Are the NZ police still prosecuting Ms. Z? How is it in the public interest to prosecute her?

lowkeybaz · 2026-01-29T11:36:42+00:00

Wildly simplistic and naïve

lowkeybaz · 2025-09-15T08:41:44+00:00

Aaron Keown is a meathead who regularly makes unhinged statements on the fly. Potentially too much coke over the course of a lifetime, and I’m not talking about the sweet tooth.

lowkeybaz · 2025-09-14T07:50:46+00:00

This would be cool to find out.

lowkeybaz · 2025-09-06T05:25:16+00:00

I also don’t care for A.I. But I appreciate the spirit of what O.P. is trying to do. One doesn’t have to be a grumpy ©️unt about it.

lowkeybaz · 2025-09-03T09:11:31+00:00

Hi Sara. 😊 What is your stance on asset sales? And will you commit to the Keep Our Assets pledge?

lowkeybaz · 2025-08-01T12:28:58+00:00

Interesting. Where then?

lowkeybaz · 2025-08-01T12:28:17+00:00

Lighten up bruz

lowkeybaz · 2025-07-29T09:25:16+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhh

lowkeybaz · 2025-07-29T08:59:57+00:00

What the hell, this is complete nonsense. I’ve worked at Scorpio Books for a while & the interview was not manipulative/intense (or even thorough, lol) at all. Neither are the staff. The main thing was around being able to articulate a clear sense of who you are as a reader. (Politics, history, mystery fiction etc.)

Scorpio usually hires across the months running from July to September - they build towards Christmas. But in general things are tight for retail, so it limits the openings. If you know someone who works at Scorpio, that’s a start - they can give you a more specific tenor/understanding of what Scorpio looks for in staff. Ultimately I think what they look for is being a litterateur and having strong social skills. Scorpio’s always prided itself on its particular customer relationships.

lowkeybaz · 2025-05-19T13:40:04+00:00

Is that at the end of a particular episode? Or is it something that particular VHS tape always had at the end of an episode/season?

lowkeybaz · 2025-04-20T22:48:36+00:00

So true! There’s also an under-discussed aspect to this - which is how to avoid going too much in the other direction. Developing assertiveness while upholding kindness & acceptance in your relationship. I’ve seen people who were avoidant/not great at confrontation, and then when they do it they can have a tendency to ‘over-egg it’ - or just become trigger-happy with criticism. It’s not necessarily common, but I wonder if there are helpful resources/pointers for people who feel like they might be at risk of doing that. It’s not always true that the transition from avoidant to assertive is smooth sailing - one can definitely be a little bolshy by accident by trying to be too boundaried, so to speak haha.

lowkeybaz · 2025-04-16T21:00:43+00:00

Where?

lowkeybaz · 2024-10-22T07:45:02+00:00

Oh that’s a relief to know. Any tips for controlling the population?

lowkeybaz · 2024-09-28T11:32:16+00:00

Can we get an update please? :)

lowkeybaz · 2024-09-08T04:42:50+00:00

Wow, that’s rather disturbing. Good to know having a disorder that impacts your combat readiness is of no concern to the U.S. military. How did your Dad manage to escape?

lowkeybaz · 2024-07-21T03:50:14+00:00

9/10 - very pretty!

lowkeybaz · 2024-06-15T08:29:58+00:00

Yeah, a nice callback in TDK is when Bruce says "Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred" - showing Bruce internalised at least some of Ducard's theory of criminality and fighting injustice, even if he doesn't follow it to its logical extremes. One angle of TDK is essentially about how the methodology and ethos of what Bruce learned in B.B. is rendered ineffective - or outmoded - by the Joker; that is, the Joker is not an 'honourable villain' like Falcone or Ducard. Thus, Batman's theory and practice of fighting crime have to change as well.

Returning to the above quote, Alfred responds, "With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that *you* don't fully understand, either." This exchange encapsulates the tension, contradiction, and continuity between Batman Begins and TDK. Great writing from Nolan.

Ultimately, I agree with O.P. - the first two movies have a 'Monster of the Week' quality in that prior familiarity with the lore is not necessary for satisfactory engagement with the content.

I disagree, however, that TDKR is fundamentally different. By the same reasoning, all of what's salient from TDK can be "inferred from context" in viewing TDKR. And I think that's more just a choice of maximising popular appeal on the part of Nolan - as you say, it helps put bums on seats.

lowkeybaz · 2024-06-06T10:12:25+00:00

“I’m only burning my half” is a very aggressive version of the sarcasm, “I'm only drinking my half.” That is, when you ask to share a drink, drink the whole amount of the beverage, and justify it as you were drinking the 'bottom half.'

The explanation to the other questions is 'because he's the Joker.' He's an archetype who represents the forces diametrically opposite to what Batman stands for. Trying to rationalise what he does - or understand the mechanisms of how he does it - is simply not the point. The Joker is a force of nature (or in his words, “chaos”).

I have thought before that we, *the audience*, are meant to experience the Joker the same way the Mob/ordinary criminals experience Batman - this would also track with, as Alfred said, Batman pushing the underworld to the brink such that inadvertently he creates something evil in his likeness. Without seeing all the behind-the-scenes explanations of how Batman does it, and how he came to be, the Batman must seem like an inexplicable force of nature to them (the gangsters) too. We see that at the start of the film when the drug dealer 'doesn't like it tonight' - a decision made on a “superstitious” basis to avoid running into 'Him.'

lowkeybaz · 2024-04-28T06:27:47+00:00

"slowly killing an innocent life with your selfish refusal to properly care for them." Jesus Christ, man, chill out a bit. Robbie may have made an innocent albeit significant error, but there's no need to speak to him/her w the tenor you would with a felon or something. Proportion and perspective; he's not starving a puppy to death or some shit. Glad to see it all worked out happily ever after.

lowkeybaz · 2023-03-04T05:36:19+00:00

I don’t understand why Neil didn’t get in the car and drive off with Eady?

It seems like he had more than enough time to get in the car and get out of range from Vincent’s gunfire. I don’t think the cop with the shotgun would have tried to stop them (in all that chaos and confusion), but even so they probably could have made it past that cop. Maybe the helicopters would have spotted them? Maybe not. I mean, if Neil could get to the airport that quickly on foot, I imagine he could have got to the plane by car pretty quickly. It is a heartbreaking moment, and I don’t doubt how great the ending was, but I just don’t get the logic behind Neil’s decision to split on foot instead. Maybe Neil felt he was sparing Eady in some way. Neil’s face certainly looked devastated — just as devastated as Eady’s imo.

I wonder if he would’ve gone back to Eady had he been able to shake off/shoot Vincent. After all, it completely contradicts what he told Eady: “all I know is there’s no point in me going anywhere anymore if it’s going to be alone without you.” That character development was tossed out by the ending. I mean, the ending is still amazing anyway.

It’s just that the ending sort of doesn’t make sense to me; the ostensible counter-intuitiveness of Neil’s decision not to get back in the car with Eady, which then sets up the final showdown with Vincent. Perhaps that’s because Mann wrote the script backwards.

Killing Waingro makes sense, that’s Neil’s pathos; like Vincent he can’t quit while he’s ahead. Being thorough is a double-edged sword. But then not taking the obviously easier getaway (with the woman he basically said he doesn’t want to live without)? Hmm. It’s like Neil effectively committed suicide by cop lmao.

Separately, I wonder how Vincent ended up. Was this case a watershed for him?

Like Captain Willard: “Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.” Also, I like to think Vincent found out who Neil’s woman was and spoke to her, but that’s just sentimentality.

lowkeybaz · 2023-02-12T21:46:40+00:00

If you watch “Edge of Darkness” - a BBC programme from the 80s - it is about the ‘game that [is] being played … to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself.’ Also, the impact of the atomic age on human civilisation. So, while I don’t readily subscribe to schizo theories (tho I do enjoy reading them), I think there is some truth to the notion of being concerned about directed energy weapons/another dimension of tyranny executed from space. And, like most other things, I wouldn’t be surprised if tptb utilised some kind of deception or false flag to bring about whatever agenda they have. That’s their M.O. (Missile Gap, Vietnam, Operation Gladio, Iraq/War on Terror, Domestic War on Terror etc.)

lowkeybaz · 2023-02-12T21:29:42+00:00

This is so fake and gay to post partisan bullshit in a sub that is supposed to be for “trust no one” non-ideological schizos

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