when the US goes right, NZ goes left

The NZ election was unfortunately a year too early.

Usually NZ has less restrictive visa requirements, and is often called “Australia’s back door” due to Au/Nz free travel agreements.

Even when I’m coating them in cheese and grilling them. Still gonna use the cheese ones.

Nobody says no to double cheese.

We had the WiiU which had an entire screen in the controller.

Fallout4 had the “pip boy” phone app.

The independent city state of Galway.

oh that looks like hard work. You’re going to need to hydrate, let me go get you both some electrolytes.

5 minutes at 30% in an inverter microwave.

Yorkshire

And Lenin said, “the best way to undermine society is through its music” — Bob Duvall

It’s a fake quote from Lenin, but suitably apt.

How you eat beans and still manage to get 0 fiber is beyond me.

Hey, I saw this yesterday on SH1.

Wasn’t actually towing anything, but I can confirm it exists.

If you’re on the side of the road, I’m pulling over and checking you’re ok.

Because their jobs financing is mostly perception based.

Crime can be at an all time low, but all it takes is a politician to rile up the population about murderers and law enforcement and incarceration will end up getting more money.

Be seen as being ineffective, soft or incompetent, especially by those holding the purse strings, and people lose jobs to those who will toe the line.

This is a message to the wealthy “look how seriously we take serving you”

New Zealand’s largest private health insurance provider (Southern Cross) is “run on not-for-profit principles”.

It’s not terrible, and seems to work. I guess the caveat is that their competition is a (mostly) functioning public healthcare system.

Dude did it as “art”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-04/man-creates-fake-traffic-jam-on-google-maps-by-carting-99-phones/11929136

Or tax landlords a little more maybe.

I have a theory that the key hit boxes slowly have error introduced to them over time.

Sort of like “my phone is slow” except not, because there’s no perceivable performance loss on iPhones other than battery degradation.

A fish knows it is a fish, because that is basic self awareness to facilitate reproduction.

A fish does not know it is wet, because it does know there are alternatives.

Or, you could package it as a Pex.

• it would just need a compatible Python version
• no additionalional packaging tools need to be installed by your users
• all of the dependencies packaged together once. as they were built and tested against.
• doesn’t need installing. Doesn’t install anything. Just run it.
• doesn’t depend on pypi being accessible.

My reaction to

employment 50,000 fewer people on jobseeker

Is shockedpikachu.jpg.

Who’d have thought firing half Wellington would have made that number go up.

And it’s predicted to continue get worse for the rest of their term.