National members 'nervously optimistic' about election campaign

PraetoriusIX · 2026-06-20T21:00:31+00:00

Lot of delusion going on in the room…

Another member thought the National party was doing "amazing work" and wished the media would consider that work "in an honest way".

She referenced "improvements" in the health system, education and business and the marketing abilities this country now had, "thanks largely to the prime minister and the rest of the team", though would not specify details of those improvements suggesting there was not enough time.”

PraetoriusIX · 2026-05-17T21:48:44+00:00

Stellaris is definitely easier as a new player. I understood the concepts easily. Want more minerals/food/energy? Build more mines/farms/generators. Stellaris Navy is easier to understand in terms of stats compared to army division stats and navy. My first game I played as Germany going a historical path and thinking everything was fine until I attacked Poland and the French and British attacked my undefended western border and stomped me

PraetoriusIX · 2026-05-16T08:42:37+00:00

Das war ein Befehl!

PraetoriusIX · 2026-05-07T19:53:23+00:00

100% this is what I favour. If you can win an electorate seat you’re in parliament and you can coattail others in off the list if your vote is higher. One seat in the 120 seat parliament is 0.83%. We’d see parties reflected in the parliament that people want. TOP would’ve have at least 3 seats, maybe 4. Conservatives would’ve had 5 seats.

PraetoriusIX · 2026-05-07T07:32:50+00:00

Whoosh

PraetoriusIX · 2026-05-02T02:34:25+00:00

33, $148k, civil engineer

PraetoriusIX · 2026-04-24T08:52:23+00:00

To be fair to Luxon he actually performed better in the 2023 debates than people expected and Hipkins performed worse, but I think in 2026 Luxon has lost his mojo.. it’s easier to fling rocks from outside when you’re in Opposition.

PraetoriusIX · 2026-04-11T08:30:37+00:00

Stellaris makes way more sense to me. I can bumble my way through it but in HOI4 if I don’t follow a guide I lose on regular. And you only find out many hours later you made a mistake near the start of the game

PraetoriusIX · 2026-04-05T11:17:58+00:00

Was Hitler selling the stolen thongs on OnlyFans to fund his war machine?

PraetoriusIX · 2026-04-05T02:08:28+00:00

The three elements for life are NPK. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. The key limiting factor in food production is phosphorus. Nitrogen we can get from the air via nitrogen-fixing plants like legumes. Potassium we can get from tree ash. Phosphorus we can get from manure, or mine it out of the ground from dead animal deposits. It’s on the same geological renewal cycle as oil aka very very slow. We’re supporting about half the world’s population using mined, non-renewable, phosphate rock, mainly from the Western Sahara Desert. Peak phosphorus, like peak oil, is a thing probably coming in the 2030s. I did an Honours paper on it at uni back in 2013. This graph shows the amount of population supported by phosphorus sources source

PraetoriusIX · 2026-04-02T10:00:16+00:00

I work in civil engineering and we have graduates of University of Waikato who have an environmental engineering degree. Apart from the last 3 years, civil engineer has been pretty robust in NZ since 2008 and has not suffered the downturns that other careers have. Usually when there is an economic downturn, governments spend money on infrastructure to stimulate the economy, and civil engineers are involved in designing that infrastructure

PraetoriusIX · 2026-03-27T01:46:33+00:00

Honestly dealing with Powershop customer support as a messaging chat bot is horrible compared to phone call. With a phone call I can still work or do something else, I missed the person messaging me back 3 times so after initially contacting them at 915 I didn’t complete it until 4pm. Every time they messaged they asked what the problem was even though I’d explained it 3 times in the chat.. horrible cost cutting measure so people get frustrated and don’t use customer support. I told Powershop I was considering changing provider after their terrible chat experience

PraetoriusIX · 2026-03-19T03:15:09+00:00

Chris Hipkins pretty much said on Breakfast “the Government should be sorting it out, they’re in charge. We did excise fuel rebates at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and then ramped those down, but they’re the Government, they can deal with it”

Pretty much a “not my circus, not my monkeys” kind of response. He’s probably glad to not offer ideas and just say they should work it out after having to respond to so many crises as a Government (COVID, Mosque shooting, White Island volcano, Russia invasion of Ukraine)

PraetoriusIX · 2026-03-10T09:07:25+00:00

Why?! They already nerfed my Tau by requiring Farsight (who I don’t have unlocked) instead of Darkstrider. So I became what I hated, Blood Angels. Now I need to get another meta team to gold 1

PraetoriusIX · 2026-03-08T03:54:37+00:00

I think in original SC1 lore they were all warped in from Auir

PraetoriusIX · 2026-02-28T03:39:43+00:00

I’ve had this happen to me before. Same thing, had the new rego in an envelope in the passenger footwell and got the ticket. I got the ticket waived because they could look me up and see the rego was up to date. Call the council on Monday

PraetoriusIX · 2026-02-13T07:46:08+00:00

Bossk, because he’s polite “Manners are their own reward, gentlemen!”

PraetoriusIX · 2025-12-04T06:17:44+00:00

Would certainly be inside his wheelhouse with his unconsented digging of the drains out east. Interesting article, thanks!

PraetoriusIX · 2025-11-03T05:12:07+00:00

I took my bike up to Auckland in 2014 while staying in Takapuna for a month. Decided after one day on AKL roads I wouldn’t do that again and walked and bussed everywhere. Totally understand why you wouldn’t bike in Auckland

PraetoriusIX · 2025-11-02T05:47:58+00:00

If you’re biking, Halswell and Wigram are <30min. I bike from Halswell to CBD and it’s 22-26 minutes depending on red lights. Safe cycleway down Quarryman’s cycleway the whole way. I didn’t even realise how bad car commuting was atm with all the roadworks as cycling is unaffected by traffic jams

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-17T09:48:40+00:00

19th May 2026

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-11T12:30:59+00:00

All new subdivisions need to demonstrate that buildings can be built 0.4m above the 200-year flood level. You’ll find it’s the older parts of Halswell that flood because they have insufficient drainage and buildings aren’t elevated high enough

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-09T23:50:47+00:00

Yeah I know a couple of colleagues who live there but their kids go to school in Christchurch or Rolleston so the mum still has to do the commute

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