“This is the first oil and gas crisis-slash-pricing scare in which clean alternatives to oil and gas are fully price-competitive.”
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“This is the first oil and gas crisis-slash-pricing scare in which clean alternatives to oil and gas are fully price-competitive.”
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💯. They've publicly admitted all his faults now and dragged him to hell for those. They won't want to walk that back. Who cares what the nation needs, they've got egos to massage
And our societal cycles are, if not inevitable then at least reasonably predictable. None of that makes me look forward to living through a potential disintegration stage but we do have lots of tools to soften some of the landings if we can come together and use them
The most insecure men alive just shilling for Big Carbon and thinking it will fill the void in their souls
😂 Oh I'm not enjoying the 'Holy shit we don't learn' part but I am comforted by the 'Well our generation isn't UNIQUELY stupid at least'
One of the things really helping me at the moment is looking at history and seeing how these aren't particularly unprecedented times at all. There's so many versions of this moment - obviously this one has unique aspects but none of this is truly new
Oh god yes. It's all so reliant on so many contingencies and unsustainable things - and what is unsustainable cannot be sustained so it's either change or have a reckoning and at the moment our broken elites are choosing reckoning
Supply chain nerds, this is your moment to shine. For most of us, the horrors of the world are going to be felt not with a missile or a masked goon at the door.
Rather we will lose access, through pricing or availability, to the goods that we need to live our lives.
And this stuff has all mostly just magically worked for the last 50 years if you're a layperson. Obviously there's been disruptions but largely, if you need something, you've been able to get something. The vast majority aren't even close to understanding the complexity, timing and inputs involved
American Senators just out here making fuck plane content
He's at brunch with Key right now ignoring the world news and talking at old mate John about why every poll is wrong, I don't think he'll have any good answers by Monday
Also
The historians have answers:
Says everything you need to know about gallery journalism that huge things that will deeply affect the whole country are parsed through the lens of 'How will this affect one party and mostly one man?' and not 'Here's some analysis on how we should deal with this massive problem as a nation.' #nzpol
I'm all for the media releasing the hounds on Luxon, but it's interesting that it's a bad poll that gets them frothing rather than his govt's support for war and the immense harms the govt has done to health, Te Tiriti, education, the environment and the people suffering as a result.
#nzpol
We have gone mad.
"The first page of the draft reads: 'It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state associated with granting coverage under this permit is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.'”
Oh hey Nicola Willis here's one you can use too! #nzpol
My kid's best friend's Dad is a PT and holy hell has he changed in the last few years. Gone from a really nice guy to frequently posting super-yuck stuff on so many subjects. The fitness and nutrition community is rotten to the core at the moment
Just heard the first mention on NZ media of the possibility of "rationing" fuel.
Can't wait for a few year's time when $54 billion dollars worth of roads and a new LNG terminal will have made our dependence on volatile fossil fuels a thing of the pas... Oh. Oh crap.
No wonder we're not having any robust national conversation about NZ's place in an overheating, violent, multi-polar world. And yes I get that news is a mix but for that to be number two is astonishing.
A Stuff story, the number two headline on the website, featuring a case where someone has painted over some no parking lines
Hey guys think I'll check in with our biggest news website on the day when America are ripping the world apart and oil prices are sky-high and climate heating might be accelerating; okay Trump is story number one so climate should be number tw.... Oh. Oh it's paint outside someone's house. #nzpol
Lily has made an amazing video about how the NYT’s slide to the right is primarily a worker’s rights issue, it’s brilliantly researched - check it out!
Yep, far easier to convince a few farmers to sell some land for their retirement than to deal with the NIMBY hordes - and you get the short-term sugar hit of expensive development
The more we talk about these things, the more the evidence is revealed as to just how insanely stupid urban sprawl is, the suburban drunk uncle to that cancer on society NeoLiberalism.
Yet in NZ we are making these same mistakes - the economics don't add up, but National & Labour are wedded to it
The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.
And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.
They're slavers.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
The LA Olympics are gonna be so fascist they'll have quidditch
I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.
They failed.
Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11
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I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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