“We found that only about 54% of all miles traveled by Waymos in California are driven with a passenger onboard.” AVs without congestion pricing will be a net loss both for the consumer and society.

The Luxon government has raised speed limits for no good reason and the data reveals the potential human cost of that move. Simeon Brown IS the Minister for Killing More People on the Roads. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...

This is not fucking AI. This is just software. And you could build this feature without software using a simple mechanical link. Would companies stop lying so fucking much.

Got to visit the world's largest train station today - Chongqing Dong. Just opened in 2025 and still quite empty. Absolutely stunning and has that liminal space vibe as there's so few people about.

Just got shakshuka at pizza hut. Wouldn't normally go to a Pizza hut here but the nephew hadn't had pizza before.

You can tell a lot about the ideology of a newspaper by the photos they choose to use. We definitely don't attack the media enough.

Haha fuck yes. The one thing I look forward to more than the food.

Breakfast at KFC in Shanghai

Has anyone told Hipkins it's election year and maybe he should campaign or something. Labour's grand plan of assuming National screwing up will hand them a victory doesn't seem to be playing out.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This may be one of the cleanest transitions I have ever seen.

Yes, yes. A public spat with your coalition partners will definitely make you look like leadership material.

Of course Winston Peters is riding high in the polls. He's not a moron. In the last month he's announced he wants to break up the gentailers and our supermarket monopoly. The man knows how to read the room and play to it.

Wonder if we can get Vance and Trump to endorse our current Govt and give them the kiss of death for our election later this year.

Surprised Melania didn't get this shirt.

Man, if I were looking to chip away at Winston's poll numbers, this would be the perfect attack. Of all the industries to help in the this country, the gambling one would be near the bottom of most people's lists.

The most interesting difference between Independence Day and Project Hail Mary is how there was not a single appearance or mention of the US President. The world went from having the President lead the fight to save the world, to some random European bureaucrat being in charge.

Hooo boy the Aussies look like they're going to start restricting fuel as soon as Easter. Our guys are too afraid of looking like Jacinda to do the same...

I get that Labour's grand strategy is "don't interrupt your enemy" but it might be worth doing something to push the govt into rationing diesel before we have some really serious problems.

Why does our fuel supply alert plan look like it was thrown together 5 mins before launch... It wouldn't take much to show a bit of competence here. Wasn't expecting much but still underwhelmed

Lockdown 2: the electric bugaloo

So I've owned an EV for about 2 years now, and it's been driven roughly 22,000 kms. We were on an EV plan with Meridian that only cost us 11 cents/kwh. So the rough cost was around $5 per week in electricity. Vs our previous hybrid that would be $43 pw at $3/L (similar with diesel at current prices)

Somehow this is a more accurate analysis of the current situation than anything you'll read in American newspapers.

I should have bought a 2nd EV probably. Could have sold it now for a premium. Although my old diesel skoda has been great for buying large things like furniture.

This sounds bad. But you have to understand that the racism was worth the chaos. And it still is for like 40% of the country.

Hilarious how all the cookers are going on about fuel lockdowns and 15 mins cities. My guys, they elected your guy. Nobody else is responsible for this mess.

We're fighting Iran to protect our culture from Sharia Law. Here’s why women should leave the workforce and become tradwives. by Mike Johnson

Ngl I thought One Battle after another was kinda annoying in that the aesthetics of the politics pushed aside the actual politics of the text. The left were made to look like violent criminals when even the most non violent groups are attacked and killed by the state.

Looks like working from home is back on the menu boys!* *not for me because I take public transport and have an EV 😕

Extremely hilarious that the right wing machine put this guy in power only for him to be left of Phil Goff.

Honestly Seymour is damn good at the game. He took a govt failure on the economy and turned it into an attack on left with the Air NZ thing. Nobody in Labour is that good at the game, especially the smug advisors who surround the leadership and bring only Clinton campaign-esk ideas.

Wtf does this even mean?

This is what the last few weeks has kinda revealed about the world and honestly a lot to process

It's hard to explain to a certain type of political pundit that no amount of focus group tested triangulation on policies is going to make an unlikeable candidate popular.

Has anyone done the iwi/Kiwi thing with 3 Waters / Poo waters?

Will trade figs for feijoas if you're in the Auck at least

LMFAO we're being taxed for this, we may not use it, and we're buying it on HP and paying $2.7bn fo rit Are we utterly fucked in the head?

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

This really reminds me of Tom from Succession. The spineless tool who is willing to debase himself in front of the rich just for the money and not much else.

Unironically, only nerds care about the rule of law. If people like the end goal, they're not going to care if someone in power bends or breaks laws to achieve that goal. It shows commitment. The opposite to this is the Dems sitting in power and saying their hands are tied all the time.

Honestly people with more morals than Trump would break the rules to steal the mid terms if they were in his position. At this point if anyone believes he won't they probably need to be put in an institution for the criminally naive.

Willing to bet the Free speech union guys are having a few beers tonight to celebrate Tiktok now censoring left wing opinions.

Just realised the Energy Minister is Simon WATTS! He's a terrible person but it's still kinda funny

Not sure what n dimension chess it is to start a war with other white majority nations to "Save the white race" over a desolate icy island with almost nothing of value.

Sometimes you see some real gems in the RNZ comments

My linguistic bell rang on the use of "dominant predator force" here. It says all you need to know about their worldview. You can't convince someone that stealing is bad if they honestly believe that might makes right. They only understand one language and it's not the one we speak.

Mainstream Dems be like "Hitler invading Poland is just to distract from his failure to bring prices down like he promised".

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Of all the things the US has chosen to do differently than the rest of the world, I think this may be the dumbest. You'd have trouble finding any urban neighborhood in Europe or Latin America without a plaza. It's just so basic. And yet the US has virtually none! No public space, no public.

Calibri is woke now apparently 😂