Oscar Sims

Just here for the agglomeration effects. Cities, tech, social democracy. 🇳🇿 🇫🇮

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

Pretty funny, 4.8 refuses to make the fake documents we need for testing at work because “creating a fake document is fraud”. Does this even if you specifically say it’s for testing the system only. Must be insanely annoying if you’re doing cybersec or biology research

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@disco___cat 100%

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

European style mid-rise residential is overrated and residential skyscrapers are underrated. Better shared amenities, better views, less road/street noise, more lifts, more efficient for transport planning, etc. To the extent they create street shading that is a *good* thing

[Connor O’Brien @cojobrien]

What slightly-unhinged views on urbanism/cities do you hold dearly? Hobby horses and petty beefs?

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@disco___cat Occasionally will get boy racers making ungodly amounts of noise here on the weekend but the solution to that is judicial rather than construction related

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@disco___cat I lived on the fourth storey of a new build 4-over-1 with triple glazing in Europe and it definitely was an issue, much more than the 20-somethingth floor here despite Southbank being a traffic sewer and having a construction site nearby

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@luispedrocoelho I also just think there’s a middleground where you can get the best parts of European urbanism at street level but just build taller (assuming there’s demand, which there is today on the CBD fringe of most major world cities)

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@_colourmeamused Sort of irrelevant anyway given the ubiquity of QR code ordering systems in this country

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@_colourmeamused Am I in for a culture shock when I finally get Australian friends? Splitting bills extremely common in NZ. Most POS systems support it

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@BenThomasNZ …I should start blogging

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

the actual problem is that the kickoff times are horrendous for Asia, half of them are at 3am. Probably an issue for FIFA when the best place to watch the games outside the Americas is New Zealand

[nazzo @nazzobetweeting]

as if the US isn’t in the same time zone(s) as mexico, argentina, brazil, aka some of the biggest footballing nations on earth. europeans are never beating the eurocentric allegations. legitimately think the world revolves around them

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@NWAPurps @slime_machine I’m on the last mission rn it’s like 12-14 hours long

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

A new one: get past spam filters by machine-translating your inheritance scam email into Te Reo Māori (???)

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

There’s something about the American mind that makes them structurally incapable of understanding why Mark Carney won an election landslide or why their hamfisted attempts to intervene in European politics fail. Even the Russians do not have this problem

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

Maybe it’s partly this but I think there’s a sort of genuine inability in the US to process that other countries (or continents) have internal variation, domestic politics, etc. This is true even of elites & is reflected in US foreign policy. Civilisational theory of mind deficit

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Americans have this odd desire to be the most special and interesting all the time and it pushes them to make ridiculous comparisons like in this post where Europe is treated a single large nation for the purpose of making Americans seem more travelled.

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

This is another good example. No conception that there might be regional/class/age/gender variation in Australian accents

https://t.co/c5iRzDTDzy

[abcdent @abcdentminded]

I love how passionately australians cope about this

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@_colourmeamused I feel like this is less of a selection masterstroke/respect for the best league in the world and more just a reflection of where NZ nationals play their football tho?

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@sarg_333 @disco___cat @JohnHundeslit a driver's license is not national ID for the purpose of cross border travel in the schengen area :)

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@sarg_333 @disco___cat @JohnHundeslit didn't realise they have border checks and require you to carry ID to travel between US states!

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@_colourmeamused win the world cup. make no mistakes.

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

@AbsentHog this is a uniquely annoying account, tbf.

[Oscar Sims @oscarcsims]

you’ll hear no disagreement from me that we need more state housing but:
- KO was one of the most important backers of planning reform under the last government
- the landlord lobby is crying in the media *this week* because house prices continue to fall

Mamdani is right!

[Liquid Times @Liquid_Times]

If Zohran wants a real solution he should instead look at the massive state housing scheme NZ implemented last century.