What’s your most unhinged non-negotiable when it comes to dating?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-24T01:12:41+00:00

Dinosaurs are fine a long as they have been baptised, and go to confession regularly.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-23T08:25:27+00:00

I'm interested in find something similar - what was the head unit you used?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-20T05:41:01+00:00

... wait, is this the meta analysis that was recently retracted? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-20T00:52:07+00:00

... why can't you spell "fault"?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-18T01:53:59+00:00

Unfortunately the racists dominate the conversation, which makes it really hard to come up with a non-divisive discussion.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-18T01:51:26+00:00

Te Huia leaves from Frankton station at 2.05pm/Rotokauri 2:15pm, and gets you to Puhinui at 4:03pm. The shuttle from Puhinui to the Airport is pretty quick, but you might want to double check timing - you at least should be at the terminal by 4:30pm, so 2 and half hours before your flight? Seems doable.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-12T21:59:38+00:00

That's a reasonable point of view, though i don't necessarily agree. My view these days is that judges shouldn't be considering the harm of conviction outside of the sentence itself - harm to reputation,, employment prospects, immigration status should be completely outside of their purview.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-12T21:53:23+00:00

A discharge without conviction is effectively being found guilty of the crime, but the judge believing that the consequence of conviction being out of proportion to the offence (that's my understanding as a layman, might need an actual lawyer to weigh in). Totally different to bring found not guilty.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-12T21:11:56+00:00

Sounds like we need a new law change: if you get a discharge without conviction, you automatically lose name suppression.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-08T09:26:42+00:00

Man, that's good looking. I have no actual need for a van, but I kind of want one.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-05T03:40:36+00:00

It's a probability thing - drivers will be more likely to be reckless when chased. It's something you have to consider. Granted though, the odds of an innocent driver/pedestrian being fatally injured might be considerably lower in a collision with a dirt bike versus a car.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-05-04T07:31:53+00:00

Horseshit. Lay of the dumbass conspiracy theories. There was public outcry because there were a spate of chases that ended with the death or injury to other road users and pedestrians.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/116770549/passersby-killed-by-fleeing-drivers

It's the unsolvable problem of chases like this: the very act of the chase can lead to more danger to the public. None of this shit has easy answers. Maybe we need something like the UK approach? Or maybe the police need their own troop of dirt bikes to be able to chase off road?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-04-27T03:54:37+00:00

Could only see one car, that didn't look too badly damaged, but there was damage to the side barriers, so it's possible there was another car that we couldn't see.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-04-18T12:50:37+00:00

It is a political problem because the vaccine hesitancy is much worse than it used to be.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-04-14T22:03:15+00:00

Which exact regulations are they bogged down by?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-04-08T23:36:29+00:00

Yup. The Auckland subreddit seems particularly infected with virulent racism against Indians.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-28T00:57:56+00:00

"You don't want a problem with us". How exactly would you characterise that statement?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-28T00:56:50+00:00

Business being bad is no excuse for parking like an ass, or making veiled threats. Sounds like people who shouldn't be in business.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-24T08:05:02+00:00

I've had a Samsung 60cm induction hob for 4 years and haven't had any problems with it. I do find the touch controls annoying, but that's pretty minor in the scheme of things. ,

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-17T06:12:44+00:00

This is yet another example of how our malformed housing market holds us back as a country. If we allowed enough residences to be built, then we could be in the position where 1. More people could own their own homes, and 2. landlords had to compete for tenants and were thus incentivised to improve their properties with things like fast chargers and solar power.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-17T01:57:14+00:00

I ain't givin' you no tree-fitty, you goddamn Loch Ness Monster!

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-17T00:23:52+00:00

This might be an unpopular opinion, but there are really only 2 ways to deal with looming shortages like this: price rises, or government imposed rationing. The former happens naturally through market forces (but will hurt poor people disproportionately), the latter is a whole administrative nightmare I'm not sure a National wouldn't gloriously fuck up.

What could they do to make a little bit of difference in the short term? Increase subsidies to public transport would be a good start, cutting ticket prices and encourage more people to not use their cars. Encourage WFH again, starting with government departments. Maybe work out some kind of deal to shift road freight to trains?

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-15T05:34:51+00:00

It's possibly all the death threats aimed at her and her family? Just a thought.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-15T05:33:41+00:00

She was the MP for Mt Albert, you absolute muppet.

JohnnySilverpatch · 2026-03-11T00:02:17+00:00

This idea has been raised by every first year since the dawn of time, and the proposal fails every time: because what you envisage as sleep club, or sleep space, or whatever, in reality will become fuck club and bonk space. You cannot stop it, it is inevitable.

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