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it has tons of historical precedent, the main thing that fascists do when they get in power is ruin the country. it is easy to understand. like what are you talking about

You’re going to be real glad of those electric buses very very shortly same as Tasman

The all caps BREAKING, the siren and emergency emoji, the claims that make you feel vindicated or good or MAD, the total lack of citation link or source, or a cite buried in a reply

Do not feed them. They harm you, critical information delivery, actual journalists

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Sunrise clock needs fixing if that's when it goes off

Okay I had a go

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and the worst are full of passionate intensity

An edited version of the XKCD comic #2347 titled "Dependencies" It shows a large stack of irregularly sized blocked stacked on one another. They are labelled "The Global Economy" In the lower right there is a single small block that is clearly supporting the entire tower above it. It is labelled "A Very Narrow Strip Of Water Between Iran And Gulf States"

With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)

Hey. You know how the AI grift has been teetering on the brink of financial collapse and taking the whole economy with it?

Well.

Guess what all those AI slop data centers run on.

Diesel generators.

Okay uh, so this honestly blew up.

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This is your reminder that petrol does in fact have a use by date

Catherine Wedd and Grant McCallum, both members of the environment select committee which met at Parliament on Monday, are the latest National MPs to throw their support behind the prime minister. "At the moment, in our government, he is the best prime minister that we have," Wedd told Stuff. "I think that Christopher Luxon ... is doing a really, really good job."

Huge endorsement from Nats MP for Chris Hipkins here 😁 #NZPol

Last July. Art of the Deal.

i will say I watched this with a smile that grew wider and wider with the realization that always makes me love something: “I could not have made this in a hundred years.”

How many times, fortresses are redundant in modern warfare

If you're on twitter you have my permission to use AI to make a video of netanyahu sitting on a throne at maralago while trump bows to him or whatever. The fastest ways out of this are probably the stupidest

At the risk of boring everyone,a little context.

$100 oil in isolation isn’t that bad. It averaged around that level from 2011-2014 without severe economic ramifications*.

It’s the pace of the rise that has people spooked. And not knowing where it might stop.

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This side-2-of-Hounds-of-Love reboot sucks

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This! For around-town, local driving, supermarket etc. there are very cheap 2nd hand EVs available. No they won't do a 1000km road trip, but they will save you heaps on day-to-day.
Or a level up, you could look at what we bought: a $15k Leaf with 220km range.

Nepo ayatollah.

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about.

Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

WTI and Brent crude futures well above $100

One of this "shocked but not surprised moments"

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the first gen x ayatollah khamenei

We used to make things