That none of these idiots understand the price shock ripple is not surprising but it is depressing to the rest of us. I want the ripples to go slowly for the obvious reasons but part of me just wants us to get swamped like a small boat in stormy surf to topple these idiots into the cold water quick.
Why are so many people tromping through the office to get to their bedroom? This feels less than optimal. Also, the office is in the kitchen. Hrm.
Boil it. Boil it with so much salt and spice that mystery meat becomes a feature.
I have a bottle of bubbles ready.
Technically, it's the 3rd of it's kind since every few years something happens at a family dinner that requires us to break out the Cheeto Dead bubbles and then replace them. Always chillled, always ready to go.
ACT's big idea was a Ministry for Regulation to cut red tape. It has 70 staff and costs $16 million. During the fuel crisis it asked the public to help it find red tape. New Zealand's most expensive suggestion box. #nzpol
In the left panel is Tiwhiri-A1 at one day old and 33g - just a tiny ball of fluff. In the left panel he is 40 days old and 1.6kg and starting to look like a real, moss green kakapo.
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From Kakapo Recovery (newsletter and www.facebook.com/KakapoRecove... The oldest chick, Tīwhiri‑A1 (with Operations Manager Deidre Vercoe), is now 49 days old and weighed in at 1.855kg this week. This week he received his microchip.
Not much. Bigger problem is food delivery by far.
I don't know why you're laughing, Aaron.
<blink> Oh... Ooooo...
Probably? I'm on the fence here. As I responded to Alisa, China is very strongly making moves into the soft power diplomacy vacuum left in the wake of the collapse of US cultural and aid hegemony. Slowing down the increasing demand for Chinese contents is not going to play well up the food chain.
Of course. But also, weird move at this point. Korea has proven that soft power through the literal medium of 'soft men for the female gaze' is incredibly powerful. China is stretching into soft power diplomacy in so many directions right now, this is frankly an unforced error on their part.
My conspiracy: NASA is doing the Star Trek slingshot effect to go back in time to before the election in 2016 and get us out of the stupidest and darkest timeline.
Genuinely amusing though in a 'oh boy what are Chinese censors going to do next time' way. You've got a 6ft+ Chinese actor who is being literally sought after by woman all over the planet and their go to critique is he isn't bulky or dirty enough to represent a Real Chinese Historical General.
TBF, Sky, you really couldn't tell one way or another. I suspect what's happening is more along the lines of "holy shit this guy's not all there and he isn't going to either do something or TACO he's just going to melt slowly in place" which in some ways is the worst of all possible outcomes.
Under $100 lasted a hot minute
I guess we just better hope that China wants milk powder and kiwifruit. *sigh*
I want to remind NZ that one reason we were the last to get the covid vaccines is that we are a small country with very low trading influence and power. If you think we're going to be anywhere near the front of the line for the 80% of fuel left in the world, think again.
So #pursuitofjade cdrama done. What is next? Where are we turning our attention to. I can only handle so many Zhang Ling He shorts. Let's get back into another story. Who's up?
Mark. You reported that with a straight face. How? I mean hat tip to your professionalism but the rest of us are just rolling around on the floor clutching our stomaches.
OK, remember when citizens of other countries listened to our govt to get their guidance and marching orders re: covid? Now it's turnabout. I strongly recommend that we start listening to Australia at least. Okay NZ? This is a long haul, and it's gonna suck and our govt is shit. We do it ourselves.
Huh. Might be easier for us to get out of 5Eyes then it was just a week ago, Team NZ. Would love to stop sharing all our personal data with them, tbf.
This is one of the more exciting pics, Volanco Earth. Really nice. Thank you.
Yes, Dan. They are. Contexts clues matter. Possums are an invasive species that is highly destructive to New Zealand wildlife. Molly is a Very Good Dog eating as many as she can.
11 Leather worker
12 Blacksmith
13 Weapons master
14 whatever he was when he got zapped by the sexy potion and basically put all of us in a state
There you go ;)
The kinks are always fine. The coverups and hypocrisy are always the problem. Enjoy your kink, but don't enjoy it and then turn around and support policies that criminalize that behaviour... even if your kink is that you like the scary 'don't get caught' vibe.
And when you request be SUPER FIRM and come with printed out copies of that page. Why? My husband has myeloma and two doctors have told him he's not eligible for the shingles vaccine. Why? Because this stupid govt, of course. But it's right there in the advisory that he qualifies so BRING RECEIPTS.
And... more oil shocks.
Way out past the coyote moment now and starting to fall.
Maybe? Some of these chatbots are getting pretty good at passing the turing test and sounding at least moderately knowledgable. The contrast might be obvious.
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