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The mining company conveniently went bankrupt before the habitat "remediation".

They are like the Chagos Islanders of snails.

Must be, like bowhead whales etc.

The snails are very specialist - they tried releasing them into adjacent habitat etc and they died. Of course 800 got accidentally frozen to death in the fridge as well.

I did not realise it summoned a person!

Will have to remember to bring actual cards to use as decoys next time.

Yeah especially when it's an animal type we would normally associate with a different reproductive strategy.

Like I don't expect a snail to be a 30 year old who lived for 8 years before they even started reproducing.

This is pretty neat. They have genitals in their necks right beside their heads.

Have to admit though, when I'm feeling down about my life I do sometimes think oh well at least I'm not being kept in solitary in a container in DOCs fridge! dangerous as well as boring.

That's a thought, screengrab a working one and the same lucky recipient will get all your points!

I think according to their site you have a 1200 chance of it not working.

That happened to me with a large format printer who claimed to be located in Auckland. I didn't click on an ad, it came up in searches and before I put in an order I verified with them that they could meet my deadline.

When it didn't arrive on time it took me two phone calls to get the tracking number and saw it hadn't even left India yet.

I was able to successfully dispute it with my credit card company though.

Alternative is to bookmark this barcode.

I agree; it's definitely some kind of extension of disaster capitalism. "Blood in the streets" is how you make money (if you're already rich) and the shock doctrine has also shown that it's how corporate power is minted and entrenched.

This sort of seems worse. Did you see this recent Klein article?

I think the problem is more the market uncertainty he and his cronies create.

Stocks dipped on it not because it will be coherent and work, but more because of the chaos badly-thought-out policy directives could create. It could for example take the form of levying studios who currently film overseas for the tax breaks, or it could take the form of an actual tarrif on distributors (which will hurt the US way more than it hurts anyone else, because Hollywood is now so reliant on Chinese box office that it factors it into content, so if China reciprocates it will hit hard).

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He informed his senior station manager, who took over the account, changed the passwords and then

What? Who does that? It's bizarre.

Trump recently announced 100% tarrifs on "Foriegn made movies" by which I think he means runaway Hollywood productions and Hollywood co-pros, both of which will affect the NZ film industry.

This being NZ I have driven behind their van a couple of times. I guess if I see it again we should start madly flashing the headlights and signalling them to stop so I can share the good news.

So do I. Hmm that's a good point, I should check if I have any unread recs in there.

Thanks!

Well that's my need for new songs to listen to sorted for this week! Lemmyvision is awesome.

Hey did you notify tell Alien Weaopnry that they took out the bronze? 😄

Their lyricist is this guy.

Wait, Te Ra came third in Lemmyvision?! That's so awesome!!!!! I see I have some catching up to do!

That sounds really annoying, sorry to hear that.

We had a nice gentle summer, not very hot but that's great for someone like me who has thermoregulation issues. Came back after a week away and now I'm feeling very dissatisfied with my t shirt drawer ha ha.

Yeah I was in the Waikato (where it felt super cold) and now I'm back it's suddenly cold up here too.

Thanks!!!

I feel like this is going to help motivate me to read new books instead of lazily re-reading stuff that's already on my kindle.