NZ Off topic

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1421735

The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments.

No more "Landed Gentry" here, just a total shitshow of deleted comments and lack of cohesive moderation.

They can't ban all of us

Bonus sexy John Oliver on holiday in the South Island:

I asked DALL-E for "A shitpost that could be found on the new zealand subreddit", and this is what it gave me. It's pretty spot on.

The poor spelling is commentary on the state of literacy in NZ, especially following COVID where school kids have missed out on a lot of learning.

"it be fint" refers to how we tend to think "it will be fine" or "she'll be right", but the "fine" has been adjusted to fine't as in it's a contraction if "fine, not" showing how it won't actually be fine. This contracting is further misspelt due to the above literacy commentary.

It's typed not hand written to show how the world has moved increasingly online. The handwritten part at the bottom repeats parts higher up to show that people are becoming less creative.

The fish represents our waterways, and the fish is having trouble reading the text because of the poor state of the waterways causing it to be in poor health.

The fish is orange, like the Orange Guy from the voting ads, and has it's eyes wide open - this shows how the younger generation are "woke" to social and environmental injustice and willing to challenge the status quo.

The lines are all horizontal showing the passage of time, but they never meet showing the generational divide and how values from different generations don't converge.

The coloured squares in the corner represent the range of opinions that divide us despite them being close to each other.

For better or worse, I wrote that. It's not generated by ChatGPT or copied from Time Cube, despite similarities.

Dubstep is still cool right?

Hi all, we have another new mod joining the team.

@cloventt@lemmy.nz has been appointed as a mod of !offtopic@lemmy.nz, and will be starting to look at fleshing out the details of the community.

I know you’ll make them feel welcome :)

Joey Santoro in NZ looking mushrooms and podocarps

I made a comment about how there's such a wealth of knowledge that was available on Reddit that makes it so useful and whilst the cached pages of Google and Waybackmachine (though I've found it doesn't have a copy of a lot of pages I want to view), I have some fear of these disappearing eventually along with people going back and scrubbing their old comments and posts in an effort to remove their content from Reddit and I suppose devaluing the platform as the information stored is pretty useful.

I came across this dump of Reddit submissions and comments from 2005-2022 for the top 20K subs: https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e

It says it's about 1.66TB. I haven't downloaded it to have a look at it because I have no space (lol) but I plan to to hopefully preserve and make use of it. When I have time I might write something to index the data so I can search it for what I need.

Just thought I'd share the dump anyway for anyone with similar concerns.

Test post please ignore.

My main on my desktop browser and an alt on my phone browser. 15 combined years and over 10k karma between them. (I had one really popular comment about poop in a /r/ShowerThoughts thread)

Now I don't have to care about any drama that unfolds. It feels good to put it behind me.

Hey Guys. Trying to not just lurk and having a hard time finding good communities outside of this instance. What are some cool active ones you have found so far?