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If I'm making a purchase in the hundreds of dollars I buy a month and see what the top 3-4 things are. Worth it to make sure you're getting quality imo and the stuff I've bought on their recommendation has been well worth

Idk, it sounded like there were problems with the port side of things but you can't really gauge whether the costs are justified based on how much the ferries were going to be. They go with each other but they're not the same type of project.

Anyway, instead of trying to address any of that they just cancelled it ideologically because labour, and they've wasted a tonne of money for nothing.

They've done this right across govt, inherited an economy with some challenges and deliberately nosedived it into the ground.

We may need some new planes and shit but the money they're putting in looks absolutely galling compared to how they've wrecked everything else.

It was $550 million for both ferries, not each

To an extent. The Government cancelling three waters has forced massive rate rises across the country so yeah you might have seen this no matter who was in.

I think credit is still due for sticking to it though, especially when you have candidates pretending they can do this with no rate rises, and pay for billions of dollars of underinvestment by putting back a few carparks.

Biblically accurate Chicago

The Science Media Centre got comment from bunch of scientists on this and it's a really interesting read. There's a couple of positive takes I there, but mostly skeptical it will actually happen and if they do is it really a moa.

The point that resonated with me most is the risk that these big claims are picked up and used to undermine actual conversation work and protecting endangered species as "we can always just resurrect them later"

https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/moa-de-extinction-plans-announced-expert-reaction/

The bill did not call for racial equality, it declared there is already full and complete racial equality. If there are in fact ongoing inequalities, doing this locks them in and prevents them from being addressed. That is a big difference and is one of the reasons it was so widely opposed.

Laws are not some magic Harry Potter spell that immediately make things true because they're said a certain way. Youve either been taken in by this fantasy, in which case, grow up and learn something about the history of this country and how it still shapes us today, or you know what the grift is here and in which case, fuck you - you're a facist and a racist because it's always projection with you ghouls.

Nothing like Orwellian doublespeak than a bill that declares racism over "because I said so"

Yes I agree, Act's bill was pretending to be racial equality, which it isn't, which is therefore racist. Glad we're on the same page

Acknowledging past racism is not racism. Pretending past racism is fixed, despite not doing anything to actually fix it, is not fixing racism. It is perpetuating and entrenching racism.

You don't stamp out racism but just one sidedly declaring racism is over all of a sudden, having done nothing to address the actual harm that has been caused.

We got the project 2025 test run when a three party far right coalition got elected in 2023. Most regressive, cruel and mean sprited government in a generation.

USA, NZ, Australia, Canada, UK and beyond. They all coordinate, they use the same consultants, the same messages, their AstroTurf political advocacy groups all share info and coordinate policy to make our lives worse and the rich richer. Tailored slightly for local conditions but the same overall goal.