ardrigh

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Eddie Clark

The classic "It is not for lack of trying, though." Yeah, like finishing writing his books. He's being lazy and having a whinge for being called out on it

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BlueShiftNZ

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This research has come up several times at a big climate conference: A huge majority of people are worried about climate change and want governments to do more to control the crisis. BUT they think they are in a tiny minority and nobody else cares. Everybody (almost) cares! You are not alone 🧪

Climate Change Actions Are Far More Popular Than People in U.S. Realizewww.scientificamerican.com “False social reality” obscures widespread U.S. support for climate protection measures

The Tobacco Industry running this Minister's office will be overjoyed that this government is making it easier to get addicted to nicotine and smoking. This government is anti-health www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco productswww.rnz.co.nz Casey Costello's order to halve the tax is "something that tobacco companies would have been keen to see," an expert says.

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This 🧵is tu meke 😂

Peter Thiel doesn't even know what peach teats are...

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Dr Neil and Mr Price

Peter Thiel sits in on the table, he doesn't thank the bus driver and he has never earned a chocolate fish

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Front page headline was "Police trying new approaches to get more cops" So, slipping $1 "recruitment payment" into people's drinks, roving press gangs kidnapping people into the police for service on Stuart Island or Hokitika www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Police eligibility criteria extended to increase potential pool for recruitswww.rnz.co.nz Changes include allowing people on their restricted licence to apply to become officers.

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Manufactured famine

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Dr Lucy Stewart

As a scientist obviously I'm all for research & the potential for new technologies to give us new solutions - *but also* it's increasingly obvious that things like methane vaccines are being used as an excuse to do nothing, now, because something might come down the line. It's been decades.

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The thing I find most frustrating about lack of commitment on emissions reduction (not offsetting) is that there are so many things we can do *right now* which are effective, cheaper than the high-emissions alternatives, and have additional benefits. The cancelled ferries are a prime example.

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There's no place for political violence in a nation that wouldn't exist if a violent riot at Boston Harbour hadn't ultimately escalated into a revolutionary shooting war.

"There's no place in America for political violence."

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In the great battle between science and reckons...science wins...AGAIN...

Well Simeon Brown your ideological, fact free policy on raising speed limits is a bust: The experts said no The evidence says no The public says no Auckland Council said no in an 18 to 3 vote

Large majority of Kiwis want slower speeds, despite Govt policy to raise themwww.nzherald.co.nz A survey by NZTA has found that Kiwis like the lower speeds the Government is changing.

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Very good article from Simon Wilson in the NZH this morning. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-buil...

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so xbox game pass has exited their "build user base" phase and entered their "jack up the price slowly until one day you realize you're effectively paying them for a new console every year" phase, huh

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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"The problem is, Simeon Brown is wrong. Not just wrong in my opinion, but wrong in regard to the facts." #nzpol

A blanket of misinformation - Greater Aucklandwww.greaterauckland.org.nz Two old sayings have been on my mind lately. The first is: “The pen is mightier than the sword”, describing the power of language and communication to help or to harm. The other, which captures the sp...

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When media faithfully relay a Minister's lies about traffic speed rules. @greaterauckland.bsky.social

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The National Party today announced its new crime-prevention strategy, 'MP Fast-Track.' Luxon said "if someone commits the right type of crime we really want them to be doing that to the nation," decrying the loss of opportunity presented by crimes being perpetrated only on local communities.

A prominent National Party figure Siva Kilari, who this month heaped praise on the party’s crime reduction record, once “duped” a couple out of $125,000, court documents obtained by Stuff reveal. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

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Sponge cities aren't always the answer - especially for low-lying coastal cities such as Otautahi newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/16/s...

Sponge cities often aren't the answer to floodingnewsroom.co.nz Opinion: When the water table is already very high and there's more heavy rainfall, a few rain gardens and wetlands won't save us, writes Helen Rutter.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈

Sadly it has become clear that some countries are emitting more of the ozone depleting chemicals and the ozone hole is likely to start getting bigger again This is from 2014 but I'm pretty sure I've seen a more recent report www.nature.com/articles/nge...

Newly detected ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere - Nature Geosciencewww.nature.com Ozone-depleting substances emitted through human activities cause large-scale damage to the stratospheric ozone layer, and influence global climate. An analysis of unpolluted air sampled from Tasmania...

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Idiot/Savant

National: "We will strap the chicken on this new MagicTech by assuming its costs 80% less" Also National: "But that won't matter (see above). And also, we won't regulate to require its adoption"

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National: "MagicTech™ will reduce dairy emissions" Also National: "It will cost more than our expected carbon price, but that won't matter, because we won't price methane anyway"

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National: "we will use the ETS to do all the work in cutting emissions" Also National: "we will keep carbon prices too low to drive emissions reductions"

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National does not expect transport emissions to fall during ERP2 (because they killed all the policy and want m0ar roadz!!! and Bigger Truckz!!!). Labour's policies would have cut them by ~15 MT.

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Graph1: in December, with previous policies, we were on-track to meet our 2050 target a decade early. Graph2: Under National's policies, we will never meet it.

As much as it might be against their preferences, the Green Party should not wait any longer. They need to write to the Speaker to invoke getting Tana out of Parliament, and look to move forward selecting a replacement #nzpol

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In my view - a health equity academic and clinician - this is disgusting.Te Tiriti is a founding document of our counntry www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Watch: Considering Treaty of Waitangi is inappropriate, Seymour tells Pharmacwww.rnz.co.nz Associate Health Minister David Seymour has told Pharmac it is inappropriate for the agency to keep considering the Treaty of Waitangi's place in the health sector.

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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From the inspiration of the NZ show One Lane Bridge we bring you....