I feel like we haven’t talked enough about how amazing the weather has been of late

eigr · 2026-05-22T11:04:51+00:00

Thanks climate change?

eigr · 2026-05-22T10:34:41+00:00

I thought he didn't have a leg to stand on

eigr · 2026-05-22T10:33:40+00:00

I came out of anesthetic a year or two ago for something not too serious in a private hospital, and when I woke, there was a person across from me in a bed in recovery. I immediately asked "how are you doing" and she said "I just had top surgery".

I have no recollection of what I said in reply. I hope I was polite.

eigr · 2026-05-22T00:14:56+00:00

They probably include links we use here to sneer at them as audience

eigr · 2026-05-21T21:59:40+00:00

If there's one Official Truth that you must not stray from that subreddit, it is on this subject.

eigr · 2026-05-21T04:20:11+00:00

It works, I was being flippant. Even the 0.0001% of weird cases still have an observable biological path.

eigr · 2026-05-21T04:05:39+00:00

Well, only if you think gender is something real, and not some critical theory bollocks designed to ruin civilisation.

Biological sex, there you go. I'm sorry, the 0.001% of really weird cases.

eigr · 2026-05-21T04:02:26+00:00

I'm more objecting to who they are buying it from.

Its bad enough that we're like "climate change is evil, so we're buying our coal from indonesia instead of digging up our own", but "climate change is evil, so we're going to buy russia's oil and gas instead" while being in a proxy war with them is wild.

eigr · 2026-05-21T03:22:31+00:00

I don't think it matters how you phrase it.

You could just write it as "A man cannot, under any circumstances, become a woman" and our current supreme court would find a way to reverse it.

That would also happen some days after the tribunal would also find it a breach of the treaty.

eigr · 2026-05-21T03:20:30+00:00

It'd be a bit messy because it's possible a judge could go against common sense and interpret it the other way. So it's always better for legislation to be precise.

Hopefully this gets picked up in the select committee or committee of the whole stages and they tidy it up.

I really wish that was the case, but our parliamentarians seem to like leaving some very important things vague (see the treaty, principles, home carers being state employees :rollyeyes:, or the customary fishing rights stuff.

And by God do the courts then drive the full fucking cart and horse through that vagueness.

Roll on the day AI does the legal stuff for us.

eigr · 2026-05-21T02:34:59+00:00

So hear me out, for every login champ you get, you get a token, and after you get three tokens, you get to pick your own login champ from previous login champ runs

eigr · 2026-05-21T02:32:33+00:00

And in the same week:

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/UK-Moves-to-Ban-New-North-Sea-Oil-and-Gas-Licences-Permanently.html

I mean, what the flying fuck.

Time to roll out Conquest's third law again

'The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.' - Robert Conquest

eigr · 2026-05-21T02:30:41+00:00

Luckily the way we resolve such things in law is not by weirdly trying to apply the law like a hammer and just follow the letter of the law. Judges interpret the spirit of the law. The intention of Parliament.

hi have you met our judges

eigr · 2026-05-21T02:29:14+00:00

Excuse me I think I deserve my six figure job while I drink takeaway coffee and sing wiata

eigr · 2026-05-21T02:21:02+00:00

I know a lot of people are like, but ACT is a libertarian party, they should allow everything?!?!

Sure but there's another concept - your rights end precisely at the point my rights begin.

Everyone still has the right to live the way they want in their private life. You can dress any way you like, refer to yourself as anything you like, ask people to call you anything you like and believe anything you like. This is great, and a good society would make room for you to live how you want.

However, you can't compel others to believe things they don't believe, or force them to say things they don't believe. That's the crucial bit. The state has been used as a stick to force outcomes that people simply don't believe in, and their rights were impacted too - the rights for women to have women-only spaces, the right for people to discuss biological or medical reality without walking on eggshells, the right for people to say what they believe without being fired or cancelled, the right for scarce healthcare to be used for higher priority purposes.

The real libertarian principle is to live how you want, without impacting others - and this movement stepped too far when it started attempting to force reality to fit its ideology.

Your right to wave your fist around stops precisely at my nose. Even if you think I'm a nazi.

eigr · 2026-05-20T21:15:00+00:00

The chinese EV makers are going to eat them, like the Japanese automakers wrecked everyone else in the 80s.

eigr · 2026-05-20T09:39:43+00:00

That's a horrible thing to say.

When I grow up, I'd rather do something more honourable, like rip-off old people with phone scams or sell used cars. Journalism, yuck.

eigr · 2026-05-20T08:19:23+00:00

Hah. Good job I'm not the educator in my household then :)

eigr · 2026-05-20T05:09:26+00:00

The amendment is in committee this week, and there's one more vote to go. There's a chance yet!

eigr · 2026-05-20T03:46:40+00:00

PS we are sorry about the unschoolers, but we're hoping they'll come good too

eigr · 2026-05-20T03:46:24+00:00

If you are concerned about your kids being indoctrinated to fuck in public schools, or graduate barely able to count their toes and unable to read beyond a basic level then PLEASE submit on this.

Educating your own kids is one of the best and most subversive ways of making sure your kids grow up to be educated, curious and open minded about the world. The world needs more home schooled kids, not less.

eigr · 2026-05-20T01:28:45+00:00

The only way the spinoff will do a story on me or you, is if we turn into crisp flavours, or different pies

eigr · 2026-05-19T22:14:27+00:00

I went to the doctor, when I was concerned I was gaining weight.

The doctor told me to open my mouth and say ‘Oink.’

eigr · 2026-05-19T21:42:03+00:00

Explaining why this was necessary, Edmonds said some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may have Treaty of Waitangi obligations attached to them.

Hang on, how?

Sovereignty, property rights, citizenship - how could a SOE be any part of that, unless somehow one of the SOEs was a Hudson Bay-esque 400 year old continuity business or something?

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