TaldenNZ

Pfft. He doesn’t plan to lead, or to serve. He plans to rule.

Well not this one obviously. I just don’t want to give the impression that pylons aren’t safe.

Fast moving new technology means a larger gap between the used and new market. Combine this with effects of smaller volumes per model and they start high and fall fast.

It will change, but ‘early adopters’ are carrying some of the costs of transition - though only realise losses at time of sale (so keeping the vehicle longer will cost you less than frequent refreshes).

Edit: and no, buying one is not foolish. For many consumers, a midrange EV is already a saving over a reasonable lifetime.

Rainbow Warrior means something quite different in NZ.

Thankfully that’s not the case here in NZ. Otherwise the rather popular mince-n-cheese pie would be weird.

Today, ‘mincemeat’ as a term by itself, is unusual. It’s usually either just ‘mince’ (meat) or ‘fruit-mince’ (not meat).

I wonder how it’ll do on cost… and regulatory progress in other countries.

Will be watching with interest.

The New Zealand government is working to make smoking great again, cancer be damned…

After all, cancer is a problem for another administration.

(Several of the elected will probably be against a vaccine anyway)

“eliminate”… They’re really making full use of dropping the “don’t be evil” clause aren’t they.

Actually New Zealand has quite a few islands and more than three that are inhabited, but the three that most people refer to are North Island, South Island and Stewart Island (even though there are larger populations on others). The fourth most likely inhabited island to be mentioned is Waiheke Island (and the third most populated).

In that case let’s really blow your mind…

A Kiwi is a bird or a person, not a fruit.

… Also New Zealand is comprised of three major islands North Island, South Island and West Island… Also some of my facts may be slightly inaccurate - but not the bit about the fruit.

Two! Two bats!

(The actual bats don’t look anything like these bats. This is just a tribute)

I missed the other ones… Must’ve been hiding behind the first one…

New Zealand doesn’t really have any deadly animals.

No scorpions, snakes (other than the very appearance of a sea-snake), crocs, large cats, bears, etc. Our most venomous spiders can generally only make most people a little bit unwell. We might occasionally see a potentially dangerous shark but they’re so rare that I can’t recall when a notable attack happened.

Our insects aren’t generally disease spreaders - though we’ve come close a few times to some getting a foothold.

Colonists introduced many destructive species but nothing very personally dangerous. In theory there could still be moose, but it seems unlikely.

The only NZ native land-mammal is a tiny bat as far as I know.

There is the small problem with orcs, goblins, trolls and Australians… but it’s okay, we have a wizard (retired?).

One day perhaps they’ll be seen again more commonly as is now the case with tui and kererū in some areas.

At 8% they’re probably going to outperform KiwiSaver… but maybe not savers of kiwi.

Well it does help when they aren’t mistaken for pūkeko…

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind…

(Credit to Douglas Adams for the quote… But I’m taking the credit for personally dodging the FB platform)

We would. And we’d tend not to be using such verbose variable names. Avoiding abbreviation in the method and type-names is idiomatic though.

The Samsung 55" Oddity in ‘cockpit’ mode has you covered.

Essentially it boils down to - ways in which they can turn users into money.

• Control the content you see - Especially ads which provide income. Also injecting posts into your stream regardless of preferences to direct views towards sponsors preferences or to try to extend engagement.
• More visibility over user activity - It gives them better tools to manipulate users habits (that pesky engagement), and better (for them), user telemetry can be sold (people who like X like Y is useful knowledge but it can go far deeper than this).
• They want to discourage content that discourages advertisers - mostly this is NSFW content (since the advertisers don’t want their ads showing beside NSFW content) but I expect it’ll begin to span more than that over time.

With the elimination of third party apps, you can bet that ‘old Reddit’ is on the chopping-block soon too (mostly to boost ad views)