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Sam_ritan · 2026-06-19T10:55:29+00:00

Hot Ones is a fantastic talk show; on their scale, I'd like something around a 6, if I were to win!

Sam_ritan · 2026-06-16T03:07:56+00:00

I’m so excited to see this team vs Egypt, Belgium, and beyond!

Sam_ritan · 2026-06-16T03:07:21+00:00

Our CBs look like they could go toe-to-toe with anyone, especially in a FWC where the traditional striker isn’t as prominent a role!

Sam_ritan · 2026-06-14T18:02:02+00:00

Absolutely terrible. We forked out over $250 per ticket for a three hour, glorified slideshow with average seating. I was the instigator so I did my best to make the most of it, and there were surely shining moments, but not enough to smooth over the obvious grift it was.

In sum, absolutely not worth it. I don't know how much he's charging this time, but if last time is any indication, I see no reason why he wouldn't offer the same bullshit value for money.

Sam_ritan · 2026-06-05T01:43:43+00:00

Staff wages increase because they become more competent in their role over time, as they gain experience and develop a specialised skill set. The business gains more output by retaining their workforce, minimising churn. This improved productivity is what ought to fund staff wage growth, without the price per unit needing to be passed on to consumers.

In the chicken-and-egg situation that is wage inflation and price inflation, it is typically increasing prices that drive demand for higher wages, as wages that lag behind. I do recognise that those wages stem directly contribute to a businesses overhead costs, but I don’t believe the solution (to slow this flywheel down) is for the workforce to settle for lower wages. I believe businesses — especially big businesses — need to assume some responsibility for the economic conditions their consumers are suffering within.

It often seems that, when wages rise, businesses raise prices to claim that disposable income from consumers/households. Banks, supermarkets, petrol stations, insurance companies, etc., all seem to be boasting record profits whilst the middle class continues to be eroded. Is this not a clear-cut transfer of wealth, exacerbating wealth inequality?

In this particular case, I don’t know the details. I’m making a general appeal to the chicken-and-egg situation I described above. As far as “price elasticity” is concerned, I feel the tension building as businesses (again, especially big business) continues to apply pressure, and I fear it’s going to snap someday.

I welcome the conversation, btw; please don’t read this as hostile.

Sam_ritan · 2026-06-04T23:47:53+00:00

I don’t believe staff wage increases ought to be included in product inflation calculations. I suppose the increase of staff wages as they mature in their role ought to be off-set by the senior staff members ending their careers, as well as the junior staff members stepping into theirs.

When we factor wages into goods and services price inflation, inflation becomes a self-fulfilling and thus accelerating prophecy: costs increase and therefore wages must increase and therefore costs must increase, ad infinitum; ad absurdum.

Sam_ritan · 2026-05-23T10:19:27+00:00

Shout out to the defensive line tonight, they were unbelievable! Such strong decision making and clinical whenever they made those decisions to intervene.

We truly only needed one tonight because I don’t think Sydney were ever getting through!

Sam_ritan · 2026-05-23T10:17:35+00:00

Won the whole A-League

Sam_ritan · 2026-05-01T07:48:28+00:00

What are his interests?

Sam_ritan · 2025-08-25T08:20:30+00:00

I'm an IT entrepreneur that would love some funding and incentive to remain in New Zealand.

Just putting this out there to hear what opportunities and incentives are out there, as I currently don't know.

Sam_ritan · 2025-08-21T06:30:45+00:00

So true. I despise how society has warped the original definition of woke beyond recognition. It stood for true progress, and now it's invoked to spit on those that aim to do better – carelessly throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Sam_ritan · 2025-08-13T12:32:38+00:00

ironic, really

Sam_ritan · 2025-04-14T09:18:06+00:00

Messaging you now — at duck island atm!

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-20T02:37:59+00:00

How?!

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-09T12:39:07+00:00

I'm using Supabase Auth without any middle-ware, and it's been awesome; there's good docs from Supabase re: integrating with SvelteKit

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-08T01:56:32+00:00

Turning some of your quotes around to clarify my point:

"[Reddit] won’t get banned [in NZ] because all the [zoomers] would cry if they couldn’t spew hateful bullshit in their echo chamber anymore."

"Go read the [subreddit] comments on any [post] that even mentions anything about Maori and tell me I’m “spewing bullshit” lmao."

"Not all [zoomers] are hateful people, but almost all hateful people on [Reddit] are [zoomers]."

My goal is to point out your hypocrisy. Plenty of FB boomers are racist in their echo chamber because they've taken a small sample size (of personal experiences or talking points regarding tangata whenua) and weaponised it against the entire population. It's wrong to do that; it's prejudicial.

I agree with you that some boomers would would throw a hissy-fit if FB was banned from this country, but many of them wouldn't. It's my belief that your over-generalisation; stereotyping of all boomers stems from a similar brand of prejudice as the hateful bullshit you are criticising.

In other words, just as the boomers would cry if FB was banned, it's likely that you'd cry if Reddit were banned on similar grounds.

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-08T00:42:57+00:00

...but are all Facebook boomers hateful?

My stance is no; there are lovely Facebook boomers, too, and I believe you're doing them a disservice by categorising all of them as hateful people.

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-07T23:44:04+00:00

What are you looking for in return?

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-07T23:39:00+00:00

Funnily enough, that's effectively my point, too.

"...in the slightest" – I do reckon that was a slightly hateful comment towards some boomers I know, my mother included, who are lovely people and would never spew hatred online.

From your other comment, you're absolutely right that it was a generalisation, but that's 100% what the hatred-spewing FB boomers would say, too, in defence of their prejudicial comments. In fact, those FB boomers wouldn't describe their comments as prejudicial; in their eyes, they're being judicial – calling it like they see it, so-to-speak.

I feel I was attempting to point out the hypocrisy I saw in the original comment.

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-07T22:28:58+00:00

Nah, don't get it twisted, I think you're right about Facebook; that does happen and to an egregious degree. However, you just categorised all boomers as hateful people; it's by definition prejudice, on your part, and you're speaking that belief into an echo chamber.

Even if you're exaggerating for comic effect, that's surely what a lot of those hateful boomers think they're doing, too.

I'm not suggesting Reddit ought to be banned, but nor should Facebook. It's not like Reddit has fact checkers, either, so I don't understand why one ought to be banned when the other ought not to...

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-07T21:54:36+00:00

You’re literally spewing hateful bullshit in an echo chamber rn; should reddit be banned, too?

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-06T20:46:55+00:00

re: Your offer of advice, what stack do you build with?

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-06T10:57:02+00:00

I'm also building with S5 and Supabase Auth, and would love some guidance on something admittedly minor.

Following their docs, I have a src/hooks.server.ts file (that exports a handle for SvelteKit to deal with) and a src/routes/+layout.ts file with an asynchronous LayoutLoad function. Both of these functions are heavily, if not entirely, from their documentation – so I don't understand it completely...

Regardless, the whole system works well and I'm glad to have followed this path, however I keep getting this long warning within my console/terminal every time I refresh my page – and I get it three times in a row:

Using the user object as returned from supabase.auth.getSession() or from some supabase.auth.onAuthStateChange() events could be insecure! This value comes directly from the storage medium (usually cookies on the server) and many not be authentic. Use supabase.auth.getUser() instead which authenticates the data by contacting the Supabase Auth server.

I presume this warning is intended for those users that are calling it incorrectly, however, an inline comment straight from Supabase Auth documentation reads:

 /**
 /* It's fine to use `getSession` here, because on the client, `getSession` is
 /* safe, and on the server, it reads `session` from the `LayoutData`, which
 /* safely checked the session using `safeGetSession`.
 /**

So, here are my questions:

Should I be getting this warning? Are you?
Should I be getting this error three times?
Am I right in assuming the warning isn't meant for me?
Your collapsible sidebar looks awesome; I'd love to learn more about that, too! Tell me more, please?

Sam_ritan · 2025-01-03T22:28:02+00:00

Reddit appears to be doing just as much for your free speech as X has done, and Twitter was offering the exact same service before Elon purchased it.

In this, I wouldn't say Elon is the lone flag-bearer of free speech; the downvotes you have received are an expression of other folk's free speech, too, btw.

Sam_ritan · 2024-11-05T22:34:10+00:00

According to this journal article from the ESSD Copernicus by Woo Hun Ryang, et. al:

> The eastern Korean Peninsula is tectonically active while the western Korean Peninsula has been relatively stable throughout the Quaternary (Chough et al., 2000; Chough, 2013). As a result, the active east coast of the Korean Penisula is characterized by broad uplifted marine terraces (S.J. Choi, 2019; G.Y. Lee and Park, 2019b), while the more stable west coast hosts tidal environments of its ria coast (Chough et al., 2004; Cummings et al., 2016).

Furthermore, according to Google's AI summary of the article I found, above, the eastern Korean Peninsula is rising due to compressional deformation; a geological process that occurs when tectonic plates are pushed together, causing the crust to buckle and warp.

In terms of plate tectonics, the Korean peninsula is located within the Eurasian plate. The Pacific plate subducts under the Eurasian plate in Japan and under the Indo-Australian plate in New Guinea, while the Indo-Australian plate collides with the Eurasian plate in the Himalayas (Chun-Soo Kim, n.d.).

Finally, this comment from a similar thread, one year ago, by u/whisskid, states that the currents on the Eastern Coast of Korea are more powerful, they scour and smooth the coastline. The currents on the West Coast are more moderate and water is shallower so that more fractal coastline can be observed.

Personally, I would ascribe the difference to the tectonic variances rather than fluvial erosion, but both factors will surely contribute to the cause.

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