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AI companies just BROKE the global supply chain for every piece of technology you own.
And the fallout is way worse than anyone predicted…
Sony is delaying the next PlayStation to 2028 or 2029.
Nintendo is hiking the Switch 2 price mid-cycle.
Apple warned investors that iPhone margins are getting crushed.
Cisco just posted its worst share loss in 4 years.
Oppo is cutting phone shipments by 20%.
Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, and ASUS are all raising laptop prices 15-20%.
Samsung is now reviewing memory contracts QUARTERLY instead of annually because prices change too fast to plan.
And Elon Musk just told investors Tesla has to build its own chip factory from scratch because no supplier on the planet can keep up.
His exact words: “We’ve got two choices: hit the chip wall or make a fab.”
All of this happened in the last 3 weeks.
Same cause. Every single time.
AI data centers are buying every memory chip on Earth.
And there’s nothing left for everyone else.
Here’s how we got here:
3 years ago, ChatGPT launched and the AI arms race began.
Since then, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, the only 3 companies that make memory chips, quietly made a decision that’s now reshaping the ENTIRE global economy.
They stopped prioritizing consumer memory.
Every factory. Every production line. Every wafer. All redirected toward one customer: AI data centers
Why?
Money.
AI memory chips sell for 3-5X the margin of regular RAM.
When Google calls offering to buy your entire output at premium pricing, you don’t say no.
So the 3 companies that control 90% of the world’s memory supply chose their highest-paying customers and left everyone else fighting over scraps.
The numbers from this week are insane:
OpenAI’s Stargate project ALONE will consume 40% of the entire world’s DRAM output.
HBM demand is surging 70% year over year in 2026.
HBM now takes 23% of total DRAM wafer production, up from 19% last year.
Meanwhile, there’s a 4% gap between global DRAM supply and demand. And that doesn’t even account for depleted inventories across multiple industries.
DRAM prices have surged over 170% since early 2025.
DDR5 contract prices are still jumping double digits month over month.
And the memory makers? They’re printing money.
Micron’s revenue is expected to more than DOUBLE this fiscal year.
SK Hynix sales doubled in 2024 and are on pace to double AGAIN.
Samsung just reported quarterly profit nearly tripling.
3 companies. $650 billion in AI spending chasing their products. And they get to name their price.
But the collateral damage is everywhere:
Every industry that uses memory, which is every industry, is getting squeezed.
Smartphone manufacturers are getting destroyed. For a mid-range phone, memory now represents up to 30% of the total build cost. Triple what it was in early 2025.
Chinese phone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Transsion are cutting shipment forecasts and raising prices because they literally cannot afford the memory to build their phones.
Lenovo’s CFO called the cost surge “unprecedented” and admitted they stockpiled 50% more inventory than normal just to survive the next few months.
The PC market could shrink by up to 9% this year according to IDC.
Not because people don’t want computers. But because they can’t afford the memory that goes inside them.
And the gaming industry?
Sony is seriously considering pushing the next PlayStation to 2028 or 2029.
Their carefully planned console cycle is getting blown up because they can’t secure memory at prices that make a new console viable.
Nintendo is looking at raising the Switch 2 price. In the middle of a launch cycle. Something console makers almost never do.
Nvidia is cutting RTX GPU production because they can’t get enough GDDR7 memory.
Even the car industry is getting hit…
Analysts are warning about a repeat of the pandemic-era chip shortage that shut down auto factories worldwide.
All because AI companies decided their chatbots needed the memory more than your car does.
And this doesn’t get better for YEARS.
Building a new memory fab takes 3-5 years minimum.
Micron’s new factory in Idaho won’t meaningfully increase supply until 2027 at the earliest.
By then, AI demand will have grown even more.
Memory makers are already selling their 2027 AND 2028 capacity to AI customers today.
There is no supply relief coming.
That’s why Elon is planning to build Tesla’s own “TeraFab,” a massive semiconductor plant that makes logic chips, memory, AND packaging all under one roof.
He said existing suppliers including TSMC, Samsung, and Micron simply cannot supply Tesla at the levels the company needs.
Think about that.
One of the richest men in the world, running one of the largest companies on Earth, can’t buy enough memory chips. So he’s building his own factory.
If ELON can’t get supply, what chance does everyone else have?
The AI revolution has a tax.
And YOU’RE paying it.
Every dollar Big Tech spends on AI infrastructure drives up the cost of the memory inside your phone, your laptop, your car, your TV, and your gaming console.
$650 billion in AI spending this year.
3 companies controlling 90% of the memory supply.
And every wafer they allocate to an Nvidia GPU is a wafer denied to the device in your pocket.
The AI boom isn’t free.
You’re subsidizing it every time you buy a piece of technology.
And the bill just went up like crazy.
Don’t forget to add to that water supplies and electricity.
Its insane but
Where there’s a will, there’s a wa,y and the market has will, so instead of inventing robots with no chips, someone somewhere will find a solution to chips.
and by time all the data center contracts are filled the chips are outve date and newer faster more powerful… and more expensive ones have been created so the scam starts all over again.
Along with using a shit load of power which means you are going to have brown outs, because they hay first dibs on the power!
Where yesterday afternoon Winston Peters first tweaked his issue on Maori seats to becoming a binding referendum in conjunction with this years November 2026 election in this thread:—
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-666/#comment-469190
Then in Parliament:—
Winston Peters: The time has come for a decision on the future of the Māori seats.
https://youtu.be/6rqw0xAW70U
5 mins. : 18th February 2026 : New Zealand First
Winston Peters: The time has come for a decision on the future of the Māori seats.
“….. It is a simple referendum question:–
Should there be separate maori seats in the New Zealand Parliament?
With a simple Yes or No answer.
NZFirst believes this decision should be put to a binding referendum,
where the people decide,
not temporarily empowered politicians,
because we believe in our democracy,
and this issue needs to gain a true mandate from the New Zealand people. ….”
Very classic Winston Peters before & afterwards. 😉 🤨 😎
But can Winston get it to being a binding referendum ? ?
The catch being it seems to be technically difficult to get the numbers to bring in a binding referendum on this issue.
Or is it just a wipe his hands of this issue on the basis that he tried, while raising his profile, hitting a high point, his name in good books with many, so he is set to ride the the wave in his election campaign.
In the mean time not a peep about Cleansing out all the Treaty clauses in NZ legislation.
Will the man with a brief-case ever cleanse out & close down the Waitangi Treaty Commission too?
National just aren’t reading the room Sam Broughton ex Maoyor of Selwyn got royally kicked out last election – why- Maorificataion and Rates increases – will Luxon follow Sam into the sunset come Novemeebr 2026?
Simpleton
Despite winnie being Maori himself, it will be interesting to see if there will be ‘swarms’ of disaffected (And uninformed, but operating in ‘solidarity’ ‘cos it’s against ‘All’ Maori) Maori coming out of the woodwork should his Bill go through.
No doubt TPM is currently ‘stirring-up’ the agitation in expectation…
You forget that NZF don’t hold that much sway in parliament. If they did, maybe the Waitangi Tribunal would be history. Who knows. Convince people to vote for NZF and find out, perhaps. Or to vote for ACT.
The coalition – and again, NZF can only do what they can do within constraints imposed by being a minor party, have removed treaty clauses. Not enough, but they have.
I think the frustration everyone has is that the previous government rammed all kinds of filthy ethno-enviroMarxist shit down our gullets at pace and the coalition have been sloooooooow to unwind it all. Fairly typical of National – and I am pinning the majority of the blame on them, but extremely disappointing nonetheless.
Luxon disgusting treatment of ACTs treaty bill and now Winston riaisng the issue Luxon should watch his back as the election may become an actual referendum on the issue plus his lack of delivery on key issues whilst sneaking in Maori preferences in legislation.
I agree, people criticise Winston for not solving NZ’s problems, but he is a minority party. However if you follow what Winston says in Parliament, he is the closest thing we have to a statesman.
Winston has never forgotten how many mates died from the vaccines. Seymour couldn’t give a toss about the mRNA vaccines, except that during Covid, he was on board with people needing to be vaccinated.
And his speech at Waitangi was notable for two things:
[1] “We are getting vaccination rates up…”. NZ doesn’t need more vaccinations, that just lines the pockets of Big Pharma. It needs more focus on healthy choices.
[2] Repeating the someone else’s comment ‘this is like Māori Davos’. What comes out of Davos in a political / personal freedom, is just as sick as what happened at Epstein Island in a sexual sense. Both are connected in that hidden agendas of both were about controlling the world though controlling it’s leaders.
Seymour is either too thick to realise, or or too compromised to speak up that most normal vaccines have now been modified. He is all in favour of vaccines, just like Luxon.
I suspect the increased vaccination rates did not refer to Covid but vaccines that have been provied effective like measles/Whooping Cough.
If you believe that vaccines other than covid have been proven effective you need to do some more research.
Measles was conquered long before vaccines were introduced, due to better sanitation, health, and herd immunity. The majority of measles outbreaks today are vaccine induced. Same as polio.
In my day there was no vaccine for most childhood diseases incl measles. NZ has herd immunity to measles, except if you were not breast fed.
Same with Polio. Pretty all cases of Polio in NZ in the last few decades have been vaccine induced. And the truth about what causes Polio, and the proper treatment regime has been suppressed.
Same with the flu vaccines.
There is no money for Big Pharma if you are healthy.
This is interesting on Measles
https://smithvirologist.substack.com/p/the-missing-information-in-addressing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1347866&post_id=187661878&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
After writing above I checked my news feeds to discover:
“New evidence has emerged to reveal that convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein operated as a power broker for the World Economic Forum (WEF) to connect globalist elites and set up meetings.”
“The emails show that even after his 2008 conviction for child sex crimes, Epstein was still positioning himself as a power broker tied to Davos.”
https://slaynews.com/news/epstein-served-davos-concierge-connect-wef-elites/
Depraved, the lot of them.
One wonders if Seymour and luxon are compromised in some way. Both are WEF acolytes who follow their masters dictates
My guess is yes.
Indeed.
Standard form from the sleeze ball.
All that is required is that a majoity vote to change the legislation but Luxon and co won’t. too many Maori in their caucus.
I for one S1, do not believe the Rat with the Gold Tooth, Winston Raymond Peters to be an honest man.
Peters already played this exact same Policy in 2017, to a word and his speech in Parliament yesterday reflected this. In 2017 Peters said that a Referendum on Maori Seats and reducing MP Numbers was an absolute “Bottom Line” and that he would only sit on the Cross Benches and give a Vote in Confidence and Supply requirements if his “Demands” were not met by any potential Coalition Partner.
Well guess what, he went into Government with Cindy and not one of his “Demands” were met.
The same will happen this coming election.
The man is a Charlatan and not to be trusted. I guess people can be fooled a second time though.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/335199/peters-promises-referendum-on-maori-seats
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350616488/the-comprehensive-list-of-winston-peters-bottom-lines
Yep, fool me once, fool me twice stuff.
Were any of his lines the same as Jacinda lines of white powder?
winston is a very cunning man, he wins either way now and nats lose either way… so sad////
nats fumble this (which they will) and up more of his voter base but he’ll forget all about the maori seats after election.
and if nats do find a spine and luxons balls and help this get across the line before election well winston winston will be labelled a kiwi hero and still hoovers up votes from national and probs act too.
the only way i see nats beating this would be to go with seymours plan of no referendum and just can them right now and force winston to show his true colours… if he grandstands and says democracy/the people should choose then hes pandering to the left and he’ll loose support.
nats you have one shot! heres you one and only chance… im not gunna hold my breath i predict a massive let down and electoral slaughtering with election panic of vote winston to keep tpm and greens out.
Winston is fighting the culture war. He and Shane Jones understand well that the Maori seats will almost certainly never go right and are the key to the left gaining or retaining power.
So they will try to get rid of them. And I’d suggest that it’s important to do so whilst there’s still a slight majority of people who might wish to do so.
The brainwashing is horrific – I work with a Korean guy who says, “Kia ora koutou” all the time. That’s what we’re up against.
Sorry, don’t know what that means and I’m not looking it up!
“with election panic of vote winston to keep tpm and greens out.”
SB, I would be of the opinion that Peters would go with the Liar In Chief, Hipkins and Labour to “keep The Maori Party out” and use the excuse that he only went with Labour solely to keep TMP out and to save the country.
What the country would not know, is what dirty deal Winston would have done with Hipkins to get Labour into power.
After all Peters has done this before. Has anyone seen the so called “Coalition Agreement” Peters did with Cindy in 2017 to get her into power? I bet they haven’t.
but to bo fair we slammed winston for going with labour in 2017 and not the highest polling party which was national.
will you lot all be screaming and crying if he ignored labour on say 38% and went with national on 34%?????
i fully expect labour to outdo national this election, the power tax, bridge toll, maori seats, still cost of living issues and their failure to do anything bold is going to cost them dearly.
in all honesty i think nzf and labour could probably do better this time round than any govt with nats, its just the handing more control to maori that will really fuck me off if labour get in. economically we’re fucked so i dont see any difference whose in power. at least labour will go on a spending spree and housing will soar… i can sell for and extra half mil and fuck off to aussie if need be!
Thats NZs whole problem , those who can move need labour to creat the inflationary environment to extract the cash and go , the downside is our dollar would be tanked so you wont win.
Why would you want to go to Aussie SB only get Labour who have royally fucked the country, ably guided and assisted by Albo, Wong and Burke?
Those that Vote Labour in here, deserve all the bullshit that will come with them.
The left have lied their way to power across the Western World – Aus/Canada/UK/France/germany/California/NY and now the popultion is getting what they voted for and they clearly don’t like it juding by the protests in London/Paris and the rising unemployments and debt in Aus/Canada/Germany/California – check it out and be surprised as NZ MSM report nothing of value althoiugh I am reliably informed that Labour party TV/Radio/Press will shortly announce the death of the Queen mother as part of their news catch up programme?//
i dont really but its still better than nz in many ways. theyre still a decade or 2 behind nz decline, better option than most other countries.
financially and retirement wise aussie shits all over nz.
dumbest financial mistake we ever made was coming back here in 2012, 300k yr houshold income down to under 100k at the time all cuz we thought nz a better place to raise kids and be close to family doing so. yup a right fuckup
Yep, have a gander over there at the latest corruption scandals in queensland. Billions tothe unions. A billion to one unionas a back hander to keep peace. All on sky last night.
Queensland have had corruption ever since Joe beoky Paterson was in charge at least!
They won’t. They never do. They are essentially cowards at the top..
theyre cucks.
cowards would still try occassionally.
an oppourtunity like no other for naaska.
https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/former-wellington-nunnery-with-35-bedrooms-and-a-link-to-the-bible-listed-for-5-95m-48919?utm_source=nzh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=nzh-home
Another Pharma fuck up.
Medsafe monitoring vision loss link to weight loss drugs
In this thread. Next after the shark video. well hidden
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360940561/shark-filmed-first-time-antarcticas-near-freezing-deep
Odessa Orlewicz
The trial seems to not to be about the data exposed, but exposing a government secret.
@OdessaOrlewicz
New Whistleblower Alert! [His trial has started in Canada]
Canadian Government’s Own Senior Data Scientist Is Whistleblowing PHAC’s Purposeful Data “Skewing” To Hide What The Vax Was Really Doing To Canadians!!
https://nitter.net/i/status/2023959988243243191
30 mins : Feb 18th 2026
Just take in the first 2 and a half minutes to get the gist of this.
This must be kept covered up, just as many other goverment departments must be allowed to continue their doctrines, guidelines and most essentially maintain & keep their secrets. 🙃
As is pointed out in the many comments & by one,
1) The Simpson’s paradox & Age Bias.
2) The misuse of “excess mortality”
3) Misinterpreting of Spontaneous Reporting (VAERS/CCAE)
So will these points of data, as exposed by the whistle blower have any standing?
To be more fully debated & discussed to see what matches in with the 1) 2) 3) contentions, which will remain untested;— or just be called time wasting cooker concepts so as to be just dismissed.?
The State does not want any of this, the secrets of their raw data, figures, their actual figures as evidence, that then become facts if debated & proven in a court, to be bought up, & then able to be independently anaylized.
Maybe the intrepretation is right or wrong, but it is more important to leave them be, contending that they are “the only source of truth”.
More important to shut down using other issues, like how bad to be not really a whistle blower, and the sacrifice of time, carreer & costs, legacy is not true.
Government of Canada vaxx statistics decoded for realityhttps://rumble.com/v4ow7ti-government-of-canada-vaxx-statistics-decoded-for-reality.html
2 mins 53 secs : refers back to 2022 figures,
Direct link Viking:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360939873/medsafe-monitoring-vision-loss-link-weight-loss-drugs
These are not Pharma fuckups. These are Pharma features.
Ozempic is the new kid on the block replacing metformin. But metformin trashes the body as well. Better to take Berberine.
An ex hospital doctor that used to push such drugs, who became a GP after Covid, said that the MOH restrict expenditure in finding cause of issues, and prefer to just dole out Big Pharma drugs.
If Medsafe has any scruples left, they would be all over the serious mRNA side effects. Which from various estimates are into well into 6 figures. Over 20,000 cases of serious side effects have been reported in NZ, but only a small percentage of any drug or vaccine side effect get reported as such. In the case of the mRNA you first have to find a doctor that WILL report it, and even then 99% of cases are ignored by MOH.
“Believing that Big Pharma wants you to be healthy is like believing that casinos want you to win.”
Not my quote.
“Believing that Big Pharma wants you to be healthy is like believing that companies that manufacture weapons of war want world peace.”
“Believing that Big Pharma wants you to be healthy is like believing that media companies want you to do your own research direct from source, and not buy their news.”
I don’t see how they fecked up , we are a country of experimental drugs because we have ACC .
It’s only an “accident” if they admit there are side-effects causing injury or death.
Improperly testes as with so many other drugs Pharma handle.
Money by the back door.
Nothing is transparent.
The whole stinking industry of chemical indoctrination and health is a closed shop.
But we have public health and ACC so its all care and no responsibility , its the kiwi way.
24 children killed since Malachi case
New Zealand has made no significant improvement to children’s safety since the high-profile death of Malachi Subecz in 2021, a new review has found.
Another 24 children were killed by their caregivers between December 2021 and June 2025, according to the Independent Children’s Monitor (ICM).
Most of the children were under the age of 5 and many were babies, and most perpetrators were known to police, the review by the independent Crown entity revealed today.
Oranga Tamariki was aware of half of those children before their deaths because someone had made one or more reports of concern about them.
https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/378221-review–24-children-killed-since-malachi-case.html
the elephant in the room has a huge moko, that elephant seems to be in alot of rooms dosent it.
our national shame that no one has the balls to address and point out the blunt honest truth. how we fix it i dont know but somehow deterring scum from breeding should be top priority.
lump sum payments for maori FEMALES getting sterilised.
limit bene to 2 kids max.
no extra bene if prego while on bene or within x years of coming off a bene.
and the one that will cause most upset…. remove the fucking kids in serious harm and place them in care. theyre cucked and too scared cuz of the racism/ maori outrage and some treaty bullshit. ffs saving kids lives should come well before any other concerns.
Remember the outcry over the proposed tool to try and predict child abuse?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/280069/child-abuse-risk-study-'ethically-flawed‘
You’re right – people don’t care or at least don’t have a spine or they’d be for prevention tools like that. The issue was probably that a lot of the kids picked out by the tool were probably called Rangi or Nevaeh…
IAASB
In respect of removing children from potential harm, because such kids are invariably part-Maori, doing-so (According to the usual Maori-activists and do-gooder Europeans, who are, BTW, invariably female – ‘cos they care’) will mean that said children ‘Will be deprived of their Maori heritage’.
That said ‘heritage’ is invariably extremely violent and ‘taught-about ‘ only when it is ‘convenient’ and useful in getting something for nothing from the public purse, is, of course, irrelevanrt.
It has NOTHING to do with culture, but EVERYTHING to do with money….
I would say a Major advantage is for children to be unaware of their Maori heritagre.
Nope, way past time start to value mothers and children again.
The femminnazi removed all that.
My friend was the instigator of the Bethlehem Birthing Centre, which Wayne and Chloe Wright funded. It was a private attempt to get much better birthing choices for ladies.
The turf war from the DHBs was outrageous, with every obstacle they could think of and more.
Even worse is the way Midwives are treated and funded. Same with the Plunket ladies and play centres. All the good things for ladies and babies.
System capture and destruction, and then we wonder why all this shit happens.
And that’s after every young lady has been drilled into her that she needs a career, and when that’s done, you can have an IVF on the taxpayer and have your baby.
It is anti-nature and anti-child.
A womens child bearing times are from about 16 to 26.
Thats what nature and God built.
That’s what men are supposed to support.
If we did that properly, we wouldn’t have all the problems we have now.
We wouldn’t have women sending their weeks old children to day care for 9-10 hours a day. (which the taxpayer funds.)
We need to care and change the tax system to support that.
We need tovalue mothers and children.
With AI happening as it is and so fast, we need to think about employment, for soon there will be billions of unemployed people all around the globe. How do we in NZ address both of these issues to benefit families and children?
There’s work to do and lessons from thepast before the evil femminazi’s and their trans mates influenced things.
How many of those were Maori, white, indian, etc!
who here is running solar on their homes?
stupid boy can now finally afford to do something to lower his families cost of living!… and i have an opportunity to do it much cheaper than most (wholesale and no/low cost install).
anyways do i oversize with panels to maximise efficency on duller parts of the day?
how much battery storage for an average power hungry family, 20,30,40kwh?
im set on ground mount too, mainly doe to efficency and a few trees near the house so if anyone has exp on that and setting up summer/winter tilt im keen to hear as the stock standard setups dont tilt just fixed angle.
im not going woke and gunna end up with an ev being charged lol, just looking at slashing our bills as our power prices are climbing and only gunna get worse. might get heatpump hotwater cylinder while im at it too, our hotwater is enormous on our power bill (seperate meter so i can easily tell) even if i wasnt gunna go solar that thing is getting replace over winter.
next cost cutting exercise will be going from 4 vehicles to 2! but that can wait a bit.
get a wrap for ya hotwater cylinder too. Sort of tinfoil type. Placemakers etc sell ’em. They save ya some dosh.
We put 5.3 KW of solar on the roof 8 years ago. Paid for itself in reduced power bill in just over 6 years. Now making a profit for us. One of the better investments we ever made.
Buy pane;s ex China or Trade Warehouse in Chirstchuch. Battery good but big issue is knowing how much of generation is used at timef generation and how much is stored, you need a real expert with practrical knowledge to ensure a good financial result – Mercury has just increased its buy back rate so another aspect to factor in – good luck SB – check ouy bi facial panels if ground mounting and mount on a reflective surface – Sand works and is cheap.
There is currently a dire shortage of the latest model batteries.
The biggest installer in NZ is Harrisons.
Their guys are well up with the play.
I have a mate in the substation/transformer game , he went ground based because it simple , easy to clean which is important , he also runs a small irrigation well of it , unless you put in batteries for anywhere south of chch it isn’t worth it if no one at home during day to use the electricity you make. Hot water at $150 a month takes a while to pay back.
i have the money now, its about lessening my bills going forward so stupid boy dosent have to slave so much.
im investing in quality of life 🙂 every cent helps.
ground base you can also tilt in winter/summer to gain efficiency with the suns arc.
What a load of shit you talk. One minute you are talking about investing in solar power to help your future quality of life her, and then you say you are fucking off across the ditch.
Make up your mind😇😇
lol i know. im all over the place mate, im living life like im here forever but im also prepared to up and leave if i have too.
myself and mrs sb have already agreed once our youngest turns 16 (nutha 5yrs) we will just work seasonal in aussie (seeding and harvest) then chill out back in nz for the other 5-6mnths of the year.
i dont really want to move there permanent but mrs sb does, the fishing and hunting is shit, too hot, and too many bad kiwi jokes but the money and laid back lifestyle i could spend my old man years chilling and enjoying.
Someones not sleeping well
I saw something a while back about a solar panel standing upright like a clothes line and rotates to follow the sun.
Yep because if you don’t get rid of your line charges, the margin is very small.
The 3 biggies are heating, water heating and stoves.
for SB with plenty of wood for heating and cooking that leaves a very small use.
I think he said they had a heat pump, so it will drive that and other bits and pieces. Lighting, of course.
so money wise its a maybe depending on the circumstances.
Once ex BEV batteries become cheap an available its possible to go off grid if using a heat pump for water and heating as a diesel generator as back up works – diesel has 10 KW energy per Ltr and Heat pump has a COE of 3-5 to 1 so say 4 means a litre of diesel energy used in a heat pump outputs 40 Kw of heat!!!!
havent had a power bill under $600 (workshop and multiple farm pumps etc incl) for years so im sure itll be well utilised. when we had spa pool our bills were over 1k every month ffs, sold that fucker!
Spa pool eh. Rich prick.
No need for such snidy remarkes Mike – after a hard day in the milking shed and tractor SB deserves a spa to remove muscle stress.
thats exactly what it was for mate, i want a hot tob tho not full on spa, one of the wood fired ones.
spa pool is wicked good at getting a grumpy wife in the mood to root aswell 🙂 pretty much 19/20 hit rate, my mate didnt believe me until he house sat and had a few tinder dates around… he bought one by the end of the week.
Once again you are sending mixed messages. Often you tell us how good you are at getting laid, then you go and confuse the issue by saying you need a $5000 spa pool to get a good strike rate.
Get fucked. Get a sense of humour.
Who’s not sleeping well???
😉 😉 😂 😂 😉 😂 😂
got bloody grumpy lately.
Did I cause that or did I just get him going.
Must be a shortage of thai tucker.
Or Thai fucker
Bit far to strut his bits at the beach in his budgie smugglers!
One of these days, you’d think “I-don’t-pay-much-attention-to-the-polls-Luxon” would start paying attention to the polls.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360940429/national-struggles-traction-nz-first-gains-ground-new-poll
When Labour is incredibly on 37% after wrecking the country last time, Luxon’s got to realise that people don’t want what he’s selling.
Seymours going to smash it out of the park next election. Peters NZ First not so sure. People have good memories. He put that cunt Ardern into power.
Seymour always chokes in election year.
nup, seymour will goof it again. act is stagnating and have a bad perception issue among voters.
now winnie will fucking smash it big time… unless it becomes very apparent he will 100% go with labour then nzf will even out with act
NZF will outpoll ACT
whats he selling?
Not shampoo.
A salesman whose product doesn’t do the job is like politicians who FAIL to deliver on election promises. Neither will be welcomed back.
Major promises of cutting the budget and reducing living costscutting the public service numbersremoving the domination of maaari lingo from govt departments.
FAIL🚫🚫🚫
Why would we believe him this time?
Not much! Why would you buy shampoo off a bald cunt!
May I should rephrase that. . . .”People don’t like what he’s NOT selling”
boom, aint that the fucking truth!
stand for nothing, fall in the polls
yep
Specially with a fuck up like the gargoyle that sat on Cindy’s shoulder and was the covid minister that tried to my ab everyone and stopped you from going to your dying granny!
I don’t think the top picture is set in 2042. It’ll only be a few years away and will have a maple leaf or Dutch flag on its side.
https://thepostmillennial.com/26-year-old-man-with-seasonal-depression-euthanized-by-canadian-government-family-says
I think the Dutch were the first to do an assisted dying for a person with depression. I really hope there is a hell for the souls of those that do this. Sick sick medical practitioners.
personally if someone wants to die then let them. contraversial yeah but who are we to stop them.
It’s a question of ownership. Religious freaks believe that your body is God’s creation & those with less vivid imaginations consider it belongs to the state just like the rest of your possessions. Communism in its purest form.
I reckon that a body is vessel to carry a mind around in & as such it belongs to an individual’s psyche which should dictate preservation or disposal of its human form.
Great way to get yourself onside with Huey & His Holiness. If anyone challenges you on your preference for extended suffering over a gentle organised death I suggest you quote a modern day Catholic saint, one Josemaria Escriva.
While consoling a dying woman who was suffering in hospital he said “Blessed be pain! Glorified be pain! Sanctified be Pain!”
Apparently suffering & sickness are supposed to be sources of grace & strength for Xtians. That’s the line the sick bastard pushed anyway.
After being married forever I’m expecting a pretty good deal when the time comes.
My religious adviser has informed me that you’ve been allotted Cloud 14367B & your harp is tuned & waiting. Though I suspect that strumming a lyre, singing hymns & playing bridge for the next four billion years might be a trifle boring.
4 Billion? Please that’s the appetizer. Then they can the bridge sessions.
I’ve booked a room “downstairs”..😈
nah, due to your man whoring ways and using women (and ladyboys) for their bodies youre gunna be reincarnated as a goat in an arab nightclub…. enjoy
Best laugh for today.
hunty will be getting shitty with us.
And I’ll probably still be married, I suppose it’s probably better than being rogered by 72 virgin goats.
The idea is before you are too fucked to move if possible.
You have to be able to move to stick two nails in the electrical socket or drive into the bridge abutment.
Im with ya on that one
Stunning day today in Nelson, taxdodgers. Hunty is going to the beach. 😁🏄♂️☀️⛱️
Check out your tan when you get home. Apparently the Wellington shit slick has made it round the corner.
ahh yes, “I love the stench of shit in the morning”. Viking, see you at the beach.🫵
ya get that with ya head up your arse.
Not a beach person, so no, you won’t. too busy anyway.
Reminds me of an old Max Bygraves song for a tea ad.
I stole it from Apocalypse Now. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”. The late Robert Duvall.
He might come back with a moko.
“Obedience requires non thinking.”
(“I was only following orders.”)
Lest we forget.
(What a vague sentiment. “Lest we not forget to think.” would be better.)
To be pedantic “Lest we forget” has to be read in context. It was taken from a poem, Recessional, penned by one Rudyard Kipling in 1897:
“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”
Its theme was the way history records battles won & lost with scant regard for the individuals who paid the ultimate price for the grandstanding or ambition of their leaders.
Another mental case wrecks havoc. From https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-latest-trans-horror-dad-dress-kills-ex-wife-child-self-school-hockey-game In Rhode Island Yankland:
#. “a 56-year-old man reportedly wearing a dress shot four of his family members and a family friend at a high school hockey game. Police say Robert Robert Dorgan (aka Roberta Esposito) killed the mother of his children and one of their kids before taking his own life.”
A dress! Okay, they’re fruitloops & freaks but what is it about transexuals that makes them want to kill everyone they meet?
Its not that they are trans that makes them fucked in the head. It’s that they are fucked in the head and they manifest this as Trans. Prove me wrong, but besides the odd few that are really genetically mixed up during their early fetal development, most are fucked in the head and need to be treated as such .
Most of them are on SRI’s to treat their mental illness (the transition doesn’t help). Plenty of research to indicate SRI’s cause acts of self harm and violent responses.
awful stuff.
Sex hormones are powerful and mood changing. I imagine using the opposite to your body’s actual biological status is even more dangerous as we are seeing with the men who demand to become a fucked up mess in a dress. Whatever it is it isn’t a woman. More like a pantomime – Look out she’s behind you! 😳
Fair comment.
They always seem to shoot themselves as well. Why can’t they just do that bit first?
Back in the day before Helen fucking Clarke scrapped them, we used to have special hospitals for these poor people. They need help, but there is no place for them.
Hi ya. Spell police here. Clark, no E. If ya Gayford..with an E.
Welcome 😉
“Shuddup, Hunty. Ya big mouth. This is why nobody likes ya.”
“Get fucked”
“Ok.”
You’re pedantic Mike. This lot don’t appreciate those of us who are attentive to such things. Just let it go and enjoy the relaxing hammock of life. 🏝️
It’s ok Mikey we understand, have another drink and you’ll feel better.
You do have the sex starvation bad.
What else could it be?
Does go a long way to explaining the Green vote.
“Helen fucking Clarke” ably abetted by one Jenny Shipley. Together they gutted NZ mental health ‘live in’ services in the name of ‘deinstitutionalising’ the patients. Instead of the wrap around ‘community care’ they were to receive they ended up poorly medicated & on the streets.
Those who couldn’t adapt to the streets carried on into prisons. An incredible percentage of those 11,000 currently incarcerated are mentally ill.
It was probably a money saving move so the money could be spent on dumb things.
I remember that. Templeton Hospital in Christchurch. They emptied it.. What a fuckin catastrophe that was.
did you get stuck in a queue on the way out or did they not let you keep the straight jacket and leather restraints?
Wasn’t that helun Clark that emptied them and closed the sheltered workshops?
And told us “Girls can do anything”
And insisted on the dumb arse kids attending university instead of the better placement for most of them going straight into work. Clark named it the “Knowledge wave”. A waste of time and money for many.
What is it with lefty Capitals and sewage?
“In what might be the most incredible metaphor in living history, yesterday’s Times reported, “Potomac Sewage Spill Becomes Ecological Disaster and Political Fight.” Ecological disaster undersells it. It is the largest discharge of raw sewage in American history, full stop. Right into the Potomac River, five miles upstream from Washington, DC.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/catastrophes-and-cuddles-wednesday?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=188378070&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
It’s leftism as a whole that’s to blame. Promoting absolute equality & micromanaging the slicing of the economic cake leaves little time or energy for mundane things like water, sewage & roads.
What’s below ground isn’t sexy. Why bother spending money on maintenance when nobody sees the results.
Last night on propaganda news it was announced the govt doesn’t know everything it owns as nobody keeps asset registers meaning maintenance doesn’t always get done.
What is wrong with people, big salaries for half a job. No wonder the country is in the shit – literally.
I have no idea what happened outside my area or for that matter in the cities but the amalgamation of many small boroughs & county councils in the late 80s saw various overseers & local engineers heading for the dole queue.
They were the institutional memory of their areas & for better or worse not everything was committed to paper. Instance our county engineer who knew every bend & culvert in every road but was a shocker at record keeping. Desperate attempts were made to milk their memories but not all saw the need to co-operate.
The amalgamated councils are as useless as all fuck anyway but they can’t fix or replace what they don’t know about.
Bishop announces changes to Auckland plan change with a reduction in total number of houses to be built from 2m to 1.6m.
What was the reaction of our illustrious Mayor “ the reduction “never really mattered much” but: “If it calms down some worried elderly residents in Epsom then its done it’s job”.
Pompous patronising prick.
aw phew, we’re saved////
that still means the same if not more expected imigrants, theyve just worked out indians and other shithole fleeing uber drivers stack in 10per house so no need to build so many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY62NYd4Icw
Amelia RESTORES BRITAIN: Rupert Lowe’s NEW Party EXPLODES
After backlash over his “millions must go” comment, Rupert Lowe doubled down with four words: “Get used to it.” He says Restore Britain will push unapologetically for mass deportations, arguing half-measures are over. The UK immigration debate just escalated in a major way.
Further to the discussion earlier in the day about measles vaccines. This graph from a new study is pretty conclusive. Compares measles deaths to measles vaccine deaths.
thats hard to prove anything tho as the pro vax would claim thousands wouldve perished without it so who fucking knows? you would need pre vax measles data to have a baseline/control group of unvax measle deaths.
same with the covid vax, they knew it killed but it was an acceptable loss compared with the doom forecast of unvaxxed population… unfortunately its something that can never be proven.
war, hunger, cold, hell even road fatalities probably all outweigh the death toll of vaccines so meh youre worrying about fuck all. just dont take that shit if youre concerned its that simple.
I can see where you are coming from but measles had virtually been eliminated by the time the vax rolled out.
You can see the measles pre-vax data here-
https://dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-images/#charts
True this is not conclusive proof but on the balance of probabilities the vax is worse than the disease.
Personally I haven’t had a vax since 1999 and that is not about to change.
Edit measles deaths had been virtually eliminated.
…..”just dont take that shit if youre concerned its that simple.”…..
And there you have the problem. It was only by the smallest of margins that the Mad Queen didn’t go full retard & mandate the Covid vaccines. We were one very small ‘Captain’s Call’; away from being rounded up on the streets & in front of supermarkets & being forced to prove that we were jabbed. Sane & normal intelligent people discussed quietly amongst themselves as to what they would do if door to door jab teams knocked on doors with authority to vaccinate at will.
I don’t live in the past & I doubt many of my fellow YSB commentators do either. Our caution & suspicion is a real & genuine reaction to what has already happened with the certain knowledge that the UN & WEF acolytes who misgovern our country learned from their mistakes too.
2019 to 2021 was a dress rehearsal. Ignore that fact at your own peril. And that of your children!
theres still ways around it and many of us had plans in place, there were sympathetic jabbed folk that we had organised that were going to help us if it came to that.
but yes, mandates are entirely different to what the original post was and the issues get intertwined then feelz go silly.
still if youre concerned dont take that shit no matter what. there were plenty of doctors/jab clinic folk around that helped fake that shit too, for obvious reasons it stayed hush but fucktards on social media ruined it for a few and media hunted them down but most got away with it.
then theres my steroid loving body builder mate and his indian worker, my mate got over a dozen jabs on behalf of other mates to keep their jobs, the indian guy got to 23 jabs. 1k per jab was the going rate in the end, they were charging only couple hundy early on tho, meh dumbfucks but my mates still alive and jabbing roids flat out, dunno where the indian dude ended up but hes probs fine too.
as i said theres ways to mitigate mandates.
Curious’ comment on “discussion earlier in the day about measles vaccines” relates to the above rol comment & link.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-667/#comment-469344
It relates to not testing in full, that is full on monitoring, to figure the genotype of measles, with the recent advances & knowledge.
Perhaps the medical system sees many as expendable, while looking how to keep costs low, for more profit.
To later develop more profitable vaxxes.?
…. Measles outbreaks in the past have been associated with importation of the virus from international visitors but also with fully vaccinated individuals.
In an outbreak in New York City in 2011 not only did a fully vaccinated person contract measles, but also spread it to others who themselves were also fully vaccinated. ….
So it may seem to be the start of not effective, nor safe.
Just as if one looks, it can be differentiated between a viral covid spike, and vaccine covid spike damage in human tissue.
So why does the establishments want to keep some of these things so secret?
As mentioned in the above afternoon comment.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-667/#comment-469348
The wise Milton Friedman debunking lefty economics
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AUR6bevjCH4
Milton Friedman: The Redistribution of Wealth
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MORE EXPORTS, MANY MORE IMPORTS
January exports were up +2.6% while imports rose +1.6%, resulting in a January merchandise trade deficit of -$519 mln. That was lower than the -$549 mln in January 2025 and half the -$1.064 bln in January 2024. Exports to China were down -7%, to Australia up +20%, to the US unchanged, to the EU up +16% and to Japan up +11%. Imports from China were up +24%, from the EU up +5.6%, from Australia down -8.1%, from the US down -17%, and from South Korea up +36%. We haven’t run a January trade surplus since 2016. They were common from 2009 to 2016.
STILL WAY BELOW THRE PRE-PANDEMIC PEAK
Auckland Transport says in 2025, Aucklanders made 88.7 million trips on public transport, 70.2 mln on a bus, 13.6 mln on a train, and 4.3 mln on a ferry. Unfortunately basic ridership has flat-lined since September 2024, and is still -14% lower than the peak of 103.6 mln in the year to February 2020.
WELLINGTON FIXES SEWER PROBLEM
Some common sense from Parliament Speaker Gerry Brownlee. He is shifting public discourse off sewer-and-bot-heaven ‘X’/Twitter. The @NZParliament account announced today that it “will no longer be posting updates on X”.
https://www.interest.co.nz/economy/137296/review-things-you-need-know-you-sign-friday-fonterra-payout-lifted-exports-rise
So Brownlee doesn’t like being in the shit. oh dear me.
The account, operated by the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, previously posted on the social media platform to alert people when oral questions and answers were available on the parliamentary website, or when laws were given Royal Assent.
Clerk of the House David Wilson told Stuff he decided to put a stop the practice, as he could no longer support the platform.
“I stopped it because of the news I had seen about the way X’s AI chatbot Grok can be used to generate deepfake nudes and child exploitation material,” he said.
The official New Zealand Parliament account has announced it will no longer be posting on X (formerly Twitter) – and Winston Peters isn’t happy about it.
The announcement followed a Sunday Star-Times column by Andrea Vance, who called for public organisations and politicians to depart from the platform.
(You can read the column titled ‘Every official tweet is a nod to child abuse’ here.)
“The social media giant is accused of enabling users to create sexualised images, including of minors and victims of the Crans-Montana ski-lodge fire,” she wrote.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360941546/nz-parliament-announces-it-will-no-longer-post-x
What bullshit
Almost $500,000 in large declarable donations has already flooded into the New Zealand political landscape for 2026 as election year kicks off.
It’s an earlier start compared to the 2023 election year.
The first hefty donation started with Pure Advantage founder Phillip Mills, of Les Mills gyms. On January 8 he donated $50,000 to the Opportunity Party – newly rebranded from The Opportunities Party (TOP). Mills in 2023 donated $50,000 to both the Greens and Labour.
Mills told Interest.co.nz he was interested in environmental issues and particularly dealing with climate change.
“I’m basically supporting anybody who is properly dealing with issues that need to be dealt with around climate change,” he said. He planned to also donate to the Greens and Labour.
Mills’ 2026 donation was followed by three separate donations from Auckland building and civil engineering businessman Michael Sullivan, who donated $200,000 in total across the government coalition parties.
On January 20, Sullivan donated $50,000 to NZ First, $50,000 to ACT and $100,000 to National.
Sullivan donated $50,000 each to ACT and National in mid-2023. Sullivan was contacted but preferred not to comment for this story.
A day later on January 21, Aucklander Mary O’Brien donated $22,333 to the Labour Party.
Earlier this month Van Den Brink Karaka Limited, and Zuru Toys founder Nicholas Mowbray, each separately donated $100,000 to ACT.
Mowbray donated $50,000 in June 2023 and $100,000 in March 2023 to ACT ahead of the last election.
Large donations above $20,000 must be declared to the Electoral Commission within 20 working days during the 2026 election year, up to a day before the election.
The 2023 election year only saw large donations of $20,000 and above come in from February 22, the Electoral Commission confirmed.
That period was particularly turbulent – former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announcing her resignation and the election date on January 19, before now Labour leader Chris Hipkins took over as prime minister a week later.
In non-election years, donations, including large donations, are declared in annual returns, with the 2025 batch scheduled for release in April.
Prior to 2023, the donation declaration threshold was $30,000 from a single donor in a 12-month period.
I see the Jaffa’s are in for an inspiring weekend.
Auckland Rainbow Parade 2026: Police to help with security, fine weather set to attract crowdsPolice officers are set to be highly visible at this weekend’s big Rainbow Parade in Auckland, as a sunny forecast promises to attract crowds of supporters.
But anyone planning to turn up to protest is being told a simple message: “Don’t come”.
Up to 25,000 people regularly turn out to the popular Auckland Rainbow Parade, on Ponsonby Rd, being held tomorrow night on what is tipped to be a fine day, according to the weather forecast.
Event manager Shaughan Woodcock said the parade is about inclusivity and a celebration of New Zealand’s rainbow community – acknowledging those with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-rainbow-parade-2026-police-to-help-with-security-fine-weather-set-to-attract-crowds/B47XTUHEWFH2PHPTU434ETFNPU/