Ooh something happened on engine ignition? I’d be keen to hear more once there are updates.

19th here, I think I got left behind.

Well, maybe in theory. NZ has many unique birds not found anywhere else, but they are generally threatened or endangered. If you want to see them in the wild, generally you have to go to a very specific location.

If I look outside, almost certainly all I’ll see are European dinosaurs.

So maybe I should correct my statement to say they almost all died out.

Ah that would make sense too. Either way, you don’t see that anymore in a central city area. All the cables these days are underground.

It’s also worth noting that the previous government had a Road to Zero policy similar to the Vision Zero policies mentioned in the article. Part of this involved reducing speed limits on high risk roads.

The new government committed to ending that policy, and increasing speed limits on some roads over that were not reduced under the previous policy.

Also relevant is they are building roads that no one wants, and creating huge debt doing it…

I didn’t! But I’ll be sure to check the other ones next time I visit.

I live in New Zealand and haven’t found any dinosaurs. I think they all died.

The OP states it was part of Gondwana, maybe that’s what makes it different.

If you click through to the microcontinent link that seems to support the idea of microcontinents being pieces broken off a bigger one. But with everything coming from Gondwana then that means all the existing ones are fragments, and the only reason other fragments aren’t considered continents is size (e.g. Madigascar).

Zealandia seems to be the Pluto of continents. Too small to be a continent but much larger than the largest microcontinent.

Speaking of technological progress, are those power lines strung around in the photo? I bet those are all underground now!

I think you’re probably right. The wibbly-wobbly-ness of it makes it look like the surface of water, though admittedly on my computer rather than my phone it looks a lot more like a wet road. I’d guess the wobbly nature of the surface is partly due to wear as you say, but also I presume road building techniques have come a long way in the last 100 years.

Oh wow, that’s quite… something.

Given how targeted the attacks were at certain people, does this imply a bunch of people walking around with explosives in their pagers, where they weren’t set off because they weren’t one of the targets?

I’m struggling a little with understanding what’s happening. Is it a dirt road that is wet? It looks a lot like water!

I’m too old to tell if this is satire or serious.

Interestingly, in the last few years New Zealand has had it’s first commercial coffee grower set up right near the top.

It’s definitely specialty and is very expensive ($55NZD for 180g - which is $305NZD per KG or $188USD per KG or $85USD per lb).

But the fact they can grow it here at all is a sign of things changing.

$7USD is over $11NZD. I have no doubt that some places charge a lot for specialty coffee, the article specifically addresses that the cost of your average coffee is catching up on the specialty coffees. But is a regular, normal coffee from a cafe or coffee shop actually $7USD?

In NZ I’d expect ballpark of $5-6NZD for a latte, about half the cost of a $7USD coffee.

Haha yes, it reminds me of the show “are you smarter than a 7 (?) year old?” where they ask these random questions about ancient egypt or whatever and the adults get them wrong and the kids get them right because the kids just spent a term being taught the exact material.

Then imagine if you gave the kids a test on Ancient Rome when they had only studied Ancient Egypt, then said how much worse the results are getting.

I know you’d expect something like maths to be more generic and not change like my example, but different experiences of mine come to mind. I remember getting marked wrong for maths questions on estimation not because I didn’t estimate well but because I wasn’t using the method that they were teaching. I also remember working my way through Khan Acadamy and struggling with easy stuff (as an adult) because I was taught different terminology for things.

I just eat the whole plant. I can’t be bothered taking all the strawberries off one by one.

Yeah, makes me wonder what kind of role models these kids have in their teachers…

My assumption is if they have 500 kids they make 500 lunches, but some kids will be sick so teachers are allowed to take a lunch if there are some left over. But then some teachers were missing out so probably some rivalry to get in first and eventually this evolved to getting in before all the kids have eaten.

Also maybe they assume say 5% of kids will be sick each day, which would mean the number of lunches left over may vary a lot depending on actual attendence.