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It's a turn of phrase Like we don't blame women for being raped, we shouldn't blame people who get assaulted for being in the wrong place and we shouldn't use the circumstances of how or why Rittenhouse came to be in Kenosha as proof of either guilt or innocence when there is the opportunity to clos...

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1. It wasn't an assault rifle. Don't use such emotive words 2. It hasn't yet been established in the trial that he wasn't allowed to have it, that has to wait until the judge's directions to the jury 3. It doesn't make any difference to the circumstances of the shootings whether the gun is legally o...

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I wasn't making an allusion to the circumstances of the Rittenhouse case, I was answering the hypothetical put forward by koroke hangareka The strongest part of the case against Rittenhouse is the motive for the Rosenbaum shooting but the prosecution hasn't successfully explained why Rosenbaum chase...

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Well I think that would depend heavily on the circumstances of the shootings If they were spraying bullets into the crowd while laughing maniacally that's obviously different to if they were being beaten to within an inch of their life by the 3 people. The reasons they are there in the first place a...

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Entire prosecution case seems to be that Rittenhouse made a bad decision to be there, should have gone home and the fact he didn't means his actions are reckless While that may be true, it doesn't seem to be very relevant when you boil the facts down to the moments surrounding the shootings It's ess...

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A 'good kid'/boy scout' with an automatic rifle capable of firing 5.56 NATO standard rounds, aged 17. What kind of skewed society permits or even accepts that to be the norm? He then shoots 3 people of allegedly questionable backgrounds in self defence. I joined the military at 21, having only fire...

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Why is there this obsession with it being an AR-15 as if that makes any difference.

It is the most popular modern rifle platform in the world. There are literally hundreds of variants for sale in the US, some for pretty cheap

It's exactly the gun you would expect

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I don't think the jury will be able to delineate the chronology of the two events. Technically you're correct but it would be hard to get the jury to perceive the two shootings as isolated events with separate motives given one happens immediately after the other. The Rosenbaum shooting by contrast ...

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Bro, you are watching the trial? Or were you there? FFS, the guy on the stand in that clip was the 3rd shooting victim. This shooting victim's actions have no effect on determining if the two previous shooting were justified cause they happened AFTER RITTENHOUSE HAD ALREADY SHOT TWO PEOPLE. Time is...

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Judging by all the comments on You Tube, this guy is going to walk free based on self defence. I can only assume that all the comments are by Americans where it's somehow normal for a 17 year old to leave the house with a loaded semi-automatic, cross State lines, go to a riot to 'protect' businesse...

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As usual there is so much polarization that a factual debate can't occur. It's madness that a kid can walk around with a semi automatic weapon... where are his parents and don't they risk anything as legally responsible for their son's behavior? You're correct, it's also mad that people in that sma...

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If there are genuine health and safety risks, how does this not apply to a myriad of other vaccinations e.g. Chickenpox, measles, flu, hepatitis, whooping cough, meningococcal.

I don't think anyone would have ever successfully sued their workplace for catching chickenpox from a coworker

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There was a long article in the New Yorker about this case.

Apparently the first guy started chasing Rittenhouse because he believed Rittenhouse had committed the awful crime of extinguishing a burning rubbish skip.

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I use a Huawei GT2

No idea if it's good or bad but it's full of training programs

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We have a lot of photographs in our collection, but this is perhaps the most iconic. Both boys were exposed to smallpox, but only the boy on the right had previously been vaccinated. The photograph, taken by a doctor working in Leicester, was first published in 1901 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D63Q...

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If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that this move announced today is what can be accomplished given the current legal environment and can make the most difference in the shortest amount of time with the tools available. The risk to people operating in an environment that requires a vaccine pas...

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Right so the government is ok to dictate to gyms and hairdressers how they are required to operate their business, but when it comes to a shop it requires a law change?

Makes sense

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Vaccinated people need not get worked up about being put at risk of catching covid-19 by unvaccinated people. You are at risk, regardless. But it's a very small risk, so chill out. . Thats not the risk That hasn't been the risk for quite a period of time The risk is that significant numbers of peop...

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Unvaccinated people and vaccinated people three months post-vaccine (about half of NZers right now and eventually the vast majority of people) have an indistinguishable risk of passing on the virus. That is the latest science. An unvaccinated gym worker who gets covid and goes to work where everyone...

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Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 8:48 pm Think it's time the all blacks forked out for a hair stylist, these lids can only be damaging their brand

What is it with NZ rugby players and ironic mullets

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That's the part I don't get.

In what circumstances would you ever need to load live rounds on a film set?
That should be straight up prohibited.

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Intel are also partnering with a company called SiFive and tuning some of their foundries for 7nm ARM. Qualcomm are doing the same with a company called Nuvia. Like I said before, Apple have shown the way with their Rosetta 2 ABI and its excellent performance and now other companies will create thei...

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The point is in 20 years time when people consider the impact of the M1, it will be in the context of Rosetta 2 allowing RISC chips to replace the x86 architecture

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So Apple released their new Macbook Pro's today and us nerds are all up in arms about it. The specs are just crazy. M1 Max CPU/GPU combo is literally competitive against high end desktop class PC's. What is going on over at Apple, they are literally half a decade ahead of the competition at this po...

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Vaccines are better at preventing infection that immunity acquired from a previous infection: (more than twice as good) Which means a Covid passport might not be extended to those who recovered from an infection. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/prior-infection-vs-vaccination-why-everyone-sh...

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This is a handy tool you can use to track various COVID related stats https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=earliest..2021-10-07&facet=none&Metric=Vaccine+doses&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false our vaccination rate is rig...

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Apparently an Auckland sex worker was smuggled into Northland by a truck driver and was active throughout the region while having Covid.

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It's a bit of a worry when the lawmakers say they don't have any evidence one way or the other what impact the new laws will have.

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I wonder how many people who made a big deal out of the Bloomberg ratings will quietly ignore the latest
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/3004 ... e-pandemic

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That's quite a Freudian slip

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It's almost like there are differences between countries that make some teams juicier targets than others

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It's not my point, it was Brabus'. In the cascade of Covid risk factors, ethnicity will be nearer the bottom than the top. If this was not true, Maori would have been in Group 3. A rational person can hold the position that elderly should be prioritised simultaneously with the position that ethnicit...

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If you had three vaccines to give four people - two 60 year old Pakeha, one 60 year old Maori and one 30 year old Maori - who would you give the vaccines to?

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Was it publicly announced at any stage that Maori were getting preferential vaccine codes?

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The Government should allow organisations that regularly go into workplaces to administer flu jabs to do it with Covid vaccinations.

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Bumping up the requirements for Level 2 would be a big win for all the authoritarian control freaks out there but it's out of step with an elimination strategy. Tools like mandatory masks indoors used overseas are to reduce spread when there's a consistent risk of infection. In NZ, it won't achieve ...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 2:45 am .... how politicians fortunes are most often decided by the electorate....

Groundbreaking

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We’ll never see another Summer of Smeg. https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/124260714/the-summer-of-smeg--why-new-worlds-knife-promotion-worked-so-well To be fair, it’s the day after the attack when emotions are high and supermarkets will be considering their staff’s feelings/wellbeing as well as safety...

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We've totally got this... https://i.imgur.com/DWmhkoA.png right You need a bit more information before assessing If a kid picks it up at school and then spreads it to their family of 5 during lockdown its a much less scary situation than if they spread it to 5 individuals who then spread it to thei...

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Latest updates on the Comirnaty rollout? It's basically open to everyone now. Roll up, roll up, get your comirnaty over here My brother went to one of the drive in dispensaries and reckons he had his in less than 20 minutes It's amazing what can be achieved with a little bit of urgency. There's rea...

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