How It's Going
Mar. 23rd, 2026 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msconductIn times of global turmoil, there are some benefits to living in a small country at the end of the world. New Zealanders have been killed in America's wars before, in Vietnam and Afghanistan, but this time nobody's demanding we send battleships, because we don't have any.
But there are disadvantages too. We're so far away from everyone else, and so unimportant, that we're at the end of the supply chain. There's a real chance that we will run out of petrol and diesel, and not very far in the future, either. This isn't helped by a right-wing government refusing to ask, let alone mandate, people to work from home or otherwise take steps to save fuel. The idiocy of this Trumpy approach is beyond belief.
This morning when I was at the MoleMap place, the technician was explaining that I wouldn't need further photos taken for five years or so. "We can do it again in 2030," she said. I commented that "2030" sounded scary. "If we survive this," she said.
Yeah. In the end, distance is not enough of a barrier to one man's monumental folly. So that's how we're feeling Down Under.
But there are disadvantages too. We're so far away from everyone else, and so unimportant, that we're at the end of the supply chain. There's a real chance that we will run out of petrol and diesel, and not very far in the future, either. This isn't helped by a right-wing government refusing to ask, let alone mandate, people to work from home or otherwise take steps to save fuel. The idiocy of this Trumpy approach is beyond belief.
This morning when I was at the MoleMap place, the technician was explaining that I wouldn't need further photos taken for five years or so. "We can do it again in 2030," she said. I commented that "2030" sounded scary. "If we survive this," she said.
Yeah. In the end, distance is not enough of a barrier to one man's monumental folly. So that's how we're feeling Down Under.
