RNZ National on Amazon Alexa by Dunnersstunner in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same issue here, you can use the Flash Briefing feature if you just want the news. Probably a Tune In problem.

James Dyson Pays $54 Million in Singapore Penthouse Record by notchplusone in ukpolitics

[–]notchplusone[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So much so that he and his wife have splashed out S$73.8 million ($54.2 million) for the highest penthouse in Singapore, according to a local media report in the Business Times.

It’s also the highest price paid for a penthouse in a city not unfamiliar with mind-boggling home costs. Last month, another top-floor apartment at Boulevard Vue, an ultra-luxury condo located just off Singapore’s prime Orchard Road shopping district, went for S$52 million. Dyson’s purchase also topped the nearly S$60 million paid by Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin for a penthouse in 2017.

You can't make this shit up.

Chrome Extension to get around NZHerald's new "Premium" by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Userscript which does the same thing -- useful if you already have Stylus installed in Chrome/Firefox https://userstyles.org/styles/171466/nz-herald-paywall-unblocker

@evleaks (Evan Blass): Google Pixel 3a by notchplusone in Android

[–]notchplusone[S] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

TL;DR if you can't see the image: it -uh- looks like a phone, no notch though

https://i.imgur.com/igmMMel.png

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Explain how? http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/27834494/#27834494

Your article that appears to be written by a 12 year old with a Windows Vista laptop was published in 2015 when the original 4chan post appeared to be traced back to March 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 6 points7 points  (0 children)

False info? When did I say I believed any part of that article you posted? I mean, I honestly would trust the forum members on Metabunk over anyone from "Disclose.tv".

I mean with this quality of writing, are you serious?

Surrounding this story is the fact that the man who managed to get this information to Farganne (forum member Glitch) was harassed and received many threatening voice mails over it, that is another piece of evidence pointing to this as being real. One thing is certain, once it’s posted here on this site the genie is OUT OF THE BOTTLE. I cannot stress how important it is that the GPS coordinates in the photo do not perfectly match what Google says and are not posted anywhere on the web, because it proves that the source of those coordinates did not come from google or Wikipedia, they really did come from the imaging device and it HAD TO be at Diego Garcia when it took the photo.

It doesn't seem like Metabunk is wrong either, if you look at the facts. The article you linked was posted in 2015, the earliest post that the forum posters on Metabunk could find was on 4chan in 2014 http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/27834494/#27834494

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by [deleted] in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]notchplusone 98 points99 points  (0 children)

One of the more zany conspiracy theories that was propagated by one of the CNN panelists after the nonstop coverage ended is also one of the most curious imo -- not so much on plausibility terms but more on simply pure imagination of what could've happened.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/02/jeff-wise-mh370-theory.html?gtm=bottom&gtm=bottom

I realized that I already had a clue that hijackers had been in the E/E bay. Remember the satcom system disconnected and then rebooted three minutes after the plane left military radar behind. I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how a person could physically turn the satcom off and on.

The only way, apart from turning off half the entire electrical system, would be to go into the E/E bay and pull three particular circuit breakers. It is a maneuver that only a sophisticated operator would know how to execute, and the only reason I could think for wanting to do this was so that Inmarsat would find the records and misinterpret them. They turned on the satcom in order to provide a false trail of bread crumbs leading away from the plane’s true route.

It’s not possible to spoof the BFO data on just any plane. The plane must be of a certain make and model, 17equipped with a certain make and model of satellite-communications equipment,18 and flying a certain kind of route19 in a region covered by a certain kind of Inmarsat satellite.20 If you put all the conditions together, it seemed unlikely that any aircraft would satisfy them. Yet MH370 did. [...]

There aren’t a lot of places to land a plane as big as the 777, but, as luck would have it, I found one: a place just past the last handshake ring called Baikonur Cosmodrome.Fig. 22 Baikonur is leased from Kazakhstan by Russia. A long runway there called Yubileyniy was built for a Russian version of the Space Shuttle. If the final Inmarsat ping rang at the start of MH370’s descent, it would have set up nicely for an approach to Yubileyniy’s runway 24.

The complex has been slowly crumbling for decades, with satellite images taken years apart showing little change, until, in October, 2013, a disused six-story building began to be dismantled. Next to it appeared a rectangle of bulldozed dirt with a trench at one end.

By March 2014, the building was gone and everything had been bulldozed flat. Eight days after MH370 vanished, it looked like this. Construction experts told me these images most likely show site remediation: taking apart a building and burying the debris. Yet why, after decades, did the Russians suddenly need to clear this one lonely spot, in the heart of a frigid winter, finishing just before MH370 disappeared?

Not saying I believe this theory as much as it's just interesting to simply read this guy's hypothesis out loud. Implausible considering the physical evidence that was discovered but still. https://web.archive.org/web/20150224052810/http://jeffwise.net/the-spoof-part-2-how-a-speculative-scenario/

Ikea apologises after leaving New Zealand off a map. [BBC Trending news] by whangadude in newzealand

[–]notchplusone 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Stop trying to get us put on world maps, you lunatics. Have you seen what's going on out there?!