Honestly, I've never had a particularly high opinion of the Spinoff. Their articles are often waffle pieces that could say the same thing with half the words, and there's often an air of arrogance around their reporting.

I won't miss them.

Given that this was also a factor in the grounding of one of the Interislander ferries recently, I'm thinking autopilot systems are much more complex than they need to be.

Oh, jesus christ.

I'm starting to think the marine industry needs to take a good, hard look at the helm and autopilot systems in use, it sounds like they're far more difficult to operate than they need to be.

It's also been a major factor in two different vessel groundings, just with NZ flagged vessels.

So, because the police want to go from having firearms in the car and easily accessible, to carried on their person, that means they want to be able to execute people in your mind?

Okey dokey. I knew Lemmy had some cooked takes as far as policing is concerned, but I thought this instance was a bit more reasonable.

These fuckers really are on a speed run to be the first single term government we've had since the 70s.

And being told you have to deal with two hours of commuting because a bunch of Cafés are struggling must feel great, too.

I will boycott any business that encourages tipping, fuck that.

This is genuinely window licker levels of stupidity.

Everyone is susceptible to getting a cold, and while it isn't dangerous for most people, it definitely sucks. So please don't spread it.

We need to normalise staying home when you're sick, rather than sharing it around. And this tosspot needs to stop trying to sacrifice people to the economy.

Please don't send your sick children to school, I don't want to catch a disease off the little Petri dishes.

Starlink launches forty-ish Starlink sats every other week, Russia could deplete it's entire arsenal of missiles and, if they're lucky, cause a hole in their coverage.

Serves them right, charging for a basic biological need is a scumbag move.

Downvoting doesn't work when there's more of them than there are of us, and they all upvote each other.