We don't have a culture that says that "public goods are GOOD." Vociferously. We have a political culture with one party that says public goods are BAD and the other that says "Meh, they should be means-tested."

Here we see a figure lifted straight from a marketing blog and copied *almost* verbatim. The blog's claim is unsourced btw.

We also get a method used for *building* wastewater plants applied to *running* wastewater plants. These are savings that won't materialise unless Deloitte has a time machine.

I have the idea there are instructions for using a video game feed to do the face scan

It’s the first show I’ve seen where a sex scene fades to black then fades in again and they are still going at it

Imagine your political ambition to lead a country that's getting so fucked over that the UN have noticed being "well, let's not be too hasty in fixing things"?

"if this government refuses to build a consensus and just imposes poorly thought out ideological nonsense then it won't be our fault if we have to fix it. Shane Jones might want to put a mine over your back fence but I don't"

They had recently spent a long time working out a similar phone, you had to key a code into the dialler to show the setting (I'd found a code to *switch* the setting but apparently that didn't count)

You can be like 'we'll try to make it work' but start from what the work is.

Or, you know, have your own message and answer every question about what you'd do with that instead