Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
You have to wonder how many people were always like this and how many went into the party wanting to change the world for the better only to have made so many compromises that they have lost any moral compass and gone into some deep state of brain rot.
Absolutely enraging. Hard to think of a better example of head-in-the-sand, smug, self-justifying partythink.
Under MMP, most policy is negotiated after the election. So the real question for voters is not just what parties promise, but how they will govern from day one. That’s not minutiae: it’s the operating system of government.
A couple of threads that demonstrate what is wrong with Labo(u)r in Aus and the UK - contempt for those disillusioned with the party, blaming progressives for the rise of the right, glorification of pragmatism over morality, expecting people to vote for them on the basis the other lot are worse, etc
Even if he is travelling in his capacity as the King of the UK, his role as King of Canada cannot be ignored in terms both of whether the visit occurs and what happens during any visit.
Starmer needs to discuss these matters with the Canadian govt and come to a common position on how to proceed.
Jenkins fails to note that the King is also the embodiment of a number of other states in addition to the UK.
Significantly, he is also King of Canada - a nation whose formation came out of the rupture of the War of Independence and which is currently being threatened by the US.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
A shift away from proprietary US platforms should also be on the agenda. We don't have data sovereignty and our privacy laws are essentially meaningless as long as the US govt can simply demand tech firms hand over all our data.
An election is coming. I'll be watching policy commitments carefully: not through a party lens, but through a public interest one. This is a thread on the things I'll be looking for over the coming months 🧵#nzpol #nzvotes #nzvotes2026
The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them.
Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?
Robin Williams once said "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them."
It’s no joke though.
There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking”
Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
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Come on guys, he’s one of us
Interesting thread (and the nested one) to read in a NZ context where we *have* let parties boot floor-crossers. I was opposed to the change for reasons similar to those laid out here.
A great way to conserve fuel at a society wide level would be making buses free
Busing in Christchurch is $6 a day and even at $3 a litre, petrol will allow you to travel 20km or more depending on fuel efficiency, so if you own a car it's still the economical option for most people
The CCP effectively telling GovHK that their “will not retroactively apply to acts before 2020” was not a promise approved by the Commies
“Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
historian, philosopher, political theorist.
Congratulations to RNZ's Penny Smith for putting this fiasco into context...
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The same can be said in relation to parts availability - if you're looking for, say, a germanium transistor that hasn't been made since the 60s or 70s, there's a good chance you can find it stocked by someone somewhere in the world.
The internet is also great for finding service manuals, parts substitution guides etc that once were hard to find. This site is a good example.
Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?
Normally the "digital divide" refers to *access* to tech, but as access becomes less and less of an issue, the real divide is between people who know how to defend themselves from the cruel indifference of technology designers and people who are helpless before their enshittificatory gambits.
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It's interesting how appliance labels have changed from 'Disconnect from mains before opening' to 'Do not open. No user seviceable parts inside.'
Besides the loss of skilled repairmen, I think there has also been a deskilling of the population through a discouragement of DIY repair for a mix of commercial and safety reasons.
with the possibility that the job could be much more time consuming than anticipated.
Exactly. I wonder to what extent the problem is a loss of skills and how much of it is an economic one - easier to just declare something dead and replace the whole appliance or to replace a whole expensive module rather than open the can of worms that is component-level repair ...
In the case of a resistor, probably only a few cents.
In many cases of dumped appliances, identifying the faulty part could have been as simple as visual inspection or a few minutes of poking about with a cheap multimeter.
