BK Drinkwater 🏳️🌈🐉 @blaiserize
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I am thrilled to finally announce that I have made 15 new #pixelpaintings for @Minecraft This has been in the works for quite a while. Thank you Mojang and @JasperBoerstra for a fun collaboration! #pixelart #minecraft
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet inhabited entirely by robots.
wtf does inclusion have to do with this? fsu better to focus directly on speech issues and ignore the culture wars bullshit sideshows
wtf does inclusion have to do with this? fsu better to focus directly on speech issues and ignore the culture wars bullshit sideshows
A very impressive gift from the Ukrainian Members of Parliament delegation today. Not everyday I get some remains from destroyed Russian Armoured vehicles. New Zealand stands with Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇳🇿#SlavaUkraini
This has to be the most fact checked thread in the history of 𝕏. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the demolition of Google Play by the community notes team 😂
This has to be the most fact checked thread in the history of 𝕏. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the demolition of Google Play by the community notes team 😂
RAMIT’S RULE OF COMPOUND INTEREST: Whenever you show a compound interest calculation, 100% of the time someone will immediately comment, “What about inflation???”
@blaiserize I'm still traumatised by a Natrad documentary I unfortunately listened to last year. Oh my god we're falling behind our Anglo peers.... in rushing through AI legislation. Swarbrick for once sounding flustered as it was clear she had no understanding, but wanted to ban it anyway.
Pretty fucking tired of being expected to treat protestors like greatsouls at holy war, where the sheer righteousness of their causes and greatness of their souls must shield them from all criticism and other consequences of their actions.
Low-quality regulation of Al is just about the most destructive thing politicians can do short of starting a war. If people still die of cancer thirty years from now, this sort of thing will be why.
Low-quality regulation of Al is just about the most destructive thing politicians can do short of starting a war. If people still die of cancer thirty years from now, this sort of thing will be why.
Thanks Germany. Pretty sure we went to quite a bit of effort a couple of times in the past to make clear that we weren’t going to be told what to do by you. But thanks for the feedback. We’ll get back to you.
Thanks Germany. Pretty sure we went to quite a bit of effort a couple of times in the past to make clear that we weren’t going to be told what to do by you. But thanks for the feedback. We’ll get back to you.
ngl still laughing at this
when I was in junior high I had a devastating crush on my gen x english teacher, who loved Toad the Wet Sprocket. so I bought and memorized every Toad the Wet Sprocket CD as a 14-year-old in 2005. became a Toad head. one of the lowest-return cultural investments I’ve ever made
Institutional drift seems so common that perhaps we should assume it's the default. Instead of taking institutions at their word when they point to their long and impressive histories, we should treat them as identical with what they've done in the past year.
it's not that the problem frequently arises it's that when it does my only option is to strap a flamethrower to a nonrobot dog and this just isn't reliable enough
it's not that the problem frequently arises it's that when it does my only option is to strap a flamethrower to a nonrobot dog and this just isn't reliable enough
every. single. time.
every. single. time. https://t.co/W8W3W6xUk9
I have worked in the public sector for around 12 years. My role is impacted by the staff reductions. I don't agree with the way it is happening in every agency. It's horrible for those impacted & I sympathise with them. I'm not a coalition voter. But I support the cuts. Why? -…
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I love stuff like this where the critique of economics is clearly several iterations into a game of "telephone". chowcollection.medium.com/michael-saylor…
One of my motivating beliefs is that a lot of people are stupid and it’s up to the smart and competent people to *actually deliver growing prosperity for everyone* so that the stupid people don’t feel the need to roll up their sleeves and get involved in policy.
What do we find? The people want price controls! And demand subsidies! And restrictions on Wall. St. investors! /11
samuel suggests germany shuts the fuck up
Germany suggests New Zealand put Treaty into written constitution dlvr.it/T6BDtn
one of the pleasures on this app is seeing a really stupid post and muting the poster so I never have to see them again. it is so satisfying to apply a one-strike-you're-out policy for the dumbest takes.
@peitracine That was the idea of the national health i.t. board - which was part of MoH not HealthNZ or the DHBs - and they've been progressing it for... over ten years now 😆
My view has always been centralising backroom services like I.T. made sense, but stripping decision making and leadership (and competition) from the regions was too far. Some of that centralisation was/had already happened, hence why we're not seeing big gains from HealthNZ.
@AbsentHog Idk this govt’s already sent personnel into a ME-A conflict without the coalition parties falling apart, it’s all upside from here
lmao early Clark gov also had a bad first winter, but, Luxon is not Clark and not even the Alliance were ACT and NZF
#ANALYSIS: Second poll confirms Labour could take back power, Newshub understands newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
There is actually a name for this: the Key-Letterman Cringe Effect.
Am I the only one who finds the Kiwi accent so incredibly jarring to hear in the context of, say, an interview with an American presenter?
@PronouncedHare @Haimonaetc I think you could say there is language that would allow for a conspiracy theory campaign against it if there was a public referendum, but I would say it's clear enough that it's not.
@PronouncedHare What level of pay would say a colonel in the New Zealand Army get? Pretty big job. Maybe around that for a backbench MP?
While MPs and ministers should not become rich from their service, offering them a competitive salary is necessary to attract a diverse array of candidates - not merely the wealthy - who are able to serve the public without hardship or graft.
@blaiserize @PronouncedHare An underrated classic line
Me, responsible and liable for everything I say posting under my own name: here is what I think, with some caveats. Guy tweeting as “MAGA Knight of the West (Prosecute Cindy)”: you coward
@iwik8816 A long time ago I went on a blind date and she said her life goal was to become an MP. I checked out immediately, massive red flag.
@Haimonaetc ‘Entire life plan to become an MP….’ Is something incredibly jarring to read.
@PronouncedHare So the cops knew internal affairs were setting them up?