I must be confusing it with Auckland’s recently cancelled project, I remember a bunch of money being spent to purchase land.

I mean, I wish they’d build shit. Total agreement here. It needs to be done, just do it!

Oh absolutely, sunk cost fallacy is a problem. No disagreement there.

However, my point is cancelling a project doesn’t remove the need. We need better public transport, we need ferries, we need infrastructure upgrades. All of these things need to happen, and the longer they are put off usually the more they will cost. So it’s not so simple as a sunk cost, as cancelling a project then doing it again later may very well end up costing more in the long run than the over run cost of the initial project. Case in point, the ferries.

I will admit, though, I know less about the wellington light rail project. I was under the impression that a lot of the cost being spent was paying for land that was needed for the project, but you can probably inform me more about this. I’ll just say, rail is still needed (or some form of mass transit system).

Infrastructure is expensive, and often goes over budget. It is hard to deliver large projects on time and on budget. Any builder will tell you how often a simple house build goes over time and budget.

Crying about incompetency is silly when the alternative seems to be to throw away money that has been spent for no gain. We have lost all the money spent on the ferries, plus a penalty, for no fucking gain at all. All the money spent working on ALR has been flushed down the toilet. It’s fucking insanity.

The answer is not throwing away projects because they cost more than anticipated, it is finishing projects and figuring out how to do it better next time. New Zealand has seriously terrible infrastructure problems and they can only be solved with money, and a lot of it.

This stuff pisses me off so much.

Educational curricula should be independent of politics. It should be solely based on educational research and achievement statistics, not fucking ideology.

Cheers mate. Neat stuff!

I wonder how much force a sail of that size is expected to produce?

The only thing I’m concerned about is the continued creep of housing developments into productive farmland.

If developers want to increase density of housing in current areas, that’s a good thing! I don’t particularly care about how stylish a development is at this point in time. Besides, current cookie cutter housing is all ugly anyway.

I agree with you, and I think it’s interesting to look at why there is a short term uptick in youth crime.

Something something cost of living crisis something something

Congrats mate! Thank you for all your hard work on maintaining this little piece of the internet for us!

But the ambiguity comes from the crown ignoring the original, Te Reo document, in favour of the translates English version, then ignoring that as well.

There was a protest that blocked traffic in my town, a couple of months back. I was caught in it while returning to work after making a delivery.

It lasted 5 minutes and then I was on my way. They were polite the whole time, and I was polite back. I literally lost 5 minutes, who cares.

I don’t get the problem.

Exactly. The fact that they went ahead with these tax cuts shows they cannot be trusted to be ‘fiscally responsible’

I mean… She’s not exactly wrong…

I want these to become a thing, because they’re awesome. But I doubt it actually will.

Plus, there are much more efficient ways to move large numbers of people. Still, ground affect craft are neat.

It’s all good mate! Thanks for the suggestion. When I first started printing I had that exact issue.

Too right mate

The amount of time these people spend thinking about other people’s toilet habits is hilarious.

Hey mate, I keep my filament in a dry cabinet at 5ish% humidity, and I’ve had the same results with two different filaments in there. I even chucked my filament in a food dehydrator at 40C for 12h with no effect. I’m pretty sure the filament is dry!

Appallingly transparent.

I love these! Thanks for sharing!

After sleeping on it, I remembered that my new heatbreak doesn’t feed the bowden all the way to the end of the nozzle like the stock one does, so I’m pretty sure I have it seated correctly. I’ll check it though, many thanks for the info! :)