Given you revert to pejoratives so readily, I have nothing further. Good day!
TagMeInSkipIGotThis
joined 2 years ago
There are (and/or have been) more than 5 nuclear powers*, that's not the only thing that sets them apart.
"Whataboutism" is a very convenient way to disengage from the point I was making. Regardless, if China must be repelled from Taiwan, and there is only one position in that conflict we can justifiably take - what is the justification? Why can we only side with a potential US led alliance instead of choosing any other side or sitting it out?
Sweet, you've done Russia & China, now do the USA, France & the UK? These are the 5 permanent members of the security council, and i'd guess probably not coincidentally are the 5 empires that survived the aftermath of WW2 and are all responsible for historic and ongoing questionable behaviour.
Obviously there are differing amounts of good or bad any one of these imperial countries might have, are, or will do - but you can't pretend that there is one perfectly good or one perfectly bad empire. That suggests that there is a variety of positions to take on any future conflict between those powers.
If conflict occurs is where & when NZ's choices get constrained. We then need to make deliberations about how we can guarantee our sovereignty, and who could, or couldn't forcibly change decisions about who we ally with at any given point. And in today's day & age what sort of reprisal attacks could (and would likely) be made either directly against our territory, against our citizens or our infrastructure.
All of which to say is that the decision is not at all black & white, and the balance of decision making will change over time. Particularly if the US led alliance descends into the worst of their impulses it would become more & more likely that arguments get made that they're all just as bad as each other and there really is no moral right choice. If you're an anti-imperialist you'd probably say 'yeah duh!' to that.
Think it wasn’t far off a normal bus fare, but it’s free to the hospital where my partner worked at the time.
(I am not a construction / civil engineer)
If they pulled the first 10 rows of seats that’d probably add 5m in each direction which while still a small ground internationally would make it pretty comparable to other NZ grounds.
Our big cities don’t need dual purpose stadiums, Dunedin & Hamilton have proved that.
Watching the cricket and wondering if sanity prevails and Auckland opts for a downtown football shaped stadium for football codes instead of upgrading Eden Park (again), could they revamp the stands? Reduce some of the size, move them around, change it up such that Eden Park could become a better sized cricket ground?
Yeah that’s the easiest comparison. You use an app and put your pick up & drop off points and then a bus like a big transit van will get routed past you. So it’s less predictable when you get to your destination as it might do more drop offs or pick ups. My partner used it a bit and reckoned 2/5 trips would be only her onboard and direct to work.
Any increase to minimum wage at least close to inflation is at least 2 years off in New Zealand so in at least the short term there would be pain to those that are already pay cheque to pay cheque.
I've not used Auckland PT, but Wellington's is definitely decent, probably depending on where you live. I think the trains would work better if they were faster, and thus more frequent - its probably difficult to make them much bigger given the platform lengths.
Some areas the bus services are a bit borderline, but would work better with less private vehicles to contend with. And to make PT even better some smaller busses with dynamic routing (like is trialled in Heretaunga-Hawkes Bay) could be the missing link that makes cross network travel much better.
The only thing is the routing algorithm would need work because up here what's tended to happen is that they've kinda just become large subsidised taxis for individual or groups going point to point rather than a vehicle travelling across the network picking up & dropping off along the way.
Yeah, I mean setting aside non-graphical OS's (DOS, various flavours of *nix) that i've installed, i've used linux, windows & macs in the last 10 years and done the OS install on each of them and there is essentially no difference between the three that would hold back anyone who has done an install using one of them to do any of the others.
I can't accurately assess how difficult it might be for someone who has never done an install, ive been using & breaking computers since the 80s so have done it so many times that any quirks that pop up are just quirks, not deal breakers.
view more: next ›
Yeah, seems like a pretty bad hot take to me.