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Aotearoa New Zealand | He uri ahau nā Taranaki mounga, nā Te Waipounamu | Ia / he / him I am interested in science, environment, history, te reo Māori, a bit of reading and occasionally some heavy music

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Hindsight makes it seem that the dominance of Christianity was inevitable, when perhaps it wasn’t!
Thanks for replying, I look forward to reading your book and learning more.

31.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds very interesting. (I just wondered if the title was too close to be coincidental.)
I was always told at school that Christianity offered spiritual comfort that polytheism didn’t - an explanation that never quite worked for me,

30.08.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is the title Domination an answer to Tom Holland’s Dominion?

30.08.2025 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nobody has done more to ensure the expansion of NATO than Vlad Putin

30.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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LUKE: ‘Master, is the Dark Side more powerful?’
YODA: ‘No. Not stronger - but easier, more seductive.’

04.05.2025 04:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have they solved on Day One yet?

18.04.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have autism. It’s probably nothing to do with being vaccinated.
Even if it was, I’d take autism over polio any day.

16.04.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

08.04.2025 18:45 — 👍 13357    🔁 4401    💬 629    📌 255
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“The university advised its staff to be aware of how their online profile and social media posts would be viewed by border staff, as it may lead to further attention and questioning.”

07.04.2025 02:46 — 👍 44    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Even the banks say we’re in climate trouble, but on the other hand, look at that other interesting thing over there

06.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why are these ‘alpha male’ leaders always podgy old guys?

03.04.2025 10:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They need some migration to replenish numbers

01.04.2025 08:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not releasing files because a certain orange gentleman is named therein?

25.03.2025 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m not American but it seems like the political opposition comes from AOC, Walz, Crockett, Bernie and Kinzinger.

18.03.2025 05:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Leavitt is comedy genius

18.03.2025 05:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to Google, momentum is best countered by an equal force in the opposite direction. That’s the opposition that Americans need now, not this roll over and pretend to be dead.

18.03.2025 01:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This Karoline Leavitt is comedy gold

18.03.2025 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Playing dead in the face of authoritarianism doesn’t work. The longer you leave it, the harder it will become to slow down the momentum.

18.03.2025 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I expect you graded him as ‘Meeting Expectations’.

15.03.2025 11:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now that is straight out of Tintin. Is Prof Calculus about to come around the corner?

15.03.2025 10:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely. The sensible investor’s money* is out of Tesla and into Saab, Dassault and Rheinmetal.
(*This is not financial advice.)

15.03.2025 10:51 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Impressive length. Looks like it crosses time zones and extends right to Vladivostok.

15.03.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Things are rapidly heading south - or as we would say in New Zealand, things are rapidly heading north.

11.03.2025 01:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like the book I’ve been looking for

03.03.2025 03:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can you suggest an alternative to LinkedIn?

01.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jim Bond had outstayed his welcome by the mid 80s.

26.02.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Life imitates comedy

17.02.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This ad campaign had huge Murray Hewitt energy

17.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Zealand’s new tourism slogan, ‘Everyone’s got to go’, is straight out of Flight of the Conchords

17.02.2025 08:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good all-indigenous game. Māori narrowly pipped the indigenous brothers from Australia. youtu.be/aOL-1kKeDF8?...

16.02.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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