Maybe a little apples and oranges there.

Sure. Louise might still be a shitty representative.

But Louise couldn’t drive from her constituents to the beehive in the same amount of time your BILs MP can cycle.

The beans are there to go on top of the smilies. Creating a partly soggy, partly crunchy beany delight.

It’s ok, recruiters don’t have a soul.

You could have murdered his cat and he’d still call you back in a week if he thought he could get you a job make a buck off you.

I’m not with 2degrees, but I’ve always just rung up support and gone “turn it off please” and then spent what feels like 15 minutes explaining why.

Worked with 4 providers across 2 countries. So pretty good odds.

Yes, a real bank.

But not really safeguarded. New Zealand doesn’t do deposit protection like the FDIC.

To be fair to be fair, our clown show of a government want to sell off Kiwibank.

Can busses please stop parking end to end at bus stops with their hazards on?

How are we meant to know they’re pulling out or parked if the only thing we can see is their roadside indicators?

What if we spread corporate donations across all parties instead.

Ensure the target party gets the largest share of the donation (not necessarily 50%), but all the other parties get a slice of the pie based on their current number of seats.

If you don’t have any seats, you get to keep it all (because you’re either a fringe weirdo, or new and need a leg up).

My concern would be that artificially controlling prices could lead to perverse incentives elsewhere.

Ie. if. Company can’t charge just $0.05 extra for a carton of milk, across 100,000 units a day. They might be incentiveised to find that profit elsewhere. Ie, $0.50/hr less for their staff.

Nationally, everyone’s a mouse fart better off. Except for the 1000 supermarket employees who are now $4/day poorer.

But equally, if you look at the competitive markets overseas, everything is a race to the bottom. Who can provide the cheapest product with the shittiest service, by people on equally shit pay. but not shitty enough that you lose customers.

How do you codify “don’t be a cunt” into law?

Wasn’t this effectively the ComCom suggestion from just before the last election?

Breath of the Wild and moreso Tears of the Kingdom.

Not bad games. But not Zelda games.

BoTW did not play into the metroidvania that I felt defined a Zelda game. Plus it lent on the “sim rpg” style of eating, cooking, durability, etc.

Then ToTK just felt like a gimmicky cash grab. Copy paste terrain, “gadget building” straight out of some steam early access game.

Ultimately, both games felt like a hodgepodge of stolen concepts, slapped together. And the adoration that they received just makes me hate them more.

My favourite (that I saw a human do) was asserting on unconstrained mocks with a typo (so they always asserted true)

Hundreds of tests. Not exactly pointless as they did call the code so maybe caught some issues. But we fixed the typo and barely half of them passed.

No idea how the software worked, but it did.