I believe the classical solution to this problem is piglets. As in, "Of course, we will need more piglets."
12.03.2026 04:33
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I believe the classical solution to this problem is piglets. As in, "Of course, we will need more piglets."
Oh that's a relief. I thought maybe you hadn't thought it fully through 😉 😁
He was a Labour Party MP rather than National
??? Tell me more?
I think lots of adults do that. Even politicians. I know I'm more capable and sensible (and clearly more confident!) than I once was, and a lot of that is from others having supported and encouraged me to try harder things. And plenty of younger politicians have grown into the role over time.
I think everyone wanted him to be better than he was - hoped he'd grow into it, kind of thing.
How do you get to the top of the flying fox?
Exactly!
It's not Plank is quoted as saying "What we're seeing in this wave is a number of people getting infected, causing the level of immunity in the population to get a boost" but it's in the context of explaining the current wave. He's also quoted recommending vaccination.
Stuff. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609.... They've at least changed the headline on the main page - but the original stupid one is still on the story once you click on it.
Headline reads "The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster" below picture of glived hands preparing a wooden syringe or something honestly the picture is weird I can't even tell what it's meant to represent
Dangerously stupid headline.
(It implies catching Covid is a neutral alternative option to getting a booster. It is not).
We can do better at teaching people critical thinking in the online environment, but it would help if we/they could immediately see which posts were from real people and which were anonymous.
OK consider me properly schooled on the history of anonymity :)
Bots aren't worse than fascism, but they're certainly part of it. Bots sewing discord are part of what created a social environment that allowed fascism to rise.
I did think about pamphlets but clearly discounted them too quickly. Was there any other mechanism?
Perhaps what I really want isn't so much that everyone be identified online, as for some way to distinguish between real people and anonymous/fake.
I'm curious about why you think you should you be able to do that? Anonymous criticism of governments wasn't readily available before the Internet.
RNZ headline posted on Facebook reads "New Zealand faces shortage of ultra-luxury housing" on an image of a luxury home in an alpine setting. Subtitle reads "International premuim-grade homes priced more than $20m were scarce".
The funniest housing story I've seen in a while...
Sure, but all the same it is there for when coal isn't enough.
It was also super expensive to resolve what is only an interim issue until the various new generation projects come online.
Plus we can also temporarily pause Tiwai production.
But of course the LNG terminal was never about dry years anyway.
Not only that, but we already have insurance against dry years, i.e. coal. Yes it's climate-hostile, but so is LNG.
The LNG terminal is sp frustrating. This is exactly why the report the government commissioned said using LNG as insurance in dry years was a bad idea. What kind of idiots would do it anyway? The ones running the country, apparently.
I went to a masked ball at a cardiac conference. One of the people I was hanging out with said she struggles with wearing a mask since Covid. So it might be more like PTSD than expecting us to deal? Just another guess.
Or different reasons for different people.
Mr BarTel bought some while I was away. He was going to throw it away but the house guests convinced him to let them keep it.
There were about 16 squares left when I got home. I ate some last night, but I didn't finish it.
All up: buy a flavour you know you like instead.
Data at www.ea.govt.nz/data-and-ins... .
One file per month, that has both import and export, reconciled data.
My electricity market contact says "You have to go via the raw monthly data from the reconciliation manager, who tracks injection and extraction (same website) download the entire market zipped file for the month, filter by market node, and commercial operator, and Bob's your uncle. It's a PITA".
Drag 'em to the DT.
(Also: what tenant-related excuse have they invented???)
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...and now that I've read the paper - am I the only one who finds its framing and conclusions revolting?
I wonder if the same results could be achieved by investing in the schools accessible to low-income renters who can't move into single-family homes - so that "better schools" were accessible to everyone?
I was really hoping it was going to be a bait and switch and it would turn out that her children had some rare condition that meant they couldn't be vaccinated, and how important it was that everyone did because herd immunity was their only protection.
But no.
Reading real estate listings was always painful, but it's so so much worse since they discovered gen-AI. It's now just completely meaningless, and having to read any of the saccharine nonsense to try to extract some actual information... 🤮
