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I'm just a researcher, I suppose.

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@DudespostingWs Man I remember the original video this guy posted all the way back when must have been over a decade ago, this guy is a legendary autist, and I'm so happy he's still still frothing for big transport.

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@saltyreigns Guy Williams is perpetually threatening to apologise for being born a white man.

Most cringey comedian. Sad, his early career was genuinely funny.

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He's drawn to it because he has worked very hard to craft a mask of the most inoffensive palatable centrist possible, because he lacks the charisma and courage necessary to be otherwise. His support base is the well-to-do globalist liberal white Aucklander who also believes that the best path forward is to ruffle as few feathers as possible, a shrinking demographic.

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@danipavlosky @Awk20000 Those in glass houses ought not cast stones.

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@Awk20000 I see farmer Polom has had a very successful harvest of stupid people getting mad.

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@1nzmw Really need to bridge this to the Samoans, Tongans and Fijians and see how chuffed they are that a select group of upper caste Indian 'slave drivers' are seeking to import cheaper servants to replace them on seasonal work.

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Depends by what you mean by growth. If you mean GDP, that's not cut and dry. Either way you're coping. Better the country has restrictive migration, preserves what's left of the kiwi culture, and we finally roll up our sleeves, get working on our birthrates and the can do attitude that used to make up our character.

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I spent alot of time trying to figure out the calculus here, because at face value it seems like a contradictory position. But I think it's that it denies Nats, Act and Lab an attack vector, creates plausible deniability with the export lobby, drives home that Nats made a mistake on the IFTA, and tries to position NZF as the only circular wheel of the tricycle.

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Both, depending on convenience. It's the infantalisation of Māori who thus need protecting from this terrible and dangerous Māori woman who believes in the science practitioner model, and in so far as she has criticism of the dominant (but not majority) narrative, some are saying she is an Uncle Tom

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@AskingQsNZ @NZFreeSpeech It's a violation of just about every norm and ethic in academic publishing and brings the field in NZ into disrepute. Moreover the decision infantalises Māori. Crowing about it becoming another battlefield in the broader intl. culture war may be true, but the horse has bolted.

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@MarkavisOrg @NZFreeSpeech It is, but the rot runs much deeper. There is full ideological capture at every part of the public service that interfaces with and is supposed to be a watcher of the academy and it's offshoots such as colleges of professionals.

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@aaliyahkylie_xo @Khadiyjah94 @Extrah_Butta Because she had made her point, she clowned the girl, who she was then wailing on, on the concrete. Man might have saved the lady a manslaughter charge. He stepped in exactly when he should have. King behaviour.

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@lasgidikingin @depressionlesss

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@PronouncedHare I was prepared to absolve the author of responsibility for the headline which likely would have been an editor's call, but I see the author is the deputy editor...

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The China FTA didn't require us to make massive capital investment in China. China was already at the time one of our biggest trading partners. We secured tariff free access for almost 100% of our exports to the world's biggest market. It had no poison pills in terms of immigration. The China FTA was remarkable mutually beneficial. The India FTA is not.

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@karpathy Neuroscience/AI here. I tried about 4 different prompts ranging from assessing it's advertised capacity for novel hypothesis generation, through to just advice the methods section. All filtered to Opus. Impossible to evaluate as an end user rn. Guess I'm not the target audience.

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@Lasthomelyvale @actparty They don't hate their own people. You, I, and most Kiwis are just not their people.

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@arielhelwani I have to say, I feel exactly the same way, and I too, cannot explain why I'm not excited for fights right now. I'm excited to watch Pereira but outside of him and Gaethje and Max thats it. I used to watch the whole product.

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Realistically there is a supply cap because 70% of applicants are for STEM. Labs only have so many seats available for masters and PhD students, and so supervisors look for the maximum return on investment when screening applicants. That's doesn't take away from the structural weakness this FTA creates and the firesale of our independence, but ironically NZ's piss poor R&D funding environment is the rate limiter here.

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And the alternative is what, more of the same calcification and slow managed decline? We pull the ladder up after us? Because that's the outcome of doing nothing.

Some people are going to take a hit one is way or the other. Choice is whether it is the young or the old. So you should admit the situation, it would be more dignified.