@miroirdufou @jk_rowling Normal variation of what?
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Author of “AI For the Rest of Us: How to use AI to improve your daily life.”
New zealand Tham gia Nisan 2025
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@jk_rowling Where you state what you think are facts, what you are in fact doing is making normative claims about language use, based on a premise that being trans is a dangerous disorder that needs to be corrected, not a normal variation that should be accommodated, socially & medically.
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You might find it difficult to do two things at once, Paul, but I find it remarkably easy to enjoy the millions I've made while continuing to care about women's rights.
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@androgenic_ Same thing happened to me. I met a dude dressed a cat so I said “nice costume.” He told me he was actually a real cat so apologised for misspecies-ing him.
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I accidentally misgendered someone but at least I apologised for it
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Elon Musk has suffered the biggest ever loss of personal wealth after a dramatic fall in the value of SpaceX.
🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@MaxWatersNZ @2ETEKA Trade Depot imports cheap crap from China.
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The Trade Depot executive team. Mystery solved. @2ETEKA
Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA
Thankfully we have @chrislynchmedia who bothered to investigate this story, and contacted Trade Depot MD John Christie who acknowledged the wording was incorrect. “An advertisement was posted on SEEK for a warehouse and dispatch role at our Hamilton site stating that proficiency in Hindi or Punjabi was essential,” Christie said. The wording was wrong, and that error is ours. Those languages should have been described as an advantage for this role, not a requirement. Trade Depot is against discrimination in any form. We hire on people’s skills and attitude. This listing didn’t reflect that,” Christie said. “Additional language skills can be a real asset at a branch, and that is what this role was meant to address. We removed the advertisement as soon as we became aware of it, and we are reviewing how our job advertisements are written and approved so this does not happen again,” Christie said. Everyone is welcome at Trade Depot. We apologise for it, and to anyone it discouraged from applying.” Seek should also be asked for comment - do they not ensure advertisements are legally compliant before publishing them? chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/tra…
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@DrunkDividends Liar. You lost all your life savings on crypto, remember?
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I HATE YOU ELON MUSK I HATE YOU SPACEX I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOO I HATE
EVERYONE SAID IT WAS GOING TO THE MOON SO I PUT 18K INTO CALLS
THAT WAS MY LIFE SAVINGS AND THE MONEY I WAS GOING TO USE FOR COLLEGE I DONT KNOW WHATCTO DO ANYMORE
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@_andrewthecoder @Woofology I find Windows a lot harder to use. Nothing is intuitive.
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@Woofology more people are jumping ship every day. Windows is not good, and it seems to be getting worse. I had to install it on a virtual machine for a client project and I could not figure it out. Nothing about it made any sense to me. I have been using computers since the 1980s!
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Linux is good for many people but it can be hard for beginners 😭 Windows feels easier for most users
andrewthecoder@_andrewthecoder
I want everyone to use Linux.
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@saltyreigns - Sorry, not right fit.
- What do you mean?
- Just not the right fit.
- In what way?
- Not Indian.
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This is great but the discrimination won’t go away. They will just quietly remove it from their ads while explaining that John Brown “just wasn’t the right fit” while Arjan Singh had the “required credentials”
We need law change. English only in NZ businesses.
Chris Lynch@chrislynchmedia
Trade Depot forced to apologise chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/tra…
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@TheFinalRecord @falconerd Software development is about reducing complexity, not increasing it.
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@falconerd This is so vibe coder brained. What about maintaining and updating the app? How do you know that removing one feature will not break the app? What about compile time? Final memory size?
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Programming isn't hard.
They made it hard. They taught you to care about class hierarchies, design patterns, and philosophical concepts that have zero overlap with the code required to solve the problem.
Look at what a program actually does.
Data comes in. You transform it. Data goes out.
That's it. That's the entire job.
Everything else is optional. And most of it is wrong.
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@falconerd Exactly. And do you know why they did it? Jobs for the boys.
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@chrislynchmedia @TheGrampus1 Not good enough. Knowing Hindi isn’t an advantage for driving a fucking forklift.
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Trade Depot forced to apologise
chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/tra…
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@2ETEKA @chrislynchmedia Trade depot has shown their true colours now…literally ,I won’t be going into trade depot again ,I can purchase the same junk on temu if I need it.
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Thankfully we have @chrislynchmedia who bothered to investigate this story, and contacted Trade Depot MD John Christie who acknowledged the wording was incorrect.
“An advertisement was posted on SEEK for a warehouse and dispatch role at our Hamilton site stating that proficiency in Hindi or Punjabi was essential,” Christie said.
The wording was wrong, and that error is ours. Those languages should have been described as an advantage for this role, not a requirement.
Trade Depot is against discrimination in any form. We hire on people’s skills and attitude. This listing didn’t reflect that,” Christie said.
“Additional language skills can be a real asset at a branch, and that is what this role was meant to address.
We removed the advertisement as soon as we became aware of it, and we are reviewing how our job advertisements are written and approved so this does not happen again,” Christie said.
Everyone is welcome at Trade Depot.
We apologise for it, and to anyone it discouraged from applying.”
Seek should also be asked for comment - do they not ensure advertisements are legally compliant before publishing them?
chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/tra…
Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA
🚩There are literally hundreds of Jobs popping up online advertised ONLY FOR INDIANS, e.g Trade depot in Hamilton are looking for a forklift driver - “OSH Forklift Licence is essential” and so is : “Proficiency in Hindi or Punjabi is essential for effective communication with team members and clients” NZ’s Human Rights Act 1993 and Employment Relations Act 2000 prohibit discrimination in job ads, and hiring on these grounds • Race or colour • Ethnicity or national origins. Language requirement is discrimination. Treating people differently or less favourably because of these traits is unlawful. But I guess Modhi is now in charge of our discrimination laws in addition to our immigration policies. Indians only hire Indians - everyone knows this. National/ Labour/Act are determined to destroy us with immigration. FFS Vote NZFirst #sol=742bdbd2a2477be8618dae4ef4b0cc91e1f2100a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nz.seek.com/job/92816782?t…
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@2ETEKA @chrislynchmedia Not good enough. Being able to speak Punjabi shouldn’t be advantage when driving a fucking forklift.
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It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years.
European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you.
Thank you, dear Keir.
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@LeonardBriscoe3 Oh sit down you demented old cow.
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You’ve ousted the best Prime Minister we’ve had in living memory, a man of steel, intellect and compassion, a man who always trying.
Why?
You selfish idiots 🙄
#Starmer
#KeirStarmer
#StarmerResignation
#resignation
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I’ve enjoyed working with Sir @Keir_Starmer, and together, we were able to deepen and broaden the NZ-UK relationship.
In the last two years, New Zealand’s exports to the UK have grown 42% and we’ve expanded our security ties by working closely together to train Ukrainian soldiers. I have always admired Keir’s principled and steadfast support of Ukraine during his premiership.
I wish him well for whatever comes next and look forward to continuing the work with the next UK Prime Minister in due course.
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@PolitlcsUK Well fuck me, I never expected he would. Considering what a psychopath he is the pressure must have been really on.
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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister of the UK
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Well fuck me, the psychopathic cunt has actually resigned.
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