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Anticheese posted:Can you please elaborate? I may be wrong but I think it's referring to the approach giving it a slow start - give it to local government first, and then later think about it for central.
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redleader posted:the first time my wife voted she did act + greens Everyone makes mistakes in their youth I guess
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I read that someone had identified her and it's more of less what you think. She was at the parliament protest too
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Mar 21, 2023 05:50
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Taitale posted:Rainbow Greens have been trying to get her nzeta revoked for two and a half weeks with literally nothing happening about it until this week after her event in Melbourne got outright nazis turning up. So if they are going to revoke it they are taking their sweet loving time with it. Immigration NZ have announced that they were reviewing it, which is what prompted her to make white supremacist symbols and threaten chippy.
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Mar 21, 2023 10:05
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I for one, am shocked that conference goers would be drunk and dancing during the time they had a band playing. Apparently, Wayne's memory is lacking because the event was probably the community board conference with minimal association with LGNZ. But that's coming from a biased source (head of LGNZ) I also saw that leaving LGNZ means Auckland may not get to realise the benefits of a streetlight dimming scheme which could be up to $1M a year.
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Mar 24, 2023 01:03
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El Pollo Blanco posted:the whites in this place ain't right Off whites
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Mar 27, 2023 11:35
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Apparently the National parties new renewable energy policy is "continue doing more or less what's already in the works". I guess it's nice to see a policy announcement that is essentially announcing support for the current government, not a reactionary "we won't do this thing", but it's still pretty thin...
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Mar 31, 2023 04:22
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bike tory posted:their whole election strategy seems to be about taking the wind out of nationals sails. National already came out screaming about a tax grab so labour will need to make sure the narrative stays focused on making the rich pay their fair share to ease the burden on the hardworking kiwis who are doing it tough at the moment Ironically National is trying to make it about the average hard working kiwi but actually meaning the rich. But it seems to be they're so transparent/bad at it that it's like a midjourney picture of AI generated people trying to be real people, complete with the tech bros /NAct bros insisting that it's amazing how realistic it is.
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Apr 26, 2023 19:28
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bike tory posted:There's no way they'll try to do a capital gains tax, I expect Hipkins will rule it out the way Jacinda did. But the new 39% top tax bracket showed that tax increases on the wealthy are perfectly acceptable to voters so long as opposition can't scaremonger about them impacting broadly, like they did with the greens wealth tax last election, and like they do with capital gains tax ("the government's coming for your house"). Wealthy people don't vote labour anyway so they won't be worried about alienating them. The only risk really is that it'll drive shitloads of money to the National and ACT party campaigns and the TPU. Like wealthy donors donating $1M to Act? Oh wait...
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Varkk posted:Oh gently caress and just saw a school did an outdoor education caving trip in this and a student was swept away. Uhhh wtf why did they not cancel? Caving you need to be aware of what the weather is doing
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Good news everybody, in-laws are not considered family, and also some Christchurch councillors don't pay attention during meetings or read the agendas.
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May 15, 2023 04:44
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:"I make no apologies for strengthening regulations if it saves lives" - Christopher Luxon Luxon coming in strong undermining (overriding?) Simeon Brown and supporting road to zero and reduced speed limits, I see!
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El Pollo Blanco posted:The argument that lower speed limits increase driver fatigue is incredibly common in this dumb country, the number of local government submissions opposing reducing 50km/h zones to 30km/h that use the driver fatigue argument is hilarious Also lol people will watch their Speedo more. Most people hardly look at it now and end up speeding. The same people who say roadworkers should work 24/7 also probably complain that roadworkers aren't actively doing something on a worksite when they drive past. Also, some roadwork you literally cannot do in wet or cold weather (which is why so much gets done over summer)
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May 27, 2023 03:32
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Spyderizer posted:The car addled would literally see nothing wrong with blasting an 800km, 12 lane hole through every hill and forest if it meant not having to wait for a passing lane. Until they see the cost estimate and construction time phasing, choose to disbelieve both, and then act surprised they can't find a contractor who will do it
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May 27, 2023 06:31
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Hillary 2024 posted:Gonna be waiting 6.5 hours today in Waitakere Hospital ED to be seen, the wait at Auckland ED last weekend was 4-5 hours. If only National would make wait times an election issue rather than their usual bullshit You could weasel your way around it by measuring wait times as "time until triaged" rather than "time until treated" and then just front load triage staff, when the reality is you'll still be sitting around at the hospital for most of the day.
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May 29, 2023 03:29
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bike tory posted:Some of the rejected genAI images for nationals recent attack ads were specifically crowded hospital waiting rooms. Broke a leg recently and had the same. To be fair they put me on a bed fairly quick, then had to get x-rays.... Then the surgeon had to look at them, get another x-ray from a different angle, even a CT scan. With all the people involved it's definitely going to be a couple hours. It's okay, I want exactly going anywhere. I imagine it is maybe quicker now in some ways now that x-rays can be pretty much instantaneous and available digitally. But then that's probably just led to staff being cut
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May 29, 2023 03:36
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This list, while possibly out of date, is enlightening with respect to what industries might have people earning over 125k https://nz.visaenvoy.com/salaries-in-new-zealand/
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I mean we could label this the "Gabrielle recession" but I don't feel that's fair to either people named Gabrielle or indeed to Xena: Warrior Princess.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:20
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bike tory posted:I love to inform people that traditional waka taua were longer and carried more people than the ship that Cook came to NZ in. Always good to remember when you see waka translated as "canoe". "Canoe" in the same way that both a rifleman and a moa are"birds", or indeed a cockabully and a great white shark are "fish".
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Project M.A.M.I.L. posted:Oh yeah big oof. All the sort of stuff my grandparents would have believed true because duh everyone knows that, and it seems really hard to shake that kind of 'knowledge' that is somehow built into the accepted cultural background of the country. Almost like the racism is grandfathered in with each generation. Like the (sculptures? Statues? Models?) of pre-settler Maori in the Christchurch museum which somehow it has only recently been decided that yes actual what local Iwi have been saying for who knows how long is true, they are racist and inaccurate and so maybe we'll replace them
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kaiwero posted:https://youtu.be/ycRcWK7pMoM Theory? I thought it was pretty well established that they reached South America. They got all over the Pacific.
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Jun 18, 2023 01:04
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El Pollo Blanco posted:you don't want to give portfolios to someone with qualifications as they might actually do something, and in a modern representative democracy doing anything but upholding the status quo is considered to be extremely bad That explains why Simeon Brown is the National spokesperson for transport
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Jun 21, 2023 21:59
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Did they remove his capital letters because he's a convicted fraudster?
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echinopsis posted:is it just me or is the internet in chch more poo poo lately? even mobile data
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Jun 28, 2023 07:36
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bike tory posted:How has no one posted this itt yet I can get behind smash bros being the thing that gets localised versions rather than monopoly, which isn't even a good game.
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Jul 1, 2023 20:37
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Big Bad Beetleborg posted:It's better when you play the actual rules without free parking and poo poo, because it at least doesn't drag on forever like Risk but in rural NZ or loving World of Warcraft or w/e
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The primary goal of these two major parties is to get themselves re elected. Governing well is not their main concern (and maybe not a concern at all)
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Slavvy posted:I'm not angry or disappointed, just very tired Ironically a wealth tax would pay several times over Nationals bloody pothole fund
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Jul 16, 2023 04:09
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Is anyone else concerned that the senior advisors home location (even if it's just approximate) is being aired by journalists? Say some psycho far right lunatic has a grudge against the ministry of justice or just the government - now they have more information on how to locate an employee. I mean unless the senior advisor in question told the journalists they live there but for some reason I doubt that.
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Slavvy posted:I'm confident the people by far most likely to kill me are, and will continue to be, car drivers In which case yes Auckland still a very dangerous place. Those 'Street people' driving their cars around the streets
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Jul 29, 2023 09:52
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bike tory posted:Can only speak to the current Auckland crowd, but by and large there seems to be more or less a consensus that comedy shouldn't punch down. 40 million per km and with a cost that's extremely lowball, "party of fiscal responsibility"
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Firstscion posted:Where else would I get a lime milkshake? Look sometimes you just want to be able to vomit pure green
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victorious posted:Every time I hear Blackrock I think they're talking about the American mercenary group that used to be called Blackwater. I think Black Mesa
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Slavvy posted:Faceless evil corporation vs in your face evil boomers Who would win? Faceless evil corporation or a bunch of NIMBY boomers,?
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sebmojo posted:how often should people go to the supermarket Got a while I would occasionally stop by at the supermarket on the way home from work. Ended up going 3-4 times a week, mostly small shops, whatever works fit into a bag or two on the bike. This is easier to do of course with a conveniently placed supermarket which not all are
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Ghostlight posted:Yeah, despite National and their business/farm cronies being vocally in favour of importing and exploiting foreign labour, this will just get spun as Labour failing to manage immigration and why they shouldn't be in charge of the border. I dunno I saw a headline today along the lines of "National Party donors investigated for running a slum for migrant workers"
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exmarx posted:p sure national is copying the uk tories with their policy to bleed migrants for more revenue They copy them (or attempt to,) in so many other things, so why not that too? Also lol at the ECE tax thing, how much of that is going to enrich the Wright family? Are they a national donor or are they more ACT?
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Solus posted:Half Sour Cream, Half Butter Are you putting potatoes in that or...?
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klen dool posted:Questions like "The government should put more emphasis on adapting to climate change rather than trying to prevent it." are tricky because I agree if only because I want maximum effort in both - there is no reason it has to be a trade off. It's inevitable because bigger countries and decided to make it inevitable. How do I even answer that? I interpreted that as a National dog whistle to not do any mitigation and focus solely on adaption. The reality is that mitigation and adaptation are closely linked in many situations eg transport, where current levels of private car use are unsustainable
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Beartaco posted:Not responding to you specifically but I've found a lot of people take the stance of "Well we're just a small nation, what can we do to solve a global problem" and I don't think they're wrong, so I find it helpful to instead appeal to New Zealand's standing in the global community. We have targets that we agreed to under the Paris Accords. What matters is our ability to follow through on our commitments, because that's what drives tourism and economic co-operation with larger nations. I hear that Rod Carr has some strong words for people who say that sort of thing.
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