I am hoping so.

We need a party that will break from the left-right dichotomy of the last election and give us back an MMP system.

Opportunity getting 5-6% gives them 6+ MP’s; which should give some power to get us moving in the correct direction again.

This.

It will be a bidding war at the supplier level. Product A put in a better bid than Products B&C. So they get selected by the agent; this happens often enough…

First Product B is no longer stocked and is effectively unavailable for the shopper. Product C is still hanging on but is now considered second tier and sales fall. Eventually Product A is the only option, cue enshitification of Product A!!!

This directly feeds the big players at the expense of the little players. This is bad for everyone. Traditional marketing is bad enough…this turbo charges the race to single supplier dominance; they may offer different “brands” but it will all be the same supplier at the end.

I would counter that with, look at our leader. He is the all promise with no delivery kind of guy.

Mildly charismatic, bit it didn’t take long for the cracks to start showing.

Hard to say.

Insurance is an issue constantly; and there is a lot of unconsented work out there.

We looked at a nice place last year; the original plans had two toilets, the current house has 4, one in an unconsented ensuite added sometime in the last 15 years.

We noted this to the agents and they didn’t (or acted like they didn’t) know anything about it.

Mapping this to age to help.

“The internet” says grade 6 = 11-12yo, which for my reference is Year 7 in NZ, or the first year of intermediate (Y7 and Y8; between primary and secondary school) which is a fairly low bar.

So I checked the OECD and we are basically average; just above the US in the 2023 data. So better but not much better.

2.33:1

Honestly, $5kNZD (~£2k) will get you a really nice bike that should take you to very enthusiastic amateur; if you are doing significant jumps/drops than you will know what you need and spend accordingly.

A $5k bike is not extreme by any stretch; and the NZ tax also hits. I have seen $14k (~£6k) in my local bike shop, non-electric mtb.

Note: I mountain bike regularly and my bike cost me $5kNZD 12 years ago…I mainly ride grade 2/3 tracks these days with the occasional grade 4. Not an authority on mountain biking, but I have a bit of experience in bike costs and what you get for your money.

I’ve had the 3x spicy ones, they are very hot that isn’t to much of an issue for me. The problem is that they don’t actually taste any good.

I like spicy foods, but I also like flavour, I find a lot of the super spicy foods only really taste of spice.

I wouldn’t get them again, they are too hot to be enjoyable and don’t have great flavour to compensate for what I would class as a “challenging” level of spice. If they tasted awesome, it would be a different story.

I don’t tend to sweat from spicy foods. So maybe there is some genetic component. Two of my three boys like spicy foods.

What wakes you?

My partner has an issue, where she is tired and falls asleep. But because something is worrying her, she wakes with thoughts ruminanting in her mind. This will go on night after night until she deals with the thing she is worrying about.

If this is happening to you, see what you can do to deal with the worrying situation.

I had severe insomnia (10-15hrs/week) in my teens and early 20’s, I couldn’t get to sleep, so maybe not applicable. But what finally cracked it for me was rock climbing, I’d go after work and climb until physical exhaustion, climbing is good because it forces you to think about the climb as well as exercise. I’d go home after and have a cool shower and a very light meal. I ate my big meals early in the day.

I am still a short sleeper, I only get 4-6hours (average 5:15) per night.

Yep, basically everything.

Golf clap

Use anki, it is a great tool for learning

High end civil servants…that is it.

The current govt wants to be able to fire highly paid people in various roles without having to go through the courts for a whole bunch of them.

I guess I’m not that grumpy.

Potentially, c makes SMS and direct messaging exempt, as they may get around the “post messages to the platform” part.

Social media is defined as:

a. Has as a sole or primary purpose (disregarding any advertising or revenue- generation purposes) the enablement of online social interactions between two or more end-users; and.
b. Allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users; and.
c. Allows end-users to post material on the platform; or.
d. Is otherwise specified in regulations.

That is an extremely wide net to cast. This covers everything from SMS (can post links and interact with others) right through to Facebook et al.

There are levels.

Like all food, cheap mass produced version is generally bad. Home made with the correct ingredients can be wonderful.

Seems like an obvious win for the govt; ban the non-flushable wipes, say it will result in $x savings over the next 10 years. Put that in the feather in your cap and say that rates pressures will reduce as an ongoing cost to councils will be significantly reduced.

So not an industrial automation engineer. Nothing but windows software.

Ignition for scada works on Linux, but nothing else does.

Hopefully these guys get a significant punishment.

Subverting democracy is a serious offense.

This is not a crime of need, nor a crime of passion. This was a premeditated attempt to undermine the democratic foundation we rely on. I’m not sure what their goals were, but I’m sure they were not for the betterment of everybody.