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Good strong stance. The planet can't afford the nexr government pussyfooting around, being locked into terrible deals by its predecessors.

Also Labour must be in favour too, Hipkins managed not to rule this one out

No one in Wellington wants extra fucking tunnels. We want decent public transport and quite a few of us want safe cycleways.

An additional tunnel was part of the National Party's campaign promise, with improvements in the area discussed for years.

Oh fuck this noise. Hey National, tell me, where did your party place in Pōneke after this pledge? Let’s have a look in the next post.

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a man with glasses and a bow tie says " i guess we 'll never know " Alt: a man with glasses and a bow tie says " i guess we 'll never know "

Heard about this on RNZ this morning. No one seemed to say anything about the ever increasing waiting lists for treatment or to even see a specialist 🤔 I wonder why people are on ACC for longer.

& yet there is no way of ever putting the wooden stake into the heart of the myth that conservative politicians are the 'money men'. This false narrative will never been buried in a lead sarcophagus & fired into the heart of the sun.

#FuckCapitalism

$4 billion is higher than the market capitalisation of Genesis Energy. We could literally build a whole new power company for this, and make it 100% renewable.

Alternatively, its enough to replace every passanger car in Wellington with a new EV. (solves emissions, but not traffic)

Remember that the $4billion road being rammed through Wellington is not for the benefit of Wellingtonians but instead for National Party ministers who hate this city and can't wait to leave it after a long term week at parliament destroying the economy and doing a bit of racism

I guess the class of current and former Uber drivers need to file their class action before National passes its corrupt, bought-by-Uber law.

Supreme Court rules Uber drivers were employees The test case, now decided once and for all, could open the door for ’gig economy’ workers in other industries to claim similar rights, before the Government changes the law.

Fuck you, Uber. www.stuff.co.nz/business/360...

"up to 10 minutes"

That's the maximum amount of time saved. Ten minutes.

How fucking WEAK are we that we cannot abide ten whole fucking minutes for the sake of the environment, road safety, etc etc?

Christ, this is a country of whiney piss babies

But we can't afford to spend $4b on future proofing the connection between the islands.

#nzpol

Remote vs. in-person work has become some kind of politically polarised thing as well, post-lockdown. With commercial landlords and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists firmly on the right

But you know what else would make your commute 10 minutes faster? Less people on the road at peak hours!

this is so much of right-of-centre politics in NZ, just scolding the left for not caring about real issues like saving 10 minutes on an airport trip. who cares if the standard speed limit will instantly kill any child hit by a car, it might takes 1 minute longer to drive through this school zone

Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects "Your fast-track consents are not safe, and they are not secure," Green Party-co-leader Marama Davidson says.

Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects

ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate "It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate

In addition to the incredibly apt comparison to Robotdebt I reposted earlier, I'd like to mention the perverse incentives here about getting folks off ACC. Not removing their need for ACC, but rather removing the provision of ACC to them. There's quite a difference.
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ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate "It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate

Have the people who approved this ever heard of Robodebt? 🤦‍♂️

Somewhere in a policy paper will be a line saying that this will result in suicides.*

*And if there isn't take it as a sign that ACC really haven't done their due diligence.

we shouldn't be allowed to consider building another bit of car infrastructure until we have a cycle and public transport network that's fully-connected

"nobody gets seconds until everybody's had firsts" but for transport infrastructure

*takes long drag on a spaceman cigarette* the actual clown candidate would have been less of a chucklefuck than Andrew Little

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

Speaking to Midday Report, Wellington mayor Andrew Little said he supported the plan overall, but that discussion was needed. People losing homes and businesses had been foreshadowed for some time, but there would also be "much higher" traffic on streets not used to it. The project would also take two hectares of the Town Belt - a "very special feature" of Wellington, Little said.

Five minutes into the job and Andrew Little's already rooting for dogshit National Party plans that will cause irreparable harm to our city and giving away our town belt.

Anyone who still thinks he's going to be a left-wing mayor is a fool.

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My hot take on this is that one of the writers saying their book should be eligible because only the cover, not the contents, are AI generated is a failure of solidarity.

This is just so sad, we dont even have tariffs to blame and we produce this stuff locally

Its all greedy profit

RNZ's Focus on Politics has three right wing Pākekā discussing Te Pāti Māori. Whose decision was that? #nzpol

A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

Ooooooh get amongst it #NZSecretSanta

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Oh that sucks :(

False advertising aside, yet another example of landlord greed killing NZ hospo