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2 years

Best private law case of each year, starting with 2022, one case per each like Some doubt I'll get back far enough to name a single Hoffmann case

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2 years

@rustie5555 I'd do a private law case of the year thread but, somehow, don't think I'd get even a pity like

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lot of bad vibes on the TL i'll log off for a bit

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@gothgirl_prelaw one of the best economists on here spends all day explaining the difference between median and mode

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Sydney Sweeney reveals that she endorses Lord Hoffmann's principles in ICS on contract interpretation "Interpretation in law, like in ordinary language, is about how a reasonable person would read the provision in context, not picking a 'dictionary' definition for each word."

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@antihobbes I love me some strident Jacinda, when she wants to remind everyone she is the clearest communicator, not just a softly spoken one

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i am a lowly not-even-a-lawyer-atm but if you want to use your power as an elected official to stop an event occurring on council grounds, in a way that will undoubtedly breach NZBORA, don't post your exact intentions on reddit

From the Wellington community on Reddit: Anti-Trans Event this Saturday

Posted by nikau4poneke - 431 votes and 48 comments

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4 months

the difference between the progressive, practical and lively urban economics literature, and the degraded humanities and planning literature regurgitating its own buzzwords and failed programmes, is v striking

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

Many, many housing academics are engaged in a fundamentally literary exercise and have no interest in figuring out what kind of policies work to actually house people.

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9 months

ACT's housing policy will keep boomers rich as the country gets poor and young renters get sick but at least the young renters can get decent cold medicine in the 5 minutes before they randomly destroy pharmac and public healthcare

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2 months

@nzsamueltaylor wait is the 6 news people being students not a bit

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5 months

shocked and horrified that a human geography lecturer at vic has posted something nimby on newsroom, who could have seen this coming?

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@JeoffM8 Wayne Brown's superpower is its v enjoyable to hear him talk about or to people you disagree with

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5 months

what a true poster way to go the only thing that could fill the gap in my heart is a green mp with a climate policy background and student politics experience

James Shaw

@jamespeshaw

5 months

James Shaw goneburger

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@YIMBYLAND Like a third of protestors are bad and wrong and a third have generally ok aims but bad strategy and a third r actually political sensible And that's being generous

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4 months

The IHP genuinely decided that the fundamental underpinnings of the NPS-UD and MDRS - build moar- were wrong because they weighted an idiot citing his own blog post (that they didn't read)

The Spinoff

@TheSpinoffTV

4 months

Featuring a fringe economist, a narrow frame of evidence, and some wild interpretations of the law of supply and demand.

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@AbsentHog

2 months

when wellington boomers kill density in trendy inner city suburbs, young ppl don't suddenly move to taita, they go to brunswick east

Stu Donovan

@StuartBDonovan

2 months

... I advise policy makers to avoid second-guessing people's preferences for locations. And not simply assume that we can easily move "housing capacity" around between suburbs with any consequences. In doing so, we may be stretching or even breaking the social ties that bind!

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@AbsentHog

3 months

War for Wellington has been the greatest journalistic series I've followed in my life, I donated today, you should too

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

3 months

If you've been following along with the War for Wellington, please go ahead and flick @TheSpinoffTV a cheeky wee donation.

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9 months

@JulieAnneGenter @boxcar_joey this corner of twitter wants a green mp that's a climate policy expert with a background in student politics (also filipino) more than anything

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2 years

Not to be smug, but: 100k subs on Conversion Therapy Bill 38k unique, others ctrl-c/v Select Committee report starts by saying they read only the unique ones When commenting on laws, don't spam Parliament. They want help on drafting and policy. I was right, others weren't, js

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6 months

@GeorgistSteve "because it doesnt vibe with my theory, it doesn't exist in practice" is one hell of a take

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4 months

Wayne Brown is the king boomer provincial battler - he took one look at infra costs for sprawl and decided to be actually p good on urbanism

scoot!

@ScootFoundation

4 months

included a nice lil rant about how dreary and lifeless he thinks residential-only suburbs are "it's just... houses"

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@GeorgistSteve @nominalthoughts means ur drip is weak

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7 months

@GeorgistSteve genuinely so many people that think it's fine to ban SROs but not tents Weird sort of liberalism where you only need to care when it's too late

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@AbsentHog

2 months

the War for Wellington series must be the most obvious W for the journo awards Turning some v dry reports and interminable politics into an incredibly successful, accessible and influential series is v impressive

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@AbsentHog

3 months

OMFG Rebecca has done more in her political career than most cabinet ministers

Rebecca Matthews

@RebeccaJEmm

3 months

All my amendments passed

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@AbsentHog

2 years

imagine nuking your political career but not being the top story because its wet

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@AbsentHog

1 month

@JoelMacManus Man just sounds like a kinda terrible conference

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@AbsentHog

2 months

this might be contrarian now but the MDRS was good policy and politics, and it's only issue is the Nats showed they can't be trusted to keep a compromise

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@AbsentHog

4 months

24% turnout in the most politically active suburbs in the country my longstanding view that no one cares about councils and they should be abolished as irrelevant and undemocratic remains

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@AbsentHog

2 months

FRAN FRAN FRAN FRAN

120 Aotearoa

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2 months

Francisco Hernandez will become a Green Party List MP later this week, following the retirement of James Shaw. Hernandez has a background in climate policy. #nzpol

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@AbsentHog

8 months

Wellington probably needs like 7 12 storey blocks of studio apartments between thorndon and berhampore, and a couple of big warehouses with creative studio space over a couple of dive bars with small stages And the we will be cool like the early 2010s again

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@AbsentHog

8 months

Tam voted to spend more money on the Town Hall, and against seeking a private bill to delist heritage buildings, and both of those votes were bad and against the interests of Wellington

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@AbsentHog

7 months

There's at least two posters that have reliably better political takes than Jason himself being criticized for knowing Mr Meagher will vote for benefit and state housing cuts as soon as practicable

Jason Walls

@Jasonwalls92

7 months

The usual line-up of insufferable Twitter people lining up to prove James Meger's point for him.

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@AbsentHog

6 months

lot of people insisting that Labour should have ran a more left campaign to win (by taking votes off the Greens ig???) and I don't understand it at all The centrists are realistic - the economy was unfavorable and Ardern hadn't put the party for a good place for success

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@AbsentHog

13 days

if it's too far to commute to kapiti or the wairarapa, which it is, maybe we should bowl premier house and build two apartment blocks for MPs and staffers

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@AbsentHog

2 years

Congrats to Max Harris for running a campaign that seized defeat from the jaws of victory

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@AbsentHog

3 months

This is an excellent article and a very depressing reminder of why we get v expensive sprawl when the main unmet demand is for city living and why ACT are a bunch of hypocritical fucks

henry cooke

@henrycooke

3 months

Chris Bishop is in the middle of replacing the MDRS, a widely-praised law that was on its way to delivering ~75k new homes. It’s a big job: His office had exchanged 2100 emails on the topic by late Feb. In Stuff today I take a look at his options:

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@AbsentHog

4 years

@feraljokes @BenjaminPDixon I still can't believe that tweet... its been months and I can't process the worldview that makes it a comprehensible thought

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1 year

I think nz dudes need to have a style forum and agree that ties are never needed for any formality Rawhiri has been flexxing with his greenstone for like two years now

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8 months

there's a judge on the High Court of Australia who is better at law, economics, history and philosophy than all the others combined and its just a bit embarrassing that the others turn up to work

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@AbsentHog

5 months

@yimbyalliance mysteriously, housebuilding in nz collapsed from 1977 when we passed our Town & Country Planning Act Am sure that's a unique situation

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for the avoidance of doubt, regardless of my views on public law, TERFs can fuck off and die

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2 years

@drdeanknight if Belgium can handle 500 days without a govt, we can probably handle a Zoom PM til Tuesday

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4 years

@MonteCristo surely excessive video streaming uses far more bandwidth

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@AbsentHog

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@SydneyYIMBY Artists impression of a genuinely top tier mid sized apartment block, might as well show off floorplans and prices and make it an ad

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1 year

the reason AUT law girl's shit was unsustainable is there r like 6 ppl in nz law - ive judt discovered she's my brother's best friend's friend's ex

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@AbsentHog

3 months

Begging lefties to remember high politician pay remains a key left wing demand

antihobbes

@antihobbes

3 months

Ardern, 2018: in these tough times we are freezing MPs' already high salaries Luxon, 2024: ?

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5 months

@JosephPolitano am New Zealander who knows far too much about US localities zoning law I know Seattle allows point access blocks but their urban villages concept has failed. Why??

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@AbsentHog

10 months

@GeorgistSteve housing co-ops have similar issues - they're usually some mix of community and wealth increasing project, hence they tend to be comically discriminatory

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@AbsentHog

1 year

today in 'couple shocked that their private property rights aren't self-enforcing'

Large carport stuns neighbours

The couple built to maximise a view of the hills. A vista they thought was protected by a covenant. Turns out they were wrong.

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@AbsentHog

6 months

@Fran4Dunedin beyond me how it was so slow The left needs to do more iterative lawmaking next time, to ensure it actually gets the big stuff across early

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@AbsentHog

7 months

/r/nz currently saying it 'anticompetitive' that chemist warehouse could waive the $5 fee and that small pharmacies couldn't pharmacy guild gives people brainworms and should be destroyed

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@AbsentHog

5 years

@pixelatedboat in fairness, most the comics are written for 30 year olds who like roughly the same comics as when they were 12

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@AbsentHog

2 months

Lord, I see what you do for others, and I would like it in my backyard

Coby

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2 months

Great new apartment building in Boston!

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@AbsentHog

3 months

I've learned to be a pretty alright cook as an adult but man, at a guess 60% of households have bad cooking just because of dreadful stoves/ovens and non stick pans no wonder people love air fryers lmao

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@AbsentHog

2 months

@build_beaut I hate many existing developers, liberalise regs so they have more competition and suffer for our benefit collectively

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@AbsentHog

1 year

me and the high court rules

Patrick Gower

@patrickgowernz

1 year

@JackyNinjakitty @Nelfoos5 @JoePotterButler @dimsie @hellomotorbike @KyleDChurch I fully understand this. No need for me to read. Thanks though. 💜

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RNZ is really something else - i guess they know their audience is all retired boomers who want no change but house price increases but the wellington zoomer audience remaining tends to be super yimby so

Hayden Donnell

@HaydenDonnell

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Auckland’s housing market has been struck by a disastrous plague of affordability, to the point that some buyers might even be *pauses to retch violently* getting bargains

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1 month

do ppl know that most of diplomacy is being diplomatic to, and about, other ppl that totally suck?

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@AbsentHog

5 months

i honestly think this divide is basically as fundamental as the yimby v rent-control sorts on housing

Tyler 🏳️‍🌈

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5 months

The purpose of a mass transit system is to make car free living desirable for the average resident, not to provide mediocre transportation of last resort for the poor.

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lol rnz so nimby they're reporting on the wellington upzoning as just a win for heritage protections, v brief mention of upzoning, deeply unserious outlet

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@AbsentHog

4 months

London has fucking appalling housing outcomes and apparently building towers is "violence" I'll take some blunt economist utilitarianism over the nuance of social scientist wank anyday

Urban Studies Journal

@USJ_online

4 months

Light violence at the threshold of acceptability by @casperlaing #OpenAccess #ForensicArchitecture #verticality

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10 months

the v funny thing about anti house builders on 'heritage'/'public housing only' grounds is their view is the precise right amount of housing was built, by a private market and mainly without a planning system or heritage rules, decades ago, in just about every city

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@AbsentHog

6 months

what is this woke nonsense at te papa, it's list of climate action doesn't mention the ETS anywhere 😡🤬😤

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@AbsentHog

8 months

I did not vote for Tory Whanau so "the heritage look" of Wellington wouldn't change The new buildings are much nicer than the old, and we should have many more of them

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@AbsentHog

4 months

What kind of Green thinks that taxing capital is bad lmao

Thomas Nash

@nashthomas

5 months

A big problem with council rates is that they don’t consider income and wealth beyond the value of a home. This is a good reason for local government to get more funding from central government where a fairer progressive tax model requires those who earn more to contribute more.

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@AbsentHog

8 months

wanting to vote 'on the day' seems psychotically boomer to me

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@AbsentHog

3 months

stu makes a typically good point - NZ reforms have made housing supply more elastic and so go up and down more - but the construction sector is v worried about its boom/bust cycles the solution i think is countercylical institutional (mainly gov, but CHP and BTR) spending

Stu Donovan

@StuartBDonovan

3 months

@RichardHills_ yes, and the slowdown is entirely predictable: When you make housing supply more responsive to demand, it rises quicker when demand rises and vice versa. So, the slowdown is exactly what you'd expect in a situation where housing supply responds to demand.

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@MHReddell real shopping centers don't have a suburban main road going through the middle of them let alone a pile of parking

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@AbsentHog

2 years

i get home and my flatmate has joe rogan, andrew tate and a "how to escape the friendzone" podcast on his browser this is gonna be worse than the month he was obsessed with the petro-dollar

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@AbsentHog

4 months

like for me to restate something I'm right about, occasionally interspersed with something I used to be wrong about

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@jonobri Melbourne is famous, in nz, for trams, the arts, some v trendy vibes, being a big city, having good food and sport if you said it was a particular ring of suburbs with terraced housing people might piss themselves laughing

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@AbsentHog

5 months

Spinoff level spice but BusinessDesk subject matter, best of all worlds

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

5 months

In less than a week we've already had 1,000 people sign up for my email newsletter, The War for Wellington. It's about the new District Plan - not exactly a sexy topic! But it shows how passionate Wellingtonians are about their city. Sign up here:

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7 months

ok wtf is up with nzf allowing race events to "conscript household greyhounds for racing purposes"???

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@AbsentHog

3 months

@grugstan fucksake, 6 storeys should be on the lower side innit

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@AbsentHog

3 years

@RebeccaJEmm There is no aesthetic, no heritage, no lightshaft worth the amount of housing poverty and misery we have right now Others reckon "but what if there was?"

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1 year

@StuartBDonovan wait it never occurred to me other people dont

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@AbsentHog

4 months

the difference between vic and otago is best represented student by salient always being preachy, crap and unread, while critic is super popular, full of hilarious filth and dumb stuff to get the punters in, but also has filthy top tier young journalists doing whatever they like

Bob

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@Frod_02000 @Tiare_MP I still think of the time the Critic had a reporter do a taste test on the water available on campus, and he drank from the Water of Leith and got violently ill. And then later got a safe drinking straw & proceeded to investigate the taste of the Duck Pond at the Botanic Gardens.

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there's a recurring /r/nz thread which is just "I want greenstone jewelery, how do I get it in a culturally appropriate way" and the top comment is normally "bro just use your eftpos card"

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@AbsentHog

7 months

@BenThomasNZ if there's one thing the courts love, it's well-off litigants trying to run v clever arguments to try avoid drink driving convictions

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@AbsentHog

8 months

I think, as I get older, I hate people addicted to 'nuance' the most A lot of things do have easy solutions, but just also have political opponents (who wank on about how complex it all is)

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4 months

imagine being this privileged to own a million odd dollars of prime central city land and think you've done the world a favour and they shouldn't want to live nearby

POLITIK

@POLITIKwebsite

4 months

@JoelMacManus I oppose densification. We (along with our neighbours) spent around 10 years restoring our Victorian houses in Mt Cook. Did most of the work ourselves turning a slum into a community. We are not priveleged.

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I don't care about the existence of gore, or local government, but if u r a public sector CE commissioning legal advice to try get your political overseer to resign, u should resign, christ have mercy u should resign

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@AbsentHog

4 months

the main opponents of planning reform in nz at a national level are old school enviro groups on net, this is awful for the environment

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li

@perdricof

4 months

really cannot emphasize enough how central permitting reform is to *any* ambitious liberal programs, whether that's housing or transit or green energy or anything else that involves actually building new stuff

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6 months

lol it's christchurch

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

6 months

States will literally hand out hundreds of billions in arena subsidies in the name of economic development instead of rezoning for market-clearing levels of homebuilding.

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@GeorgistSteve the thing about pro suffering degrowthers is that we really could just build more, emit less and live better by hyperfocusing on using land in existing cities better, but they hate it

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@AbsentHog

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Do ppl know that every kiwi company big pre 1987 was a random family held fiefdom with a monopoly on the relevant license? Main reason fletchers had competition is they were prots so the catholics had their own construction firm

Meek Mills and Boon

@KiddSpade1

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@rustie5555 @cogtwitoergosum Fletchers didn't get where they are today by selling better quality products at lower prices. Kainga Ora are destroying the Kiwi way of life (regulatory capture)

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@eringourleyy also did some v fine reporting for stuff/the post wellington is lucky to have the best type of journos (former @CriticTeArohi editors with UoO law degrees)

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@AbsentHog

8 months

Polls closed, fuck the nats, voted for labour and JAG, inshallah 2nd election and luxon collapses in the face of winnie, a recovering economy and the sheer sexual power of divorced Chippie

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@AbsentHog

2 months

a pub quiz should be done in 90 minutes max

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@AbsentHog

2 months

Lol rnz uncritically reciting the predetermined TERF report then chucking the local experts pointing out how much of an outlier the UK already is at the end RNZ as a nimby terf platform for boomers who thought they were progressive in the 80s continues

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@AbsentHog

3 months

@RebeccaJEmm TOWNHOUSES IN BIO

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@AbsentHog

5 months

career goal is to become so mediocre that my appointment to the bench is Noted but not Welcomed by the Chief Justice

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@AbsentHog

3 months

o hell yeah

derek guy

@dieworkwear

3 months

middleton this middleton that. how about you put me in the middle of a ton of affordable housing

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@AbsentHog

3 months

go on, make me redundant, i could use the payout and holiday you cowards

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@AbsentHog

3 years

Kia ora, I'm now back in Wellington for a stint of public service So I'm gonna post less, with less spicy takes, on less spicy matters, possibly going private. I will store these for some time next year.

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@AbsentHog

2 months

Hearing reports of a gamer MP with a background in posting

Lochie

@lochiegc

2 months

Rise up Fran-nation, it's official

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@AbsentHog

8 months

it seems to me that with buying a 'house', you're speculating on land prices while if you're buying an 'apartment' you're gambling on future building and earthquake standards

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@AbsentHog

3 years

@ilovetheeconomy Wellington planners don't seem to get everyone in Wellington wants it to be completely pedestrianised, except for 3 shop owners who want car parks right outside their front door

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@AbsentHog

2 months

Someone in Australia ran a meritorious defamation claim that didn't end in a self destructive trial? That is new

6 News Australia

@6NewsAU

2 months

#BREAKING 🚨 Benjamin Cohen, who Channel 7 mistakenly identified as the Bondi Junction attacker, has settled his defamation case with confidential terms | #6NewsAU

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personal finance highlights for the year include - buying a gaming pc because i was gonna hang around wellington for a year or three going on holiday to London justified by anticipated greater earnings in London ending up taking a job with a paycut here

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