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@Sauronlordking Accepting criminals since ages ago

Australia has become a dumping ground for the worst of humanity.

Dear Warriors’ management, The CNK experiment at centre has been an abject failure. Your faithfully, All Warriors fans

@JesahnOne Cry harder

New Zealand has the worst Prime Minister in 50 years. The most incompetent, dim witted, and ineffectual PM in my lifetime. The three headed dragon government is equally as incompetent. Winston Peters, David Seymour, you are both as accountable as the PM for how incredibly crap your government has been. I am not a party pleb. I vote for people. There are three parties now that I would never vote for. NZ should not be in the position it is. We can take care of ourselves, we don't need to be slobbering over a kiddy fucker. NZ needs to make a turn away from the policies this loser government has instantiated. #NewZealand #NZPol

@Charteddaily @AucklandUni Massey is my alma mater from the 90’s. They subsequently have hired utter nut jobs like Mike Joy and that Duhtta idiot and driven their once world class Ag faculty into the ground. The epitome of FAFO

The large number of international students at @AucklandUni has helped it become New Zealand's largest university by a mile. Student numbers are up 71% since 2000. AUT has grown even faster (+82%) and is now the second-largest university. By comparison, Massey has gone backwards.

"In terms of the vaccine mandates, I acknowledge that it was a challenging time for people but they ultimately made their own choices."

Rory Sutherland made a quietly devastating observation about one of the biggest societal shifts of the last 50 years. He said the move to the double-income household started as an option but quickly became an obligation. The big winners? Governments (twice as many people to tax) and property owners (now two salaries were needed to buy a house). The big loser? The family itself, which lost roughly 35 hours of discretionary leisure time per week — with no real increase in living standards, because the extra money was largely soaked up by higher house prices and taxes. It’s a classic example of how something that begins as liberation can quietly turn into a new form of constraint. Longitudinal studies on happiness and time use (including data from the American Time Use Survey and OECD reports) show that the sharp rise in dual-earner households correlated with stagnant or declining leisure time for families, while subjective well-being metrics for parents have not risen in line with the additional income — supporting the idea that much of the gain was captured by housing costs and taxation rather than improved quality of life. It’s a reminder to look carefully at changes that society presents as inevitable progress. What do you think — has the double-income model delivered more freedom or more pressure for most families?

@2ETEKA @Newtownmum The opposition didn’t have access to the same information as those in government, you absolute fuck stick.

Good God. Have a read of the post Farrar has up on kiwiblog. Heads need to roll and all those assholes involved need to be held to account, including Ardern, Hipkins, Bloomfield, Verrall. Accountability doesn’t just stop at Labour, how about the opposition at the time? Where the hell were they? Oh yeah Seymour was telling everyone to get the vaccine because the same company makes Viagra, and Luxon was standing on a box peeping out parliaments windows at the protestors, both backing Labours vaccine rollout and quest to stick this shit into everyone .. multiple times.

As New Zealand turns its mind to energy, and offshore petroleum prospecting permits are being considered, it’s worth noting that Southland and Otago sit on millions of years of solar investment, with more than 9 billion tonnes of lignite in 10 major deposits - containing more than 20 times the energy content of the Maui gas field. This is a very large, nationally significant resource which has the potential to be used as a feedstock for a petrochemical industry, using gasification technology to convert lignite to fertiliser, transport fuels or other high value energy products. If extracted at a rate of 20 million tonnes per year, the lignite resource could provide energy and feedstock for most of New Zealand’s transport fuel and petrochemical requirements for over 300 years. It largely sits close to the surface and is easy to access with opencast mining. It accounts for about 80% of New Zealand’s total coal resource and means New Zealand has one of the biggest coal reserves on earth, sitting around 14th in the world with more coal deposits than countries like Canada and Brazil. There were plans in the past to build plants using the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn some of the lignite into low-sulphur diesel and naphtha (used in the production of plastics, solvents and as a component of fuels like petrol and jet fuels). In South Africa, Sasol has been producing diesel, petrol and jet fuel from coal since the 1950s, supplying approximately 28% of South Africa’s fuel needs, saving that country more than US$5 billion a year in foreign exchange. There have also previously been plans to make up to 1.2 million tonnes of urea from 2 million tonnes of Southland lignite, which would be twice New Zealand’s current urea use. Most of our urea currently comes from Saudi Arabia, but this could make us a urea exporter. Southland’s lignite is low sulphur, low ash, and 1.5 to 2 times as reactive as Australian or German brown coals. This makes it one of the best lignites globally for making syngas. Syngas is an important universal industrial feedstock. It can be used to produce diesel and petrol via the Fischer-Tropsch process (which can run in existing engines and pipelines without modification), urea fertiliser via the Haber-Bosch process, methanol, hydrogen, or electricity via a combined cycle gas turbine. There would be carbon and environmental trade offs to utilise this resource which would not be easy, but it’s hard to overstate just how significant the potential energy resource is.

A lot of protests today feel less like rebellion and more like a group therapy session for people addicted to outrage.

"Hitler was a failed art student and a vegan who blamed all his problems on rich people and the Jews. "If he was around today, he'd be attending the Green Party conference' Superb @LeoKearse 👏👏👏

Cabinet papers relating to double shots of the vaccine for younger people and potential harmful side affects accidentally got submitted to cabinet while I was arguing with my ex wife over fruit purchases for our children which means I did not see the actual papers in question.

Greens promising rent rise caps…when rents have been falling.

@winstonpeters Do you remember this? We do….

@dick_numbers This quote from the article seems at odds with the Government at the time’s continual mantra of safe and effective. Hipkins is a fucking weasel.

Another week, another Hipkins scandal.

NZ First is founded on our ability to make promises even if we never keep them. WP

@ZooNealand @LjahNo Ironic isn’t it? If teachers weren’t paid as much as they now are, they would be receiving help I guess once you’ve spent your life with your hand out, it’s a hard habit to break

Why don’t you have a strike about it? Bring your Palestinian flags, Trump signs, and Tortoise Tu Titties banners like last time, you commie cunt

Cost of living crisis over. $571 received - thanks ASB!

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself. She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it. 6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on. 7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth. 8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either. 9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it. 12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing. 1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further. 3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats. 6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir. 8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better." Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly. By some of the others, the picture is more complicated. Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

Labour’s Ute Tax was actually taxing hard working farmers and tradies who didn’t have alternatives while subsidising wealthy people to buy EV’s. All while Labour lumped a 11.5c per litre tax on fuel in Auckland. Labour loves taxes!