absGeekNZ

In New Zealand we have a "voting day" which is a Saturday, but you can vote before the day, there is no restriction. You can vote for a week before the election.

The last two elections, I cast an early vote because it fit better with my schedule.

Not really, did not vote is exactly the same as voted for the winner. In a FPTP not voting is saying whoever wins, that's what I wanted.

Yes this is probably true, but what will end up happening is that we will continue to buy houses off each other at ever inflated costs. Only the bankers will win.

Investment into productive assets is just not the NZ way.

Exactly. There are some things that kiwis are just not good at, we have to get imports for some jobs.

SHHHHHH!!!!

We don't need more people, we have enough of a housing crisis as it is.

Called it.

I said to my co-workers as soon as I heard he got shot at, he was going to claim that he took a bullet for America and Democracy.

But it wasn't exactly hard to call it....the guy is a major narcissist.

Nuclear Fusion and "net zero emissions" doesn't really make sense.

What I think you are trying to say is that fusion is nearing the point where net energy is possible (that is getting more energy out then the amount of energy put in to create the reactions in the first place). Fusion is not practically close yet, but there are tantalizing hints that we are close.

See this from 2022; the national ignition facility produced more energy that was impacted on the target (2MJ in 3MJ out), but this doesn't take into account the huge inefficiencies in the laser generators to produce that 2MJ laser pulse.

There are a bunch of fusion experiments that are hitting massive temperatures (120 - 150MK) which is starting to get into the range where practical fusion could occur, the center of the sun is approx 15MK but also has massive gravity to encourage fusion.

So fusion is still a decade away at least, but we understand the science much more completely now. We know the problems (well a bunch of them) and it is mostly now a very difficult engineering problem rather a problem of understanding the science.

This made me think of Jordan Peterson....some of his early stuff on actual psychology was interesting and informative.....then there is all the other stuff, you had a lane stay in it.

But I guess very minor celebrity can go to someones head and make them do crazy things. /s (damn you Poe's law)

Agreed.

Have the two men in this instance killed before? I didn't get that from the article.