10% for the next 25 years is an insane amount of money, and no way will it be cost effective.

We have a habit in NZ of completely over-speccing projects, then either cancelling them or never proceeding in the first place. It's what we did with the ferries, it's what we did with that idiotic cycle bridge idea, the Petone-Grenada road... And now this. Which will get binned the moment a Labour coalition takes over.

The spec for the Petone-Grenada road initially called for it to be 100 km/h end to end, which is completely over the top considering the terrain the road would traverse.

At least the Melling Link project seems to be moving.

This is genuinely window licker levels of stupidity.

Everyone is susceptible to getting a cold, and while it isn't dangerous for most people, it definitely sucks. So please don't spread it.

We need to normalise staying home when you're sick, rather than sharing it around. And this tosspot needs to stop trying to sacrifice people to the economy.

Please don't send your sick children to school, I don't want to catch a disease off the little Petri dishes.

Starlink launches forty-ish Starlink sats every other week, Russia could deplete it's entire arsenal of missiles and, if they're lucky, cause a hole in their coverage.

They've got absolutely no legal basis for those fines, and anyone who pays is a mug.

Serves them right, charging for a basic biological need is a scumbag move.

Cool, thanks for contributing.

This varies hugely between trades though, and the sedentary lifestyle of some office workers isn't great either.

Skilled and qualified tradies aren't typically thrashing their bodies the way a site labourer will.

Watching what is happening in the states is genuinely horrifying, I didn't realise just what was lurking below the surface of their politics.

I really hope there will be a political backlash to this.

Downvoting doesn't work when there's more of them than there are of us, and they all upvote each other.

Yup, I don't think there is any single party that is willing to take bold steps to fix the underlying issues this country faces, the biggest of which is the insane cost of housing.

We should be building state houses by the thousand, breaking the stranglehold Fletcher building has on the economy, and putting in medium and high density housing along every public transport corridor.

Meanwhile, National are beating the drum about roads, some of which we need, to be fair, Act are being Libertarian shitheads as usual, Winnie is shitstirring as usual, and the three headed clusterfuck won't stop trying to divide the country along racial lines.

And while this is going on, we're discharging raw effluent into our waterways, as usual.