It’s honestly not the dumbest thing someone could believe, not by a long shot.

There’s a very common belief that an alien spacecraft crashed in the states back in the fifties, or even that the US government restored it to working order and flew it.

I suspect this belief was encouraged by the government at the time, but it’s a very common belief.

Yeah, it sounds like they kept it under wraps for a very long time.

But that doesn’t mean they deserve to have their car stolen and child abducted.

Never said they did, that’s a very malicious way to interpret what I said.

Yeah, there’s only one way that body got there.

Sadly, it would seem he took that secret to his grave.

I’m assuming they’re talking about turning a traffic lane into a cycle lane by bolting a bunch of plastic shit to the road surface, and I just don’t think that helps anyone.

Yeah, that was the point I realised they were off the deep end.

Also, we’re talking about a 50% increase in fuel, which is just one of the costs of running a vehicle. It’s not a catastrophic change by any means.

Certainly not enough to justify shit like “pop up cycle lanes”.

Honestly, a lot of the positions he takes are quite reasonable, and he’s pushed back on some pretty stupid suggestions from Act during this term.

Shutting down any suggestions of privatising the ferries, for example.

I can see why younger people would support him.

Oh yep. And while I agree with the stance Peters took, it must be exhausting dealing with him.

Their core principles are making money, just like any corporation.

Rimu, you really need to chill out a bit.

20% of the world’s oil travels through the straits of Hormuz, and some ships are still being allowed through even. all that will happen is we end up paying more for anything where oil used in the supply chain.

This isn’t the apocalypse, we will still be able to get things.

I don’t think they do a count off when people leave the boat, not that I’ve noticed anyway, and if they did, it would be easy to get wrong.

There was also a person who jumped off the east by West ferry a while back, they were noticed because they were the only passenger.

I do wonder how many people have fallen from boats, and nobody has noticed.

Fuel is expensive, diesel in particular has almost doubled in price, but there’s no widespread shortage. A few stations have run dry, but nothing major.

Traffic is noticeably lighter, people are driving less, and certainly discretionary travel is being thought about carefully.

But, mostly things are chugging along.

Yeah, it wouldn’t go down well at all, especially considering public transport just isn’t an option for many people.

I genuinely don’t think Rimu has ever been outside of a city for any length of time, they’re remarkably out of touch with reality.

I’ve seen similar arguments on Lemmy about Internet, people think we can just run fibre everywhere, and don’t understand just how remote some people are.

They’ve updated the story, they referred to it as a diesel leak three times in the original.

Sneaky pricks.

It could be as simple as the artist couldn’t be arsed adding them.

But the amount of energy you’d get from rooftop solar would be minute compared to what the facility would use, and they may simply decide it’s not worth the hassle.

Not really. Investing in electricity storage when there’s going to be a big increase in demand is just how things work.

If we stopped buying it, yes. We do have a steady stream of fuel being shipped to the country though, so this is normal.

Although just over a month of supply in the country is less than I thought.

What happens if nobody calls a ceasefire, but both sides stop bombing each other?

I’ve been pretty disappointed with the way Hipkins has handled this event to be honest.

He’s been very critical of the government, while at the same time refusing to say what Labour would do differently. And my reaction to people like that is typically to tell them to fuck right off.