Matt at Keyboard

No no, that's Mark Twain. Markwayne is the loveable main character in the Disney Cars franchise.

Reminds me of pearl formation - some kind of intrusive irritant appears, and the community surrounds it, covers it, and something beautiful to the outsider results

It does this by presenting many fractured, corrupted images of a small number or scale of incidents (your contextless images and videos), to enthrall and overload the viewer.

Less a Panopticon, and more a Kaleidoscopticon, if you will.

I like it, except the panopticon serves to control the people being watched (or who think they're being watched).
This version, however, seeks to distract and drive emotion in the watchers (the watched may be unwitting and unaffected - or at least not directly affected by the watchers)...

Stealworkers

Yes, come join us in the rest of the world - where the service is mediocre and the minimum wage is marginally above absolute poverty

Anyone who might know - does this mean snapper will stop working? And if so, what about kids (cos there's no way mine will have a contact-less payment option on their phone or person)

Wellington region to ditch Snapper public transport cards Public transport users will be able to tag on with their phones and debit cards, as a councillors says locals are "sick of waiting" for a national system.

Anyone who might know - does this mean snapper will stop working? And if so, what about kids (cos there's no way mine will have a contact-less payment option on their phone or person)

Wellington (NZ) region to ditch Snapper public transport cards www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

See also: winning at cricket.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Just wrote the typo Orctober, and now I think NZ has new holy month

When you order your shoes from EaNasir. com

I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing

Kiwi onion dip - Wikipedia

Yo, we have that, and it's a national treasure?

Kiwi onion dip - Wikipedia share.google/h2IRefaF6B3b...

Look out, Americans are accidentally discovering kiwi dip. Hide your stash NZ

Just for those of us who have been asking if the National party or the Labour party will work with the The Opportunities Party party.

Not the point of the OP, but "if I recall correctly" !?!?!?!

Not what most people are calling out here, but I think you'll see that those grey circles over with in the North America space are most of the cities in New Zealand and Australia 😭

Sandra Bullock. I can't be alone in this

Accurate, or crystal palace?

Why do we keep missing the second half of the saying?
A few bad apples *spoil the bunch*.

These aren't the 'few', they are the spoiled bunch - and the answer surely involves going thru the apples one-by-one until no 'few' are left to do the spoiling?

I mean, I'm tempted to try it. May bring on the end-times though

Where did we go wrong as a country NZ?

Smiles and waves from New Zealand, where sub is pretty exclusively Subway, and I don't think anything thinner than a mayo is on offer?

This is incredible

I have to ask a stupid question - *how* do you put oil and vinegar on sandwiches?????

Roses are red
On furniture you see 'em

Mathematically, could you assess the degradation of its current orbit? Might need some observation over time