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Yes, absolutely. You can understand why he would have had to trade away employment as a goal for the economy in order to achieve, well, a pointless 2nd Covid inquiry, a pointless English language bill and a cruel and unimplementable piece of political theatre attacking trans people.

I’d like to note also that Air NZ literally has a Government Relations team

Yes, just searched ‘social disinhibition’ today myself

Oh, I understand now

Sorry I missed the photo of BHN viewers taken today. But I am, in fact, a (regular) viewer!

Personally I see them kind of like mining: some are needed, but because of their environmental impact we need to restrict them to only uses with high value (ie excluding most of them, used for AI slop etc) and in places with the lowest impact

Congratulations e hoa!

That would make sense, but it seems to me more like they’re encountering it for the first time

Actually funny

This week saw ACT make a clumsy pitch to nostalgia with its wild mischaracterisation of the 1970s. NZ 1st does politics of nostalgia better, with its appeal for return to the certainty of the rigid, claustrophobic 1950s. Despair, not hope.

Pockets would have been emptied by then. If he’d had a pen, I’m sure he would have

In 1981, Carl Stead was arrested (with me) on the Hamilton rugby park. He was thrilled. We were first held in a largish space under the grandstand. He engaged in an act of graffiti: “CK Stead, author of Smith’s Dream, was here”. Or words to that effect.

Between Milford Sound and Puysegur Pt

Civil Defence Group Controller for the West Coast is one of my volunteer roles! How are you doing Scout?

That’s correct

Looks like the usual grunty, 14 year old boy to me. ‘Robotic’ seems harsh

At least 5 of those I ranked higher. And Sisters Underground is top 10 every day of the week

Great article!

You’ve got Pearl Jam, right?

There’s a theory that the plays of Henrik Ibsen were intended as dramatic illustrations of Hegel’s theory of human development. I was studying Ibsen so encountered Hegel’s ideas. They are, indeed, out there