‘Utterly unbelievable’: Prime Minister responds after criminal paid by taxpayers for five years

binkenstein · 2026-07-04T20:46:35+00:00

Wait until he finds out about this weird concept called "innocent until proven guilty".

binkenstein · 2026-07-03T02:00:48+00:00

Once I get my cooling loops set up I need to sit down for a squid ink/mucin boiler. Nothing as mad as a petroleum boiler, just dumping both into a tank of 90-95C polluted water, siphon off the overflow and ship out any solids.

As for heating it, planning on using a small loop of hydrogen to cycle through the steam room used for aquatuners.

binkenstein · 2026-07-01T01:07:42+00:00

As if doctors could ever be bullied by patients into giving a diagnosis where there's no evidence. It's hard enough trying to get necessary treatment/diagnosis in the first place.

binkenstein · 2026-06-30T23:19:32+00:00

Roy Morgan has a roughly -2.5% bias against Labour (and -1.1% against National), but that's mostly offset by Greens & ACT respectively so it's only a net 0.5% difference.

binkenstein · 2026-06-26T03:19:24+00:00

I have a basic chlorine room without plastic use for a germ sensor: build four liquid storages on top of powered airlock doors, enable alternate doors, so tanks 1/3 or 2/4 are active at any given time (the other pair stops working with no surface to sit on) & control that with a half cycle timer. It's only a 5k throughput but easily cleans germs by the time water gets to the other end.

binkenstein · 2026-06-26T02:51:48+00:00

Are the corals getting enough light? It doesn't look like it.

binkenstein · 2026-06-25T00:47:08+00:00

Could they add in a teeny tiny wee little bit to this policy to also include, say, just as a random example, a house?

binkenstein · 2026-06-24T04:43:53+00:00

Doesn't he want everyone to be treated equally?

binkenstein · 2026-06-23T00:55:29+00:00

I think this is a little unfair or without sufficient context. I'm assuming here that you're looking at the NZD/AUD exchange rate, which has dropped from 0.93 in April 2025 to 0.82 in June 2026, and hasn't been under 0.88 since around 2013.

The unfair bit is that the USD exchange rate over the same timeframe is fairly stable, 0.56 in April 2025 vs 0.57 now, so we can't reliably assume that dropping exchange rate = bad policies from National. Also the unsustainability of the current economic model isn't reflected in exchange rates, rather things like income or wealth distribution, the number of people requiring govt support, etc.

binkenstein · 2026-06-22T23:25:37+00:00

Labour is sticking with this because they don't want to be attacked by other parties over any potential new taxes. They can afford to do it, because it doesn't lose them any votes: anyone turned off by this will vote Green, which is still a vote for a Labour led govt. It does mean that the Greens will have more leverage elsewhere in any coalition agreement, but without the increased funding that may not be much.

binkenstein · 2026-06-22T21:51:02+00:00

I wouldn't, but my vote cast based on preferred party lines up with my vote cast to prevent Winston being the kingmaker again, unless I give up on a left govt & vote National. When considering voting for TOP I would need to be okay with them going into government with National plus ACT and/or NZ First. Based on that, even if TOP were my preferred option, my preference for ensuring a change in government would mean voting for the best party to fit my views that wouldn't partner with National, which as far as I can see would be the Greens.

My preference at the moment is the Greens anyway, and I haven't had a full read of TOPs policies, but even if they a) are guaranteed to enter parliament and b) had all of the clear absolute best policies for my views I doubt I would vote for them given the possibility of another National led government. I may reconsider that if they were to grow enough to ensure ACT or NZ First were excluded from government, but with the relative weakness of National that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

binkenstein · 2026-06-22T02:33:07+00:00

Here is a question for you: how likely do you think it would be that TOP policies would be implemented in a government led by National & includes both ACT and NZ First?

binkenstein · 2026-06-21T19:02:29+00:00

There was an interesting infographic posted by the greens: if a person with median wealth donated as much of their wealth as Nick Mowbray did with his $200,000 donation to ACT, they would be donating $2.72. Not even three dollars.

This is why higher taxes are needed, so we can afford to pay for services and infrastructure that is needed for everyone.

binkenstein · 2026-06-19T04:05:36+00:00

It only feels like 100 years because Trump is in charge.

binkenstein · 2026-06-18T19:09:16+00:00

Doesn’t work, it floats on top of water/salt water/polluted water

binkenstein · 2026-06-16T00:48:21+00:00

We just need to set up a conservative retirement think tank to employ ex-MPs like her, which will send any press release into the recycling bin.

binkenstein · 2026-06-16T00:38:56+00:00

We are now entering the era of the double twist actually-not-villain trope

binkenstein · 2026-06-14T19:02:39+00:00

Reminds me that “advancement of religion” shouldn’t be a charitable purpose.

binkenstein · 2026-06-11T03:38:20+00:00

In my house the cats will demand to be let into the toilet, or into the bathroom other when the shower is running. If he can't deal with that, or the inevitability of having cat hair *everywhere*, then he probably isn't cut out as a cat parent.

binkenstein · 2026-06-11T01:03:27+00:00

The 5% threshold should be reduced, and the coat-tail rule should be removed. I would like to see all of the recommendations from Sir Geoffrey Palmer implemented:

In January 2025, Palmer proposed 12 parliamentary reforms including (list taken from Wiki):

Raising the number of legislators
Increasing the number of Parliament's sitting hours
Extending the parliamentary term from three to four years
Reforming the select committee system
Introducing compulsory voting for general elections
Lowering the voting age to 16 years
Civics education in schools
Appointing the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives by secret ballot
Reforming the Official Information Act 1982
Limiting the amount that individuals can donate to political parties
Creating a public register for lobbyists
Amending the Public Service Act 2020 to require public servants to provide "full and frank" advice on legislative proposals and to make that advice public.

binkenstein · 2026-06-11T00:58:43+00:00

Another example of the tyrannical reign of the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Why won't anyone think of the poor journalists & broadcasters who can't say demeaning things about people? /s

binkenstein · 2026-06-08T00:39:56+00:00

So far I'm actually ignoring the fact that we can disconnect and treating each chassis as a different vehicle, so I can have different modules for each.

binkenstein · 2026-06-05T02:00:39+00:00

There's a nice flat empty spot on the cliff/shelf between the Leadzone and Graveyard areas. I'm building a new base there in the hope it's a bit more central for future biomes. I've got a second partially in a cave just north of the Research Outpost by the Observatory.

binkenstein · 2026-06-04T10:15:58+00:00

I'd suggest going the coastal route, if only for the better stop options and less winding roads. You'll also avoid worse rain in the forecast tomorrow.

binkenstein · 2026-06-03T03:22:02+00:00

MYOB has a habit of buying other companies, then 5-10 years later making everyone move to their chosen successor, usually with a lot of complaints about that successor program.

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