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No one has voted yet. There’s still time for the big parties to get together in a room and kill off the idea of ever governing through an overhang.
Column this week:
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Remember, only the Nobel prize in economics is actually associated with the Sveriges Riksbank, the others in categories like "medicine" and "peace" have NO affiliation with the Swedish central bank at all.
Replying to @nzsd @FrankMcRae
Plus the constant flip flops and amendments have shown to Councils the value of just ignoring / not implementing the law. They have the comfort of knowing that another election (and inevitable policy reversal) is only 3 years away.
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Replying to @nzsd
The new planning act is going to be such a mess of constant amendment. The contradictions between the actual legislation and and nat/act party nimby intentions are too much to hold
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Ukrainians will really be like "you believe in posting articles on Lesswrong? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing data centers" and then firebomb a data center.
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I'm trying to buy drugs in Greece and the dealer says he's about to pull up in a "wine dark audi" ??????
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not only should Haruki Marukami not win the Nobel prize for literature . he should be taxidermied and displayed at a Dallas Cheesecake Factory .
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flight attendant: is anyone on this flight a lifelong dilettante? we need someone who just dabbles with a bit of everything right now
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The national party only ever have two campaign messages:
1. New Zealand, as a nation, can not afford to do anything.
2. National are gonna build the biggest fucking motorways its going to be sick
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building a "mill road" is real 14th century behaiour tbh. We should be building a "data centre road" or a "drone factory road"
This is pretty much my stance. A functional state doesn't need or want the death penalty in normal circumstances but you do gotta hang Vidkun Quisling to draw a solid line under the war years and move on.
Replying to @NotPotBol
my favorite death penalty fact is how norway abolished the death penalty in 1905, re-legalized it just to to kill vidkun quisling and some other nazi collaborators, then banned it again.




















