This story made me cry. I am disabled and not always mobile. There are loved ones in my family who are elderly, cannot walk far, and depend on medication.

I cannot even imagine what it must be like to try to evacuate at short notice, with nowhere to go.

They probably have a Trump AI for this sort of thing.

This has been happening in New Zealand for a while. The theory seems to be that bins attract more litter and are a hazard to wildlife.

I was sceptical at first but it actually seems to work.

Perturbs me that they are selling food though. Surely yhe food sellers should have bins for which they are responsible in their immediate vicinity.

I've always viewed it as a call to repurpose the resources currently hoarded by the rich.

I think Reddit is just pretending to interpret it as incitement to cannibalism.

Totally unacceptable. Targeting an ethnicity for what a country on the other side of the world is doing.

Stuff understands the site was targeted because on Google it is listed as the Consulate of Israel, which it no longer is.

I hope it was just clueless teenagers or something.

Really wondering why you would think that.

Chumbawamba have a track record of being quite involved in rights issues, like the time they licensed a song to GM and used the money to campaign against GM.

Nah you're actually both right there.

They were a bunch of punk activists and also British, so the song is about their (alcoholic) neighbour and how working class people will keep a) tubthumping - trying to effect political change and b) trying to drunkenly unlock the front door.

2/3 of these animals aren't in my country so I don't know about the logistics but this seems really cool!

It's going to require DNA samples in my lifetime.

I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase "Men who have Sex with Men" in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

Sounds quite serious:

Of those leaving the country on a long-term basis, an estimated 81,200 were New Zealand citizens – a 41% increase on the previous year. The figure is a rise from the previous record of 72,400 departures in 2012.

With 24,800 New Zealand citizens arriving during the period, that put the net migration loss of citizens at 56,500 – exceeding the previous record of 44,400 in 2012.

They really do mean "record". I think if we adjust it for population growth since 2012, it's not as stark but it's still bad.

I misread the title and came in thinking it was about cats. I think we have a high proportion of those as well.

Solved it. Cats cause cars.

As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.

There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.

"Artificial Idiocy" does have a certain ring to it.

She received a reply that she had to pay the fine on time, or penalties would be added, and the courts were mentioned.

Sounds good. This is the moment you get in first and preemptively take them to the Disputes Tribunal (small claims). They don't have a leg to stand on, and as they are not allowed to use lawyers in there I think you'd get a fair result.

What a despicable crime.

Side note, what's with the eccentric use of "[sic]" in that article? All bar one are misuses of it. I wonder what the person who put it there thinks it means.

I agree with this. It's a bit like the first 2 pancakes, you have to go back over the first half a dozen once you're in the zone.

I used to grade hard copies a lot, after I graded I'd put them in order from best to worst (numerical grades) and then do quick comparisons between an assignment and its neighbours in the pile. It's an easy way to "quality control".

As for the comments, that's a self-discipline issue. If you're giving, say, 4 positives and 4 negatives per assignment and have standard ways of phrasing, it shouldn't deteriorate.

As she gave them three forms of ID, she said she saw an image on a phone they had been looking at that appeared to be of a Māori woman wearing a cap.

Ffs.

Alternative is to bookmark this barcode.

I feel like they low key hated that particular couple.