No this is incorrect. Leo (like Mamdani) has the sauce. And on top of that, no one does gilded aurafarming like the Church. One audience from the Chair of St Peter and Trump is going to convert.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Good news: we generate 3x that much per capita across all our renewable sources.

Can someone explain me the argument for bringing back the Alliance as an independent left party? Is there more to it than "the Greens are annoying"?

They've placed a bet on the airgap closing before Singapore and Korea reneg on their delivery commitments. So far that bet seems to be paying off. So far.

San Francisco, by a significant margin. I would say Frankfurt but it was just dull. London probably third, kind of combined the worst of the other two (and worse still was filled with English people) but also had enough residual weirdness and faded imperial aura to at least entertain for a day.

Median Rewiring Aotearoa reply guy:

Houthi Nicki Minaj stan: call that a Barb al-Mandab.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

Pa'ulo Goldsmith is pretty funny though.

Dear Mr Prime Minister, there are too many Ministerial portfolios nowadays. Please eliminate two. I am not a crank.

Outside of this crisis I would have walked over broken glass for a 10% reduction in light vkt.

Look I have to respect Luxon for not joining them. No one likes a CEO who calls an all-hands over some dumb bullshit.

Please don't tell me we got coordinated AUKUS addresses to the nation over "idk catch a bus I guess".

Kessler 👏👏👏Kessler👏👏👏

RoyMo weighing in on the National leadership debate:

The Greens doing better with men under 50 than women under 50. 11x difference in TPM support too. RoyMo's crosstabs crack me up man.

I could see Luxon getting the revised budget numbers and just Muller-ing out. Wouldn't blame him. I would too.

[Int. Treasury] "What does the DSGE model say?" "3.7% inflation. But that's as high as the mo..." "3.7. Not great. Not terrible."

Everyone hated the Third Way era's "government-by-focus-group" but we're going to hate the current epoch's "government-by-Facebook-comments" more.

[Int. Treasury] "What does the DSGE model say?" "3.7% inflation. But that's as high as the mo..." "3.7. Not great. Not terrible."

I've been banging on about the spatial inequities in our transit coverage but the temporal ones are possibly worse.

Fs in the chat.

Trump's bold plan of "adding more fish to the shooting barrel."

this is what it looks like when you book flights from your phone

Wombats are the most animalcoded animal.

Lotta talk in the news about "Asian crackers". Back in my day we used to call them weeaboos.

Rolling mauls are good actually.

Do the right thing Keir. Implement proportional representation and you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower.

Okay here's a policy for someone: temporarily suspend P endorsement requirements for new Uber/Didi drivers with EVs once we hit Phase 2.

And we've been paying for it ever since.

I'm sure it's because they think European colonisation of the Americas, South Asia, Africa, and the Pacific was worse.

Capital replacing labour with itself also covers violence workers.

"Project Hail Mary" is very good and you should go see it, if only out of solidarity with high budget original IP. However, not paying off Checkov's Voyager Plates annoyed me.

for a country so full of performative masculinity it's weird that men can say shit like "cycling isn't a solution—what if it rains?" with zero fear of immediately getting called a bitch

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

Why Have All My Podcast Subscriptions Gotten So Expensive: a New Zealand dollar exchange rate story.

Honestly Labour (except for Hipkins) don't want to win this one. The austerity that's gonna be required is something you'd much rather the other guys have to own.

How many electric busses could you buy for $150m? Or bikes? Or honestly in a few months, how much diesel to keep the existing busses going? (People do know busses mostly run on diesel right???)

Fire on the Remutakas??

Fire on the Remutakas??

She's right tho.

"And now, for MarketWatch". *Analyst stares blankly into the middle distance, reciting the Book of Jeremiah*

at S&P -10% Trump will offer to send Iran some spare nukes we've got lying around. at -20% Trump will declare he has seen the Light of Islam and will commit to turning the USA into a Caliphate of the Revolution

Oh Trump thinks it's over?

Where I'm at with LNG is that one option is catastrophically bad and one option is very bad, but I don't know which one is which.