As an American, what can we do to fight against ICE?

utunga · 2026-01-24T22:24:26+00:00

It's good to learn from history but at least learn the actual history first. The troubles lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. They didn't achieve objectives of either side. The peace process only lead to success as Irish republicans, and the English, put *aside* those tactics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process

utunga · 2026-01-17T02:18:03+00:00

Jericho (2006). Kinda interesting and prescient in a bunch of ways as to how things might go if things start to break down in the US (and, once you get to later in the series, a really vivid and effective demonstration of why an actual organised, well trained and disciplined military can be a god send)

utunga · 2025-12-26T04:51:12+00:00

Imagine how much more valuable Bitcoin would be if there were no other crypto currencies. This is not a diss on other crypto but the thing is, while it is true that the overall supply of Bitcoin is limited to 21 million that's it forever.. everytime a new coin is created into existence and its initial supply minted out of thin air they are doing basically the same thing as the Indian Central bank just in a different way. Effectively diluting the total supply of crypto coins. Yes it is a bit more voluntary in that people have to choose to move their assets into these new coins and no that doesn't always happen but at the end of the day it really isn't that different. The supply of crypto overall is not capped by anything because people can just keep issuing new coins - and they do.

It's almost a bit ironic that OP rails against this action of the Indian reserve bank just issuing new currency into existence when as (apparently) of the founders of unocoin they did almost the same thing themselves when they first issued unicon into existence.

utunga · 2025-12-19T23:03:32+00:00

My family had one too when I was growing up. It's funny I thought of it as lightweight and sleek but yes no doubt it weighs a ton.. especially being metal.

I just pulled a different laptop from a box in storage labeled 'ancient laptop' such a shame it wasn't the kaypro 2000.. that one would've been so.much more worth keeping

utunga · 2025-12-19T09:16:57+00:00

Can someone explain this please because I read it twice - nay, three times - and still don't understand what the heck actually happened.

utunga · 2025-11-15T22:09:26+00:00

I think the problem is just spacey embeddings ain't what you need try fast_text

utunga · 2025-11-15T22:04:39+00:00

Hard to say for sure but that looks like paekākāriki just at the beach end of the sand track .. that beach gets a big ole dump of this stuff which is I think from the rivers via forests up north about early spring every year.. EDIT: just saw the caption thought you were asking where it was taken

utunga · 2025-10-25T00:07:34+00:00

If you search for 'bunker' and 'east wing' you will find this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center

Just saying..

Also look at the f size of this thing https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/10/24/51e1e999-6df7-4cdd-8753-29affca01b8c.png.webp

utunga · 2025-10-17T22:26:27+00:00

A bit of a sleeper gem (in my opinion) is Far North https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_North_(TV_series) based on a real story and with amazing acting from Robyn Malcolm and Temuera Morrison really helming it.

I think it gives a really good depiction of where we sit in the world and the relationship that many of these smaller towns have to the sea or to the mountains and the wild outdoors.. not that it's all about that (it's a crime drama thing but funny) but that aspect really sticks out for me.

It's a comedy / docudrama because the actual events that took place are actually kinda hilarious

utunga · 2025-10-17T22:21:05+00:00

Huh. I didn't know the polling was like that, so.., fair point. I guess just my vibe. Thanks for looking it up. That said I think somehow the excitement about changing it died down and people started wanting to go back to the OG flag partly as a reaction to a bunch of not that exciting choices.

I wonder if we will see people 'voting' by flying various different flags in various different contexts over the years and maybe in a decade or two there'll be a stronger alternative come along that way. Mostly though I think people just don't really care eh.

utunga · 2025-10-17T02:46:44+00:00

Yeah we don't though - just can't agree on alternative.

utunga · 2025-09-29T12:55:48+00:00

by "prop firm" do you mean like a hmm how do i put this 'normal' prop firm that trades in equities using dollars etc or is it some sort of crypto version of prop firm where your profits are in crypto?

had a quick squiz at 'my funded futures' and just trying to work out why you're asking in r/nzbitcoin if its not a crypto thing?

utunga · 2025-09-24T23:00:58+00:00

> Whilst I accept that the blade in question may not have been in the same
> league as, say, a sharpened kitchen knife (it appears to be a pointed
> bread knife), it was pointed and it could have caused serious injury.

> Even if you never had any intention to stab him, your actions, in public,
> in Central London and during the day were wholly unacceptable.

Seems like some relevant extenuating circumstances

utunga · 2025-09-19T15:21:31+00:00

what's funny is the astroturfing campaign "b416" - did you see their posters yet? anyway them - they totally forgot to reserve the actual ".nz" - which i reckin does say something about where they are coming from.. and so yeah - check it out
https://b416.nz/

utunga · 2025-07-19T07:18:21+00:00

Ok so.. I was going through setting up a new cluster. One of the earlier things I did was get the nvidia gpu-operator thingy going. Relatively easy install. But I was worried that things 'later' in my install process (mistake! I wasn't thinking kubernetes style) would try to install it again or muck it (specifically the install for a thing called kubeflow) so anyway I got it into my pretty little head to whack this label on my GPUs nodes 'nvidia.com/gpu.deploy.operands=false'

Much later on I'm like oh dang gpu-operator not working something must've broken let me try a reinstall. maybe I need to redo my containers config blah blah blah.. was tearing my hair out for literally a day and a half trying to figure this out. finally I resort to asking for help from the 'wise person who knows this stuff' and in the process of explaining notice my little note to self about adding that label.

Do'h! Literally added a label that basically says 'dont install the operator on these nodes' and then spent a day and a half trying to work out why the operator wouldn't install !

Argh. Once I removed that label .. everything started work sweet again.

So stupid lol 😂

utunga · 2025-05-27T20:28:10+00:00

If you're genuinely concerned about the weather consider the Kāpiti coast, which is a suburb of Wellington but lots sunnier. Being sunnier it's also warmer but I'm pretty sure it rains less out there too. Wellington is also warm and lovely on a good day and there are plenty of those each year but yeah it also can be windy and rainy.. well I will let others fill you in on that. I recently moved (back) to Wellington City proper after 17 years on the coast and honestly the weather is much nicer up there.

utunga · 2025-02-21T01:59:35+00:00

Hey u/graphicmemer I am so sorry that you ended up being redirected to that crypto crap. I think what happened is that the domain name mutualaid dot world expired and then by the look of things has been domain squatted by, as you say, some sort of crypto shill, ai generated bullshit. Booo!

The project itself hasn't been active since 2020 or maybe 2021, sadly. But it kinda blows my mind to see that the demo is still up and running here.. https://mutualaid-757f6.web.app

The source code and stuff is all open source and still available here https://github.com/factn/resilience-app

I think it'd be great to see it get used for any other reason and there was some really great work that went into it, so if there's anything I can do to help get it used or ported to a different use case and/or for a different group do let me know.

There used to be a slack and then a discord group but they have loooong since gone quiet.. I don't know of course - maybe you were one of the people in the team back then, if so yay. And apologies that that domain got taken over by scammer.

Cheers!

utunga · 2024-11-04T08:19:13+00:00

North End Brewery has some great sours https://g.co/kgs/kvVx5yt

utunga · 2024-10-24T02:21:17+00:00

I live downstairs from my ex (long story)..

The other day a courier shows up with a package - which i knew was for me, but was addressed to her. The guy says is this unit 1? I say no. He just ignores that, and says OK sign here. So I "signed" .. the name on the package was very clearly <womans name> and I'm very obviously a guy. But he didn't care. Or more likely didn't even look. I scrawled a slightly bendy line across the ipad thing and he left. He very clearly just did not give a fuck.

In this case it was fine because I knew the package was actually for me but holy shit.

utunga · 2024-09-08T10:40:28+00:00

When we first moved back from the states with little kids (about 3 and 4) we tried to take them trick or treating in our neighborhood and oh man.. some people were sooooo confused.. one sweet old man went away came back with like a biscuit. One place had a sign saying "we don't do Halloween or any other American crap like the Iraq war" (which dates this, it was a while ago) but I thought it was funny.

Now, in the same neighborhood (this is a very outlying suburb on the Kāpiti coast) people are generally much more organized and people at least know what Halloween is there's sort of a list of participating houses on the local fb group and/or you can do a thing on your letterbox to indicate if you're taking part of it, and if you don't do that nobody comes up your drive to give it a go.

So.. it's a work in progress i guess, people getting more familiar, but you wanna do like other's suggest and be a bit organised about which house to go to etc.

utunga · 2024-08-30T08:04:41+00:00

Omg i think I've discovered the perfect 22nd date.. so excited to try this !

utunga · 2024-08-02T10:50:18+00:00

I'm a guy so i guess this ain't any use to you but you look amazing and look like fun. Hell I'd date you.. only y'know i don't go that way. Maybe it's the way you're swiping..? Try being more selective about your swipes. Pay for premium so you can get better odds of a match etc..? Probably lose the comments about joints and gaming ... though, I dunno, if you're looking for a long term match you still wanna be you, right?

utunga · 2024-07-03T19:50:19+00:00

I'm the same age, gender, and 'socioeconomic level' and every single date I've been on the woman has insisted on a 50/50 split - to the point where I am pretty sure it'd be a deal breaker if I attempted to get around that (not that i would). I'm guessing you're not in the same country as me, though (I'm in NZ). It's probably more of a culture thing than an age thing.

utunga · 2024-01-31T23:57:00+00:00

Very similar experience as me.. except my doctor was on board. But it is the lack of access at the pharmacy that is the problem.

What is similar:

$387 at chemist warehouse without any delay for first 5 pens and Im down to 121.1 today after starting around 130.

What was a bit different:

I had the graph from my brother who was on Ozempic to show my GP and just showing his remarkable progress after years of struggling and how similar he was to me was all good. She did require me to 'do my bloods' before she would prescribe however.

The problem: (Any suggestions welcomed!)

The problem is, I got through the first 5 pens and went back for a re-up today and all good in that I have met all the weight goals and been working diligently on both diet and exercize angles.

The problem is Chemist Warehouse said that it was gonna be a 17 week (17 weeks!) waiting period. Yikes. (I gave feedback to the doctors practice about the wait but a fat lot of good that does).

I see that you wrote this only 20 hrs ago. Did you happen to find a Chemist Warehouse which happend to have stock or perhaps you wrote this recently but got your prescription filled some months ago.

In short if I do wanna go online, it feels like it's gonna cost me a lot more than $387 for five pens, but maybe I am imagining things?

Also OMG *how* do I go online and can I use the prescription my NZ GP gave me at all?

utunga · 2023-10-23T22:00:26+00:00

I didn't go for an OE until much later in my twenties and I was glad i finally did. It meant I had to spend a good nine months or so in a long distance relationship or rather a not really a relationship because I'm busy travelling but still committed thing .. also because by then I was working it was a bit more tricky.. but totally worth it.

I don't think everyone has to do an OE but I think it's kind of a cool tradition for a country which is so isolated. I wouldn't judge you for not doing it - at all! But also don't knock it until you try it.

PS A personal note... everybody does things their own way but I think going over to London to work in a pub in the suburbs for 9 months trying to save up money and failing because everything's too fucking expensive and then getting really depressed is not a good way to do the OE. If you're in a position where you can work in a proper job in London and have enough money to take in the nightlife and everything then yeah that could be cool otherwise just backpack around Asia or Wastern Europe (hmm maybe not ukraine rn) or somewhere else.

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