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Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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41.7% Yes
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31.6% Maybe?
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26.8% No
Brain Teaser of the Day 🧠✨ Can You Solve It? 🤔💬
How many balls of string does it take to reach the moon?
(Peter from Carterton kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Peter!)
Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!
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Orchestrated Concerted Chorus ( ie. including Other Vocal Like Minded aLLies & Advocates ).
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that's How 2 Cure the Present Global RAMemory Price Crysis, Rigged by SillyCon Valley Big Tec' Cloud Services including gOOgle, Open.ai ChatGPT, Micro$oft ( & CoPilot ), Facebook, NVidia, Amazon, Apple etc Hording the Planets RAMemory Manufacturing Capacity 4 their ai in Their Data Centres & in so Doing, Choking Consumer Supply & Causing the Current RAMemory Price Crysis that Nobody's seeing an eNd to.
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