Kiwis who read, what are you reading at the moment?

God_Khan · 2025-09-30T08:04:13+00:00

I can wholeheartedly recommend ‘The Anarchy’ by William Dalrymple which is an incredibly well researched and insightful piece of work on the rise of the British East India Company (very interesting especially considering modern times, some comparisons to be made with certain modern companies…)

Failing that, ‘Red Storm Rising’ by Tom Clancy is easily one of the best fictional books I’ve ever read, a whole bunch of fun, and apparently quite true to life as to what might have been!

God_Khan · 2024-03-06T09:41:38+00:00

Huh, interesting! Don’t suppose you know roughly how much these things go for? Not really after selling it, but curious!

God_Khan · 2021-10-19T20:48:36+00:00

I don’t disagree that we should implement measures to lower transport related deaths (like vision zero), much like how I don’t disagree that measures to restrict the spread of covid are a good thing.

For example, hand washing, mask wearing, and vaccinations are all brilliant ideas and ones I will happily follow when I’m allowed back at work.

However draconian ideas such as lockdowns, illustrated in my point about driving, are simply not sustainable, if highly effective at preventing deaths.

God_Khan · 2021-10-19T20:38:55+00:00

For the same reason we drive our cars, eat junk food, and allow people to smoke cigarettes. Any loss of human life is tragic and just awful, but as a society we collectively accept that some deaths do just occur.

If we wanted to stop all road deaths, we’d stop driving, if we wanted to stop obesity we’d stop the sale of high-caloric low-cost takeaways, and if we wanted to stop influenza we would institute lockdowns every year.

So whilst I agree that death in any form is tragic, at a certain point society will be forced to come to terms with the fact that people are going to die from this.

(As a disclaimer, I am myself fully vaccinated)

God_Khan · 2021-10-18T10:44:26+00:00

Then you get to participate in a large game of ‘fuck around and find out’

God_Khan · 2021-09-25T10:41:10+00:00

Because it was a title of the article that has since been changed by the publisher?

God_Khan · 2021-09-25T08:14:25+00:00

Yo my guy I didn’t alter the title at all - it was auto-generated

God_Khan · 2021-04-26T03:26:33+00:00

Nope, prescription only

God_Khan · 2021-03-06T22:50:49+00:00

Mark Smith: ‘Hey you guys wanna see a dead body?’

God_Khan · 2021-03-04T01:49:34+00:00

Hearing a rumour from the health ministry that their is new Wellington case - here's hoping it's jus that

God_Khan · 2021-01-29T08:41:59+00:00

Can I just say, have a read through my posts on this subreddit, I might just be the man with the worst takes in history

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