It’s a bunch of crimes.

He illegally imported endangered species parts.

Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it’s illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.

Yes, it was quite good. They didn’t really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

Me too.

The top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.

We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand’s most endangered bird!

Shipton said people cared about the issue because it was becoming a sign of the “inequality” in the relationship between Australia and the US.

But this is the crux of it; unfortunately it is an unequal relationship.

We are “social animals” though. It’s normal for the social animals to attempt to regulate what each other does and how they treat others in the group.

You see this in apes, elephants, whales, etc.

I think Medecines Sans Frontiers is good?

I don’t really understand some of this. Why pair it with a VAT? VAT itself is a known to be a regressive tax because poor people/ households spend a higher percentage of their incomes on consumption (food etc) so the effect of a VAT is to raise their overall tax percentage.

This is definitely what happens in my country, where we have a flat 15% VAT on all goods and services. As someone on disability that means I’m being taxed an extra 15% on most of my income.

Never has the “Just a moment…” snippet view been more apropos.

Yes, it’s a massive level of cringe.

Gmail is convenient, but if it’s about to be filled with 😊 and 👍 then I’ve got to stop using it for any serious communication.

I agree, it is technically true. Sorry if I sounded too nitpicking, I’ve just come back from a week with no internet access /news so for a moment I thought you were talking about all of them doing it during the events of the last few days!

Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.

You may wish to rephrase that…

I didn’t tell him, just sat there in shock getting my lap peppered.

If it happened to me now I would say something, but I was young and not that assertive, so was probably like a rabbit in the headlights!

If I were to ask for salt for chips in a cafe or something, no problem. But in a proper restaurant, that would be the same as what @ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee describes: it would mark me as some kind of philistine that can’t appreciate the chef.

I’m fascinated by this stuff too! We share a language and consume a lot of your pop culture but there are still so many little things that are different.

Eg “tuna noodle casserole” sounded super gross to me because of the language difference. Here, casserole = a thin, liquid stew with chunks of meat in it, cooked in a ceramic pot, and noodles = only Asian noodles (ramen, udon, etc). But it turns out it’s more like what we call a “pasta bake”, a totally normal dish.

I think this must be a language barrier thing because cafes serve a lot more than that here.

A picture’s worth a thousand words, so here is a random article with pictures of some cafes,

and here is an article with pictures of restaurants in the same town.

Obviously there’s a bit of crossover.

I guess that’s not surprising, based on the people I used to know in hospitality. One person who was a chef changed field and retrained after one too many hostile workplaces.

That charity sounds good.

New Zealand. Another cultural difference I know about is we also don’t really have filter coffee, except in really old-fashioned working class cafeterias.

The espresso culture in this part of the world is so well established that Starbucks struggled when it expanded into Australia and New Zealand and instead of proliferating, shrank to just a few stores that cater to overseas tourists.

the tradition and experience

Even though this happened over 20 years ago, I will never forget the experience I once had of a waiter grinding all the pepper into my lap instead. It was an upmarket restaurant, but I think perhaps he was on something.

Really? Where I live salt on the table or lying around is something in cafes, not restaurants.

This. Last time New Zealand carried out this exercise there were only 3 who didn’t.