According to the nicotine lobbyists...

Perhaps its time to ban lobbyists.
They're clearly unconcerned about the damage their products do.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/5677...y-friendly



And a minister being less than truthful...Casey Costello

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/5081...tax-freeze

Well worth a listen (opened to the general public now) and a read of the comments in reply.

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/luxon-and...th-failing

Booked a courier pickup at my door today for an item i sold.
The driver called me asking where the parcel was I told them right outside on my doorstep and I didnt see any van outside. 
He asks if he had the right address and quoted me the destination address!
He then told me that there has been issues with their system, so would be interested to hear from any who have had similar issues. 
This was with fast way.

Not before time,imo.

The study follows 1037 babies born in the early 70's at Queen Mary maternity hospital.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5676...-attention


Anti social behaviour & the brain
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme...-the-brain

I have just installed widows 11 version 24H2 on a Asus VivoBook.
I cannot get rid of the password login.
I can usually get around this by using netplwiz.
But this time it will not get me into the account area to remove the tic.
I can change the login to a pin instead of the password.  
But if I get rid of that it goes back to the password.

What is the latest work around for this ?

Leo has been busy...



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5675...orth-shore

Satire.

Who knew Seymour 's related to Ayn  Rand...

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/19/the-se...s-letters/

Clearly they've all gone bonkers. Or they're desperate for votes. Or both.

 The Dunedin study showed that the human brain is incomplete till the mid twenties, in particulat the area governing risk taking & consequences..what could possibly go wrong.


https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c93kkg37n3kt


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...rn-ireland

"Despite concerns that it could benefit minor parties like the Greens, or worse, the far right Reform UK party, govt claims it will be fairer since some of that age are already serving in the army'

What you guys think of this?    Safe to use?

https://github.com/builtbybel/Flyby11

America appears to be sinking ever lower.

He was there three days then transferred to a 'shelter for migrant children'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...91927.html