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    TeWaio

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    • RE: Climate Change

      @No-Quarter Hah yeah that was me, one of the funner moments on the Fern over the years, if only for the "wait a minute...!" factor.

      @Rembrandt Well, the climate is definitely getting warmer, and atmospheric CO2 concentration is definitely going up. Historically we know those two things are linked from sampling the temperature vs CO2 relationship going back millions of years via drilling ice cores in the Arctic. So we're on fairly solid footing so far, scientifically.

      Whether or not human activity is a) totally responsible for this, or b) just helping it along, or c) has had no impact whatsoever, is up for debate. But given the amount of fossil fuels burnt since the industrial revolution (that took millions of years worth of stored CO2 and whacked it into the atmosphere in very short order, geologically speaking), it's highly probably somewhere between a) and b).

      The extent to which people are responsible is sort of a side issue, as the change is happening regardless. The debate then becomes how much effect a massive societal change to curb emissions would have on the entire climate system. If we ban flying, redistribute all the wealth, halt economic growth etc, and we still get 80% of the warming we would've got anyway, then it's probably not worth it. Instead we should crack on as we are with capitalism / economic growth and bet on technology allowing us to innovate our way out of the negative effects of climate change. That it the ideological/political fork in the road, and the left wing vs right wing solutions are obviously dramatically different. This is why it's such a politically charged issue (and why we're discussing it in the TSF politics forum).

      Clearly it also depends on the extent of the damaging effects. No one has a definitive answer to that either, as the system is so ridiculously complex to model accurately. But most would agree it makes sense to err on the side of caution, as huge sea level rises / more frequent catastrophic natural disasters will have a big negative affect on society. 50cm sea level rises versus 20m is quite a big difference etc. The presence of possible feedback loops in climate, e.g. the melting of Arctic permafrost releasing methane and runaway warming, makes this even more unpredictable. That example is just one thing that we know might happen, there will also be "unknown unknowns" that (by definition) no one's considered.

      Whatever happens, the poor will be affected more than the rich, developing world more than developed, East more than West etc. Which again makes it very political, especially as developed countries got to grow fast in the 20th century without caring about emissions, but now the developing world can't, or shouldn't, do the same? Again, you can take the view of making everyone more wealthy via economic growth, and using that to fuel development of technology to mitigate the effects is better than making everyone poorer by throwing human progress into reverse, but that's a political debate. You can probably tell which side I am on, and it's not Extinction Rebellion's.

      Extinction Rebellion are a political / religious movement more than environmental. The idea "humanity has sinned and must repent or be destroyed" is an ancient, powerful story that has deep psychological appeal to humans, as any theologian could tell you. The whole shouty concept of "this is SUCH an emergency there is no time for nuance or debate and you must do as WE say" is really damaging and insidious, particularly the way it is being indoctrinated to children/adolescents. It is causing deep rooted psychological issues in young people, and doesn't help the above logical debates that need to take place in a rational society.

      Whatever happens, people aren't going to "extinct", billions almost certainly won't die. But mass migration / hardening of borders is already happening, and will probably get worse. It will be the biggest challenge that humanity will face for decades/centuries to come IMO. NZ is very fortunate in its isolation, in this regard.

      posted in Politics
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      TeWaio
    • RE: Coronavirus - New Zealand

      Well, after following this thread religiously for 2+ years, my parents are in the air somewhere over Iran and I'm picking them up from Heathrow this afternoon. Haven't seen them in nearly 3yrs, and they're about to meet my 1.5yr old son for the first time.

      Plenty of people had it much worse in the pandemic, but it's still been very tough on our little family. A few months ago after the third Christmas apart, and Labour dragging their heels about omicron, I didn't think it was going to happen this year either. My wife and I both have the rest of the month off work, it's going to be bloody good.

      posted in Coronavirus
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      TeWaio
    • RE: Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

      Dropping Wagner for CDG&Patel would be like dropping Sam Cane for a RWC semi

      posted in Sports Talk
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      TeWaio
    • RE: CWC Final - Black Caps v England

      Just got a late ticket through a work connection yussssss

      posted in Sports Talk
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      TeWaio
    • RE: Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

      I was bouncing my 8 month old son on my knee when that LBW review from Kane was happening...I let out such a roar when ball tracking showed it missing the stumps that the poor little guy got a hell of a fright and burst into tears #parenting

      posted in Sports Talk
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      TeWaio
    • RE: All Blacks v England

      @LagerLout said in All Blacks v England:

      You know what, I don't give a shit about the World Cup. I care that our mana is being damaged here every other test by Foster and co. Test matches are important. It was all lovely and fluffy to hear Richie talk about the team culture, but what the hell happened to the AB coach that put the fear of god into you that losing is just not acceptable. If you play badly, kiss your position goodbye. You're not AB material. This woke world of accepting failure is destroying the All Blacks. We will be just another team in less than 2 years if this crap keeps up.

      Exactly. Fuck the World Cup. They are won by whoever gets the fluke of the draw, and next year's edition will be the worst one yet. I care about winning test matches. Those of us living in England have had to put up with so much shit since we lost to them in 2019. 4 years since we last played at Twickenham and we fucked a golden opportunity to win there. I'm fuming.

      posted in Rugby Matches
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      TeWaio
    • RE: CWC Game #4 Black Caps v India

      India breathe a sigh of relief

      posted in Sports Talk
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      TeWaio
    • RE: Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff

      How to smoke a brisket.

      Step 1- Go to butcher and get biggest one they have.
      Step 2- When you get home drop it from a unnecessary height on to the table so it makes a loud bang, scares the shit out of everyone and establishes your dominance as a hunter gatherer.
      Step 3- Slap meat further establishing your dominance.
      Step 4- Pour drink.
      Step 5- Tell wife to come look at your meat. Chuckle at your comic genius.
      Step 6- Trim brisket. Pretend you know what you're doing. Pour another drink.
      Step 7- Season brisket with some spicy combination that has salt pepper and garlic slapping meat several times for good measure.
      Step 8- Inject it with salted beef broth.
      Step 9- Try wrapping with plastic wrap. Fail miserably because plastic wrap is stupid and whoever invented it deserves a slow painful death. Ask wife for help and somehow yet again she coaxes it into doing what she wants.
      Step 10- Place in refrigerator for 24 to 48 hours.
      Step 11- Fast forward to somewhere between 6:00 and 8:00 in the morning.
      Step 12- Remove brisket from refrigerator slap meat one more time for old times sake. Remove plastic wrap and place brisket in smoker at 225°.
      Step 13- Crack beer because it would just be irresponsible to start drinking hard liquor before noon.
      Step 14- Fall asleep watching TV in recliner.
      Step 15- Wake up in a panic! Rush outside and check pellet level in Hopper and temperature of brisket.
      Step 16 - All is well and it's past noon! Pour drink.
      Step 17- When brisket stalls out around 160-165 degrees wrap it in foil or butcher paper. Do not let your wife see you do this or she'll ask you to do something dumb like wrap Christmas presents. Turn smoker up to 275 degrees.
      Step 28 - More drinking! Also since you can't slap the brisket when the wife walks by sneak a good one in on the derriere. This is romantic, she will think it is romantic promise. You are Romeo god of love and smoker of delicious meats.
      Step 49- Time to prep cooler for resting the brisket. Gather up all of your wives very best high quality towels. You know the fancy ones that are for decoration yeah those ones. They hold heat the best. Layer those in the cooler.
      Step 94- When brisket hits 203° in the point end toss it in the cooler and throw more towels on top.
      Step 622- Inform everybody that the brisket is done and revel in the looks of disappointment on their faces when you tell them that it has to rest for at least an hour in the cooler and a half an hour on the cutting board. Keep them from starting a mutiny by not just pouring yourself a drink but poor drinks for everyone!
      Step 1,346 - Cut and serve brisket make sure to show everybody how moist it is by squishing it and watching juices run out.
      Step 2,359 - Gorge till you put yourself into a meat and alcohol induced coma.
      Step 6,888 - Buy the wife new towels. Possibly remodel a bathroom if she wants.

      posted in Off Topic
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: Coronavirus - UK

      @r-l said in Coronavirus - UK:

      @tewaio how are you now? Recovered?

      That's very kind of you to ask, thank you 😁

      I had about two days of the extreme fatigue and breathlessness, then steadily felt less and less tired for the remaining 6 days in isolation. All in all I stayed in a bedroom for 8 days. I was completely separated from wife and child, meals left outside the door etc. Both of them never got it (3x negative tests) which was great.

      Since getting out last Friday I've struggled to work full days (from home) without needing a lie down. I went for a gentle walk on Sunday and my heart rate hit 170, which is a concern, normal max for me is 190. I was pretty fit going into this (I'm 33), but that doesn't seem to have helped much. I think I'll take an entire month off exercise, as I've read that's the best way to prevent long covid, although not much concrete is really known about it.

      posted in Coronavirus
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      TeWaio
    • RE: GOT - there will be spoilers

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      posted in Off Topic
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    Latest posts made by TeWaio

    • RE: NBA Season - now 22/23

      @ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season - now 22/23:

      About a quarter of the season in, my early picks for West All-Stars

      Starters
      F- Luka
      F- LBJ
      C- Joker
      G- Morant
      G- Curry

      Bench
      Booker, Zion, Fox, Lillard, Bane, Markkanen, KAT

      Luka as a forward?!

      posted in Sports Talk
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: Musk & Twitter

      Musk looks to have played a blinder here. Fired 7950, kept 50, platform still works. Tech company jobs really must be "daycare for adults"

      posted in Politics
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: All Blacks v England

      @LagerLout said in All Blacks v England:

      You know what, I don't give a shit about the World Cup. I care that our mana is being damaged here every other test by Foster and co. Test matches are important. It was all lovely and fluffy to hear Richie talk about the team culture, but what the hell happened to the AB coach that put the fear of god into you that losing is just not acceptable. If you play badly, kiss your position goodbye. You're not AB material. This woke world of accepting failure is destroying the All Blacks. We will be just another team in less than 2 years if this crap keeps up.

      Exactly. Fuck the World Cup. They are won by whoever gets the fluke of the draw, and next year's edition will be the worst one yet. I care about winning test matches. Those of us living in England have had to put up with so much shit since we lost to them in 2019. 4 years since we last played at Twickenham and we fucked a golden opportunity to win there. I'm fuming.

      posted in Rugby Matches
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: FIFA World Cup 2022

      Most obvious bait and switch ever, they've re-banned beer in stadia, after earlier saying they'd allow it (when fans were booking trips)

      posted in Sports Talk
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      TeWaio
    • RE: RWC 2023

      @Stargazer I swear Wales Fiji Australia is the same pool every single world cup...

      posted in Sports Talk
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: NBA Season - now 22/23

      @voodoo no way Warriors do that

      posted in Sports Talk
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: All Blacks vs Scotland

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      Jumbled thoughts:

      Great atmosphere, we looked totally asleep for the middle 60mins. Felt we got the worst of the ref decisions and didn't get the favorable bounce of the ball. The entire crowd thought Telea's second try wasn't grounded properly (it was) and the noise in the stadium as Jordie nailed the clutch kick to put us 8 ahead was incredible. Our defence is still so passive. Murrayfield is a great stadium, no bad views even up in the cheap seats where we were. Game really turned when Codie and TJ came on, fair play to both of them - I thought they were past it.

      posted in Rugby Matches
      TeWaio
      TeWaio
    • RE: All Blacks vs Scotland

      @MN5 said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      @Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      @Nepia said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      I think some of comments on this selection are infected by anti Fozzie hate rather than rational thinking on team selection (aside from my complaining about Frizell, that is clearly rational). We often play a closer to B team against Scotland. In 2014 we threw out Slade on the wing, Thrush and Bird as our locks, and some dude call McCaw at 6.

      I'm not sure we've ever put out an A team against them on an EOYT.

      In 2014 we could have put Owen Franks on the wing and still won. It isn't 2014 anymore.

      Nehe Milner Skudder did a pretty fair impression of Owen Franks on the wing in his later years it has to be said

      Caleb Clarke did the same the last few weekends

      posted in Rugby Matches
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      TeWaio
    • RE: All Blacks vs Scotland

      @Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      @Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      I think Clarke is very lucky to be playing ahead of Reece in this game as he was very poor against Wales. He needs to have a performance that backs up his talent.

      It's frustrating. Good under the high ball, pace, reasonable defence, can break tackles but has this knack of tripping over, running away from support (or the support not backing up) and letting a great break die.

      Worth sticking with though.

      @Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      @Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Scotland:

      I think Clarke is very lucky to be playing ahead of Reece in this game as he was very poor against Wales. He needs to have a performance that backs up his talent.

      It's frustrating. Good under the high ball, pace, reasonable defence, can break tackles but has this knack of tripping over, running away from support (or the support not backing up) and letting a great break die.

      Worth sticking with though.

      Definitely frustrating. To me his biggest flaw is his lack of balance/proprioception, which I'm not sure you can coach into someone. This was the most exceptional thing about Jonah IMO (rather than his obvious size or speed). It's something Ardie has too. The "just can't put them down" factor.

      posted in Rugby Matches
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      TeWaio
    • RE: GOAT

      @nostrildamus said in GOAT:

      @antipodean said in GOAT:

      @TeWaio really? A bloke that looked like this with those levers benched 500lb?

      the internet is full of his reputed feats of strength. How true they are, I don't know.

      He was able to put the shot 18m+, which is in line strength-wise with being able to bench 500lbs

      posted in Sports Talk
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