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Driven asks people to vote for people's choice for NZ car of the Year... And there's not a single actual car amongst the options. There's one van and 9 SUVs/Utes.
Wtf is wrong with people. Not a single actual car in the entire top 10 of cars sold. Only tanks that should be banned in cities
Wtf is wrong with people. Not a single actual car in the entire top 10 of cars sold. Only tanks that should be banned in cities
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Driven asks people to vote for people's choice for NZ car of the Year... And there's not a single actual car amongst the options. There's one van and 9 SUVs/Utes.
Wtf is wrong with people. Not a single actual car in the entire top 10 of cars sold. Only tanks that should be banned in cities
Wtf is wrong with people. Not a single actual car in the entire top 10 of cars sold. Only tanks that should be banned in cities
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November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Wordle 1,603 1/6
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Great thing about Avondale is seeing some goth kids get pani puri from an Indian street food stall at 11pm on a Friday night.
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Great thing about Avondale is seeing some goth kids get pani puri from an Indian street food stall at 11pm on a Friday night.
My hot take is that Zohran won because he's a good politician. Bad politicians lose elections. It only took me 20 years in politics to come to this conclusion. There's very highly paid journos and consultants who have not figured this out.
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
My hot take is that Zohran won because he's a good politician. Bad politicians lose elections. It only took me 20 years in politics to come to this conclusion. There's very highly paid journos and consultants who have not figured this out.
The real losers tonight (and every other night) are the lukewarm centrists who always want us to meet the other side halfway.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The real losers tonight (and every other night) are the lukewarm centrists who always want us to meet the other side halfway.
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Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
October 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!
Imagine telling someone in 2005 that young Republican males would be doing travel ads for the Taliban
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Imagine telling someone in 2005 that young Republican males would be doing travel ads for the Taliban
Holy shit, the ads I'm getting on Facebook atm!
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Holy shit, the ads I'm getting on Facebook atm!
The Geely showroom looks like it feel off the bland tree and hit every greyscale branch on the way down. The perfect car for people who are looking for the most forgettable crossover money can buy.
October 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The Geely showroom looks like it feel off the bland tree and hit every greyscale branch on the way down. The perfect car for people who are looking for the most forgettable crossover money can buy.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Not taking pain relief medication to own the libs
September 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Not taking pain relief medication to own the libs
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century of national humiliation
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
century of national humiliation
The hypocracy is a feature not a bug. They don't care if you call them out on it
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The hypocracy is a feature not a bug. They don't care if you call them out on it
I wonder if there's a bit of self reflection from some people in the media on how they treat orgs like the free speech union, who clearly don't care about free speech. So many of us have been yelling at them not to take their claims at face value.
September 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I wonder if there's a bit of self reflection from some people in the media on how they treat orgs like the free speech union, who clearly don't care about free speech. So many of us have been yelling at them not to take their claims at face value.
Who are the free speech guys going to silence next for saying things they don't like.
September 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Who are the free speech guys going to silence next for saying things they don't like.
Three days of the Condor is fantastic (if a little bit problematic in some parts). It's worth a watch in honour of Robert Redford. Not his most famous movie but often overlooked.
September 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Three days of the Condor is fantastic (if a little bit problematic in some parts). It's worth a watch in honour of Robert Redford. Not his most famous movie but often overlooked.
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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
It's really hard to explain to normies who wish things were more authoritarian coz they want more efficiency and competence, that authoritarian regimes are actually in practice extremely incompetent at almost everything and extremely inefficient. Democracies actually being order. The Empire doesn't
September 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
It's really hard to explain to normies who wish things were more authoritarian coz they want more efficiency and competence, that authoritarian regimes are actually in practice extremely incompetent at almost everything and extremely inefficient. Democracies actually being order. The Empire doesn't
Pretty sure the Free Speech guys will say nothing about this, and if they do it'll be pro firing the guy for his speech.
National MP Joseph Mooney, who said that a uni lecturer that said that Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist (which is true) shouldn't be employed.
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Pretty sure the Free Speech guys will say nothing about this, and if they do it'll be pro firing the guy for his speech.
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All the VSPs out there abasing themselves to lionize Kirk and, hilariously, the toxic narcissist at the top can't even pretend to give a shit.
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
All the VSPs out there abasing themselves to lionize Kirk and, hilariously, the toxic narcissist at the top can't even pretend to give a shit.
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
When you have a really uncommon first name it's kinda wild when every other post on the internet is like "(my first name) deserved it".
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When you have a really uncommon first name it's kinda wild when every other post on the internet is like "(my first name) deserved it".
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A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports.
But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports.
But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.
After owning a Skoda for a few months I totally get why the police chose them. They are extremely comfortable seats if you're planning on spending a lot of time in a car. Much more so that the sportier and newer Peugeot that's our primary car. Also they have just insane amounts of boot space.
September 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
After owning a Skoda for a few months I totally get why the police chose them. They are extremely comfortable seats if you're planning on spending a lot of time in a car. Much more so that the sportier and newer Peugeot that's our primary car. Also they have just insane amounts of boot space.