Dave

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Can you people not do anything for yourselves

1 now. I’ve taken the opportunity to clean up my contacts.

Two. And I’ve no bloody idea who one of them is, just ‘Matt’ and a phone number!

Yup, that’s part of the recommendation from the Infrastructure Commission, to preempt over use of the upper harbour crossing to avoid the toll (tax).

The NZIC really is life imitating the art of the NBA in the Aussie comedy/political satire series Utopia

Another set of RBNZ forecasts, another pushing back of the recovery. At some point *surely* they will start to question their silly models of how the economy works. I mean, the decisions they take based on these numbers are pretty important, ay? Quick zoom in to make the point... [🧵1/n]

Are we going to talk about the fact that the Venn diagram of Joe Rogan’s societal influencers guest list and the Jeff Epstein friends and co-conspirators list is a near perfect circle

Radio NZ headline “‘Stop being cautious’: Chief economist urges households as OCR unchanged “ with picture of RBNZ Governor Dr Angela Breman

Easy for an RB Chief Economist to urge a lack of caution with spending when his unavoidable living costs aren’t increasing much more than the CPI and his salary, and he doesn’t face the prospect of unemployment in 2026 as Willis signals ongoing cost/job cuts in the public service #nzpol

YouTube video by World Affairs In Context $200 BILLION Dead END - Argentina In CHAOS as Trump Prepares MAJOR Dollar Bailout

Hailed by the corporate West, NZ David Seymour is the Aotearoa equivalent.

Argentina libertarian leader President Milei burns through reserves and faces $200B crisis.

youtu.be/amaCHdxAcKc?...

headline: New liquefied natural gas terminal: 'Vital' or 'bonkers'? Let's find out... "about twice as expensive as new renewables' - consumer NZ "The goal has to be finding the lowest cost alternative. And therefore the answer is not LNG - it's a way more expensive outcome." - rewiring NZ chief "LNG is not a good option for New Zealand. It's a duress position, a band-aid," - Larry Blair "it would make no economic sense to develop an LNG import terminal to meet just dry year risk as the large fixed costs would be spread over a relatively small amount of output." - Frontier Economics AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

The experts agree, National's proposed liquefied natural gas terminal is a terrible idea. 👎

Or, and hear me out on this one, we could just elect a government without Shane Jones, Casey Costello, David Seymour, Winston Peters and Paul Goldsmith, and bingo! Instant improvement in our corruption score!

Meringue peaks

Cultural confusion. We’re watching an Australian baking show, and everyone is cheering for the creation shown below.

Which is really odd, because we thought most Australians boo meringue.

The latest one is comedy gold! 😂

Antarctic skua

Reminder to our allies abroad:

War is when your government tells you who your enemy is.

Revolution is when you figure it out yourself.

-PM Aurora Maccormicki

Today's effort by an economist to put lipstick on the pig that is the AoNZ economy

The Harbour Bridge traffic on weekdays is largely commuter traffic from dormitory suburbs north of the bridge to businesses south of the bridge. $18 in tolls would be a tax of almost 1 hour's pay per day for min wage workers. There's no effective public transport alternative for many. #nzpol

Tweet from a loser that says, "I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan? I’m supposed to have ideas by next week. cmon guys what would you want to see? I like sci-fi but it feels to obvious for AI 🤷‍♂️"

AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

No doubt coming soon to AoNZ in the form of one of Seymour’s charter schools.

Anyone still pushing AI, you know their agenda at this point. Only the worst people push it. Only the worst.

The climate enhanced #FonterraStorm hits Canterbury www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This climate change which governments and billionaires tell us isn’t really happening is now not really happening much more.

It’s incredible that so many in AoNZ are rating this govt’s economic management 5+. They are clearly believing the business feels surveys over the evidence of their own pockets with rising costs for essentials and lower value discretionary spending like takeaway coffee

'Machines will play an increasing role in targeting' - NZDF's vision for the future Visions of a digital twin for each soldier, laser weapons and drones using satellites to engage with targets before a human pulls the trigger are all in the latest NZDF briefing.

Before we spend billions on ethically dubious AI toys for the soldier boys (and girls), we need a serious, ground up review of AoNZ's defence strategy and needs in a radically changed geopolitical environment. We need to disengage from the USA for a start. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

But back on climate change...

Cartoonists are very,very observant:

Cartoon. Five frames. Title “Taxonomy” First frame a duck is reading a newspaper headline “Levy to Fund Dirty LNG Energy” The duck says, “Tax? Quack” 2nd frame the duck is walking and says, “Tax! Quack”, as it does in the 3rd and fourth frame. In the last frame the duck is on PM Christopher Luxon’s head, saying, “Tax! Quack” and has done a poo. And Christopher Luxon says, “This … is not a duck”

Quick, dirty and expensive. The govt is going to build a $1 billion liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal, instead of investing in clean energy. And as for the levy…if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
My #cartoon today #NZpol #FossilFuels #Climate

Just a note, that ‘Bondi’ pic has been fact checked as an AI generated fake. Bondi was born in 1965 (now aged 60) and would have been 14 in 1979, several years before Trump and Epstein even met.

FUCK SAKE

THERE ARE VAROUS STATES OF EMERGENCY AROUND THE COUNTRY DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER & THEY WANT TO DISESTABLISH THE MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

GO TO HELL YOU HIDEOUS CUNTS