Generally the cops don’t carry weapons in New Zealand and we have specialist police that respond to armed offenders

The above is over simplified

Armed Offenders Squad

and here I was expecting the next Ebola or Hauntervirus outbreak, not cannibalism

Mine, nitrated organic compounds will act on fingers that are too close…

It all started, as a teenager, with my mates and I making black powder pipe bombs to let off on the back of a farm. With time these increased in size, and then the chemistry also stepped - to the point that we unplanted a sizable pine tree. This resulted in the local constabulary paying us a visit (for the first time). Thankfully it was a quite visit, no lights, no parents involved, just a stern watch out you could really heart yourselves. As we move on in our endeavors escalated we learnt a few things.

Timing is everything, get the timing wrong and you may need stitches at best. I think one of my mates was very lucky that day and only split the skin of a finger, it could have gone much worse.

Of cause that didn’t stop us - and that lead to the cops and AOS being called on another occasion - when the AOS is involved it tends to make the local papers, and parents somehow become involved as well.

All good life lessons.

I know a cinema manager, and yes they (new releases) all need internet acces and are time locked aswell

It was more or less the default many moons ago, then just a username became more common, now it is back to email or some third party login

Um, BBC reports on no BBC…

for aussie.zone users amongst others

It cost you nothing to add, say, OpenNIC to your system

I generally seed to a ratio of 10, but if it is popular with lots of seeds I’ll stop it early, anything with under 10 seeds I have set to seed for ever - some of them are now into the 1000’s for the ratio

So my point is maybe choose what to seed rather than limit the speed - but no judgment as long as you give something back

https://english.elpais.com/eps/2026-02-07/jacinda-ardern-the-prime-minister-who-surprised-the-world-public-life-has-become-dehumanized.html

Now I need to know what I’m missing out on… I know the smell of formic acid, and can smell it if andts are really pissed off - but do they just smell?

the cycle is actually matched to the masting of the prodocarp Rimu (calling out @[email protected] )

Well it probably matched to the spring growth tips of Rimu that generate the fruit

If any one is interested the you can follow along with the ups and downs of this mast season’s mating and breeding

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kakapo-files

Move down under to New Zealand - although we do have a 3 strikes law, the clament has to pay all fees upfront to thr ISP and get a court order first…

We mostly raw dog it down here

I watched it yesterday 👍

Even metric is under-sized on dressed timber 4x2" ~ 100x50mm => 90x45m dressed

If they are deemed fire arms (and they were) then:

• Import permits would be needed.
• A NZ importer would be needed with all the correct licences

I’m not sure where it stands at the moment for the secret service/FBI coming into NZ but in the past they have been forced to hand over all firearms and Protection was supplied by NZ police and Defence Force - and that was before the last round of tightening up of fire arms laws

seconded?

hear hear

I’ll just add, have a look at overseerr as well. It has has the same interface style for searching TV/Movies in a single interface, it then pushes the requests out to the correct *arr stack be that sonarr or radarr

I like the recommended page in overseerr much more tha what is in the other *arr apps