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Yep, NZ was the last place to be settled by humans. Polynesians only reached it about 1250AD. So a thousand years after this map!

Polynesians had reached South America and come back with kumara (sweet potato) before reaching NZ.

“the body has a way of just shutting that down”

Or some such nonsense from some senile US senator.

Given that I was picking my nose in my sleep last night until it bled while dreaming that I was picking all four nostrils… WTF is real anyway?

Oh, totally OK with that idea.

I’ll still mourn the loss of what could have been though.

The Lux episode was bad enough.

But, by all means, enshittify one of the few TV shows I actually enjoy.

A technology — known as plug-in, balcony or garden solar — is already enormously popular in Germany, in part because you can buy a kit for less than $600 at IKEA. It’s a small solar panel system, often producing up to 1,200 watts of electricity, or a little more than a refrigerator consumes, that you can affix to a wall, hang on a railing or prop up in a garden — and then plug directly into a wall socket. With the help of a small device called a micro inverter, it pumps electricity into your household circuits to offset your power demand.

Really cool. Can’t wait for my country to take 15 years to decide that we’Re SpeCIaL and ban them.

Colonisation never stops.

Amazingly you even made it rain in NZ. It was quite heavy.