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The Sopranos
Want to put your business degree to good use, but don't want the government taking that tax money? The Sopranos would act as a pretty good blueprint if you were looking into committing crime and fraud as a career choice (in game, of course). Also good if you are looking for clips for your sigma edit TikTok account.
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The ODT’s boarding house exposé
It is not often I will recommend that someone read the ODT, unless it’s to point out some ridiculous headline or skew on a story or an outrageous quote or opinion piece. Nevertheless, Mary Williams has produced a sobering investigation into the blatant extortion of people facing homelessness in Dunedin (and how we’re all paying for this extortion with our taxes). It is split into a number of separate similar articles (gotta get that ad revenue) but “No Safe Shelter” is the most interactive and visually striking, while “No Bed, No Heating and $440 a Week” is the most straightforward. “Exposed: Abandoned in Dunedin’s Houses of Horror” is somewhere in between.
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Vox Unexplainable Podcast
Fuck there’s some cool stuff here. Every episode takes a question that we don’t quite know the answer to, and tells you what we do know, and usually some theories about what the answer might be. It’s excellently researched, produced, and hosted – and each episode will have you talking to as many people as possible about what you just heard about. I most recently listened to an episode about the uncracked code of the ancient Indus Valley civilization, but past questions include: Why do we dream? Can plants see? What did dinosaurs sound like? Why do we have a moon? How does our sense of smell work? And what is dark matter? Not yet featured: what’s updog?
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The New York Times games website/app
I’m declaring Wordle cool again, and also potentially the solution to your ever growing sense of dread. I was slow to the lockdown trend of Wordle, and gave up the daily puzzle after maybe a week, but to this day my family (including my nana) have a group chat where they all send their wordle results. Every. Single. Day. And you know what? They seem happy. So I recently gave in and joined the cringe sheeple that are my family and I actually find myself looking forward to the Wordle every day, far more than I ever did the first time around. Plus, the NYT games website also has a new daily puzzle called Connections that is definitely just a rip off of Only Connect and it’s great.
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The Geology Department
While certainly not alone, it seems the Geology Department is next on the Uni’s chopping block. Plans are for around a third of the department to be axed, which will likely hamstring the rest of the department for a long time. This includes a lot of the ground-breaking (pun intended) earthquake science and climate change research that comes out of the department, which is probably something we’d be smart to support as much as possible. Also, even if you don’t like mining, mining industry reps have been clamouring for more Geology grads for ages. Demand is up, but we’re cutting our supply. Why? Hug a geologist. They need it.
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Chicken Chips
That shit is rancid, sorry, and not just because the one time I bought some from Night ‘n Day they must have been 48 hours old. You want chicken? Get some wings. If you are in primary school and bones are a choking risk for you, go for some tenders or nuggets instead. You want some chips? Get chips. You want chicken but also chips? Get chicken AND chips. Delicious in harmony, but not as one. Thou shalt not combine the two.