SteveH

I believe rectally is optimal. At least this is what I assume people mean when they say "you can shove your good intentions up your arse".

Right-wing adversity to science has been building for decades, with the US leading the charge. They've always been skeptical about environmental regulation, particularly around climate change. And now as the right has co-oped the "alternative health" movement, anti-vax sentiments are on the rise.

Simeon Brown as deputy... 😂😂😂🤮

The degree of hatred of her from some (typically) straight white conservative men is horrific.

Knives are out in the media. I have to think some one inside the party is encouraging them.

They say they take climate change seriously, but nothing they have done shows that. Quite the opposite, in fact. Time to judge them by their deeds, not by their words.

"The only thing I'm considering is the future of our kids and our grandkids" says the leader of a government that wants to get back into fossil fuels at all costs, and has destroyed much of the progress this country has made on climate change.

No "what I'd say to you is..." though. That's disappointing.

Carbon emissions now more than double the planetary boundary, analysis finds Earth is not infinite. Pollution beyond certain levels threatens the climate and ecosystems. To prevent this, scientists have proposed planetary boundaries, defining the safe operating limits of the Earth system.

Current annual carbon emissions are more than twice the Earth's sustainable limit, highlighting the urgent need for accelerated decarbonization and integrated pollution management strategies. doi.org/hbrnw6

If Luxon is "the wrong person for this protracted cost-of-living crisis", then maybe Luxon shouldn't have adopted policies that would obviously protract it?

Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran.

NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.

If anyone is wondering, our EV fleet share is about 3%. Market share is 6-7%. It was around 10% before Luxon killed the clean car discount.

Yeah. Should have called him Mar-Kway-Ne.

Is this the compromise of extremely stubborn parents who couldn't let go of their referred names?

But not into the sun, alas.

While we're doing stupid questions with obvious answers: has Barry Soper ever subjected a right wing politician to any sort of critical scrutiny at all?

I really hate that sort of argument that amounts to "your solution is not perfect therefore we must stick with the much worse status quo". I'm sure sometimes it's well-meaning, but I suspect more often than not it's just excuses.

Once again National talking the talk re climate change, but then doing nothing at best or actively sabotage climate-friendly policies at worst.

It's only "tax" if it comes from the left-wing region of the political spectrum. If it's National they're just sparkling "fees", "charges", and "levies".

Inevitable consequence of Trump making the US an unreliable ally. There's going to be some serious discussions in countries like Japan, South Korea, and Poland on whether they should try to acquire nukes too.

Wonder how those savings are looking now.
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Let's not forget "we're performing a special operation in Ukraine. It'll take 3 days."

I don't think the US has an appetite for a large scale ground assault. They're going to try to bomb the regime into submission and hope the Iranian public will finish the job. Thus Trump calling for uprising.
Even if they did go in I suspect they wouldn't try to build a coalition.

"We understand fully why the Americans and Israelis have undertaken the independent action that they have taken to make sure Iran can't threaten people."
The US has threatened use of force against/in Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, and has attacked Venezuela and Iran. In one year of Trump presidency.

If it was going to take more than 3 years then they probably shouldn't have promised to fix it in their first 100 days.

We definitely do.

I don't think a deadline existing means an attack was the only possible outcome. I think if Trump got a good enough deal he would have held off. But an attack was the most likely outcome & analysts have been predicting it since early Jan.
The "imminent threat" justification is clearly BS though.

If you can save 40% of your labour costs by replacing junior devs with AI right now, you must or investors/competitors will end you. If everyone dies in 5 years time, you're still better off than dying right now.
They can't make a rational decision collectively, line must go up now. Yay capitalism!

Even if it works now - and I'm not saying it does - AI is explicitly and loudly destroying the things that makes it feasible, and nobody is even looking one move ahead here.

When the snake eats itself, it doesn't grow and eat endlessly. It just fucking dies.

Iran? Yeah.