" it's looking like violent crime in 2025 finally returned to pre BLM levels."

Tells me all I need to know about you...

Renewables and batteries are the way NZ can go.
Modernising much of the existing generating system will help too.
This oil shock will boost public transport, where I live we already have electric buses.
Road will give way to rail for spending, a thought that terrifies oil industry execs.
If we get rid of Comalco our aluminium smelter we would have another 20% of power for our national grid to use, this buys us time to make other structural changes (more wind/solar, upgraded hydro and thermal, increased insulation in houses, energy efficient appliances).
That elephant is likely many decades away , and perhaps we will then have safer micro reactors by then.
Oil in some sort of (vegetable oils) will be used in agriculture because of high workloads, but that may change too.

As for "private" industry being better....ROTFLMAO, they will use shell companies etc etc etc to make sure that they get the profits, but loses will be met by the tax payers. US industry in 3rd world countries have an appalling history of safety violations, destruction of the environment , and rapidly withdrawn leaving an expensive mess behind.

In one of the Australian mines their BIG trucks are electric, the empty truck goes up the hill on battery power, a loaded one comes down and generates electricity, the excess is put into the grid, clever, no fuel costs and it makes them money by selling the power.

You are NOT fine.
If you had a functional government and law system trump would have been behind bars, and Epstein would have been life behind bars the first time, not released so he could continue.
Trump is stealing tax payers dollars as fast as he can, so are his family. Insider trading is rife in your representatives at all levels.
The Supreme Court is just as corrupt, as are many of the judges and other Presidential appointments.

Things are NOT going to go back to normal once Trump goes.
"Once bitten twice shy" applies, and the EU has enough clout to tell the USA to F off, more so now because other countries have shifted towards the EU for trade etc.

The EU is not as arrogant, ignorant, entitled, racist, bigoted, sexist, violent, and militant as the USA. Religion plays a MUCH smaller part, and some countries religion is almost gone, yet they have far better societies than the USA does. The world is far better to look to them for leadership than the USA.

Peak USA has been and gone, but because the USA is so inward looking they can not see how the world has shifted. The still believe that once Trump goes it will all go back to the way it was, and it won't.
China and the EU will overtake the USA as the most wealthy countries with higher GDPs and better quality of life.

The US needs to stop thinking with it guns/bombs,

They have been doing with for over 100 years and we are tired of it We DON'T want to be Americanised , our languages, culture, art, music food, etc etc etc are all different and all of equal value to each other, no one is better than any others.


US laws and jurisdiction end at the US boarder, not where ever you think you can make a country submit and make US corporations rich. The USA is in effect the school bully taking other peoples lunch money.

And seperate religion permanently from Government, your "god" is the root of most of your evil. The rest is ignorance, arrogance, entitlement.

Enough is enough.

2028 is way too late. That closing the door after the horses have bolted.

The damage is done, the USA PROVED it was a real threat to other countries sovereignty, culture, freedom, democracy, finances.

I hope that the EU excels and becomes an alternative to US media/businesses for the rest of the world to use too.

Trump will be seen as the president who willed the USA..... and the people willingly allowed him to do it. There were various off ramps the US could have taken (impeachment /removal from office, the 25th, etc etc)and they chose not to. So now it gets to live with the consequences....FAFO.

It will be interesting to see if any US companies shift entirely to the EU so they get access to the world, rather than just the 4% that is the USA. The inevitable contraction is the US economy, the backlash against the USA and firms, will make this an attractive option.

Too much history of AI just data grabbing to feed the AI.

Then do the later, require web sites to identify you.

No, it is real, it happens.
But I guess so long as you can access pRon you dont care.

ROTFLMAO,.... if that's what you believe.

yep 100%

Give them time to learn critical thinking , they are not born with it, and it takes many years of gradual learning.
It also gives kids shelter from the Dopamine hits Social Media delivers while their brains are developing

If you are online, anonymity is an illusion, especially on social media sites.

If you want real freedom and real anonymity then throw away your cellphone and get off the internet. Get someone else to do your shopping for you, that is just more data they gather about you.

And I your are embarrassed to have know what you watch online, perhaps you should watch less or none of it.

Oh...that's so cute.
You think you have anonymity on the internet
News at 11... you dont.

Good for NZ.
Can't come soon enough.

It does cause harms....and kids who have abused have higher rates of self deletion, anti-social behaviour, etc
Normalising porn as "not harmful" for kids is BS.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

Access to porn, especially hardcore, while the brain is developing changes a lot of structural things in the brain.

IRL shops who let underage kids into age controlled areas are the one who get the fine.

And if you are on the internet, you have no privacy.
And the US implementation of "freedom" is anything but, especially now.

And....????

If that is your standard for not having a law, then best get rid of all laws, because they get broken too.

No laws = No crime.

Oh, and many of the work arounds are supplied to kids by Adults, the same kids of adults who supply kids with guns, alcohol, drugs, porn, etc etc etc.