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- Comment on Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest 2 weeks ago:
Good question. Anyone who is part or all Māori can choose whether they vote for the Māori electorate or the general electorate. As for services, I don’t know. If I had to guess, you’d have to be a member of an iwi (tribe) or at least be part Māori. But there are services for everyone; it’d be Māori-based services that would be aimed at Māori. They have different cultural values and methods, so it’s more the way the services are provided rather than the services themselves.
For example, during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, there was some discussion about Māori wanting to have their whole whānau (family) vaccinated at the same time because it’s seen as a collective measure and followed cultural Māori family values. At the time, they were being rolled by age, so some people in a family could get it while others couldn’t. There are valid discussions to be had for both methods.
- Comment on Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest 2 weeks ago:
I attended this hīkoi (march). Only the people at the front were in traditional dress. Most other people were wearing clothes that they painted the Māori flag onto, or just in normal clothes. Was still very very cool to see, though
- Comment on Tens of thousands march in New Zealand Maori rights protest 2 weeks ago:
Everyone does have those rights.
Basically, back in the day, when the Europeans arrived in New Zealand and wanted to set up shop, they signed a treaty with the Māori that the Europeans would govern the Europeans and the Māori would govern the Māori. This is called co-governance. At this time, Māori vastly outnumbered the colonists.
The Europeans promptly ignored the treaty and became so large in numbers that they formed the government. There is a Māori section of government that is focused on Māori issues. This bill would essentially get rid of that and let the European-formed government decide what is best for Māori.
It’s a slap in the face to say “hey, you can govern yourselves. Oh wait now we outnumber you, you shouldn’t be allowed to speak your language and also you have to follow our laws. Oh also you’re not allowed to govern your own people anymore, you have to follow our colonial way of doing things. K thx”
The “special rights” that David Seymour is talking about is basically anything specifically laid out to help Māori, so a form of affirmative action. I understand the initial distaste towards race-based solutions to problems, but it’s the only way to fix problems that were caused by race-based policies in the first place. Colour-blind equality won’t fix issues caused by systemic racism.
This is my current understanding at least. I’m a Kiwi and I attended this hīkoi (march).
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 2 weeks ago:
I barely knew anything about him tbh. I knew four things:
- He was a world-class boxer
- He owned a tiger
- He has a lisp
- He was in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
I only respected him because he was one of the best in the world at something. I knew nothing of his character, which I now know is bad
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t raise Mike Tyson was a rapist until I read an article about this upcoming fight. Tainted my view of the man
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 weeks ago:
It would be annoying, but to be fair, it’s the Mac Mini, which is small and easy to pick up. I would guess you could just tip the corner up to press the button.
I still think it’s a dumb design. It’s going to confuse everyday users
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
Yep for some species it’s their main food source
- Comment on After over 1 year I solo developed a horror game where you play as a Baby on a Tricycle which you can customize, paint, change diapers, draw on walls and have to escape monsters! It's coming out on 16 2 months ago:
Yep they have a link to it in the trailer’s description
- Comment on Mans got big hands! 3 months ago:
They do actually appear the same size in the sky though, which is why we get perfect eclipses. The Moon is slowly getting further away from Earth so it won’t be forever. We’re just in a lucky moment of time in the universe.
It really is just a coincidence.
- Comment on Cat Quest 3's pun-soaked animal pirate action-RPG is out on Steam now 3 months ago:
Bought it as soon as I got an email saying it was released. Really enjoyed playing 2 with my partner
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 4 months ago:
I’m not entirely sure how ad blockers work, but my understanding was they prevent things loading from certain URLs. If the ads are embedded into the video, then there’s no ad-specific URL to block
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 4 months ago:
While the overall video would be a different length, video players often don’t count the ads towards the media time. So the deep links should be okay
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 5 months ago:
That’s so wild. I met one person and I was just following them around to see where the “AI” was taking them. I thought it was very advanced for an older game 😅 I think I may not be the smartest
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 5 months ago:
Wait that other person I saw was a real person and not an NPC?? 🤯
- Comment on Which side are you on? 5 months ago:
- is commonly used for multiplication in computer programming, so it’s probably that. Also in your calculator app
- Comment on If one conjoined twin commits a murder without the consent of their twin, will both have to go to prison or nobody? 6 months ago:
it’s pretty common to call twinks “half’s”
That is a brilliant typo
- Comment on Hey there gamers 6 months ago:
It’s not split in half, it’s reversed, which is why both are equal to S. If you just took half, then 1 + 2 + … would not equal 100 + 99 + … and so they both wouldn’t be equal to S.
Instead of halving the list, they just reversed it and set it to 2S later, which they then half. So no typo here.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 10 months ago:
Guess who colonized whom…
- Comment on $500 per semester 10 months ago:
It’s not a field worth getting into. AI will soon make you redundant
- Comment on The most relaxing part of driving in a city. 11 months ago:
I find no part of driving through a city relaxing, but this would be the most relaxing, yes
- Comment on Every anthropomorphic character is some kind of animal-ape hybrid 11 months ago:
Oh wait I think the shower thought is that a human or ape had to fuck whatever it was to make it
- Comment on Every anthropomorphic character is some kind of animal-ape hybrid 11 months ago:
I get what you’re trying to say but anthropomorphic literally means “having form like a man” so it kind of just reads like “every animal made to resemble a human is some kind of animal-human hybrid”
- Comment on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system. An aviation expert says the technology could address the pilot shortage. 11 months ago:
What’s wrong with people having it easy if they’re not exploiting others?
- Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars 1 year ago:
Thank you! I use DuckDuckGo on Android because I like it’s simplicity but maybe I’ll change to Firefox someday (I use Firefox on my PC)
- Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars 1 year ago:
I have ad blockers on my PC, but haven’t gotten around to putting any on my phone. It’s rarely a problem as I don’t visit many sites on my phone. But I should probably add one. I was just pointing out an experience I had. I think you were a bit rude with your comment. Please try to be more kind in the future; that’s what helps communities like Lemmy thrive
- Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars 1 year ago:
The ads on this site are horreeeeeeeendous
- Comment on What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months? 1 year ago:
Many indigenous peoples tell the time of year by the stars rather than the moon. A certain constellation just became visible? Must be X time of year!
- Comment on 'The Finals' Is Using AI Voicework And It Is Bad 1 year ago:
I opened the article planning to dislike it, and I do dislike the man’s voice (the woman’s voice sounds quite good though), but then I thought about it. Sports announcers actually seem like a decent use for AI. I would imagine that it would be incredibly difficult to build decent announcers from pre-recorded voice lines… It’s heavily context-dependent, and this way it can even read out the team names, which I imagine are chosen by the teams. I think this could possibly work well. I don’t see how to create a system like this without AI
- Comment on If you're having people over, be sure to have adequate supplies available. 1 year ago:
186 upvotes? I don’t get it, how is this a shitpo— oooh
- Comment on Think about what you're doing 1 year ago:
I like antijokes and antimemes OP. Keep it up