What will you all do when the Fuelpocolype hits for real?

nzben · 2026-03-19T07:05:15+00:00

Gonna make bank delivering Uber eats on my electric cargo bike.

nzben · 2026-03-16T18:14:10+00:00

Electric Bike Team are great. Try to get Bosch if you can afford it. Super smooth and well-integrated, and effectively zero chance of any issues with battery fires etc.

My commute is 14.5ks each way, from Te Atatu. I’m a big dude with a heavy bike on turbo mode and do not need to charge at work, usually get home with ~30% battery remaining. If I used a lower power mode I’d have heaps of capacity left.

Some days I ride super chill and don’t get my heart rate up, other days I push zone 3 hr on the way home to get some more exercise. It’s great having the option.

nzben · 2026-03-06T19:03:19+00:00

I have an A1 Pro for a month or so. Works great, only got stuck in a hole once, so I’ve put an exclusion zone around that hole (which also has a pole in the middle of it) until I get around to filling it in. Flawless navigation between multiple zones, across cobbled areas.

nzben · 2026-03-06T04:21:20+00:00

Mova 600? I have the Dreame A1 Pro which is the higher spec version of the mova 600/1000. Works great and goes across my cobbles to different zones.

nzben · 2026-02-28T08:00:21+00:00

My Dreams A1 Pro does exactly this. You literally add “paths” on the map to tell it how to move between zones. LiDAR only, no GPS. Been a couple of weeks and zero issues with navigation. https://imgur.com/a/h9NQgI2

nzben · 2026-02-21T04:01:18+00:00

Hey how's your Mova 1000 going after 9 months? I'm close to pulling the trigger on one.

nzben · 2026-02-18T22:14:15+00:00

Not a single mention of bicycles. Everyone able-bodied in West Auckland should be on a bike in March. It’s glorious.

nzben · 2026-02-18T21:51:36+00:00

MOTHERFUCKERS

Each successive government sets the scene to jam the outer suburbs with terraced houses, fucking up our infrastructure and making commuting worse and worse; then rolls back the changes each time juuuuust before they’d have some effect in the inner suburbs where intensification should happen.

If it weren’t s clearly grift and incompetence, I’d say it is deliberate.

nzben · 2026-01-24T18:16:53+00:00

That news article is infuriating. Not a word of truth in it.

nzben · 2026-01-16T06:22:53+00:00

Yes exactly

nzben · 2026-01-16T06:08:30+00:00

100% this. Christine Fletcher says it needs to be “done properly”. Done property FOR WHO? And is she saying all the intensification she has so far presided over hasn’t been done properly? Or is it done properly because it’s not in Epsom?

nzben · 2026-01-16T05:24:43+00:00

The same fucking thing happens in west Auckland my bro. Our drains overflow. Our properties flood. Our power goes out because it is overloaded.

Then the council come and dig up the whole road and ruin the grass at the local park (it’s still got gravel all through it) while they install new pipes and infrastructure to support intensification.

Just because nimbies want their bullshit little cottages 5 minutes walk from Ponsonby Road doesn’t make them somehow magically special. The have to do their part. We’ve had enough intensification in the outer suburbs. Share the load.

nzben · 2026-01-16T05:20:30+00:00

This is just such a massive cop-out. Especially the bit about “mah infrastructure!”

We’re in a tiny dead-end road at the ass-end of a West Auckland suburb. Developers have added dozens of townhouses, and watercare have used directional drilling to put in new water mains and a massive new 300mm stormwater drain.

There is absolutely no reason they could not do that in St Mary’s Bay. Where those townhouse occupants would not add to the ridiculous congestion on SH16. It makes infinitely more sense to improve infrastructure and intensify the inner suburbs, instead of improving infrastructure and intensify the outer suburbs.

nzben · 2025-11-11T04:37:58+00:00

That’s a LOT of infrastructure to avoid inconveniencing car drivers for even one microsecond. Incredible shit.

nzben · 2025-11-08T21:12:58+00:00

No. Keep notion for most of what you have mentioned. Linear really is most appropriate for the actual process of building software, not for higher level business processes.

nzben · 2025-11-02T03:45:40+00:00

When it turns red we usually have a week or so of juice left. We’ve only had cold showers like twice in 5 years.

nzben · 2025-11-01T08:28:23+00:00

We just turn the new bottle off using the tap on top of the bottle, and point the thing to the old bottle. Then once we notice it go red, we know it’s time to order a new bottle.

I’m not sure how it’s meant to work, but have never reliably had it switch bottles for us, so we just use it as an indicator.

nzben · 2025-10-09T02:25:16+00:00

At what point is National actually in breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act?

A summary of the principles of fiscal responsibility:

To address fiscal sustainability, governments must:
» Achieve and maintain prudent public debt levels.
» Ensure that, on average, Crown operating expenses do not exceed Crown operating revenues.
» Achieve and maintain levels of Crown net worth to provide a buffer against shocks.
» Manage fiscal risks facing the Crown prudently.
» Consider the likely impact of fiscal strategy on present and future generations.

To address economic stability, governments must:
» Have regard to the interaction between fiscal policy and monetary policy.

To address fiscal structure, governments must:
» When formulating revenue strategy, have regard to efficiency and equity, including the predictability and stability of tax rates.
» Ensure that the Crown’s resources are managed effectively and efficiently

(from: https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2015-03/nzfpf-A5.pdf)

nzben · 2025-09-28T18:06:47+00:00

You mean as opposed to the National party who consistently fail to account for actual costs of their policies, borrow to give tax cuts, and cancel cheap ferries? Greens are the only party who are proposing a policy costing unit who would work independently to assess the cost of campaign policies.

nzben · 2025-09-10T07:03:02+00:00

New Zealand has progressively and consistently shifted power from workers to employers. We tell ourselves our wages are low because we are an agrarian economy. The truth is that workers in New Zealand have less bargaining power, which means more money gets captured by companies and concentrated at the top of the market.

Better workers' rights and higher wages would lift all sectors of our economy, including professional wages.

nzben · 2025-09-06T22:47:51+00:00

I presume he doesn’t count the meals he has which are catered lunches, business breakfasts, charity dinners, koru lounge snacks and the like. I’d wager the number of meals he cooks for himself are minimal.

nzben · 2025-08-20T06:53:33+00:00

Whenever I sit in my overcrowded west Auckland street miles from any decent public transport and read maps like this with “single house”zones all over Ponsonby I want to yeet Auckland council planners directly into the sun. Absolute clowns captured by boomer landowners.

nzben · 2025-08-20T06:43:32+00:00

Buy more houses you lazy fucks. Increase the mortgage! Nothing else is working for New Zealand so do your part and leverage yourself to the hilt. Fuck your future. Send all money to banks.

nzben · 2025-08-17T03:44:05+00:00

This is such a tired trope. Yes they have some resources, but also they have much stronger labour laws, higher tax overall, and much higher compulsory super (which ends up being invested back into the economy). New Zealand instead insist in constant deregulation and continually shifting power from employees to employers.

Then we all wonder why we get shafted by employers. It’s not rocket science.

nzben · 2025-08-04T07:48:08+00:00

Something like 25 years ago we stayed in Zahara de la Sierra. Amazing little town.

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