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BRUH. Any light sleeper would wake up when a fully grown bed bug crawls all over them. The guy across the hall from me said that he hated it when bed bugs crawled up his nose while he was asleep. People are just really stupid when they're in poverty, they just can't stand up for themselves. Nobody in NZ does anything about mosquito either. You can buy netting for your windows but almost nobody does this because fly screens look bad.

I can't remember the article but this was 10 years ago, perhaps more. Usually I remember where I lived when I saw a particular article or news story, but in this case I can't remember. It was during an active conflict. Some Israeli hackers must have edited a page, because there was a comment about child sacrifice in the middle of a BBC article. It said that Jews gave up child sacrifice 3,000 years ago and Palestinians were still practising it.

They're now saying it was 15 articles since a year ago.

Whether we have a policy or not, and whether we have allies or not, the politicians certainly lean strongly towards the Pentagon. I remember John Key when he supported a "no-fly zone" over Libya in 2011. Then in 2017/2018 Jacinda Ardern supported missile strikes against Syria, but was aghast when Russia did a similar thing in Ukraine. It's a trick when they say we have friends, not allies, or that we have an independent foreign policy, or we don't have one at all. Washington DC rules this country's foreign policy ideology. It will remain that way until an American aircraft carrier sinks in the South China Sea. Then Wellington will lean toward China. It's a deception to think that we're an innocent country that's completely neutral. Wellington is full of people who are slaves to foreign powers. It's disgusting yet predictable.

Thanks, I'll ask Luke how that came about. University costs here don't fluctuate much, but rent and food have got much worse.

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We've reached the point where the amount of outrage, false info, and bots is too much to handle. We actually need networks like Lemmy or Urbit which are closed off from the public internet, and invite only. Give people an invite code like Gmail did when it was new and coveted. When everyone comes to one place it will naturally degenerate into garbage. That's why we need a variety of different groups, made by different people. With some more open than others, so there can be actual debates instead of downvote mobs.

Being able to downvote without contributing any thoughts is just childish and stupid. I hate websites with a downvote feature because it ruins the authenticity of the website. People begin to act cautiously and don't say what they think, and don't challenge anyone on a touchy subject. The word "troll" has also lost meaning. It used to mean someone being intentionally disruptive, but now anyone with a different view is just a "troll". I could go on Reddit and use my real name and I'd be a "troll" for having my own opinion, while anonymous cowards chuck insults from the safety of their keyboards behind a VPN.

There are ways to handle dissenting views, like having a debating board on a website that's separate from the main topics. Of course nobody does this on the big websites.

I'd like a place where people are more intelligent than the average Redditor LOL. There are so many nay-sayers on Reddit. Anyone with initiative just gets attacked. I'll invite some people right now in fact. I'd like to talk about the housing crisis, the rental crisis, the cost of living crisis and also foreign policy (especially Ukraine and Taiwan). I believe that New Zealanders are being misled by the media and government.

Here's another cool software project, called urbit: https://www.meetup.com/urbit-christchurch/

if you're in Christchurch, join us at The Lotus Heart, upstairs. If you buy food, they'll send it up via the elevator chute thingy.

Hi I just signed up to this Lemmy instance. I don't like the so-called Reddit communities for NZ. There's too much sarcasm and complaining, and not enough good sense, or enough political action (eg. on housing).