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The pylon shouldn't be costing anyone but the contractor - what a fuck up that was. I do wonder whether the design settings are past their use by date

To be fair, it might have been helpful if more people in recent years knew not to fuck about in Afghanistan because it never ends well. OTOH, not the kind of thing they're likely to teach.

It seems high, but I guess the mix of network length, exposure to events, and number of connections makes it quite expensive. And other solutions definitely start to look worth investigation

This might be the why - are they doing work to make the system more reliable

My exact thoughts. Who needs thinking when you have a great repertoire of trivia?

The other end is pretty interesting too. He's even lost the boomers

Feels like this should be news in AoNz

Ray Chung may have been democratically elected, but Andrew Little should not have given him a Committee Chair, given his absolutely disgusting, abusive, and misogynistic conduct.

All hail librarians, holders of knowledge, guardians of empowerment

My year 11 history topics were parliamentary reform and the world between WWI and WWII. So absolutely no politics there

Pretty sure there was no politics in the ancient world. Just pyramids and gladiators

OTOH, I expect demand for teacher in service training on Ancient Egypt might be up for the next year or so

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And if they get it wrong, and we copy it down, it becomes a cautionary tale

#2 reminds me of a quote by my ex. ‘Salmon and crayfish; that shit you eat when you can’t afford a good pie’

And that whole magnets and water thing sounds like a very garbled playback of MRI and contrast

Is it even possible to run any software project exclusively using straight white Anglo men?

Spitballing here, but what might a gaga granddad make of an explanation of MRIs

TBF, they’re not unrelated. It’s just that you don’t need the full WAIS when you just need to know whether granddad has lost his marbles. A quickie test will capture that. I’d love to know last weeks score vs the previous visit

What did Willis say?
Labour's CGT promise means a commercial landlord will have to sell the property for less than it is worth?
They will deliberately not make a profit... to avoid paying 28% on the profit?

She really is a financial genius, huh.
#nzpol

I am getting on a bit, am ridiculously patient for an ADHDer, and remember people doing shitty things that need to be accounted for

Hold that thought for a bit

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

See? History is useless, and we should edit what we teach kids to leave out any ‘political’ content #NZPol

And incest is more prevalent in whackadoodle purity cult extreme Christians

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

One minute, it's trans men 'stealing our butches.' Next minute, gender policing butch women

Every billionaire is a policy failure

Anyone who needs a good record of decision-making and discussion. So e.g. club committees on spending decisions. Work meetings often a bit less useful

No degree needed! You don’t have to be able to comprehend basic written English, as this example shows. You sure as hell don’t need to be able to pass any citizenship test