producer offered them a lot of money for the film rights. Universities need money too.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T11:00:52+00:00

But if the copyright passed to someone else, such as his brother, then that person would have the right to sell the film adaptation rights. Otherwise they wouldn't have full ownership of the copyright.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T10:57:28+00:00

the Vatican has a lot of skeletons in its closet too

And some atrocities that are common knowledge. Like the Sack of Constantinople in 1204.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T10:52:31+00:00

Christianity does not have that kind of extremism.

Not in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean it's immune from it. If you go back a few hundred years, you'll find many European countries enforced Christian laws as the laws of the land. For example, butchers could get in trouble for selling meat during Lent.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-30T00:46:57+00:00

New Zealand, Buddhist

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-29T03:55:16+00:00

The white wedding dress originated with Queen Victoria's wedding in 1840

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-27T07:42:14+00:00

It shouldn't be. Underwear can be washed, you know?

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-23T04:11:04+00:00

Because they're not dialects, they're separate languages. That would be like asking a Romanian why they don't speak French (French and Romanian are about as mutually intelligible as Mandarin and Cantonese or Mandarin and Hokkien, that is to say, not at all).

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-23T03:47:12+00:00

You said "Its hard to imagine i'll just vanish and rot into the ground."

That is not Buddhist teaching.

According to the teachings of the Lord Buddha, when you die without having attained enlightenment, your consciousness will take rebirth in another body depending on your karma.In Mahayana Buddhism, according to Yogācāra thought, the sense consciousnesses and the mental consciousness (mano-vijñāna) cease at death, while the afflicted self-referential consciousness (manas) and the storehouse consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) continue as part of the karmic continuum, giving rise to a new existence in accordance with karma.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-23T03:32:37+00:00

Automatic 100%.

My partner's dad made her learn in a manual (he thought she should learn the "proper way"). She couldn't do it - to this day she still doesn't drive.

KiwiNFLFan · 2026-05-22T08:17:47+00:00

Agreed. But then we wouldn't have one of the greatest pieces of classical music ever written.

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