The Hormuz shipping lanes total six miles across. That's two, two mile, lanes with a two mile buffer in between them. That's it. The whole strait is wider but for tankers there are six miles of useable water for transiting the strait.
"nnuuhsjussapilofoljuk"
"no it's just a pile of old junk"
*Clunk*
*Ticking*
Finally we have reached the time of Hormuz from the meme Hormuz time.
Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs NEWS via @CBSNews : U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants, @JimLaPorta reports 2:13 PM · Mar 10, 2026 · 6,060 Views
Here we go
Vengeance is mine.
It's not part of either commission, but at some point someone in Government and Media needs to work out how they let a vanishing fraction of antivax voices were given the main stage for months, at a point when everyone else was dog tired from stopping thousands of people dying.
There's also a genuine upswell of people who did the right thing throughout the pandemic, supported their neighbours, thought beyond themselves - didn't go down the antivax doom slide - who are not having this nonsense. Reminiscent of Bridges getting both barrels from the public in 2020.
It's fun scanning Facebook and seeing every National MP deliver their prepared COVID commission lines and get their shit rocked in the comments. Shout-out to the one MP who started replying to his own post to nudge down the critics, real strong behaviour there.
Listening to @themountaingoats.bsky.social Woke Up New and Junior Cans asked me if it was Adventure Time because it sounded like something Finn would sing.
The way I hear A.I boosters talk about their numerical algorithm generators of the expected next work to the prompt, is like someone reaching down their own throat to high five with their other hand that's struggling in its journey up through the intestines.
Proto-writing extends back 40,000 years, an unfathomable time about which we today have almost silence as its legacy from scratches on bone and rock. It feels like a demarcation point of species suicidality that we're removing the human, the intent and purpose, and soylent greening our language.
The way out is to write fucking weird, to be jagged and uncompromising, to imbue emotion in your writing that the machine cannot steal. It's a fever dream that to fight the machine you must become more animal, claws out, howling at the output.
Having the world turn into one tone, one style, one em-dash ridden cheertimism form of writing is a fucking nightmare. Every politician, public body, business, speaker all uttering machine mangled plagiarism. It's the sort of shit that Black Mirror would do before it got too pleased with itself.
Kill the computer and then whatever is left of your soul.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.
All good points. *Every single one of them* (& far, far more!) are those that The Disinformation Project, led by Kate Hannah, consistently, & in near real-time provided grounded, & gendered insights, & warnings around - incl. in our 1st public report. static1.squarespace.com/static/65c9c... #nzpol
To counter future information threats, the inquiry recommends a measured and transparent approach to strategic comms. To essentially strengthen information integrity, & bolster public confidence, report notes the govt should be open about the science, & evidence that underpin its decisions.
Authors highlight evidence which suggests that disinfo had tangible effects on vaccine acceptance/uptake during Covid-19's height. Distribution of anti-vaxx content, frequently focused on safety concerns, reduced the intent of some (incl vaxx hesitant) citizens to seek immunisation.
Report notes a surge of inaccurate international information reached New Zealand, complicating an already volatile environment. This influx of disinformation exacerbated vaccine hesitancy and social division at critical junctures in the domestic responses.
The Phase 2 report's out www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/reports-less... Inter alia, it flags how mis/disinfo significantly impacted NZ's pandemic response. Both undermined efficacy of vaxx campaign and implementation of lockdowns, contributing to a measurable decline in public trust. #nzpol
Let people invent the Peninis.
I don't see the Government talking about how Ardern and Hipkins underestimated antivax propaganda and misinformation, and that's because NZ First and National and ACT were more than happy to use that to get into power in 2023.
Did I suffer catastrophic burnout accentuated by the pandemic in 2022? Yes. Was that already happening long before the first person got COVID in China? Also yes.
As someone who was in that last Auckland lockdown, I firmly believe the Government did the best it could throughout the main acute phase of the pandemic at every point. Hindsight is 20:20 but I'm glad Simeon Brown wasn't making any decisions during that period.
The churches are always full because that's how you get the BBQ.
He established a dynastic ruling lineage in Iran, it's just not his family. Winner.
lmao now this is podracing
The goals of the United States is to bomb their way into fixing the consequences of bombing their way into this war. Regime change? No. Irans unconditional surrender? No. Trying to stop the oil being sad. Yes.
