Brent

Regulatory stewardship, sustainable energy, urban development, coastal cruising.

[The Civilian @TheCivilianNZ]

Tomorrow, it begins once more.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Bay Area threading salons - I need your help.

The Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD). DSRSD does not have a category for eyebrow threading, so they are classifying our threading tenant as a regular salon - which uses a ton of water, and charging us $14k sewage fee because they simply don’t have a correct category created.

So - they’ve told us to provide 24 months of sewer bills from a similarly sized eyebrow salon in the Bay Area. That’s their solution for us.

So - I will personally pay $500 to the first three Bay Area threading salons who get me this info.

If you want to help and you’re not a threading salon, reach out to one and I’ll give you a $250 referral fee if you can get the info (and tell them why). Limited to the first three only.

This is ridiculous, so gotta take matters into my own hands.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Congrats to @PalmerLuckey and Anduril for winning the Wildfire XPRIZE - for detecting and suppressing a wildfire within 10 minutes of ignition!

[Ben McNulty @ponekeben]

One last stupid hurrah for the Resource Management Act in Wellington.

While the government was amending rules to remove height limits in Auckland CBD, in Wellington an Independent Commissioner said no to allowing an additional 5.6 metres on a new apartment building in the CBD.

[Joseph Mooney MP @JosephMooneyMP]

Renewables are being developed 25% faster than during New Zealand’s ‘Think Big’ era of large scale hydroelectric developments in the 1970s.

[Ben @PubRockVersion]

Some fancy new town houses coming to Auckland

[Brent @blurtnz]

@KiwiEV Cool

[waynebrownfan81 @sands659]

Pretty sure that the walkable catchment for Mount Albert Station is wrong, because the little walkway in red isn't counted. As you can see, when using that, the catchment should extend much further to the north side of Springleigh avenue

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

Perhaps very well-paid senior public servants could simply just give straight simple answers to questions, instead of complaining that clips of their torturous obfuscating answers (or non-answers) make them look bad

https://t.co/HzLmT2cJok

[Brent @blurtnz]

@NigelBrunsdon @nickofnz If they are intending to copy lidl model the stores can be much smaller because as a general rule they just stick to just one or two brands for each item.

[Brent @blurtnz]

@SawyerMerritt Elon bought twitter to get a jumpstart on the everything app.

[kid douglas @EnzerEnzer]

I hope helen clark likes bruno mars

[Tesla Australia & New Zealand @TeslaAUNZ]

For the first time ever, EVs outsold ICE vehicles in Australia 🇦🇺

Model Y was the #1 vehicle & Tesla the #3 best-selling brand overall for the month of August

https://t.co/4gPzTnYx46

[Donald's Angel @donaldsangel]

For the love of God. Please get rid of Capital Gains taxes when you sell your house. This is what is preventing boomers from selling to younger buyers.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Norway's rapid adoption of EV's has been nothing short of extraordinary.

[Brent @blurtnz]

@EnzerEnzer Does New Devonport Heritage favour rebalancing through reducing PAYE income tax so that overall the changes are revenue neutral?

[Brent @blurtnz]

@grant_farquhar @JosephMooneyMP Sadly some of the decline is due to switching to black market product

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

This is the future humanity is going to experience, the colonization of Mars.

There will be a first 100 colonists. Then robotic constructor robots. Digging habitats, purifying water, refining materials, doming cities, seeding lichen.

There will be environmental protests against terraforming, they'll get overwhelmed by economic interests. Booming corporate mining towns and independent free cities connected by high speed vacuum tube rail. Advanced gene therapies achieving longevity escape velocity.

It's crazy but it's all going to happen, its now inevitable. The greatest infrastructure buildout in history will compete to industrialize the high frontier of space and enable a genuine Martian colonization program. And it will occur at the same time as humanity masters its own biology.

There are people alive today who will live to see a breathable atmosphere on Mars.

[Chris Gaun @cgaunerd]

What happened? Probably price controls. Or maybe they banned corporations from buying diamonds. Maybe they outlawed any software to help price diamonds.

[scoot! @ScootFoundation]

turns out endlessly unwinding Auckland housing intensification plans is not a viable path to retaining power