NES Tetris. I have a little emulator device that looks like a Game Boy Advance SP, and that’s been my go to while I’m traveling

Yeah I’ve never seen the last panel before

I still have the theme song in my head to this day

Guys will see this and just think “hell yeah”

Holy eyebrows Batman

You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed

The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable

My brother in Christ you signed the law

Though co-op games usually adjust difficulty based on the number of players (usually by scaling the number of enemies)

What? I Google stuff all the time. Just not on Google (DuckDuckGo or Qwant)

I was feeling disconnected from my friends for quite a while. I find I have a hard time keeping up with people, and that usually ends up meaning I am no one’s best friend.

I’ve done two things:

1. Organised a (mostly) weekly poker night (not for money but for snacks). Any board game would work. It gets us in the same room and we have a grand old time. This is the highlight of my week. It really helped to have something to look forward to each week when I was feeling depressed and meaningless.
2. Started sending my two closest friends one (1) meme per day tailored to them specifically. It’s rare for me to message anyone, but this keeps me in contact, even if it’s basically like a poke on Facebook. It keeps me fresh in their heads. It usually ends up sparking a convo about this or that. It’s led to me being invited to a couple of fun events, which feels really nice, because for a while there I was barely invited to anything.

These two things, while simple, have greatly increased my mood and has gotten me much closer with my friends than I was before, as I had drifted apart from them.

The flag with the tree is the flag of Lebanon. I also found this out after asking what the “Christmas tree flag” represented 💀

It’s because the protests worked!!1! they won!! Without their hard work, we would have still been stuck inside. /s

Maybe she has a leaf at the front like they are often depicted

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.

TL;DR - if someone has Māori ancestry, they can choose which electorate to vote in and which services to receive

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

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).

Remember, there are no consequences. Whatever you do will be reset, so this wouldn’t work

That’s my apartment neighbour. Can smell in my apartment when they light one up

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