A kugelblitz power station. With a full set of plans to build another.
Something in the order of 10GW power output. Solve energy generation and have a viable spaceship drive in one go.
My partner is kiwi Chinese, 3rd gen NZ, but full blood.
She experiences a fair amount of casual racism. But it is pretty low key, very uncommon to have anything overt.
Individually, most people are nice.
To be fair, they may not have much to be interested in, in the DULL mens club.
I bet most are just interested in something different.
I've lurked in some DMC posts, there doesn't seem to be much excitement.
I see "smart home" tech the same way.
So now there will finally be wage equality. All the previous males will be getting a 23% pay cut.
Well having a personal car is expensive...but well not exactly unnecessary. Wellington and Auckland have reasonable public transport. Bike lanes are not a thing really.
So close.
NZ has always had a racist underbelly, they have become more emboldened since trump 1.... with trump 2 I fear it will get worse.
I was thinking of going into far more detail.....but the comment was already getting long.
I would characterize it differently.
- Labour was hugely popular, I agree, but the popularity left when Jacinda Ardern left. She was a extremely charismatic figure; and Labour was at the end of two terms (6 years); with the halo effect gone a lot of the poor decisions they made were highlighted (a lot of the times unfairly).
- National along with Act and NZ First, pushed hard on the government debt rhetoric during the last election. Blaming Labour for inflation, which it had little control over, but it didn't matter the populous were hurting from low wage growth and high inflation. They were looking for a change.
- The center right bloc won with a decent majority, though not specular.
- National fucked up hard! during the negotiations with Act and NZ First. Luxon in a rush to form a government; gave away so much it is frankly baffling.
- In NZ politics:
- The Green Party has stated they will never work with National or Act.
- Labour have said they will not work with Act.
- This forces Act to only be able to side with National, from Nationals point of view Act should be a minor player on the right of National.
- NZ First are a bit of a wild card, Winston Peters the leader is an old cunning and in my opinion untrustworthy ally.
- Te Pati Maori (TPM) will work with both parties, which ever gives them the most of what they want.
- National could have gone with TPM or NZF along with Act to form a government, they choose to go with NZF and between Winston Peters and David Seymour; got played like a fiddle. In one crazy political power play, Luxon had a meeting setup to negotiate with Winston and David, they didn't bother showing up and made him come to them in another city.
I could go on but, the politics here is just as complex as anywhere else. Overall we have shifted right, further than we traditionally have but not too much further.
The current government has made some truly stupid calls, and has scored a lot of own goals. Their popularity is very low this early in a parliamentary term. They have been in for a little more than a year; if things keep going the way they are, they may be the first one term government we have had in a long time. Our term of 3 years, is short, so most governments get more than one term to show what they are made of.
From RNZ
One attendee at the rally told AFP he thought Musk was making the gesture as a joke.
"He's very humorous, and he uses a lot of sarcasm. So when he did that on the stage, I don't think he meant it," said Brandon Galambos, a 29-year-old pastor and tech worker.
This is complete bullshit, you don't get to make a joke about being a Nazi, when you are on the world stage. It is like joking about carrying a bomb at the boarding gate in the airport. People will take you seriously.
Musk is an idiot, he has been sliding further right for the last decade.
This was unambiguously aimed at the far right, it may not be precisely a Sieg Heil, but those he was trying to reach know what he means.
If someone is proposing a simple solution to a complex problem, there is a good chance they don't understand it or they are trying to control your opinions.
If you receive some information (no matter how) and you feel a strong emotion, be extra skeptical.
Well that is great news.
I killed my pebble a few years ago. I tried a few others, currently wearing a bangle.js which is ok, but it isn't as good as my old pebble.