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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Progressive JPEG posted:

Immigration NZ basically shut down when covid started, even for services for people that were already here. Meanwhile they still haven't really come back.

For example upgrading to a permanent resident visa was previously a quick approval, since the main qualification is just whether you've been on a resident status visa for long enough. Think it was previously 3-5 days territory? But even now the median processing time just for that is 52 days - or 5 months for 90th percentile lol

This is probably an area where things would get better under a national government since they like immigrants
My wife applied from overseas for PR in 2021 thinking it would take like a year (even rang up immigration who said it would take a while) and we got it all done in a month. It was really weird.

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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Good morning
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/03/22/posie-parker-nz-free-speech-and-the-trans-debate-tragedy/

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

quote:

The mayor said he did not see much benefit to being part of LGNZ.

Brown said he and his band once played a gig for an LGNZ conference and he was not impressed with what he saw - claiming members were "completely pissed, all night long" with no benefit to ratepayers.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Possible the only time in recorded history a band has been angry at the audience for being too drunk.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Bit harsh on Brit, she won't shut up about how great Six60 are but she's not THAT bad.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Is that Kraftwerk?

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/486871/national-party-leader-christopher-luxon-demands-marama-davidson-apologise-to-cis-white-men
Lol, yeah the smart play is to go all in on this

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Also my pornstar name

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

This is because talkback went woke.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

6 days of ads on TV: reasonable, living my best life
7 days of ads on TV: I will personally murder the Mad Butcher screaming about his tenderloin discounts

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

He paid money for a blue check.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Never trust a Sharon

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Laurie Mac knows where it's at

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

*checks calculator watch* ah gently caress im late for the revolution again

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Hate it when workers make a lot of money

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

That's me except not Australia. At that time my plan was to save money, come back and buy a house lmao

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

13 photos and that was the best one.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

exmarx posted:

did you guys know that it's easier for green members to vote their party out of existence than it is for them to agree a remit at party conference


Lol

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Xik posted:

What even is a blue-green voter? Are there really people out there that care about the environment but hate the poor and minorities.
NIMBYs

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Wanna see the subset of people who actively avoid the news most of the time but take a high interest in whatever's being reported.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Who's Todd Muller

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

"I make no apologies for strengthening regulations if it saves lives" - Christopher Luxon

Lol at framing this as a tough decision he has to make

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

COVID basically proved that most people don't know how to read studies anyway.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

For a mere three thousand bucks your research can also be published in a journal by next week.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

It's because National are the true Economic Managers

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

"Back at Friday’s Tauranga meeting, another audience member suggested traffic workers should work 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

cars Cars CARS

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

The dril tweet about drunk driving

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Content to Hover posted:

What's the signage like? Key used to be on almost everything because he was popular, are they trying that with Luxon?
Maybe it costs less because most of his head is white.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Buy the dip

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491237/christopher-luxon-proves-to-be-a-traffic-stopper-in-new-plymouth
Lol at this entire article

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Probably reads the thread

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Meng...

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Beartaco posted:

Man, the our news media is really circling the water with that "we barely reached a recession at the start of this year" news. So how does it work, is it two consecutive quarters of decreased growth in GDP or is it a decrease in GDP itself?

Either way it went from a 0.6% in the final quarter of 2022 to a 0.1% decrease in the first quarter of 2023. A clear improvement and it's certainly very obvious to me looking at the data at my job that consumer spending levels are on the rise again. That's not stopping the $1 news site from running op ed after op ed "Here's how hosed you are and will be for the next 12 months".
It's just two consecutive decreases, technically it's a recession if it decreases by 0.0001% in two quarters, because capitalism is all about growth baby.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

thank u Bomber

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Slavvy posted:

funnel their energy away from class conflict

Slavvy posted:

I'm wasting my energy with this poo poo
Your HP doesn't go down if you're not spending every waking moment thinking about capitalism.

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

All according to whakamahere

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Bomber ghost wrote it

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

I ram raided a cone once

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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

They love the cops

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