@barray on Fri Sep 03 09:08:13 UTC 2021 said: &eThoughts are with the #victims and their #families / #friends ... As if the #nz #covid #lockdown wasn't enough pressure for people. From what I can tell, none of the victims are yet dead, but are critically #injured .Great, now we have an #islamicstate #isis #islam #muslim #terrorist #attack in #nz https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/s.. Apparently they are a #srilankan national who the #police were investigating - clearly not close enough.
Great, now we have an #islamicstate #isis #islam #muslim #terrorist #attack in #nz https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/s.. Apparently they are a #srilankan national who the #police were investigating - clearly not close enough.
This explains some weird #internet behaviour: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/widespread.. Apparently just *one* customer was under a #ddos attack and it crippled the entire of #nz 's #infrastructure - oof!
As #aardvark points out, the #pfizer #vaccine is not particularly effective against the #delta #india #strain of #covid https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0903.s.. This means that for #nz - they will unlikely be able to come out of a Country-wide #border #lockdown and they will need to remain in #quarantine if the goal is still #zerocases ... Not good news...
Ouch, #extinctionrebellion left 120 tonnes of #rubbish in the streets of #london #uk in 2019: https://www.lotuseaters.com/2019-extinct.. Great to know they are active out here in #nz too, yaay! They have been out putting more #chalk everywhere...
Looks like #extinctionrebellion are working together #worldwide to cause #chaos - I saw they are also active in #nz right now: https://www.lotuseaters.com/fifty-people.. I could likely even nail almost exactly who they are (in #newzealand ) with some #detective work. They were active during the last level 4 #covid #lockdown too... Here they just draw #chalk #drawings on the ground, at least for now.
Looks like there is now some #community #covid spread in #nz #auckland https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nation.. I suspect an #emergency #lockdown will follow soon. The problem is, they currently have *zero* idea how the hell it got here.
@barray on Fri Aug 13 04:59:31 UTC 2021 said: &eI really suspect #nz is about to have a massive wake-up call: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0813.s.. The #vaccine for #covid is not working, so either the Country opens up and accepts the #pandemic - or it remains in #lockdown forever. At some point a decision needs to be made. I understand that #aardvark is old and in the category of people most likely to be affected, but I really suspect this is all in vain.So a key person in the #oxford / #astrazeneca #vaccine development for #covid has no said that the #delta #india #variant makes #herdimmunity impossible: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/delta.. Why are we even bothering then? #israel has 80% #vaccination in #adults and recently got another surge in cases. *There is no way out, we just need to accept the reality.*
#aardvark raises a great point about #ev #batteries and #electricity #infrastructure - including in #nz which has a lot of #renewable #energy https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0812.s.. It just doesn't seem well thought out, I really suspect there will be massive implications.
@barray on Sun Aug 08 02:51:54 UTC 2021 said: &eYeah, #nz 's #snow #warning turned out to be accurate, it was #snowing earlier. Pretty bloody cold right now!I didn't take #nz 's #snow #warning too seriously yesterday, but by god it's fecking cold out there. It's really quite sharp now.
I didn't take #nz 's #snow #warning too seriously yesterday, but by god it's fecking cold out there. It's really quite sharp now.
@barray on Sat Aug 07 06:05:27 UTC 2021 said: &eFor example, I remember a #phd #student in #nz that shared "stories" with an #administrator - they were pretty weird. It wasn't malicious or threatening in any way, just weird. The Administrator then requested that they not go near them, an almost #injunction against the student which was enforced by the #university . And this literally had no #politics attached.Something about this story still doesn't make sense: https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-stu.. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the first to get #critical about #china 's #ccp - but something about this #swiss #phd student getting removed from their PhD seems strange. Also I highly suspect that the #supervisor had something to do with the #termination ... I'm still waiting to see actual emails before making judgement.
The reason people are so annoyed with #larrypage the #google #cofounder being let into #nz is the #hypocrisy of it all: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-c.. It appears that during #covid #pandemic times, only #elites are allowed to travel unimpeded...
Apparently there are a lot of #dollarstores popping up in the #us - and interesting I see the opposite here in #nz with them closing down: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/dollar-.. Apparently the ones in the US are more like #conveniencestores and #stock what people mostly want at different volumes to confuse people about their value. They are a sign of something, I'm just not yet convinced what.
Apparently the #uk would be the best place to survive a #global #collapse - above that of #nz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMJzxOT.. Perhaps this is #foreshadowing for some coming #doomsday event... It will at least be better than the #eu after #brexit ... I suspect the #saltmines to be replenished quite easily from our neighbours.
Reading an article by #aardvark again this morning: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0802.s.. He appears to believe that #gst is partially to blame for the lowering of #livingstandards in #nz - I would also suggest that #governments are by design are not incentivized to solve problems outside of their limited #term in office. This is exactly why the #uk has a #houseoflords - which consists of older people who attempt to plan outside of their lifetimes.