Same! I want four year terms, but apparently we need a bunch of new extra checks and balances locked in at the same time.

I *know* I have more chance of winning Lotto than becoming an All Black because I could *never* be an All Black - not (just) because I'd tackle wrong, but because I've got the wrong tackle.
Olympian also seems less likely.
All Blacks and Olympians don't happen by chance.

Others need it more, but yeah. I felt real trepidation - had pre-emptive plans in place etc - releasing a recent paper on firearms harm. Fortunately nothing eventuated (COLFO treating the paper as no big deal probably helped), but still.
I know many others who will be safer too.

And of course huge thanks too to Hon Dr Deborah Russell @beefaerie.bsky.social for continuing woth it, and to all MPs who supported it.

Thank you so much Sarah. The work I do (and some of my colleagues even more so) means having my address easily accessible online isn't safe for me. I have already had one discomforting incident, and have considered standing down as a company director for safety reasons. Now I won't have to.

I tried it. If you can't get it locally, you can replicate it by crunching up a bunch of brandy snaps and pouring melted milk chocolate over them. Not very complicated, in other words.

As I said, ownership is a separate question. My original assertion was that it makes more sense for people to pool the money they would have spent on rooftop solar and build something bigger. The govt couldn't privatise that, it would already be privatised.

On the planet, I couldn't say, but in Aotearoa wind is better.

No, that's the whole point. It doesn't make sense to subsidise rooftop solar when the same money could produce more kW per $ outlay if used to build macro-generation.
Who owns it is a separate question.

Why? It costs more per kW generated. It would make more sense for people to pool the money they might have spent on micro-generation and use it to build macro-generation.

We don't have enough electricity supply _now_, but there is a lot of new generation in various stages of consent and construction, which will come online well before the offshore wind project would have.
(I'd still rather have wind turbines than gas of course)

(Or even Birmingham urban area 2.7m people).

Um, not to be a pedant, but: it's estimated that 44% of London homes have a cat; there are ~3.7m homes in London. That's only 1.6m cats. Even if some homes had two cats it's still well short of Birmingham's 5m people.

Unfortunately I did enjoy what I was doing instead. Don't know if/when I would have learnt to French plait my own hair (without a mirror even) if I hadn't had School C study to avoid.

So just overall better not to attempt domestication in the first place.

...though child me didn't know that. I didn't mind leaving him behind because he'd been uninterested in being a pet for a while.

But for most people, leaving it somewhere to be trapped is unlikely to be an option to end the relationship with an animal that is no longer interested in being a pet.

Instead he wanted to sleep, then go exploring at night.

About then we went home to the Coromandel and my mother released him into the West Coast wild because she didn't want to introduce possums to the Coromandel (!!!).
He wasn't afraid of humans so would probably have been trapped quickly...

I know this because in 1978 when I was much shorter and living in Makarora I had a pet possum. I hand-reared him from a baby and he was the best pet ever for maybe six months, a long time when you're small. But as he got older he lost interest in being awake and hanging out with me during the day.