Not so much a dive as a desynchronisation

Brakes are for cowards

Note to self

The guy is genuinely good at this.

there is no better way to get engagement than a milkshake-duck reference

look, partisanship is inevitable in politics. you organize into factions/parties and compromise in favour of others, in return for others doing the same and maximising your collective power. but there's a limit

the thing that depresses me is that voters will fall for this again, and again, and again. Whether it's Farage, Trump, Winston Peters et al, or the latest fashionable flavour of the day on the other side of politics, we're all just looking for an excuse to vote for evidently terrible people.

The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

To my understanding, this is an accurate summation of the state of schism:

United Future 2002 is a great argument for my favourite niche election rule: staggered terms so that parliament is the average of the last two election results

Four word horror story: For every epsilon, delta.

once again can we please add or remove one (1) seat from parliament so we don't end up with a tied election. it wouldn't matter if there were a bunch of either-ways, but the current parties all fall into two clear camps.

Galileo was what we refer to today as a "dramatic bitch"

The reality is that there are deep asymmetries between the two sides of politics. Swing voters, in so as one can generalize a diverse group, have two key properties: they know who the good guys are, and they are looking for an excuse to not vote for them

please can it turn green again after he re-fills it

okay it's bad that you have a sequence of terrible prime ministers, but kicking them to the kerb is a rare sign of constitutional health.

When vaguely inept center-right middle-aged white male politicians embarrass themselves in a natural disaster and instead of getting salty about criticism they resolve to take their jobs seriously from then on, good things can actually happen

Do Four Seasons Total Landscaping help with painting underwater?

We haven't had such a straightforward Four Seasons Total Landscaping in a while.

I'll do you one better. Per the article, the name of his company is "Greenwater Services"

MAN: Hello, police? It's a terrible thing, you see, my wife was killed last night, I was hoping you could send someone to investigate OFFICER: Certainly sir, the great detective Columbo is in town. Go and see him, he will solve the case MAN: Ah, I see, very good. Oh, officer, just one more thing,

and because of this, because it happened outside of the party system, there has only been one half-hearted attempt to undo it

Electoral reform in New Zealand was a reaction to how the previous twenty years of successive majority governments had been able to force through radical and unpopular legislation with very little pushback. It was not about how the wrong people were winning elections

You know he is a Gemini?

mcLosing it over this

War, what is it good for? Iran, it's good for Iran.

This is very unfair on the OP but I have a mild nightshade intolerance and this whole picture feels like itchy skin

This is shattering

Ōtepoti! My weird cool partner is in this old-timey music hall thing this weekend at the Playhouse Bring along your elderly British relatives or other nostalgics or whatever!

Cop pulls over Heisenberg. Cop: "Do you know how fast you were going" Heisenberg: "Yes, to a reasonable precision. Please note that the miniscule uncertainties of quantum mechanics don't affect my answer as this is a macroscopic scenario with many mundane sources of imprecision in measurement"

Lack of vision is what I find frustrating. You're going to spend tonnes of money with a pretty poor return on investment (well-established), when the same money could pay for so much more. I always feel like a grinch being against super-cheap fares but at some point you have to confront trade-offs

That's great but can we have some vision for *more* PT so that people can take advantage of this: more frequent services, more routes, more under-used railways revitalised, any light rail at all Becoming a broken record but cheap fares don't replace cars if there's no usable PT in the first place

what if we took the cost of this policy and spent it on more frequent services?

If I die a not too horrible death, please read at my funeral that particular page or so of Reaper Man referenced in the last sentence below, and finish with YES

this is one of my very favorite moments in the whole series Granny Weatherwax playing Death for the life of a child, and he has to follow the Rules, you see, she has to beat him in a game but, well, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

The Pope has once again ramped up his war against the soulless, inhumane, unable-to-feel-joy AI founders and their slop machines. chaser.com.au/general-news...

My partner proposes paying actors to operate a "real life musical" village which tourists can visit.

Make it happen for real

I'm gonna pick the remnants of the Titanic off the sea floor and build a new ship from them. The ship will be capable of withstanding an iceberg, but will not be sailed, it will be a static attraction at some seaside town

@rincewind.run I believe there's a few scenes in Making Money about this. One of them for tomorrow's Discworld QOTD?

SEQUEL

The kids are alright.

Well, I made my submission. Tried to say more but it didn't feel effective.