drmike.bsky.social
Australian New Zealander. Retired, but maintaining a keen interest in landscapes, seascapes & urban environments. ngai Aotearoa ahau
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This was clearly a passive aggressive rebuke to trump, and its great to see
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Ngā mihi e hoa. The heart always wins out in the end. In time, you’ll come. We’ll be here when you do.
Te Pāti Māori is for Pākehā too, it’s built on Māori ideology which is collective and protective, we are for everyone who believes in Te Tiriti and a fairer future. 💓✊🏽 ❤️🤍🖤🌈
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Tax is what paid for most of the privileges that enabled Seymour to be what he is today. We can’t blame tax for that though - Seymour could have elected to be a decent human being, yet he chose to become an arsehole
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That cone is a true hero - going where other cones fear to tread. We need more of this plucky spirit! Enterprising, pioneering cones like this will help NZ recover its mojo and get back on track
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The govt is far too busy with wealth transfer and urban speed limit fuckery to give a moment’s thought to the real and pressing problems facing this country. A total, reckless abandoning of responsibilities
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Seems like an ongoing reluctance to simply join the dots on the part of Hartwich - blind dogma over-riding the capacity for analytical thinking
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So, it has come to cone detention centres already! Total disregard for dignity, health & safety, liberty and freedom. So much for ACT’s faux freedom principles!
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I hope so. And I hope we can help hurry it along
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The stories I am hearing on the street around here are deeply disturbing. Gangs of sentient cones, all bearing a grudge against their oppressors in local and central govt, could be the end of civil society
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The problem is spreading. There’s an inebriated cone sleeping it off in nearly every street around here. I blame the government for their loss of purpose, dignity and self respect. What I fear most is the formation on criminal cone gangs
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We don’t do that in the street!
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Nelson is doomed as a city. It’s decline has been obvious for 20 years. The failure to provide for greater housing density is the final nail in the coffin. Last one to die please turn the lights off before you fall off your twig
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Select Committees are supposed to be a part of our participatory governance arrangement, where citizens & residents actively contribute to legislation, to take in the experience and thoughts of the nation.
Not merely tally presupposed coding categories.
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If all submissions are to be read by machine then annotated with a simple YES/NO, I might as well submit the full text of ‘Where’s Spot?’ for all the good it will do. This is a fucking outrageous, contemptuous attack on democracy
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Their contemptuous attitude towards long standing, democratic parliamentary principles and practises of law making is certain to get them thrown out of parlt. Using AI to read submissions on such a critical matter is the fucking limit of tolerance for these shitweasels as far as I’m concerned
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In these circumstances is it even worth my time actually writing a submission? This stinks! Democracy reduced to a worthless charade
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A legacy so toxic that four National PMs (Bolger, Shipley, Key & English) all chose not to knight her. I can't find any previous example of a National Minister of Finance waiting 30 plus years for a gong.
BTW, Luxon was here in the early 90s so he *should* know how bad it was.
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I can imagine! I wonder in what theatre of war they will be revealed?
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I agree, but what surprises me is the fact that there have not been more instances of terror attacks, given that drones have been so widely available for years. I expect now the potential has been realised we shall see many. The next development will be drone jamming devices
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Quite brilliantly planned and executed! Ukraine has just re-written warfare
And the wonderful thing is, the basic technology - the drone - is readily available to all of us!
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I live in the Auckland neighbourhood where this is most likely to happen - Lululemon central. Shoot me now