Rustie

The main props to my sanity at the moment are classical rap battling Lebanese uncles and a butch tyre mechanic.

As you say, yelling at clouds but there's also a saying about (judicial) dissenting opinions being a plea to a more enlightened future.

America spending $5bil in a week to keep the Gulf oil moving so it can be shipped to India and China probably wasn't sustainable so that'd make a lot of sense anyway.

Nah they've got too much state capacity for that.

DPRK on the other hand might just do it to get some forex.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

So when the Saudis and Emiratis realize the US security guarantee isn't worth shit, do we reckon a crooked Pakistani or Russian general sells them the nukes?

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Yeah polling places. For a bit more cross checking I think I've got it.

Thanks. Looks like a few were amalgamated into the current site. I'm interested in 1999 here so 2000 is close enough.

Oh cool.

Maybe you could help me here: did the school used to be where the Marae is now? Working it out from records is tricky.

Found your alma mater.

And would have included a teal one.

Just me but I would not have included red, brown, or green coins on this graphic.

Like I know "just do stuff" because you've got 18 months to acquire capital or end up in the permanent underclass, but maybe don't do this?

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This was more a snipe at RNZ (and also every commentator, professional or amateur).

I'm just deeply cynical about any COVID response discourse. Or tbh public reason of any kind. No one will shift and no one will learn.

The cookers are having a field day with it 🙄

I'm pretty skeptical of rail's non-bulk freight value, but not from an especially informed perspective beyond "once the NIMT bridges need to be replaced just shut it down".

We can't even afford to properly maintain one transport network let alone two.

Wait you mean to tell me news about COVID is being understood through the lens of everyone's preexisting partisan biases 😲

We'd be better off just increasing reserves and electrifying light transport (which is what the report on Marsden said IIRC).

Crude supply problems also disrupt refining, especially on the way out of them (where capacity has been shuttered and not recovered yet).

Plus there's direct risks to refining (China/Taiwan, disasters in South East Asia).

The benefits were small, but they're not zero.

It lets you import crude not just refined products. Depending on the nature of a supply disruption that may be easier to come by.

It's a modest improvement over our current situation, but probably not worth what it would have cost to refit Marsden Pt.

"We're done when I say we're done."

Attacks leave dead vs killed

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"I wish RAM prices would come down"

Mr Speaker, is it good that all the commodities accounts I follow are just tweeting "REPENT SINS"?

Dear Mr ICC president, there are too many world cups these days. Please eliminate two. I am not a crank.

Narcissism of small differences.

Interpol opening for the Deaftones is mashing together two slightly (but importantly) different kinds of middle-aged white guy.

It was cyberterrorism.

Four young men walking down a street at night, one of whom is wearing a traffic cone on his head.

People make a lot of intergenerational clashes but dudes are forever guys.