Posts by Salty@mastodon.nz
 (DIR) Post #Ay0wkhFuHv7DAvDf2u by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-09T01:27:03Z
       
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       @lightweight If we somehow figure out how to ameliorate those feelings we will be the first generation in recorded history to do so. Which is another thing you'd think the older generation would take into account - i.e. that their feelings of displacement are hardly unprecedented but rather more or less inevitable, and therefore not the barrel of some inscrutable gun aimed at them and their morals, principles or beliefs.God give me the strength to always keep that in mind myself!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ay5gCYIaSJPS4eyA0u by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-11T08:15:09Z
       
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       @strypey Todd Muller realised he was out of his depth and it was killing him, and stood back before it did. Got to respect that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyDDDfJ9HxLua7izrc by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-14T23:28:05Z
       
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       @strypey Yeah I was talking to my wife about that this morning after the RNZ alert about Luxon's $40M star concert scheme announcement. Mayor Brown must be pounding his head on the desk this morning being declined the ability to levy a small bed tax that would have generated about that much money to fund major events just for Auckland alone.Localism wherever the locals agree with Luxon. Centralism wherever they don't.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyI07yUC8YGV3Yrk1o by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-17T06:54:57Z
       
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       @strypey if u can run a web site on a disposable vape u can run a house on an old phone
       
 (DIR) Post #AyVA1GVZ46xCvz3Jdg by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-21T21:26:52Z
       
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       Holy shit, buckle up folks the Apocalypse is here.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyWe5LQntVvX91eAUa by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-09-24T07:48:07Z
       
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       @judy2k @martiell Two nuns are driving through Transylvania when Dracula appears on the bonnet and starts trying to smash the windscreen."Quick!" yells the nun driving. "Show him your cross! Show him your cross!"The other nun rolled down her window, leaned out, and screamed "Get off my fucking car you vampire bastard!"
       
 (DIR) Post #AywmywKSGKnbFbejp2 by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-10-06T22:50:24Z
       
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       @billbennett If anything it has gotten worse, with government following the trend to throw all our data onto cloud services will assure your data is sovereign but 3 minutes of googling will confirm will actually turn everything over to the US government without a second thought. And the US is NOT our friend.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzTsVb83144f2jvEmW by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-10-22T22:18:13Z
       
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       @strypey Rather than forcing them to license from Zespri… yeah, madness.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzYQRIIZG7QWYcnmds by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-10-25T02:22:34Z
       
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       “One gentailer CEO said, you couldn’t run an aeronautical operation the way we were running the power system… We do not have the security around electricity supply that we should have.”If only he knew someone who could have done something about that. #nzpol https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/24/smallest-company-looks-to-build-biggest-dammed-hydro-lake-nz-has-seen/
       
 (DIR) Post #AzYQRJvFDnxVaruBZA by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-10-25T02:29:16Z
       
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       But Energy Minister Simon Watts tells Newsroom they haven’t rejected Lake Onslow out of hand; they’d be open to a fast-track application from the Lake Onslow consortium. “The fast-track legislation was put in place to help enable large scale infrastructure projects.”Bullshit. You shut down the feasibility study after most of the (small amount of) money had already been spent but before they could report back.Party of best economic management my arse, morons.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0BmcPckao6DV27LMG by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-13T02:39:31Z
       
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       @strypey Counterpoint: they can already track you using cameras all over the place or the phone in your pocket if they want to. So if you want to opt out of digital RUCs then that's fine, but you will need to pay increased transaction fees to cover running that service for a tiny handful of people - because I'm sure as shit sick of paying an extra $12 a pop on top of the actual tax in order for them to print out another unnecessary polluting piece of plastic.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0IIvXws0wuRzHkoQi by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-16T06:09:49Z
       
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       @strypey "The principles of socialism as we've heard so many times before is, the trouble with it is, you eventually run out of other people's money."Well, the trouble with neoliberalism is, you eventually run out of public assets to sell.... Of course to the neoliberals, that's the point.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0KEErwzlDJ44P7uz2 by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-17T04:26:43Z
       
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       @strypey hopefully you're not juggling, like, chainsaws or machetes when that happens...'Look, over there, a man juggling!''Huh? Wheraaaaaarghohgodohgodmyarmcallanambulance'
       
 (DIR) Post #B0NmbDeG7bNMCqkXLM by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-18T21:35:28Z
       
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       @hn50 Well then, I guess we better start sharpening our pitchforks then. Because I sure as shit didn’t ask for my money to be invested in slop.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0NzlUEwaV6lxr8Qfw by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-19T00:03:23Z
       
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       @strypey Or, possibly, motorsport would do what it has done for more or less the last century: pioneer a brand new technology and have it in production cars 5 years later. Maybe we *can* have solid-state batteries after all.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0Tmyb2qja1N3CL8vQ by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-21T19:08:18Z
       
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       @stux Hate / Pity.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0YKK0xfe9V2d7ZtZo by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-23T23:40:18Z
       
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       @kaia Goddamn AI slopmongers slurping up all the RAM so they can shit out more seven-fingered smooth-brained steaming piles of festering goo
       
 (DIR) Post #B0latnDBerrop8H69Y by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-11-30T09:17:48Z
       
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       @strypey The no confidence option is inherent in any secret ballot system. I may be compelled to take my ballot papers to the booth, and then put them in the box, but nobody gets to see what I do with them in the booth. It is thus always still possible for me to mark them with the classic no confidence dick-and-balls before putting them in the box.But that's not really the point. The point is to get people who just can't be arsed off the couch. Most of them will then go ahead and vote. Those who *truly object* to every single choice are free to dick and balls it as they like.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0qgKK2xfhwNkZlFbM by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2025-12-02T20:12:08Z
       
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       @lightweight @mkj That tracks
       
 (DIR) Post #B2j5wnvMSPWzBNAfQG by Salty@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-28T00:05:45Z
       
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       @lightweight @davemosk Totally. I 100% believe they DO have end to end encryption. But they own the ends, so they can have their cake and eat it too.