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I'm new here and don't know what to put in my profile. She/them, living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

  • Montana Man, 80, Pleads Guilty To Creating Giant Mutant Hybrid Bighorns

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  • It's a bunch of crimes.

    He illegally imported endangered species parts.

    Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

    Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

    With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it's illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

    The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.

  • This is the wildest obituary I've ever read.

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  • Yes, it was quite good. They didn't really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

  • This is the wildest obituary I've ever read.

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  • Me too.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • I'm sorry. Just wanted to give you a virtual hug if you'd like one.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Ugh, yours sounds even worse than ours.

    We just elected a centre-right party that needed to go into coalition with our most right-wing party, who are libertarians, and our most populist party. They finally formed yesterday and now we have a government that is going to destroy the environment and decimate social services.

  • What would a police free future look like?

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  • In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale

    Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.

    Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone's right to peacefully protest.

  • What would a police free future look like?

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  • Maybe it's because I live in a country where the police don't carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

    They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don't think that's entirely true.

    I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

  • Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quit

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  • Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

    I am so confused.

  • What If Money Expired?

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  • Yes this was pretty telling:

    Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”

  • Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude

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  • I was a bit offended by tourists doing that mmhmm thing until I found out that it's considered polite in the US.

    I was interpreting it as "yes I know you are thankful to me, and so you should be! By the way, I'm an oaf."

  • Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude

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  • “c’est moi,” meaning, “it’s me who thanks you.”

    Ah so that's what that means. I thought I was mishearing. That's pretty close to what I was brought up with, "it's my pleasure" (meaning it's me who is pleased to be helping).

    The informal/vernacular in my country (NZ) is "sweet as" which puzzles most visitors, or sometimes "it's all good".

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • That's such a cool idea!

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • That sounds hard.

    Do you meditate at all?.Sometimes it can help reset the critical inner voice.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • That's so cool that you're doing NaNoWriMo! I've always felt too daunted by lack of plot. Let us know how it goes!

  • Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know

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  • Ah that explains it. Thanks!

  • Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know

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  • I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.

  • John Oliver's campaign for puking mullet bird delays New Zealand vote for favorite feathered friend

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  • The top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.

    We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand's most endangered bird!

  • Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his critics

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  • I've never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

  • Six newly discovered beetle species include one with bottle-opener shaped genitalia

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  • Another way of looking at it is bottle openers look remarkably similar to beetle genitalia.

    I think the beetles were here first.

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    Albury resident 'crying out' for justice 19 years after surviving horrific massacre in east Africa

    www.abc.net.au /news/2023-08-13/banyamulenge-gatumba-massacre-survivor-calls-for-justice/102722720