Best complaint I heard was "it's just mad max on water" .
WTF? That sounds awesome.
Fascist dichotomy: the "others" are both strong and weak at the same time.
Just like immigrants are both "lazy" and "taking all the jobs" at the same time.
Oh no, extra-judicial executioner faces judicial execution.
They just needed to "find" more votes.
Not necessarily them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.
Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.
Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.
What I mean is that it's just the means to the end of projecting US power in the middle east.
They'll maintain power via Israel not matter the price.
Even an evil idiot can be accidentally right.
I don't believe it's direct support for genocide, more than that genocide is an acceptable price for others to pay for American Imperialism/Exceptionalism.
In 1974 Cyprus was divided de facto when the Turkish army occupied the northern third of the island. The Turkish Cypriots subsequently declared independence in 1983 as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus but were recognised only by Turkey. In 1985 the TRNC adopted a constitution and held its first elections. The United Nations recognises the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus over the entire island of Cyprus.
I've now fallen down a rabbit hole of Cypriot modern history.
I'm reasonably sure I read a Clive Cussler book with that as the evil villain's plot.
Oh wait. You're serious? Let me laugh even harder.
biggest global threats
Whichever party is "in" in the US has relatively little effect on what happens outside the US.
We've all just been outright threatened with economic obliteration for the possibility of enforcing an ICC arrest warrant.
Trump's just going mask off as far as geopolitics goes.
To have a mortgage the must have had income. If they no longer has income it's unlikely they'd still have a mortgage and the mortgaged house.
So, in order to even be attempting this bullshit they are either still earning income, probably through employment, or have only just lost that income and opted for a sovcit hail Mary.
They have pleaded with the ACT leader to stop what they say are abusive violations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
> One said Māori were like seagulls: if you feed them "more come - and then they start crapping on you."
> Another said that over the years there'd been a "self-serving reinterpretation of the Treaty to benefit the Māori elite".
> Yet another reckoned that before Pākehā brought colonisation and war Māori "were killing each other anyway".
> There was talk of what percentage of Māori ancestry should count, and an assertion that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wasn't brave enough to investigate Māori organisations with charity tax status.
Holy fucking shit. I hope that even Seymour might have winced at these comments.
A right wing politician speaking to a room of rich white racist retirees who think the natives are too uppity and need taking down a peg or two; if ever there was a generation who I wish would just shuffle off this moral coil.
"Overwhelmingly, those people who die will be young Māori men," the spokesperson for People Against Prisons Aotearoa says.
Oh FFS.
Regardless of the racially charged headline... the only reason to arm police with sidearms is to make it easier for them to kill people extra-judicially. That's the only function a side arm has.
Police already have easy access to firearms in their vehicles.
Apparently 68% of police see Judge Dredd as an idol.
By the numbers: How big is the Stop the Treaty Principles Bill petition?
Heaven forbid the media helps people practice democracy, the article's author/editor has no interest in providing a link to the petition, so here it is: https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill
Interestingly it was already submitted to parliament with 203,653. As of writing it's up to 284,911.
Amusingly one of the figures from the article is a comparison to ACT's votes: 246,473. One might argue that any claim by Seymour of a "mandate" are dubious.
‘Money-grab’: Aucklanders fined for parking in own driveways
The image in the article shows a car blocking the footpath.
Every person complaining in this article was actually blocking the footpath: because they don't think the kerb crossing is footpath they think it's their driveway, I imagine it's the same for the berm crossing that is actually public property too.
> a vehicle parked alongside any part of a kerb crossing provided for a driveway or within 1m of the prolongation of the side of a driveway must be regarded as obstructing entry or exit.
It's endemic where I live, I assume it's the same everywhere.
I do however agree that the council should probably have advertised that they were going to start actually enforcing the rules.
I get it, storage of your vehicle is more important than everyone else's use of the roadway.
There's "all the perks you can think of" - but no applicants.
Then it's not a $40/hr job!
> Careers NZ says there is a shortage of plumbers and those who are experienced can earn more than $53 an hour.
Right there, the final paragraph of the article.
A memo sent to all nursing staff in Waikato was clearly aimed at Indian, Filipino and Pasifika nurses, a doctor says, while nurses say it "reeks of systemic racism".
This is the thin end of the wedge. Whichever racist PoS manager at TWO whom sent this is simply emboldened by our current racist PoS government. It gets worse from here.
Objectively, even to the stupidst person, that a distressed patient and stressed nurse will be most effective when using a shared native language in interactions with the patient.
Communication with the rest of the staff obviously should be in the common language.
It's extra stupid because while we can assume a nurse has competency in English there's no guarantee the patient or patient's support does.
Some South and West Auckland liquor stores fear they could lose up to 40 percent of their business under new liquor sale rules.
Yes. That's the point.
Liz Whiteside, 71, has written to all seven regional councillors and chief executive Darryl Lew, taking them to task over soaring rate bills.
> I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving.
Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though.
Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates
A special fuck you to these kinds of people.
Action is desperately needed as power companies profit while growing numbers of manufacturers and households power down, commentators say.
Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?
First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.
This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind.
IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).
Government workers are giving themselves a payrise by cashing up annual leave
I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest.
I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month.
I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.
The current spending plunge is the worst in decades, data shows.
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction?
Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
"This is a problem throughout our country."
What in the actual fuck.
How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get?
This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil.
Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens?
This is Captain Planet level evil.
Employment dispute costing TVNZ nearly $6000 a day a ‘total cluster’, says union
This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind.
There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover.
It seems to manifest in two ways:
- distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy
- cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be
Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling".
Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it".
In this case there's one of two root causes:
- ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses they'd negotiated
- malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
Police estimate the harm from alcohol to be about $7.8 billion a year.
TL;DR:
- Alcohol $7.8b
- All illicits: $1.8b
- Meth: $0.365b
I wanted a figure for cannabis and found this from 2020:
> PDF https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/the-nz-illicit-drug-harm-index-2020-10-feb.pdf
- All illicits: $1.9b
- Meth: $0.824b
- Cannabis: $0.911
I notice that the per kilograms measure for harm is also useful to account for volume of usage, but think that per 'dose' would be better.
- Meth: $1.1m per kg with 743kg consumption
- Cannabis: $0.35m per kg with 58000kg consumption
These figures include 'associative crime' as harm. So it apparent counts the cost of buying it as harm, it also counts the tax loss of that expenditure, so IMHO it skews unfavourabley to higher expenditure. But put that aside.
These figures show that all illicit drugs combined are less harmful to society than alcohol, and tautologically the harm is inflated by illegality.
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.
The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
Families ‘hung out to dry’ by new restrictions on disability support
So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children.
Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something?
How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?
The announcement comes just two days after Newshub’s owners said its news operations on TV3 will end in June.
A quarter of a century ago TVNZ knew that "digital", or rather the Internet, was the way of the future. I know, I was there.
It created nzoom.com for those that remember it.
A decade ago, it was still a "broadcaster" with an adjunct "digital" presence with TVNZ Ondemand.
Only on the last few years has it started to truly operate "digital" (internet) first, I'm afraid that it might be too late and we see another newshub-scale catastrophe in the next few years.
Hawke's Bay and East Coast councils say they can't afford to fix the cyclone-damaged roading networks in their regions.
> Councils in cyclone-hit regions staring down a decade-long roading recovery say they simply cannot afford it.
Emphasis mine.
The duration of the remedial works is the problem more than the cost.
If it takes a decade to recover from an event that is likely to reoccurr more frequently then it's a losing game.
It's a shame that local and central government in NZ just can't/won't maintain infrastructure.
Simeon Brown says "economic impacts" need to "count" alongside safety.
Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.
> The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.
That's all there is to it.