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i just totally agree. it's a massive predatory grift - consume, strip, dump.

this is my exact point. you're not describing industry there - industry adds value to stuff to produce goods and services.

leveraging finance and preferential tax treatment to buy houses and rent them for margins isn't a service, it's exploitation.

Tom... you just aren't in the group chat

Now house *building* is an industry.

More. Even more than others...

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

Rental property is needed, absolutely. But the idea that they're a productive contributor to the economy is not real. They're a literal parasite.

SST describing landlords as an *industry*.

Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value.

They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.

Welcome to the future e hoa.

Maybe there is merit in this whole solar power thing 🤔

63.7kW system on the cowshed roof, $80k installed. No batteries

Export rate 12c/kWh

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

Yep. First question should be what do we need, *then* can we afford it. Then, what do we want

How long till homeless are volunteering is a question...

Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming:

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs

Aristocratic England replacing foxes with voluntary humans... anyone else a bit uneasy about where this ends?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN

Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only

Stand down: because this is just filler from the Washington Post, not actual reporting, we do not have to start a list of NZ therapists you should never, ever visit.

Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.

Oooo... looks interesting. Will have to check if NZ streams offer it though :/

Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

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By @chazhutton.com

It is, I really enjoyed it and I'm sceptical on that franchise

Doh! It was from Raging Bull

With Satan you get to the spiral quicker

Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case.

openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...

Elemental coffee in Newlands gave me a brownie sample while I wait for my coffee.

It was this good.

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

Economists love to talk about elasticity like it isn't a totally invented thing

Wellington's failure to build an obviously needed upgrade to its dilapidated main streets is a damning and demonstrative example of a capital city self-immolating through incompetence and political cowardice.