The dumbest reason why this won't happen is it would block the, apparently, absolutely sacrosanct E10, E16 and T3 viewshafts of Maungawhau and Rangitoto from the current bridge.

The beatings will continue until morale improves?

Pictured, a cold blooded, spineless bottom feeder and also a crayfish.

Behold, a woman!

Sure was fun believing in light-touch interventions while it lasted! Paper: www.nber.org/papers/w35230

If you're going to rip someone off, may as well rip off a design icon.

Love for once again Tone to take centre stage in political discourse while Substance shuffles safely to the back and avoids any serious scrutiny.

Government: we're spending $1.2B on loans to get people off gas Also the Government: we're also spending $1B on a gas terminal to help people stay on gas.

Also, the expensive "put it on a mantlepiece" lego sets are made of 1000 tiny pieces so they suck when you inevitably smash it up and try to use them to build a speedboat or a monster truck for you kids.

Man, a maximum $5000 fine for breaching the Public Records Act 2005 really is a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket, aye.

The UK government only recognising the legal personhood of the Rive Wye because they thought it was something to do with chromosomes.

The thing is, if you use the hierarchy of controls properly you don't need the panopticon. You lock out the option to do harm with design If the car has a governor, you can't speed. If it has an interlock, you cannot drunk drive. If the road has a median barrier, you can't do unsafe passes.

The kids have started singing Smoko by The Chats as a vocal stim....

Back on track baby.

NYT: what if everyone had to put on leather chaps and a cowboy hat and cosplay as my fetish for a week at a Dude Ranch to get their degree in, I dunno, what are the kids doing?computer science?

"an ebike is a deadly weapon in a child's hands" We let 16 year old children drive cars and own guns

To be fair, when you replace local workers with offshore AI, it's not just the money thay leaves and doesn't come back. Increasingly it's the people as well.

Anyway, this feels appropriate. youtu.be/DeXlwuJgXm4?...

I don't think the stupid transphobe act will even do anything besides encourage hate because it doesn't amend S16(a) of the legislation act...

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

Statute of limitations be damned, hundreds of millions of files and tens of thousands of statements later the prosecutor is going to wheel out a £2M scale model tower to show the jury exactly whose fault this was.

This will not affect my current input of 0 posts and 0 replies a day over there www.engadget.com/2175771/x-fr...

I wonder how much of the percieved problems with the public service "waste" are from the 1980s creation of Responsible department chief executives, who have built a bureaucracy of internal facing HR, comms, legal, compliance etc to ultimately protect the chief executive from reputational risk.

Look, we didn't cut Frontline staff, there's still 15 players on the Rugby team. We just saved money by firing all the coaches, physios, and performance analysts. They don't even score any tries. We don't expect it to affect on-field performance.

No money for new bus shelters or repairing failing train stations in Wellington, but the government is happy to blow >$8B for two urban highways. www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/19/n...

When the edible hits but you're at work

They've gone all in on LLMs responding to letters from their constituents because they see it as an efficiency move, rather than a clear break in a feedback loop and accountability measure that builds trust with the community.

In video games they call this this the cock up cascade.

Not an artist, just want to post the Victorian lady on a bike with a sword.

Carcinization is real

"we've heard your feedback and we're committed to doing a better job of explaining the importance of making us richer by destroying your future"

Hey, is everything going OK New Zealand? "we invented selling sausages in bread. Please. Let us have this, we have nothing else left"

Hell yeah

OK, and how many of those users are people?

The PM wants to know why I'm not optimistic? His government is blocking or cancelling all the stuff I was looking forward to, and all we're getting in exchange is an economic recession and a Coldplay concert.

Yeah, it's the only half decent song he ever wrote.

A decision on Auckland’s next Waitematā Harbour crossing is expected (maybe) next month. Worth remembering: bridge traffic still hasn’t returned to its 2018 peak, and 50% of commuters now cross the harbour by bus. So why is the current process focused on more road capacity? Move people, not cars.

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

One torment nexus, please. www.imdb.com/title/tt8880...

"Britain ignores Fascism at its Peril" by David Low,

me: i’d like to feel less stressed out therapist: ok well how often do you engage with modern life? me: umm… every day therapist: (writing note) well there’s your problem

Not the American one.

Need to update the code so that next time they get in the sea.

Settler colonies worried about migration are so pathetic.

They've done it. By splitting the party in half Labour has managed to figure out a way it could get even fewer seats in the next election. Hell, the vagaries of FPP mean it could get none.

The burnout will continue until morale improves.

Typical of RNZ to recommend a tramp that has been closed due to a massive impassable slip since January and isn't expected to reopen this year...

There is a vintage, gold, bulova accutron spaceview for sale that has already been engraved with my initials, but I'm still finding it very hard to justify $1400 on a watch that keeps worse time than my garmin.