Ed Corkery

CEO of Koordinates

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The daughters and I are trying to find common ground around Sylvanian Families (Calico Critters)

Have landed on Sylvanian’s depicting scenes from Red Storm Rising

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@ZealandiaH @AntipodeEmpire Remarkable drawing style+detail for the year?

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The Ukrainian drones in question are designed for such long range attacks years into the war, Iran’s el cheapo “Shahed”’s are not.

No amount of Twitster back and forth changes the fact the entire stack of nations and corporations involved evidently thought this would never be a problem and didnt arrange suitable mitigation strategies, despite Iran’s history of doing it before and pattern of modern day threats. Utterly inept.

FYI I am currently near this place, which was shut down only a decade ago: https://t.co/zP1exEPLq9

Australia footgunned itself also

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@kellyenz A $nz50 billion aircraft carrier with 5,000 crew is the absolute last thing you park off the coast of an enemy country, under any circumstances

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“Best and brightest”

It’s not statistically possible - by a long shot - for Wellington (reaches 8% of NZ labour force) to be hiring the best and brightest into interior govt admin jobs.

Australian state capitals: 75% labour force reach. And they dont get distracted by nationhood duties, which are carved out to Canberra.

That, plus a semblance of comparability and competition between political and interior administration decisions of Australian states, is why they beat us.

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@snowset @JamieMcEwa83338 Heh. I got stuck hitching around there for many hours once (mid-late 90’s)

Indeed a dead zone

(Had to escape a gang-associate ride who’d just walked off his job as gf told him she was pregnant. It was a tense ride)

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@nicbstme We have deployed most of our GIS webapp as an MCP App - works very well

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@PronouncedHare The two responsible for the opinion pieces have clearly not lived in Australia nor talked much with normal Australians where they actually live

Australia (below Canberra foreign affairs level) is like the Mad Men elevator meme: “we dont think about you at all”

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The key area to enquire about is Indian *students*

1. Can they work while a student? If so, how many hrs/week and what types of roles?
2. Lower cleared funds required than at present?
3. Lower high school/uni credentials & issuing authorities than at present?
4. Can they shift to another visa type at the end of their tuition that isnt a working visa?
5. Any caps to total numbers/year at one time?

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“A purpose of this was to recognise that political constituencies are not primarily concentrated geographically.”

That is not how the world works in practice - but it is how elections in a centrally-planned out of a former colonial town one-House government works. And many of those at the top, or looking from the side in, it wanted more of it

As the most obvious counter example: 75% of Australian’s live in the cities from which all of their essential interior services are governed and administered; barely 10% in NZ.

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NZ inc doesnt win from working visas translating into citizenship in the UK+Oz, and importing other immigrants to replace them back into NZ. That we have on the average high outbound departures over the long term shouldnt be accepted as the norm, especially because a big component of that mean is driven by NZ’s weird centrally-planned one-House government run out of a small city causing seesaw political/etc changes driving periodic outbound spikes. Very unstable and entirely unnecessary.

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🤔 doing a roadie in SI or fishing/hunting trip is spreading by word of mouth as a great safe holiday for Australian’s post-covid in which they experience something genuinely different /inpossible to find in Australia and (for Sydneysiders and Melbournians) without the mass immigration.

Cost is surely a factor, but its totally the norm for middle class Australian families to head to Bali once a year, less commonly to Fiji etc, maybe WA. NZ is swapping in for some of these.

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@kellyenz Idle thought: how much tax rev NZ govt makes during each ME crisis price spike

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@kellyenz Be nice to see NZD strengthening vs USD this year (?)

NZ tech companies paying AWS (pricing units in USD, invoices in NZD) have been killed with the NZD decline last few years

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@kellyenz The movie was a let down

But not as much of a let down as The Sum of all Fears

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@kellyenz Does Venezuela have a milk shortage?

I see an opp

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Most NZ news coverage of Sydney is like reading an American writing online-only summaries of events in Invercargill, no surprises there. North Bondi (approx from this locale and continuing north) is heavily Jewish, as are the Eastern Suburbs in general.

Couple of hundred thousand Sydney parents are attending public school events from tomorrow in the last week of school - in which standing for the national anthem etc is prominent. Going to be shock and anger propogating in person.

Last time I was in Bondi area, parked just metres away from that pedestrian bridge prominent in the various videos

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This is the same problem NZ has always had though the situation is worsening every year as the rest of NZ’s population grows faster: little Wellington has little talent as it is little, but centrally plans everything

Absurd to have a 10% population region governing interior of remaining 90%. Over promotion and burying of consequences just reflects the lack of raw human capacity and simple monopolization