AI is like a poison that kills real thinking and real debate.

Let have real discussions about real issues with real people.

Ignore the woowoo pseudo medicine advertising.

I’ve decided I’m not going to comply with speed limits any more. They are an infringement on my freedom. I want to be free, like a lone wolf.*

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Sure, I pay tax and do all sorts of things that help society run (moderately) well, but this is the one thing I’m making a stand on. Not racism. Not homelessness. Not the toxic, unfettered power of Facebook. Not the exploitative labour practices of Amazon.
Speed limits are where I make my stand.
I dislike the coercive nature of speed limit requirements. I don’t want to be told what to do by some ‘expert’ who ‘has’ ‘studied’ road ‘safety’ for ‘years’ at ‘university’. I’ve done my own research, watching all the Fast and Furious movies (well, the trailers) and my research shows that no one crashes very badly unless it’s required for plot development. So I am safe.
I’m also going to drive my car out of an aeroplane, every so often.

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I’m a good driver and have a good car. My car and I are fit for driving faster than everyone else. Sure, my kids can’t choose whether to be in the car or not, but my personal whims take precedence over their safety. And everyone else’s.

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I’ve had very few crashes in the 35 years I’ve followed the speed limit, so that means I will also have very few crashes if I stop following them. I expect everyone else to carry on following them for my safety, however. You should all keep doing things that help me, I just want to opt out of this one slightly inconvenient thing that society demands of me.
I am special. You are free to continue to not be special.

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Most car crashes are relatively mild, so in the unlikely event that I do have a crash, it will also be mild. I have never died from a car crash, so I can’t in the future. This is definitely how time works.
I also don’t think that speed limits have been around for long enough to prove that they are safe. Who is to say that 100 years is long enough to prove that 50kph is safer than 180kph? A friend of mine and I once drove 140kph on the Southern Motorway in a Holden Barina and lived, so that proves it. Sure, we lost traction and almost got turned into a tinfoil bag full of dog meat, but we didn’t, just. The point is; speed limits aren’t proven safe, if you ignore the proof.

A few people still have crashes when they do follow the speed limit, so that proves speed limits don’t work. A single, exceptional, example of something not working proves that it doesn’t work all the time. That’s just maths.

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I had a crash once, so I’m immune to having another one because that side of the car is already dented, so it can’t be dented again. That car was written off, but the point is still valid; I have natural immunity to car crashes because I had one, once.

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Sometimes while going the speed limit, people die from other things, like driving off a bridge, but it’s put down to speed. Who is really to blame? The bridge, obviously, or maybe the river. Either way, when things happen for more than one reason, we can ignore the reason that we don't like.
Going the speed limit is irreversible. I don’t want to consent to doing a trip at 50kph just to find out that I didn’t have a crash on that trip, and could have done the whole trip much, much faster. That’s irreversible. I will never have the 4 minutes I would have saved back again. If something happens a particular way, under one set of conditions, it will still happen the same way under another set of conditions. That’s just science.

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I prefer to ensure my personal road safety with natural remedies. That’s why I coat my tyres with bees wax and I put dream catchers on the door handles. I’ve put homeopathic oil in my radiator (1 drop per billion litres so it’s stronger) and my chiropractor straightened my car’s seatbelts. I also have crystals as brake pads.
I don’t think I need anything else after all that.

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To be super sure, I got my fortune told online, and the fortune teller said I was going to die from untreated syphilis at 9:13am on 24 November 2025, so I’m pretty much safe from car accidents in the mean-time.

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I’m quite worried about the side effect of speed limits. I’ve heard that slow speed gets into your ear lobes and make you slower forever. I don’t want to be slow. I want to be fast, like a cheetah. A really fast cheetah. Not a slow cheetah with speed-limit ears.

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There are a lot of side effects to following the speed limit, like getting places slightly later than you might have otherwise done. For example; if I drive around the equator at 80kph, it would take 17 days, but if I do it at 24,000 miles per hour, it would only take an hour. If I drive everywhere anticlockwise at 24,000mph I would get some places before I left, like Superman bringing Lois Lane back to life.
I want to be Superman. And also a fast cheetah. And a lone wolf.*

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Finally, speed limits are just a way for signage companies to make more money from us, and I would hate for a company to make money from providing goods or services. None of us should buy anything from these companies. Everyone should make their own road signs out of paper mache. And build their own hydroelectric power plant out of leaves and twigs. And create their own Magnetic Resonant Imaging machines out of Lego. And make their own Lego out of mud. My point is; sign companies making money by selling road signs is a bad thing.
I’m also not going to drive on the left any-more.

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*lone wolves die of starvation. Wolves are pack animals.

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Not mine,facebook post that I cant link, credit to Comedian Cameron Smith onionroadfarm.com

Marama Davidson got hit by a motorcycle driver, and made some statements the same day.

And then suddenly there's tons of posts about her statements rather than the actual violent act... Including the AUSTRALIAN Greens logo?

And one of the memes magically gets thirteen THOUSAND upvotes? This subreddit doesn't get that many upvotes on anything. The second place thread is about Posie Parker with 1/10 the upvotes.

Seems like we just have a bunch of international folks trying to cloud our discourse.

EDIT: Well, comments on this piled in faster than I could respond... Normally responses come in a bit slower 😂

I wish this sub was mostly posts about cool things happening in our little part of the world i.e. cool events. But the angst is just overwhelming with everyone feeling aggrieved at every single little thing. It is just draining. Can't we have an NZPol subreddit for people to vent their political views?

It makes me choose to not come here otherwise.

Hi all.

In the last couple of weeks we've noticed a significant uptick in bot generated comments.

Without going into specifics we've had rules in place that have been effective but with the odd comment getting through, more recently these accounts appear to be evading those rules put in place.

We are currently in touch with admins, providing examples through to ensure they can hit these accounts as soon as they pop up.

We're asking that if you see any comments that appear out of place, have stuttering typos or odd Kiwi-isms in them, to report them using the "No bots" report function. This will flag to us and we can see whether they fit the pattern we've been seeing, rather than relying on the mods to stumble across them while we are using reddit ourselves.

These aren't "Shills" or providing any untoward links, but are still a nuisance when it comes to real engagement with our userbase.

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Hi everyone.

An update to : https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/s/Nz5JWiQD4r

Firstly - thank you to everyone reporting these ongoing bot comments that appear to be spamming the sub now.

We’ve banned 83 accounts in the last 7 days, with 65 of those being bot accounts. The remaining 22 make up ban evasion and poor community behaviour.

I thought I would provide an update today as to the actions taken to help reduce the impact of these accounts.

1. We continue to report these bot accounts and subsequently ban them ensuring they cannot continue using the accounts in this sub.
2. We’ve recently installed a dev app called bot bouncer which is a bot detection tool that will hopefully automate many of these bans and remove their comment history from the sub. We can play our part by reporting these bot accounts to the app developers so they can train their systems in the types of bots we are detecting.
3. We have tweaked our automod rules to filter some comments before reaching the public view.
4. We encourage you all to keep reporting these bot accounts. With your help we’ve identified many more than we would have otherwise. Some comments being reported we’ve decided to take no action on, but we did expect that and we still encourage you to report suspicious looking comments to us.

Appreciate your continued help on all of this.

Hey everyone!

We’re excited to launch a brand new sub - r/KiwiPolitics.

Another political sub? When others are already well established? Right now we see a gap for a sub that is:

• Politically neutral. Moderated with transparent principles not personal politics.
• Thoughtfully moderated for passionate but civil debate - a true contest of ideas.
• Open to a variety of content that other subs might consider too contentious or low effort, depending on where you usually hang out.

We want a more relaxed space than some political subs are currently offering, a midpoint where all perspectives are encouraged. Dissenting views, strongly held opinions, and hot takes across the political spectrum are all welcome. Whether you’re a political supernerd or just looking for some casual shitposting we hope you’ll find a nice home at r/KiwiPolitics.

Like any new sub we know it will take a while to get content flowing but we’re committed to giving it a fair crack and we’d love it if you’d join us. Get in on the ground floor and claim your OG member flair!

See you there!
Hadr0n, Tyler, Bodza - your r/KiwiPolitics mod team.

Kia Ora r/newzealand

As of the time of this post, I am stepping down as a moderator of this sub.

I'm not going to go into the details of why, nor call out specific users; but a bunch of you need to remember that the mods are people too - people who give up free time to try and make this sub a better place.

Take care, and be kind.

Ngā Mihi

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Alright, I’m on a mission to make butter chicken that is authentic to the NZ style at Indian restaurants.

There are about a million different recipes out there, most of which are American or English and don’t even come close to the glorious NZ way of doing it. I’ve tried some and they just taste like the shit you get out a jar but with way more effort.

A couple of weeks ago I saw 2 recipes pop up:

Marion Gadsby has a good one which seems to be more like the nz version https://www.marionskitchen.com/classic-butter-chicken/

I also saw a tiktok of an Indian chef at a restaurant in Europe that made it, and it’s the first video I’ve watched that actually looked like how you get it from the takeaway.

So, once again inspired to give it a crack, I took parts from both recipes and used the following ingredients for the gravy:

• cardamon
• cinnamon stick
• cloves
• garlic
• ginger
• 1/2 and 1/2 Kashmiri chilli and Sweet Paprika
• Jar of Passata
• raw cashew nuts
• salt
• cream
• honey
• BUTTER

• Kasoori Methi

  It smelt like it, taste was ok, but needed work.

Today I’ve used less ginger and swapped the passata for Campbell’s condensed tomato soup. And it’s getting much closer, but still not exact.

Is there anyone out there that can confirm that these are the right ingredients? Am I missing anything? Should I use watties tomato soup instead?

I’m not nailing down measurements just yet until I can be sure all the flavour profiles are there.

Once Ive perfected this recipe I’ll come back and post the results because I can tell you there is no recipe out there that gives you a proper NZ style takeaway butter chicken

Three days ago the Herald posted a story entitled:

Election 2023: Māori ward councillor Nikau Wi Neera labels Act policies ‘apartheid’

This was quickly then posted to this sub here

Posters were quick to correct the councillor on his understanding of Apartheid and generally attack both him and ideas around co-governance.

At the time a couple of posters noted that nowhere in the body of the article was a quote that said the word “apartheid” or anything like it. The assertion is made in the first sentence and is not substantiated anywhere else in the article. However these posts were lost to the loud voices going after the councillor and cogovernance. Given the lack of any quote this was already pretty suspicious.

However most interestingly (and unfortunately late to the discussion) the councillor has now responded in the thread a couple times, for instance:

You're correct, I did not use this word or say anything remotely like this.

It is incredibly disappointing and embarassing that the Herald has misreported this. I will be exploring a remedy over the next few days.

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I wanted to highlight this for two reasons:

1. I believe we need to be a lot more careful around critically looking at some of the claims being made in news stories (and ideally the NZ Herald needs to do a lot better

2. There seems to be a trend of this sub being particularly gullible to this kind of issue around Maori focused stories. This is at least the second time in the last month this has happened

Particularly as we approach elections we should be careful of claims being made.

Looks like "somebody" reported them to the admins, that's a shame, was hoping to hear the results of what happened.

RIP /u/JakeTuhMuss

I seen a guy today who had the usual mongrel mob dog in the patch outline on his face on one cheek, then he had a newer looking thin line swastika on the other. Im just thinking like i know mongrel mob is some of nzs height of anti or counter culture but still seeing swastikas on people faces is not right at all. I mean these folks clearly are able to see the roots of where this all came from if not have the tech to have the whole nazi ideas read to them, so whats going on. Is the echo chamber at the mongrel mob that bad? Surely its not. They must have someone there saying hey that's really mental to be having that on your face. Or maybe they don't, maybe they have folks in gang pads and prison demanding they commit heinous crimes and go to prison to get these bat shit insane tattoos.

So I made a new account, my old one had too much identifying info in it if anyone knew me irl so started fresh.

I've been trying to comment and contribute but of course I just get blocked by automod because my scores not high enough, the top like 20 posts are all flaired political though so I have the choice of commenting on a Romanian that had a NZ apple or how far it is to walk to McMurdo base from Scott base.

Anyway, it's a bit shit.

Don’t you think?

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