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bike tory posted:PSA in case anyone missed it: everyone over 30 can get a bivalent covid booster as of yesterday. You just can't haven't had a booster or covid in the last 6 months. Thank you.
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bike tory posted:PSA in case anyone missed it: everyone over 30 can get a bivalent covid booster as of yesterday. You just can't haven't had a booster or covid in the last 6 months. Sweet, I'll need to book that in. Also just found out (been stuck at hospital/home with a bad leg all last month) AT extended the half-price fares until the end of June, so that's nice. On a related note, cellulitis loving sucks! Especially when the antibiotics the hospital gave you don't entirely work! Thank you Auckland DHB! Bloody Pom fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131678385/green-party-releases-initial-election-list-elizabeth-kerekere-jumps-to-four no big surprises really. Golriz down to #9 behind Hūhana Lyndon probably the biggest upset. Efeso Collins is on the list at #12. It's unlikely to change much based on members votes, I can't remember the exact process but I think the most someone can move based on member rankings is 2 spots?
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bike tory posted:https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131678385/green-party-releases-initial-election-list-elizabeth-kerekere-jumps-to-four Naw the member vote can rearrange it completely - it's the post-member-vote adjustments for balancing or politics that are capped at 2 positions.
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xiw posted:Naw the member vote can rearrange it completely - it's the post-member-vote adjustments for balancing or politics that are capped at 2 positions. edit: I'm dumb Confusedslight fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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exmarx posted:wrong on both counts drat I know a person at work that will definitely make the most of things like this "Bereavement leave will be expanded so that employees can access three days of leave for more types of family members."
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bike tory posted:PSA in case anyone missed it: everyone over 30 can get a bivalent covid booster as of yesterday. You just can't haven't had a booster or covid in the last 6 months. and like if you have asthma diabtes whatnot and flu vax opened up too today was busy and wednesday when we do both flu and covid together will be poo poo
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an extremely boomer thing: boomers HATE waiting after a vaccine. part of the questions I ask everyone is if they're happy waiting 20 mins. I work in a mall so people ask "can I go to the coffee shop?" but I say no it has to be in the store. the look on their face is as if I told them they couldnt raise the rent on their tenant for 3 years the biggest thing is : none of them have anything better to be doing. some just leave lol
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I've been a dues paying member for the Greens for nearly a decade and while I get frustrated at times when that member list ranking email arrives in my inbox I actually feel like I have a part to play in the process and I feel rejuvenated Voting Francisco H as high as practical
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xiw posted:Naw the member vote can rearrange it completely - it's the post-member-vote adjustments for balancing or politics that are capped at 2 positions. Ah right I couldn't remember what order it all happened in echinopsis posted:and like if you have asthma diabtes whatnot I've been telling people about it in conversation and it's kind of shocking A) how few people knew and B) how few people care "Oh another one, is there even any point?" is the general response. Like these aren't antivaxxers or anything and many of the same people were fully pro lockdown 18 months ago. mweb posted:I've been a dues paying member for the Greens for nearly a decade and while I get frustrated at times when that member list ranking email arrives in my inbox I actually feel like I have a part to play in the process and I feel rejuvenated Yeah Francisco is a really good vote. Lawrence is another one too far down the initial list imo. Otherwise the top 7 are a really solid core, idk anything about Hūhana Lyndon but she's got an impressive CV so I guess her current ranking makes sense.
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Ghostlight posted:ACT has announced their policy platform for this election. Spoiler: it's Māori bashin' time Same as every election then.
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bike tory posted:I've been telling people about it in conversation and it's kind of shocking A) how few people knew and B) how few people care The media told them covid was important so they were pro lockdown Then the media told them covid was over so now they don't give a gently caress My solution: eat the media
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Confusedslight posted:
it's not an unreasonable question, i've definitely had arguments over the influence the kind of political sicko who attends a candidate conference has on the initial list and how much that drives the membership vote. There's definitely an incumbency / name recognition bias on the wider membership list, but i also think there's an anti-incumbency bias on the delegate one, so it all kind of works out. mweb posted:I've been a dues paying member for the Greens for nearly a decade and while I get frustrated at times when that member list ranking email arrives in my inbox I actually feel like I have a part to play in the process and I feel rejuvenated Yeah 'as a member you actually have a democratic say over your parliamentary representation' is a pretty big selling point when I discuss this with people tbh, even if the tradeoff is inevitable rage about the 'the membership VOTING WRONG' fran and stephanie are fun follows but also my pick for most likely winners of the 2024 'shitposting myself into a scandal' pool, not that I'm gonna vote them down because of it
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They're the powerful posting representation that we need in Parliament and I will only vote for the Greens if they put them both in the top 12.
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cptn_dr posted:They're the powerful posting representation that we need in Parliament and I will only vote for the Greens if they put them both in the top 12. hi fran or stephanie
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I hope none of you like money. Context
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Spiteski posted:I hope none of you like money. Inflation is still too high and persistent, and employment is beyond its maximum sustainable level. Too many people have jobs dammit!
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If only we could like, take some money from those who have a lot, rather than just blaming the people working in the economy we built where if people don't work they die.
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Confusedslight posted:Inflation is still too high and persistent, and employment is beyond its maximum sustainable level. I am not an economist... but that sounds absolutely bonkers right? Like, can someone explain this like I am an idiot? (I am) why there is a MINIMUM unemployment?
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Spiteski posted:I am not an economist... but that sounds absolutely bonkers right? Like, can someone explain this like I am an idiot? (I am) why there is a MINIMUM unemployment? The thought process is, if you don't have enough people unemployed, then businesses have to offer better money to get or retain staff. That means they have to charge more pushing prices up. Note that wages are around 20-35% of the costs of products (depending on industry), so even a wage increase of 10% should only cause a 2-3.5% increase in prices. And that is only if all the employees in a company get that increase. Also people will have more money to spend, increasing demand for products and companies look at this demand and figure they can further increase prices as they seem to be able to get away with it, hiding behind saying wages have increased, oh no  The solution that capitalism comes up with when companies start price gouging and making excessive profits is to punish workers. This punishment is to take money away from them to try and make them buy less. This is done by increasing interest rates. One of the things this does is increase mortgage rates, so people have less money to spend. It will also hopefully make more people unemployed so they also buy less. And businesses are more able to exploit workers. This is a good thing apparently.
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Spiteski posted:I am not an economist... but that sounds absolutely bonkers right? Like, can someone explain this like I am an idiot? (I am) why there is a MINIMUM unemployment? Neoliberal economies target 4% unemployment to curb wages. And then punish the unemployed.
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Captured market economics. Inflation is caused by too much money in the system. The prevailing economic theory is that you want some inflation because it helps with debts and incentivises investment, but you don't can't have too much and you want it predictable because otherwise people would lose faith in the currency and it would devalue. Now, employment is a market. Just like all market goods, the price of an employee is dictated largely by supply and demand. When unemployment is "too low" then the price of an employee (theoretically) rises commensurately. This is, in my opinion, not very true because our economic system is predicated on the majority of people not being in the position to market themselves and often surviving simply from lowest bidder to lowest bidder; and almost nobody's wages are adjusted on a day-to-day basis in response for the demand of their labour so they will be locked in at a price dictated sometime in the past. When inflation is going too high, economists look to all their metrics to see which ones will extract money from the economy. If you increase unemployment then the supply of employees to be hired goes up and the price of each unit is suppressed. This is how you extract money from unemployment, because those employees hired at suppressed rates will be at that suppressed rate probably until they move jobs, which is harder to do when there's a lot of cheap employees. High unemployment means lower wages. Lower wages means lower spending power. Lower spending power means less money circulating in the economy
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Thought you had any real power you peasants? Mwhahaha how cute. - rbnz
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Confusedslight posted:Inflation is still too high and persistent, and employment is beyond its maximum sustainable level. drat, guess we’ll have to double the unemployment benefit to entice people out of work
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Spiteski posted:I am not an economist... but that sounds absolutely bonkers right? Like, can someone explain this like I am an idiot? (I am) why there is a MINIMUM unemployment? Economics is astrology designed to justify whatever keeps the ruling class in power and has no basis in material reality. If it did it would be Marxism and that's banned. Hth
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Neoliberal economies target 4% unemployment to curb wages. And then punish the unemployed. the orphan-grinder may not be a perfect system, but it's the one we have
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ledge posted:companies look at this demand and figure they can further increase prices as they seem to be able to get away with it, hiding behind saying wages have increased, oh no and they get away with it because covid drastically cut the supply of everything, while subsidies (including low rates by rbnz) kept demand high. this is all specifically a hangover from that wasn't everyone just complaining about cost of living a month or two ago?
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ledge posted:Note that wages are around 20-35% of the costs of products (depending on industry), so even a wage increase of 10% should only cause a 2-3.5% increase in prices. And that is only if all the employees in a company get that increase. wait what
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I told my mum tonight I just dont want to talk politics anymore. She listens to talk back all the time. and also I don't care very much so I am not very informed, but also don't really agree with her politics but I don't really ever have any counter arguments to the things she says, not because she's correct, but she has way more information overall. whenever I offer a counter argument she knows of some facts that I don't. This must be what it's like to be a christian and arguing with an athiest lol.
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echinopsis posted:just dont get poor WarpedNaba posted:Or be alone. Are you suggesting those are optional, because I may need to rethink some of my life choices.
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