If this government isn't corrupt, then I'm the pope.

Shane Jones says it's "economically necessary". I say it's short-sighted environmental terrorism.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Poon

I settled here because the interface is closest to old-Twitter (I found the Mastodon UI irritating), and because enough of the NZ Twitter folks I followed also came here. I wasn't expecting or looking for a liberal echo chamber, but I'm perfectly fine with the lack of bots and trolls here.

I don't remember anyone arguing that right-wingers abandoning Twitter for Telegram, or Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social was "not the best move tactically", but there's always a different standard for the left, isn't there?

Funny how the same "genius" who thinks alienating half the market is a bad idea ("go woke, go broke") is willing to alienate half the market. If Trump wins and he bans Chinese EVs they'll probably be fine. Otherwise it's going to be increasingly tough times for Tesla even without Elon's nonsense.

The idea that $13 thousand in shares is a conflict of interest but millions of dollars in investment properties is not is absolutely absurd.

I'm not really surprised. He looked out of his depth when he back leader of the Nats, and he hasn't significantly improved since winning the election.

He absolutely could have "won": he could have sold the houses and so removed his conflict of interest before he got into power. But he didn't.

Though it's hard to take "business leaders" seriously if they think Brown, Collins, and Peters are good in cabinet. Also hard to take Willis' claims of caring about the long term seriously given National's willingness to make climate change worse. Walk the fucking walk, Nicola.