stevehnz.bsky.social
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If you're afraid of someone else's "bone density", that's a you problem and you should seek help because it's ridiculous. Unless you're into "Run it Straight", in which case by all means be afraid and stop doing it.
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That it keeps happening is very amusing.
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Can we talk about the 9% that have a favourable view of the black plague?
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I hadn't heard about the owner. A tragic end.
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That would be amusing but Dean Kamen is still alive.
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Withholding that information from Cabinet should cost Costello her career, but Luxon has already made it abundantly clear that he can't and won't do anything to discipline NZF or Act ministers regardless of what they do.
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I wonder if he'd care about this at all if Obama hadn't got one.
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That may be true in general, but Ardern was not extreme in any sense. Her second term government had a mandate no other has had since we switched to a proportional system in 1996 and yet their agenda was no more progressive than any other recent Labour govt has been. They were moderate center-left.
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Mosaic, Lycos, the original Yahoo curated page lists.
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How the fuck do more people still think National is the most capable of handling the economy? Have they looked at the economy lately?
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They are really struggling with this block 2 design. Program is going backwards. This is more concerning than in-flight failures IMO.
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He's not a very emotional man, and he's very much not a very smart man.
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Surely you'd only string them up if they did it by purpose, and not if they did it on accident?
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That depends on the father-in-law.
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Who wants to let this genius know that half his wife's DNA is another man's DNA?
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To be pedantic, it's just Israel that's starting a new war. If the last 18 months have taught Israel anything, it's that the world will stand by and do nothing regardless of what provocation, crime, or evil Israel commits.
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So this why they had to get the Fed Farmers' "poll" out.
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I don't care how rich they are, I'll pay for their tickets myself if it'll help get them the fuck out of here.
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Climate change cannot continue to be afterthought.
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Annoys me how silent the media are on that after happily amplifying National going on about it while in opposition.
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They bought a grey car, blending in so no one notices them was the whole point.
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Did Megan make the same comments about the right giving up influence and activist effectiveness when Truth Social started up? Or when Parler appeared? Gab? No? So once again it's only the left that has to compromise.
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Patel flashing the badge. Means he feels he needs to prove his authority. Probably because even he knows he's not qualified for the job and shouldn't be in it.
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People should start calling to complain about places that don't have road cones but probably should.
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Seymour rejected the advice of his own officials, the views of the vast majority of expert submitters, the view of civil society orgs. He will not or cannot offer a justification for this, and instead resorts to insulting the competence or motivations of people who disagree with him.
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It's uninspiring and ineffective. This is an historically bad government and yet Lab can only manage to poll around even with National. All the incremental gains from the last Lab govt were undone in weeks by NACT. Lab never get credit for being measured and responsible anyway, so what's the point?
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I'd pay quite a lot of real money to hear the reporter reply "well Don McGlashan called you a dickhead, so maybe you'd be apologising for being a dickhead?"
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The global trend is crystal clear: wind and particularly solar are the future. They cost less to build than fossil fuel plants, and they cost less to operate. I'd say Jones is an idiot, but I suspect it's more about corruption.
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Even if he had heard of her (obviously he hasn't), why would she brag about that? Hegseth is a laughing stock.
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Good of example of why the MoH's 48k followers on X are irrelevant. Engagement on X seems to be completely decoupled from follower counts now.
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It's closely related to how so many accusations from the right turn out to be confessions.
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I called it.
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Obviously if you want to be heard you also want politicians to change their behaviour based on what they hear, otherwsie what's the point? If I write to my MP, I do so because I want them to change something.
So if you're paying to be heard, you're paying for influence. It's as simple as that.
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History of this is interesting. Palmer Luckey founded Oculus and was still with the company when Facebook acquired it. He got pushed out when he got caught funding a pro-Trump meme/shitpost outfit in 2016. FB execs wanted him to public support Gary Johnson. Guess there were no hard feelings.
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I mean it's right there in the name. Capitalism rewards capital. There's a reason it's not called "labourism".
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"Luxon should grow a pair and tell David Seymour to shut up"
Fixed it.
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I think at the moment it looks like SpaceX would have been better to go with a 3 stage design: essentially a scaled up Falcon 9 with a fully reusable second stage. Conventional capsule design rather than Starship. I expect that would have been cheaper and easier to develop.
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Shuttle is definitely a better comparison, though at around $50B (2020 dollars) it's likely still a fair bit more expensive than Starship so far.
I'm yet to be convinced Starship reentry is suitable for crewed missions. Another unknown.
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Questionable comparison IMO. There was far more refurbishment involved with the Space Shuttle, and it still cost around $750M per flight (2024 dollars). It was better than flying Apollo by a factor of 2-4, but it wasn't the orders of magnitude improvement SpaceX is aiming for with F9 and Starship.
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But the lack of significant progress over the last 3 flights is a big concern. And there's still the critical unknown of whether the ship can really be reused. The reflight of the booster on this flight is impressive, but if they can't get ship reuse to work the whole program is probably pointless.
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To be fair Super Heavy has only had one failure to reach staging too: the first flight were it clearly wasn't ready. Most of the problems have been the upper stage and recovery (which SV never attempted).
Important to note that resourcing is significantly different: Apollo cost ~$250B 2020 dollars.
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How many times has he plead ignorance with "I'm not aware..." and "I haven't read it"? And the thing he decides to educate himself on is how mallowpuffs are made, FFS.
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Oversharey podcast the other day, now he's doing his goofy-man-of-the-people blue-collar photo-op. Post-budget polling must be really bad.
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Most of their posts on X get around 1k views, so that 48k follower count is pretty meaningless.
Why is Simeon getting involved? The Nats previous position on stuff like this was that it is "operational matters" that they shouldn't interfere with.
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When I looked today, there's a post with 23k views from Nov 21 about puberty blockers that definitely wasn't showing for me yesterday. I don't trust X's algorithm or their shadow-censorship or whatever happened here.
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The last couple of rounds of improvements made a big difference. It's still too small for the volume of traffic though, which means people have to be aggressive with taking the gaps. I'm fine with it in a car but I would find it unnerving on a bike.
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Their sole skeet has 9 comments, 128 likes, and 63 reskeets in about half a day. The last 10 posts they have made on Twitter have a combined total of 15 comments, 31 likes, and 17 reposts. They're getting ~2k views per post. 48k followers isn't worth shit if 95% of them are inactive.
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Can't be trusted to keep their promises, can't be trusted to care about anything they haven't promised. What good are they?