@jeffwsurf why has trajectory been stripped? A copy button is available in the Cascade panel to copy your session trajectory to your clipboard - copy of bits only. Windsurf allowed me to download the entire chat as a file. Please bring it back.
@rosey_nz This is the Cat c175-20 diesel generator- the largest of its type, a V20 engine with each unit holding 10,000L of diesel.
The new data center in Southland will run 84 of these as 'supplementary' to an electricity footprint the size of CHCH
"Net-zero" is over
@Suzyiam Easy. Have a big bloody war, whilst kissing up to the great UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.. sit down for peace talk.. and iron out a better FTA. Something like FTA-USA
@Being_Kara My workplace is fairly multicultural. We have Pacific islanders, Maori, Filipinos Asian, Europeans, and Indians.
These guys.. hiring themselves making up nothing but Indians. Racism on display
A council is not a business. It is not an investment fund. It is not a vehicle for bureaucrats to build careers and empires on the back of forced taxation.
It is a service provider. Nothing more.
Roads that work. Water that is clean. Parks that are maintained. Waste that is collected. Libraries that are open. Infrastructure that holds a city together. Do those things well. Do them efficiently. Do them at the lowest possible cost to the people funding it.
Then stop.
You do not get to expand into commercial enterprises. You do not get to own airports and power companies and venues and development companies. You do not get to borrow billions and send the bill to homeowners who had no say in the matter.
The money you spend is not yours. It was never yours. It was taken from productive people under threat of losing their home. That is not a small thing. That is an enormous responsibility and it should be treated like one.
A lean council. A focused council. A council that knows its lane and stays in it.
Hire fewer consultants. Run fewer committees. Build less bureaucracy. Collect the rubbish. Fix the roads. Keep the parks green.
That is the job.
Free people living in a free city do not need a council trying to run their lives and their economy. They need one that stays out of the way and does the basics brilliantly.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
๐จHoly sh*t.
More than 350,000 have gathered in Madrid for pro-Trump anti-Communist Venezuelan opposition leader Machado.
This is what the total annihilation of Communism looks like... ๐ช๐ธ๐ป๐ช
@PeachProof23 How often have I heard "throw more money at the problem". It doesn't and won't fix it. We need people/leaders with genuine hearts โค๏ธ and that's what is in short supply.
๐จ WOW. Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei SLASHED his country's debts by -$54B, carried out the largest peacetime spending cut in history, purged DEI and fraud, and got 12 MILLION off poverty
What a success story! ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ท
Every 12 DAYS, China's carbon emissions exceed Australia's total annual emissions.
Consequently, Australia's efforts to achieve net zero emissions would be offset by China's emissions in just two weeks.
Net Zero is a scam of massive proportions!