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So Iran is stopping the world in its tracks by stopping the oil shipping trade routes through waterways it controls. Huh. It's almost like there's a material reason why loads of imperial powers have long wanted to control Iran but also been leery of attacking them.
The key thing about the "Auckland's lockdown went longer than recommended" claim is not that Bloomfield may have updated his advice in an oral item to Cabinet, but that this actually had no impact on the length of the lockdown. This was about moving from L4 to L3 - but L3 was still lockdown.
As Henry mentions, switching from a Pax-Americana fossil-fuel source to a Chinese renewables source isn't merely switching one international dependency to another. The latter means we produce our energy domestically.
It's a "give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish" approach to energy dependencies.
Henry is spot on ... electrification of our energy needs is not just about green requirements (though of course it is) it is about our national security and economic functioning as a nation.
As a net importer of fossil fuels currently, that poses a massive insecure & volatile risk (increasingly so)
It is also the main contributor to our hard to budge Trade Deficit
Remove fossil fuels out of the mix and we ironically sit in trade surplus aka generating hard currency to, yep SPEND
What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - “forged in dying stars,” “created in stellar furnaces,” “the universe is not indifferent to us,” “implicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Nasdaq is changing its rules to "entice" the SpaceX IPO to its exchange, which will fast-track the stock's inclusion in index funds... this effectively dumps Elon Musk's unprofitable garbage on vulnerable passive investors, and ensures new retirement accounts have to buy in.
Grammarly should get fucked
the Ig Nobels are fundamentally about responsibility in academic research (studies that cannot or should not be reproduced) so I'm not surprised this is the first high profile event to announce so clearly the reason for its move
Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.
What a wonderful world… 🎶
The incredible thing is that anyone with eyes or ears can tell that mamdani clearly loves NYC so much. The idea that he "hates America" is just so on its face ridiculous that people claiming it look particularly pathetic.
Wow. WTF.
Is… is this a joke? This feels like a (really stupid) joke.
The confidence of someone who has absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
#CalvinandHobbes #Confidence
Take history. Most historical study is /not/ about uncovering "new facts" anymore, and has not been for a very long time. Most of 'history', the academic subject, is a constantly live discussion about the /meaning/ of the facts in our possession, about theories of /what could have been./
Imagine what they are blowing on the black budget stuff.
1News hosting Viv Beck to cry about Auckland during lockdown is pretty rich. The same woman who is celebrating arresting homeless people might as well be Brooke Van Velden.
"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.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
a number of thoughts here:
- oh my god he admit it
- what happened to the reactionary group chat?!
- commonality here is that none of these inputs will offend their sensibilities by challenging their worldview one bit
- i expect a full pivot from this class to 'filter bubbles are great, actually'
As Oil is likely to go over US$150/bbl tonight, and as 91 is already going past $3/litre it might be time to bring you closer to work, or work closer to you. As well as that bottle of milk, the cup of hot morning beverage, and places for new Start Ups
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUE...
Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
Luxon: No one is talking about me
Us: Yes we are, we are constantly talking about how much we hate you. Why don't you fuck off? #NZPol
Conventional bombing alone has never produced regime change. All it's going to do is make Iranians hate Americans and Israelis more.
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
