Surreal lack of the counterfactual from the talking heads when discussing the Auckland lockdown, I guess it's good we'll never face a consequential situation again
14.03.2026 00:46
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Surreal lack of the counterfactual from the talking heads when discussing the Auckland lockdown, I guess it's good we'll never face a consequential situation again
Jim Hickey tapping the map and burbling "brrm brrm" on each population center and then "vroom vroom" disapprovingly when he taps on Christchurch
But really: Just let the petrol price go up for god's sake. It's a terrible system for resource allocation, sure, except for all the others.
NZ finally quitting its obsession with trucking things that should go by rail or sea is a positive, why frame as bad thing?
The Covid inquiries will continue until the polling improves.
a paper boat
best I can do is this but we're having discussions if we should whisper the word "rail" over the bow or stern, or in an adjacent room, we don't want to over invest
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
I think anyone trying to make more of the covid inquiry than "yep, could have done better" should have to commission and publish a review of their own decision making during their four most fraught years
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
Quick question… these mines, they gonna stop the sun hitting solar panels?
We put people on the moon but start wars over a substance directly & indirectly killing us.
This actually feels really reassuring I get the appeal
ewok is short for electronic wok
Oh yeah, he plays up Business Doofus so much that you forget he's also got peculiar religious beliefs.
Very happy that it's Events, Dwar Boy that's dragging Luxon down. He's been the dummy proposing that as long as nothing happens their strat will work from the start.
Business Duddy all along
Which fictional characters do you think were having the nastiest sex off-screen? With the understanding that it's obviously a contest for second-place after these two freaks from Andor
sad dog thinking SPULL to itself
his colleagues biting through their hands to not remind him the full quote was "we support you for now"
It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.
chart for generating the large robot son's nom de beepboop
keep them guessing
National Party selection committee members waking in the night and checking their notes to discover he'd in fact told them he was "good at crises"
Chlöe Swarbrick here being accurate yet still quite kind? "He simply does not seem to understand the weight of the things that he is talking about, or the substance or logic that sits behind them".
His strategy has always been "once events stop happening, it's mojo time"
This is it: this why I finally snap and become the joker
The NZ Govt’s energy strategy of making NZ more dependent on imported oil and gas sure looks pretty stupid tonight. Not to mention, you know, climate change.
Such a shame how John Cleese suddenly dropped dead right after his speech at Graham Chapman's memorial service in 1990. With his passionate commitment to social democratic politics, European integration, and human rights, and his self-deprecating wit, he could have been a powerful voice had he lived
Real talk: I *want* Chris Hipkins (or whoever leads Labour going into the election, no shade) to be our next Prime Minister, but I *need* him (etc) to be PM of a government that materially changes NZ's trajectory, with policies and narrative that move us AWAY from the late stage capitalist hellscape
Gentlemen - you can't disrupt global energy supply! This is the war for oil!
i guess the good news is that it's 2026, so we may actually be headed for the star trek future
The "do you want to live in Star Trek or should we read another line of The Poem?" bafflingly gets answered with "the poem" every time, because the road from here to there is scary