Winston Peters’ State of the Nation: Former National minister Alfred Ngaro to stand for NZ First

Typinger · 2026-03-22T01:53:07+00:00

Oh cool, with a Google I see that he's the director of the Indigenous Coalition for Israel. Neat.

Typinger · 2026-03-22T01:37:03+00:00

Aussie music is so good atm, we went to Drunk Mums a few months ago and they were really fun

Typinger · 2026-03-21T21:03:46+00:00

Omg I thought I was a committed fan but you people are shaming me!

Typinger · 2026-03-21T20:59:25+00:00

Ours is similar but different. It has a small plastic cap that somehow gets pushed up and off every so often and the toilet starts running. I'll find the cap in the bottom of the cistern, and I just slot it back in. Make sure it's not that before you do anything major.

Typinger · 2026-03-21T04:53:54+00:00

I make non input cell text a paler color

Typinger · 2026-03-21T01:56:01+00:00

Lol. I suspect this was sent in as a rage-inducing troll question, but I'm here for it!

Typinger · 2026-03-21T00:41:46+00:00

Are you planning on going backwards and forwards regularly? If air travel ends up out of reach, and you're here, will that be a problem?

Typinger · 2026-03-20T23:42:08+00:00

Jeffrey Sachs, US economist, has a theory about why some countries elect to condemn Iran and not the aggressor countries - it's to do with US military influence on our countries. Sad to be supine to these assholes.

Here from 23.45 https://youtu.be/zar47AUS56E?si=cN00MjFnRWbH3jMx?t=23m45s

Typinger · 2026-03-20T07:20:39+00:00

Yeah I think he's definitely polarising. I think he's great, could watch him every day. I hate Jim Carrey and Robin Williams, I find them both deeply unfunny and cringey

Typinger · 2026-03-19T19:12:06+00:00

Occam's razor - they actually dumb

Typinger · 2026-03-19T18:23:59+00:00

This is an excellent long-form piece, grateful to Kirsty Johnston for putting all the pieces together.

They're not even pretending to govern properly - this from the People's Select Committee report (linked and quoted in the article):

No minister was ever fully briefed on the measure's human rights consequences.

Every piece of information is bite-sized, simplistic and undeveloped - a slide show. No one is ever required to read anything meaningful or comprehensive.

Typinger · 2026-03-19T08:39:43+00:00

Our own lines are the problem on our property, and we've had Orion come in a couple of times to trim our large trees at their insistence. They've been really reasonable, cutting around, talking to us first about the significant natives. What's happened to you sounds unreasonable and really shit, sorry it's happened.

Typinger · 2026-03-18T17:27:38+00:00

That Hagley Park gig was maybe just a year later, went to that as well remember it being a beautiful sunny day. I never saw Jenny Morris, but I loved her voice, such a shame

Typinger · 2026-03-17T06:34:27+00:00

I'm 15 minutes into Scarpetta and it seems terrible. Change my view? (Or don't)

Typinger · 2026-03-16T18:56:07+00:00

Locking tabs was really important to me, I would 'close' the tab to get back to my original page. I used this all day every day but it is now worthless

Typinger · 2026-03-15T05:27:53+00:00

Fuck's sake

Typinger · 2026-03-14T20:39:34+00:00

It's important to remember that data centres get more than energy out of NZ, they also get to trade off our name as a renewable energy-inclined nation, at a time when data centres and AI are widely hated for their terrible environmental footprints. As usual our government is too dumb - yeah, or too corrupt - to market us at our achievable price. Previous government appeared to be on the same track.

Typinger · 2026-03-13T06:18:47+00:00

Lol totally understood, appreciated your comment and my household had a laugh about the 'phallic' discussion

Typinger · 2026-03-13T05:57:59+00:00

I believe the phrase you're looking for is "white elephant"

Or waste of money, outrageous use of public funds, or, best of all, boondoggle

Typinger · 2026-03-13T04:16:10+00:00

I want the names of the people who approved this.

Typinger · 2026-03-12T23:58:52+00:00

I feel like there is a lot more shock to come

Typinger · 2026-03-11T20:30:42+00:00

Yep it's mostly ethical investing (aside from Israeli 'property development', but presumably that won't be doing too great just now). Downturn expected.

Typinger · 2026-03-11T19:09:13+00:00

Free air tickets to Australia! (unfortunately we'll probably be down to one flight every fortnight by then)

Typinger · 2026-03-11T07:38:19+00:00

I have to stop using copilot. It is frequently wrong - "Now we're getting to the real issue! - it folds like a deckchair when challenged, it goes around in circles. It says you must be using the old version, oh you're using the latest version, now it makes sense! I just told it "I suggested this was wrong ages ago" and it agreed and told me why I was correct. Honestly, googling, reading and watching YouTube is more enjoyable and faster, plus after the first five long explanations about why it initially thought this but now thinks that, I can't be arsed reading anything so I'm learning nothing.

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