If Putin gets told Nato troops are there when deciding to use nukes. And what if the mobilisation of nukes leads to an accidental use by individual units, outside of the policy decision-making framework? If Ukrainians get nuked it's bad, but if Nato (...
It's one thing to expect an easy win, but another thing entirely to plan to expect a walkover. The shear number of troops they used left them no contingency for actual resistance. So that's the deeply flawed intelligence, and planning flawed to the point ...
Three waters is about all types of water. If one wants to focus on wastewater, will we also meter the sewer connections? Poo-ser pays? Metering potable water at source and then at points along the network would be more precise than at the household ...
Seems a bit slanted, that report. why is Europe in an economic free fall instead? "Instead" rather than "as well"? 7.3% inflation is nowhere near Weimar levels. Literal orders of magnitude out. Is the fertiliser shortage because of sanctions on Russia, or ...
Thing is, if Russia/Putin was a rational actor, they wouldn't have invaded Ukraine in the first place. I can see the benefit to invading Crimea - it ain't good to have such a strategically significant port held under lease and a handshake just because it's...
Ukraine is not really part of Europe Despite the blatant stupidity of that comment, it is however the only thing that bears any relevance to my response to your question as to why some definitely European countries (in addition to the country in eastern ...
And if it doesn't, we've introduced userpays for nothing. One thing I would like to know is how these "average" usage levels compare to the water lost through leaky infrastructure. Maybe we should also look at things like individual permits for industrial ...
Them thar facebook accounts prompted an FB phishing warning. Went as far as I could without logging in. But despite that, nothing in your links actually contradicts the possibility that the people were killed in areas controlled by the Russians, or even ...
Why would Russia, these days, wish to attack European countries anyway? Funny question, given it's doing exactly that. But assuming a good faith question, one particular stand-out feature of the vagaries of post-Soviet geography is Kaliningrad. Can you ...
Lot of connecting tunnels between some of those rabbit holes - antivaxxers and Russophiles and the "far right". Protecting the income of the 0.1% by getting the support of the most delusional 1%. Still hasn't let any of his caucus out in public too much, ...
Thank CERN for the interwebs... I think my current favourite is Scum-sucking, lying, weasley smegger
Dude makes me want to binge Red Dwarf, just to put together a list of Lister's insults against Rimmer.
Bullshit, to both paragraphs. Even Luxon and the rest of the nats managed to respond with a certain modicum of grace, and I'll never vote for them, either. But they did manage to realise there is a time and a place for throwing shit, and a time and a place...
Nah, "the basic operational execution of our covid response has been disastrous" is a far cry from merely not being gold standard. And if you look at the rest of the world, we have been gold standard. Well in the running for it, that's for sure. And ...
dare I ask what the weasel said? edit: ah, found it. ACT leader David Seymour bucked the trend, describing the execution of the response "I'm sad to see anyone who's worked hard to serve the New Zealand public move on but I think we've got to be honest, ...
The standard trade-off is you can have it done well, done affordably, or done quickly - pick two out of three. But I do wonder whether in ten years their new hospital will be leaking worse than the current Dunedin hospital.
He's leaving at the end of July. Basically, after reading the links and then the previous posts in the DB link, I still have no idea what the dude is one about, let alone whether an alleged "coup" in one DHB is enough to be a career-ending debacle. But I ...
despite GI Joe’s 2pence worth, the Communist Party believes in dialogue in the first instance to avoid conflicts, something NATO and the UN fail to grasp. First time I've ever heard someone claim the UN doesn't do enough talking
Who the fuck is pretending everything is rosy? But we're still - even now - paying a much lower cost than most of the rest of the world. We delayed the inevitable for two years, and doing so saved lives and had a better economy than many. And yeah, it's ...
Nic knows more about this stuff than me. AFAIK, Inflation is an issue if the rate itself gets to high - and there can be feedback effects, where it snowballs. Additionally, the lowest paid workers spend most of their pay immediately, so a big increase in ...
I suspect the other arguments at the Cabinet table included inflation, alleged effects on the "labour shortage", and possibly a healthy dose of "won't anyone think of the homeowners". But it does stink of the old "offer the unacceptable so they'll ...
You know what's actually "like" declaring war? Invading a country with a couple hundred thousand troops after annexing some of its territory for 8 years..
Things are fucked up for the Russians if the invading army is bothering to take hastily-recruited civilians.
yup
ah, cheers. Looks like I pasted it twice into the field. This should work.
Woman bankrupted in no small part due to her following "sovereign citizen" weirdness. Obsessive folks can tear up their own lives as much as the lives of others.
Things happening right now are "the current situation".
Furthermore, your plan does absolutely nothing to deal with the issues at a regional level. Which is where most of the problem arises. That is the empty aquifers, dry waterways and polluted water. But when one regional authority tried to act responsibly, ...
So, conspiracies are real? many are What makes this a conspiracy? Assuming the zoom meeting is reported accurately, the agreement of several people (zoom participants) to damage another (the people they "judged") via an unlawful act (the legal validity of...
Lots of councils oppose it. To sweeten it, the government offered councils $2.5bn to opt into the reforms, aiming to leave no council worse off from the reforms and ensure consensus. cf: Dunedin alone: Cr O'Malley said the city council was losing control ...
If he has it right, it's by being lucky that his green party future career points in that direction, more than by his ability. Not sure how many of the council actually support 3waters. But the mana whenua do support it. So there is a chunk of council, ...
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