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exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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I got polled this arvo

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exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Yes, but if it isn't Brave Captain Fwiffo I don't wanna hear about it

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Content to Hover posted:

Your presence here fills us with excitement!

Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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There is too much animosity on both sides for a Nat/NZF coalition to work. It hasn't happened since the 90s and any such govt would be on suicide watch from day one.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Actually the worst case scenario is for Winnie to cark it early in the term leaving whatever bootscrapings he brings with him access to the levers of power.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Strong corncob energy

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Supreme Court ruled that Auckland CC can restrict off-licence hours to 9pm.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/05/05/supermarkets-lose-battle-over-auckland-alcohol-sales-hours/

Honestly it feels like a "look we did something" kind of move. I don't think it will dent harmful drinking behaviour but will definitely impact shift workers such as myself, or anyone else who keeps odd hours.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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The blue checks are gonna give so many opportunities for comedy

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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If anyone is having trouble loading .co.nz websites today, try changing your DNS server.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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He doesn't want to get banned for doxxing.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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I would say that almost all of the votes Winnie picks up will come from Seymour's more recent fashie and conspiratorial voters

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Or, if you are a kid, you rip 40 of them apart and claw the flesh out with your teeth, and then puke everywhere after dinner.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Supermarket companies have already gone into expectation management saying they will have to keep about 30% of the difference.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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I'd let off a few crackers if Seymour got caught commuting sedition.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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klen dool posted:

People wont be able to change their habits no matter how much petrol costs (it'll always be the most the market can bear) because we can't move away from oil one person's personal responsibility at a time. We need a just transition, one that includes real options for not using petrol. Stuff like free and frequent public transport, much better intercity public transport, hell a car buyback scheme for replacing petrol cars with EVs, govt investment in EV chargers even out in the middle of no where, dismantling capitalism so we don't have unelected people making decisions on half of all of us but without our consent, and thats just a few things I came up with from the top of my head.
These may all seem unreasonable and unachievable and I guess thats the problem - the solution is very hard to do. Our whole society - and physical cities - are made for petrol burning cars. For example my kids touch rugby in upper hutt is played weekly at one park, on one day once a week and this park is not reachable by public transport unless you are coming from one specific place and the games start at 4. If your child wants to play touch, the whole thing assumes cars and petrol, it assumes everyone in the whole region can get to that one park 1 hour after school finishes and it's no where near a primary school. It's rediculous.
Also think about it, super markets can't exist without cars because no one is buying a week of groceries all at once then carrying them home unless you have a cargo bike or something and you only need a cargo bike to replace a car in that scenario - it's a hack to get a bike to replace a car.

The thing is doing nothing will be worse, and way more inconvenient.

Every carbrained idiot demands door to door service before he would deign to use public transport like some sort of poor.

Busses for thee but not for me.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Swathes of suburbia with isolated hypermarkets are indeed very difficult to reconcile with realistic and human-centered transport systems and also lead to food deserts, reliance on processed food and market monopolies but it would be too hard to change my habits so I guess there is nothing to be done.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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CTU bought a NZherald wraparound attacking Luxon.

Also this presented without comment: https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/300963636/skycity-faces-suspension-of-casino-licence

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Toby Manhire published an op-ed accusing CTU of secretly supporting National

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Doctors work for a living. Wealth is when you don't have to.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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There have been plenty of studies of the effects of UBI here is a wiki link to start your investigation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

In general people will work slightly less hours but tend to do more productive but less profitable activities such as spending more time with children, improving health outcomes etc.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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ngl Winnie would be a content-rich speaker

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

At least as I understand it, RUC was to deal with diesel vehicles traditionally being larger and heavier than petrols, to help fund road repairs and such. While it's not ridiculous to expect electric vehicles to contribute, National have pretty much said that this is a punitive measure.

Nah RUC-in-petrol is just a really efficient way to do it; heavy vehicles use more gas and it incentives fuel economy. The problem is vehicles that use fuel but not the roads, like farm equipment. These vehicles mostly use diesel so adding the tax to the fuel won't work: hence RUC.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Progressive JPEG posted:

but that said, I've found drivers around wellington/wairarapa to be pretty mild, even polite? are they worse up in suckland?

my opinions here may be tainted by having lived in Boston for 7 years

The worst drivers in Auckland are Westies. But the worst drivers I have ever seen in NZ are New Plymouth.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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They also promised to fix every problem without actually announcing how they would do it except for locking up more brown people and giving millionaires more money.

And the media let them.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Taitale posted:

For maximum chaos can he just drop dead now?

This would be terrible as Winston seems to be kept alive only by his hatred of the neoliberal wing of the National Party. I'm sure his hanger-oners will be happy to fall into line with Luxon in return for some cushy portfolios.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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This is basically american constructionalism in NZ right?

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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If anyone is a Marmite fan I recommend english Marmite sold here as "ourmate" it is way better anyway.

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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redleader posted:

objectively correct

I can't believe I am saying "for quality and ethical reasons you should buy the product owned by a multinational" but here we are

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Content to Hover posted:

He's been in politics a long time, if you make empty threats they hold no value. Ostensibly he can switch, ACT can't. This is why Seymour is talking about proportionality and how certain government jobs are less important than pushing through policy.

Labour greens tpm could technically make a majority with nzf for confidence and supply

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Hmmmm ACT, after underperforming in the GE, suddenly is polling back to where they were before the election? Either the polling is skewed or people are forgetting to vote. (Or lying about who they are voting for)

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Is Treasury just an arm of the National party at this point?

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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Yeah but so is the Labour party, wearing a prettier mask

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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they should promise him a gong if he retires.

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exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

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voiceless anal fricative posted:

not how I wanted Francisco Hernandez to get into parliament :smith:

1 news says Lawrence Xu-Nan?

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