David Farrar

Why do we live by a calendar that barely makes sense? 30 days. 31 days. 28 days… sometimes 29. What if every month had 28 days and the year had 13 perfectly balanced months? Same dates. Same weekdays. Every year. Welcome to the future of time. 13cal.net

@DrZuben No they are selling it generating export income, royalties and tax revenue which funds schools and hospitals

@dpfdpf so we are giving our wealth away now?

Superb

Took the Gripen out for a ride yesterday. Strong, smart and at supersonic speed - Sweden! X – won’t you help me? Send this to someone who also should get themselves a piece of world class engineering and innovative adaptable software. Welcome to Sweden, we are open for business.

The look on the Japanese PM’s face is priceless.

In which Tamatha Paul claims there are just 4 electricity gentailers, says that taxpayers fund them through tax, says they make $300m per month and that they don’t invest in renewables. And that’s just the 1 min I could bear to listen to. Never let these people near power.

@Haydenaut @PronouncedHare @TaxpayersUnion 1958. Before that an annual payment.

@dpfdpf @PronouncedHare @TaxpayersUnion Am I correct in thinking PAYE was only brought in after WW2? That it used to be something you did not your employer?

There is so much ignorance about tax because most people are just passive taxpayers. Can guarantee if it was a manual payment that everyone had to make there would be a great fewer misunderstandings.

@AJCNeilson @PronouncedHare @TaxpayersUnion Most people don't read payslips. And yes if you have to pay something manually you would notice it.

@dpfdpf @PronouncedHare @TaxpayersUnion You don’t think people who don’t read their payslips so don’t know how much goes in tax won’t also put their IRD tax on direct debit and not look at those invoices? Or do you think they pay enough attention to every line on their banking app?

Hilarious quip from @Marian_L_Tupy that @PaulREhrlich died doing what he loves most - reducing the world’s population. If you read Ehrlich’s book you would appreciate how on target this was.

13th project approved through Fast Track and it’s very cool! NZ does not currently re-use steel – most of our scrap metal is exported. This new plant will mean we can recycle and manufacture structural steel right here in New Zealand, using material sourced from across NZ.

@robertgraham Interesting analogy but worth noting there is a hard limit on ipv4 addresses of 4.3 billion while there is no hard limit on resources, just an economic cost to finding and extracting them

Back in the 1990s, early Internet nerds were convinced we were running out of IPv4 addresses and that we needed to create a new standard, IPv6, to prevent this. They used the same arguments as Paul Ehrlich, exponential growth meeting a fixed supply, leading to devastating collapse. They did this even after Ehrlich was proven completely wrong in 1990. This argument is a higher level Truth that can never be disproven, no matter how many times its predictions fail to come about. Over 30 billion devices are connected to the IPv4 Internet and we sill haven't run out of IPv4 addresses. Of those are 8.5 billion mobile phones on the IPv4 Internet. Yet, when people explain IPv6 to you, the first thing they'll tell you is that it's needed to prevent the Internet from running out of addresses.

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

@AdamKinzinger There are five living former Presidents. Maybe he spoke to the 45th?

Join me in New Zealand next month! Can’t wait for this tour and to discuss my book Authoritarians in the Academy and the many ways free speech is crumbling away in our institutions. Events in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. More info here ⬇️

@ClintVSmith Yep. And only 12 months suspended licence for driving at 190!

it's insane to me that killing someone with your car gets minor prison sentences & you're allowed back behind the wheel if this guy had been as reckless with a gun as he was with his car, the charge would've been murder & he would have a lifetime gun ban nzherald.co.nz/nz/dangerous-d…

Heh

Now that is funny

After losing speaking gigs over her "Globalize the Intifada" chants, you might have thought former Australian of the Year Grace Tame might be in damage control mode. Alas, she just made things a whole lot worse for herself, denying Israeli women were murdered and raped on Oct 7, suggesting Hamas vs Israel is not a "fair fight", and even slipping in an antisemitic trope for good measure.

@warwick512 Of course otherwise they wouldn’t need consent, just a roof

@dpfdpf For further reference it is 256% of the rainwater that falls on its own 78 000m² footprint.

For reference this is 0.000039% of annual rainfall in NZ, so it would reduce overall water by 1 part in 2.5 million.