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Unfortunately politics comes in sausage format only and each sausage contains something nasty. I'd like to have strong environmental policy while also not having wokeness shoved down my throat and my kids' throats. I'd like to support neither redneck ute drivers nor woke 'progressives'. As someone who dislikes the sausage format the right-wing user-pays argument is appealing to me. It takes all the spicy bits out of the sausage and let's people add their own sauces as they see fit. That all works great until you find out that right-wing's daddy owns a bunch of sauce companies that spill sauce everywhere. You're stuck with the same few awful sausages because the supermarket won't sell any new sausages unless they get 5% market share. Good chat.

I never said I was a National fan but I'm just providing you a perspective on why the country didn't like them because you seem very partisan. That list is how the swing voters see Labour. Labour had a majority and should have done a bunch of anti-landlord things while they could like capital gains tax or land tax. They have absolutely failed on housing and now it's sad to see a party of rent seekers in power.

"New Zealand leads the way environmentally" - has been bullshit ever since Helen wanted sell dairy to China. Ardern's government were promoting tourism and excluding it from our carbon footprint. I did enjoy the tank drivers bitching about the ute tax as they call it.

Every product (and packaging) needs a list of ingredients just like food. It's insane that tea bags, pizza boxes and popcorn bags are coated in this toxic PFAS!

I hate the National party as much as you and those are valid criticisms but you should take an honest look at what really happened here; The previous government lost rather than the new one winning. https://pastebin.com/91S1BQ2B

Labour failed on the things they campaigned on like house prices and child poverty. The covid hero mask can only last so long. People have had enough of the woke policy, money wasted on endless consultants and race based shake downs, sky high cost of living, broken healthcare and so on. Anyway the thread is about PFAS so this is all quite tangential!

I like it. I wish Helm used objects instead of string templating. Hopefully it becomes a popular alternative.

It's fair enough I shouldn't have posted it.

iPhone browser choice: https://imgur.com/a/jFa5A5j

The food pyramid is what made me see it. The USDA decided to just fuck up the diet of the western world because the US happens to be great a growing corn.

What a joke. Companies like 3M and Dupont just switch up a few atoms. Teflon becomes 'GenX'. One has to conclude that the EPA are complicit in this.

3Blue1Brown explains it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4VkPoG3ko

If the population who do _not_ actually have serious cancer is orders of magnitudes larger than those who do then there will be far more people in the false positive group than the true positive group and thus the vast majority of operations will be unnecessary.

The exact same process right up to the last step. I don't leave it for 30 seconds I dump the coffee straight into a mug. I believe the bitter tastes come through at the first bubble.

I brew on a Bialetti Venus every day with induction. I think you are doing it wrong. I find that the awful bitter tastes come late into the process accompanied by yellow colors and bubbles/splutters. Avoid at all cost.

My method: 1) Fill the basket level. You may tap/shake any clumps to get it level but do not tamp. 2) Heat it on 1000 watts until the first drop of coffee comes out the pipe and then reduce power 400w. 3) When you notice any hint of yellow, or any bubbles/spluttering or you have enough coffee then immediately dump it into a pre-warmed mug of milk. Ideally you want to stop the process before any bitterness arrives.

Most countries governments are crap at software yet still manage to put together a free to use tax portal with automatic filing for all but the most complex cases.

It's not obvious these are React components.

It's the perfect symbol of peak boomerist individualism and failed nationalism. Burn as much fuel as you can. Make as much noise as you can. Who cares about the atmosphere and trying to live peacefully below it. It's an absolute engineering masterpiece. Six times the fuel per mile as a 747, uh, anyway, whatever it's loud and fast that's so cool!

Kind of a shame that median isn't included to make it tougher.

I'm creating a browser extension to display unit pricing on some NZ supermarket sites that don't have it.

That's a good one but there are other forms too. 1. You turn up to buy the store brand of x commodity food but it's out of stock. Stockflation? 2. Bad service. Long waiting times at a restaurant for example.

I'll add my shameless plug: https://redactle.net based on uncovering a redacted Wiki article.

aka shitflation

Corporate influence aside it's a bad place to get your opinions from due to the hive minded echo chamber comment/post ranking system. Any contrarian opinion that contests the most popular opinion is simply not shown because over half the users will down vote it bury it. To make it even worse the the mods are usually unreasonably power hungry or opinionated too. You can kind of have a debate deep in a comment tree but that isn't very visible.

I love how C# came up with this a decade ago and everyone else is slowly catching on.

I detest what Lego has become. I cringe when I see most of the sets are a movie themed fad which won't fit well with the rest of your Lego. It's very clear Lego profits more when the planet is filled up with more plastic crap. So I stick to the classic ones which are timeless and versatile. I guess the themed sets are designed for man-children collectors.

Seems like a great honey pot for the three letter agencies once they stitch it together with your stupid aunt Janice at 23andMe.

As the owner of a 2012 iMac I fear this because eventually I'll be forced to upgrade due to some application requiring the latest OS. The process for installing a new SSD involves, I shit you not, taking a razor blade to the glue between the glass screen and the chassis. I could be a wasteful consumer and buy a new one every 3 years but it's about the principle. It's a great tidy computer to have for casual use in a shared family room and it's a shame that a software issue might be the death of it.

LinkedIn cannot hold a candle Booking.com and their artificial scarcity fear mongering.

It's the e-commerce equivalent of putting the finger on the scale. Maybe there should be some laws against it but can you imagine politicians understanding any of this? Every undo action such as un-subscribing should be equally as easy as the original action.

Neal.fun has an entire page of dark patterns in one demo: https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/

I wish they'd fix that bug where Telegram Mac tries to apply app updates and gets stuck and you miss messages. But no clearly it's more important to force feed nasty social crap into people's eyeballs.

Wikipedia's e-begging banner is quite over the top considering only a fraction of the funds are spent on hosting costs.

SUVs are pure fuck you I got mine individualism. They make the road more dangerous for pedestrians and even other drivers due to their size. And the reasons people give for owning them are usually bullshit. They're not even more spacious than a van. And the pickup trucks keep getting shorter in the back and longer in the front so the utility is getting worse every year. Unfortunately it has now become an arms race whereby people are almost forced to get a big vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo