I'm absolutely fascinated by the idea that it's the AI component of this that makes it disrespectful
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I'm absolutely fascinated by the idea that it's the AI component of this that makes it disrespectful
The future rules man
Pretty sure we all watched this several times because... try seeing the train... just try
Monstrous
Rarely have I seen a greater example of leopards eating faces.
Also true of many cap guns for actual kids
Plonk them both here
Let's compromise and place him exactly halfway
I mean they're used by the kind of tacticool LARPer bro who likes to play Call of Duty in real life so they need to look the part, but they are still just toys
They are not real guns. They are toys. It's airsoft, like paintball except much much less hardout So the question is really "why do people spend so much on toys" which is fair enough in general
It’s been a while since I’ve read something so virulently racist towards indigenous people. This is fucking bonkers
It could never be made in New Zealand because we can't even buy water ships, let alone spaceships
The idea that your ICC warrant doesn't apply if you're speaking at a college or on your way to speak at a college may be open for abuse
WAKE UP
"This is one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts to evade answering a question I’ve seen from any business leader, for a long time." is what you get with expert reporting commentary that is not just repeating press releases.
Excuse me, in the aro valley we only had the green mould
kind of nostalgic for the days when garner or gower would be leading on 3 news talking about how this poll is a bazooka hitting the national party and then chasing some poor innocent backbencher down a stairwell
Who needs cycle lanes when you have trolley buses
And Kenny is still going strong
And if you're going as far as Palmy, might as well make it Hamilton
If you're going that far, might as well make it Palmy
Molly Malone's is still open. And Matterhorn. Both my siblings work at Midnight Espresso. A flat white is less than four bucks if you even have to pay for it
Yeah look I didn't do poll modeling because I am borderline innumerate, I only do analysis because I am a takes guy, you should take it up with Rustie
When will supporters commission a report claiming vast economic benefits from this bridge’s intangible vibe.
If it weren't for your gumboots, where would ya be? You'd be in the hospital or in the infirmary.
Yeah I suppose a better measure in abstract is poll variance from election results, but this set of charts was what I could find easily, and was specifically made to calibrate polling ahead of the 2023 election, so variance from 2020-2023 average makes sense
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... oh to be an abusive man in NZ, there's not much stopping you doing whatever TF you want.
But it's twice as much fun in this case because RM house effect is generally to understate Labour, and in this poll Labour has gone +3 Anyway it's only a curiosity until confirmed by other polls
A Sisyphean grain
Obligatory (with bonus sledging on Jaapies): www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4...
Latest poll #nzpol
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
As NZF seem determined to send Bills in and out of the biscuit tin to scratch various itches and generate a press release, others should issue press releases welcoming the abandonment of the Bills as they exit the tin.
Look I will say that it's nice up on that bridge when the soueaster isn't blowing
But at what cost
So realistically a fifth of what the strengthening would cost. Not bad
The Cobham Drive overbridge proposal was costed at ~$15m if I recall. That sort of thing seems pretty feasible
But I will also say: it is very funny that all it takes to get the right faction on council to support a piece of pedestrian infrastructure is that it must cost a hundred million dollars just to do what it already does
Only since 2011
This is clear reason National & ACT have gutted enrolment during the advance-voting period: because they were on track for a two-party coalition until special votes were counted, and governing or just doing anything competently is a much harder lift when you're forced to include NZ First
I love the bridge but it's a great representation of Wellington's malaise: faded glory that once expressed something vital about the city's identity, but now just costs a fortune to do a bad job when the money could be better spent on 100 other things www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/city-to-s...
Especially as chicken tikka masala isn't even food *brought to* Britain by immigrants, it's food *invented in* Britain by immigrants!
British food discourse is usually pointless arguing over stuff that doesn’t matter, but the blatant hypocrisy of “food brought by immigrants to America is American, food brought by immigrants to Britain is not British” will never not infuriate me
Yeah. I used excel and Word for this purpose for 10 years
Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.
More than 4% of the population is in favour of it for incoherent reasons, and that's the NZ First constituency
Important reading as you prepare for your semester
I don't know what the correct balance is. But I do know that we need to expand the pro-democracy coalition, and I suspect that this *will* require approaches that abandon stigmatization of allies and potential allies in favor of empathy and persuasion.
We haven't lost yet. But we are losing. And no one — and I mean *no one* — has figured this out. So we've got politicians who think the only way to expand the coalition is to triangulate; we've got ones who think what matters more is having the courage of your convictions.
There's no point in punishing the nominees of the opposition for stances that we consider beyond the pale — let alone ones that are problematic. The logic of "teaching them a lesson" presupposes that we still have a system in which the opposition can win elections.
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The tradition is to draw the arrival in front of St Peter. How will cartoonists manage this one when it happens?
No reason.
Do you think there are headlines back on the Predator planet that are like “Dentist Speared By Earthling He Paid to Hunt” and there’s a bunch of Predators in ties around a watercooler going “Lol RIP.”
Blowing shit up in the backyard transcends cultures. Dudes rock.
At the range today. All the guns shooting straight. The one I wasn't sure was sighted in actually is. The one I missed an animal with recently was 100mm high at 50m so it must have taken a knock. Now dialed in. Helped a mate sight in his rifles. Ammo has gone up by another 30%.
Weekend at Bernie's is literally set in the Hamptons on Labor Day weekend.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
And it fits the scansion for Seven Nation Army
You all know that your Nicky-no-boats is the same misogyny as Cindy, the preferred cooker polite term for Ardern? Call her by her government name when you call her out, else you’re leaning on tactics that diminish women.
They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.
You can tell the system is working because the haters are hating
Firearms registry continues to function as intended www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
We just prevailed in our case against Trump's massive IEEPA tariffs, in the Federal Circuit! All challenged IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, but scope of injunction TBD. Will have more to say later. Here is a link to the ruling (7-4 decision by en banc court): www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
Obviously the solution is "more on-the-spot guidance from Dear Leader"
Since we're discoursing on bluesky culture: the worst posters on here aren't those dogpiling somebody with a heterodox (for bluesky) centrist or conservative take. It's people like this who are flippantly insulting and better-than-thou towards people who just said something *they 100% agree with.*
That's a nice thing about Port: They restored the Iona Church clock and it rings the hours www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
Yeah basically just plan usage and buy deals to avoid buying anything on spot during a future demand peak
It works best when you can accurately model your future usage and buy units well in advance to anticipate peaks. Very manual, hands-on but if you can make it work it is worthwhile
We have used it for literally ever. D handles it all, the only thing I do is use power, but allegedly all the switcheroo quotes have not been able to match the savings
Turns out actions have consequences after all
There are many reasons to be sad about the loss of so much media culture and competence lately but one of the reasons is that there is not one single article about this headlined "BELL ENDS" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Omg hobsons pledge are so embarrassing
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
"Sure boss, just like you said, I cut all that wasteful identity-based cultural spending"
Can't help but wonder if this isn't a passive-aggressive "fuck you" move by the Ministry. "You're gonna make us make cuts? Fine - first thing to go is something you guys would regard as being fundamental to the fabric of what this country was and is ... ."
Malibu coconut rum! Call it a Gray Water System.
Pure grain alcohol, rub the rim of the glass with tiger balm.
Rare example of this govt of vandals vandalising an exclusively European element of our cultural patrimony www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
Popular Myths Amongst Government Ministers. Teachers and nurses pay vs Crown board members pay. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #NZHealth #NZEducation
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Yeah, makes sense.
Wine 8000 years undefeated, bring it on, water.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
And this is why Spike Milligan explained that the sun never set on the British Empire because God didn’t trust the English in the dark.
Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? I’m not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?
Nihilism is the death of joy and meaning because it seeks to crush even small moments of happiness and break down community for the dark selfish desire for petty gratification in tearing things down. Anyone pushing it needs to be brought away from it and be reminded unironic joy and whimsy exist.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Everyone is saying ‘do not change this’ but government are just gong to push on regardless. This is just driven by sheer minded ideology.
Some AoNZ workplace Health and Safety stats… From this report: www.staylive.nz/download/165...
1. Ben, the English people, they're behind you! 2. Did Ben think Notting Hill Carnival would be full of Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts fans? 3. It's not really funny, because there's a legion of shitty, performative little racist twats like Ben on X, where the owner welcomes and encourages them.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
“My friend Victor saved me though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit.” A child had to say these words.
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
One of the most pernicious delusions social media spreads in our age faux-populism is that there is an alternative to having an ‘expert class’. There is not. Yes, they can have biases. Yes, they can be wrong. Yes, they can even be corrupt. There still is no alternative. The world is complicated.