Ilovethebomb @ Ilovethebomb @lemmy.nz

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Jesus, that's pretty dire all right. Just astonishing the council allowed things to get this bad though.

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

LGWM has been dragging on for almost a decade now, Wellington council were given a clear mandate to build new tunnels, bypass the basin, build trams, and in general get shit done.

Instead, we have a handful of bike lanes, and Wellington is as painful to get around in as it ever has been.

It's about the only item on that list I wholeheartedly agree with.

Is there a sliding scale for this stuff? That's a lot more than I thought.

There are psychopaths and sociopaths, who are just fundamentally broken and aren't really safe to allow into society.

Most people are a product of their environment, but there's a few who are just broken.

Does anyone have some more information about the building he burnt down?

Just can't help yourself, can you?

Holdom said it was a bit rich for opponents of the project, who had cost the country millions of dollars fighting it through the courts, to complain about the cost of the pies.

Damn good point actually. How bitter do you have to be to complain about roading workers getting a free pie, even if it is once a week?

The best thing for Labour to do at the moment, in my view, is spend a term in opposition figuring out what they want to be as a party. They've strayed a long way from being the party of the working class, in my view.

Both Labour and NZ first have ruled out working with each other.

I don't think I've ever had bad chicken and chips, it's difficult to get wrong really.

Always take the tile out sloping away from you, apprentice mistake there buddy.

As Dave said, Interislander is owned by Kiwirail, and they own their boats, to the best of my knowledge. I didn't realise Bluebridge wasn't NZ owned any more.

One of them was an "engineering issue" that almost turned into "running around in a storm".

If their competition is just trucking along, and Interislander is breaking down and running into things all the time, I'd go with the option that will actually get me across the strait reliably. The only reason Interislander isn't losing business is because Bluebridge are only slightly better.

Possibly? I think that's what he was getting at.

Do you really think people will read about a ship crashing into a wharf, and a bunch of sailings being cancelled as a result, and go "let's book a sailing on them"?

There very much is such a thing as bad PR.

Bear in mind, Interislander makes 3-4 return journeys across the strait per day, Bluebridge is similar. They're bound to get it wrong eventually.

Academics really struggle to express their ideas in a concise manner, don't they?

Also, people will suggest anything but building more houses as a solution to a shortage of housing.

There's not really any significant currents in that part of the harbor, and it was pretty windy Sunday night. I think it's more likely to be a coincidence.

Also, this happened while docking, while Bluebridge did theirs on the way out of their berth.

Bluebridge are probably a bit relieved, someone else has taken the heat off them.