Noel Leeming suck so much ass when it comes to returns

This is a woman Jenny idgf

Bish should actually defect to TOP

I think making the road to Northland and back which is our most underdeveloped region cost $14 for a passenger vehicle and almost $30 for a truck might be one of the most economically illiterate proposals out there.

Wait, do you guys think talk radio people hate WFH so much because nobody would ever listen to talk radio if they weren't in their cars?

The thing about the fuel shock of 1979 is that the government comes off (at this stage) much the same, slow to react, a bit incompetent but the people come off as ignorant assholes. Which given the complaining about carless days I've heard all my fucking life kind of tracks.

Maybe we would have more diesel and therefore cheaper bread and butter if @chrishipkins.bsky.social had not have decided to pivot to ‘bread and butter issues’ and ditched mandating biofuels…

You can’t hoard your way out of this. I know some people are tempted to go and buy a lot of stuff from the supermarket but you can’t buy enough and you’re just taking away from someone else. If you have the means of course make sure you’ve got a reasonable stock of staples but don’t go crazy.

I think maybe we should send Luxon to Iran to have a chat with the Revolutionary Guard.

Best thing you can do for TDoV (even if it's a day late) is help one of us fund our healthcare. Every bit helps Why not start with my friend here:

the next two days (because of america being a day behind reality) are going to be exhausting the entire everything at the moment is already lies that aren't funny, we don't need more

But seriously trans people are so fucking unemployed we need to make our own jobs. I’m going to get a job because I have some privilege but in the long term I want to build something for us so that more of us can be empowered to more fully participate in society

i need allies to understand that a man having a cross-dressing fetish and being anti-LGBT is not hypocritical or contradictory, it is in fact very congruent. in particular, this fetish is not in contradiction with anti-trans bias, as these men predate upon trans women.

Trans Day of Visibility is grand but I need Employers Day of Giving Allison a Job and we probably need Trans Forever of Creating Our Own Material Support by Investing in Each Other and Creating Collective Wealth and Resources.

You know, I’m looking for a job (somewhat desperately) and I am wondering can I just pretend to be a bespoke custom AI? I did used to sometimes get called robot in high school when we would do trivia. People are so charitable towards the 🤖 I would like to be treated like that.

My MiL has been in the country for less than two weeks and is looking healthier and seeming like she’s fitter and has more energy. Thinking of starting a rehabilitation program for Americans.

I miss petty cash a lot, but also my boss at the time did kind of ruin it by using the petty cash as a vector for fraud. It was just nice being able to give people cash to spend on work expenses instead of the stupid reimbursement thing. Also, nobody else did anything wrong with it until he started

Ignoring everything else, the lapel pins tell me this is not about justice, but about killing people

As socialists how whole thing is making shit work for the average person. As liberationists our whole thing is not hiding from the things that don’t work for normal people.

PT is so safe here compared to internationally. That’s wild that we‘re more likely than average to view it as unsafe.

Running the country on a bizarre abstract conception of fairness instead of strategy targeting collective positive outcomes because strategic planning is communism.

Auckland used to have hundreds of newspapers with the top ones printing a wild number of editions per-day and then how even reasonably small towns had two of three competing newspapers in addition to the national ones. How the TV News was at the centre of pop culture. We used to be nation of news

The right wing view of inflation is odd because it contradicts their own ideas about market equilibrium.

Is it possible to keep the Woolworths mint plant alive without repotting it?

lol Deepseek basically added the ability for their LLM to do a lookup for common phrases in prompts instead of processing it in the normal way and it made it score better in every metric, not least accuracy

Teared up a little at hearing Cuba will finally receive a shipment of oil. Idk what will follow but I’m sure one ship is a lot better than none.

This is like if your builder said ‘Oh I’ve built houses before in my former life, I built a fantastic house for my LEGO men when I was 6’

This is why I go to Mount Eden Woolworths even though it sucks ass instead of Newmarket Countdown which is pretty good.

So we’ve got all of this labour and all of these problems. If only there was an institution which could make something which could entice that labour into addressing those problems 😮‍💨😔

just spoke to a financial advisor and so far it's looking like i'll be borrowing $35k for surgery help me borrow less? ko-fi.com/riversurgery...

Yea we need to be catching the bus specifically so a cleaner like my mum doesn’t have to try and catch the bus. I’ve made the same argument with time of use charging for years – there needs to be exceptions for some workers. Right now cleaners and care workers etc need fuel subsides.

57.7% of NZers, 2.9 million people, can reach public transport within a 10-minute walk. Auckland hits 87.8%. The govt's new fuel subsidy targets 143,000 families. Free fares could reach 20x as many. NZ has the access. What's the argument against?

Another thing about this government’s response to the fuel crisis is that we seem to have completely abandoned any semblance of responsibility for the other Pacific Islands. We should be trying to use our comparative economic power and influence to lessen the impact on us and them.

Reminder that the ‘irresponsible spending’ during Covid was so you could have food while not dying and so that we could have food in the future while having not died because our economy still exists (despite the efforts of the reserve bank and the current governmen)

What a great time to be an American oil producer and what a terrible time to be literally everyone else on earth.

At least we got NZ and Australian nationalism and eventual independence premised on Never Again Do We Die On Some Foreign Field For Our Imperialist Overlords from the first Gallipoli

I’m surprised we’re still generating electricity at this point when we could be hoarding potential electricity in the hydro lakes. Maybe sending water to Australia to hoard there.

Yea my economic anxiety at this stage of the pandemic was a lot lower, and there was a lot of hope and excitement at seeing the capacity of the state come to life during that time. We had a world leading response but it could have been better, by doing more not less.

That's just kiwi ingenuity.

Getting to an age where I’m like is this a transition thing or an aging thing? 😿

This is both v cool and terrifying

People are like ‘woe the Bluesky company has built an AI tool which they can’t force me to use because they built a platform where that was impossible. Soon I must flee and find a new home on the internet‘ and I’m like ‘these idiots have made it so I already did and you can still read this‘

Hey, treat sex workers with respect or gtfo my feed.

I think it’s important to understand that at the foundation bluesky and the ATProtocol were built by true believers in free market techno capitalism which will mean it will be a very hard platform to unleash cynical imperialist techno capitalism.

For me I’ve long been interested in moving more of my home to DC. I think it’s safer and usb is universal unlike our wall sockets and ac voltage. If I had the money I would probably do dc balcony solar with a battery today and wire up usb around my home as elegantly as I could manage.

As I understand it inverter systems which feed power into your home supply via an outlet are banned which is the part that would make it useful for normal consumers.

I love to make okonomiyaki for dinner but I can’t seem to figure out how to make a small enough portion of it per person