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Very interesting, not surprising. I suspect Mr McKenzie would express stronger views in private about the leakers and disruptors. I mean, we all know.

Does it just have to start with cameras and prosecutions and stories about fellow residents being affected while they’re getting around by bike? ||

What might work, either directly or systemically?

I suspect the “fix” is less about catching the people doing this and more about desensitising people who are currently othering people on bikes… but there’s a lot of input fanning the flames of their anger. +

But it seems to have reached self-sustaining culture wars territory now, with some folk livid out of all proportion to the stimulus. And now there are several reports a week of people getting flat tyres from tacks on our lovely new bike lanes. +

The earliest examples I know here were on a cycleway that narrowed an arterial road.

I understand that this stressed people who were driving. I think the bike lanes copped the emotional flak from what was probably an intentional choice to pacify traffic by narrowing the road. +

Seeking guidance about how to address people scattering sharp objects - usually upholstery tacks - on my city’s new dedicated bike lanes to puncture bike tyres.

It’s happened occasionally for a few years, but has recently become very common. +

Is there a shared definition of ego depletion that’s clearly _not_ fatigue? Because I get near the end of that article and think “Oh, that example’s a bit silly” followed by “Did they actually test for ethically-complex decision-making rather than (say) hard maths problems in the fatigue tests?”.

Wellington City Council seeks public feedback on 30km speed limit A draft plan looks to turn about 90 percent of Wellington's roads into 30kmh zones by 2029, starting with roads near schools first from as early as next year.

Wellington seemed to be making progress last year to make the non-arterial speed limit 30 km/h. That would have taken a bit of getting used to, but it would have changed the balance and risks of sharing roads.

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Treaty Principles Bill submissions re-open after website woes Parliament's justice select committee has agreed to extend the deadline after receiving a record 300,000 submissions.

For Kiwi: Submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill will re-open from 1pm today to 1pm next Tuesday.

There were so many submissions on Tuesday that the site crashed, and I suspect the mailbox that people were using instead is also overloaded.

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Aha! That’ll be the second fact that got merged into the incorrect statement about what Truman did in 1867 (actually when Andrew Johnson bought Alaska). I’m also seeing it reported that Woodrow Wilson explored options in 1917.

Thank you. I knew this happened before Truman was born, but couldn’t work out what nubbin of historical truth had gone through the wringer and ended up as that.

It's time to reorganise the icons on my phone. I've changed the structure that made it defaultsomely easy to use my regular channels.

Going beyond that feels like work-work. It involves being reminded of all the things I was going to try or got stuck on + making a life-filing system / epistemology.

Stater: one who states.

Stater: an ancient Greek gold or silver coin, or a later coin inspired by those Greek coins. The one in my image is a Gallo-Belgic F "Suessiones" gold stater c55 BCE. I'm showing the side with the deconstructed Cubist fever dream of a head wearing a helmet and wreath. The other side shows a horsey.

Stater: an ancient weight equal to half an ounce, or a bit over 14 grams.