As opposed to other years when they were looking great

Whole thing lasts no more than 15-20 minutes. I took it easy for a few days but otherwise no issues. Was riding my bike and all that about five days after.

The only uncomfortable bit is when they put the anaesthetic… there’s no easy way of saying this, but they have to stick the needle in both of the sperm ducts. That’s a little uncomfortable but it lasts no more than 5 seconds per nut. From there on out no issues. You feel some stuff moving around down there, but no pain.

I had the scalpel free method, fwiw.

My clinic sent me this video to prep. It’s quite useful. https://youtu.be/gzpYhe8QBsA

I am grateful for how NZ handled it. I’m mostly critiquing the very end of the pandemic when the government started going against ministry advice. I appreciate how lucky we were. I don’t know anyone who died from covid.

Based on my experience talking to people that probably aren’t from NZ (let alone Auckland), this view is illegal on Lemmy

Why is it good they were ruthless? Did you live here? Do you know what happened? Is it based on science to force mandates on a population that’s already 95 percent vaccinated? Because it was definitely not what our Ministry of Health recommended…

At the time the mandates were active, Auckland was 95 percent vaxed and rife with covid. At that stage, was it worth it telling five percent of the population they were not allowed to be anywhere but in a supermarket? Was it reasonable taking their jobs away from them? Did the costs outweigh the benefits?

The government’s covid response did a lot of damage to NZ. My wife is a therapist and works with victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Turns out that locking people up with their abusers for months on end is… Very bad for people too.

Vax mandates lead to a huge division in society, including racial and political divides. It will take a long time to recover from that.

I’m not saying all lockdowns are bad, I’m not saying vaccines are bad, I’m saying there’s a cost benefit analysis to be made, and NZ definitely went above and beyond what was reasonable. Towards the end, cabinet kept going against ministry recommendations. Their covid response had become a political tool, not a response based on reason.

Good job on trying, but it seems like there’s little room for nuanced debate here because “antivaxer stupid”

I’m also assuming a lot of people here don’t realise Auckland spent four months locked in their houses while they threatened to keep us there forever unless the entire fucking country had 90 percent vaccination rates… and they pursued the mandates even at those high vaccination rates. Against the MoH advice…

My wife is a therapist and she is still dealing with the fallout of those lockdowns.

I saw people lose their jobs and get excluded from society in a city that was 95 percent vaccinated, while somehow all my vaccinated friends and myself were sick of covid.

The level of punitive damage done by the mandates was beyond scientific reason. It also went against ministry of health recommendations.

I moved to NZ about 7 years ago and lived through this. I supported the earlier lockdowns and got the vaccine before it became mandated.

Having said that, the mandates that the government pursued were absolutely ruthless, and put in place at a time where efficacy was already reduced due to new variants. It did a lot of harm to society, and we still live with those consequences today.

There’s a new government and a complete shift in power. The enquiry is neutral. Nobody’s patting themselves on the back.

Right. I love my job and I like the people I work with. I know that’s not true for most people but damn, don’t hate on those that are lucky

Dude she showed some videos and it looked unreal. Full disclosure, we are both not into this type of music. Despite that, she said it was probably one of the best concerts she’d ever seen.

We live in New Zealand, and the group had joined forces with a local group of Maori performers who blended in their own cultural practices. It seems like they went above and beyond to tailor their performance to the local setting and honouring native practices here.

I’m really sad I didn’t join, but occasionally you have to give the wife a girls night out.

My wife saw her last week with a band called Heilung. That looked pretty out the gates

I had one that lasted for 12 years. By the end it was more of a media centre connected to my TV, but still.

They’re still immeasurably better than Spotify, both for artists and in terms of bitrate…

Mole map

The worst about ideation for me is that a few days/weeks/months later, I’m almost always thinking “I was willing to do that? Because of XYZ? That would’ve been so fucking stupid!”

But in the moment your brain can just be like “topping yourself is clearly the only logical solution” and make you actually believe that shit.

It’s wild.

Sorry, I realise this is a bit off topic.

The word hang up threw me off a little given the context

I dunno, I have so many USB c chargers and cables around that I bin them every time a device comes with another cable.

Yes I completely understand that. But it also undermines the “give your older laptop a new life with Linux” narrative that’s out there at times. It’s actually not that easy. I’m happy running Linux but I wouldn’t put it on my moms old laptop…

This is my life right now.

I put Linux on my HP laptop…

Speakers give weird sound Media keys don’t work Worst of all: ever since I updated the laptop somehow crashes my router? Like, I don’t even know how this is possible, but it’s happening.

I’m not an idiot but all the solutions to getting these seemingly basic things to work as intended are extremely contrived.