PeteO

To be fair, he did do the Luxon shuffle and walk it back the very next day

If only someone had earned us that LNG wax the option of last resort.

Meanwhile, Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead | RNZ News share.google/pYs2kz4q6Diw...

Fwiw, there are a range of models for Ollama that will run locally with reasonable results (especially if you have a modrn GPU)

‘It needs to stop’: Government gives police ‘move on’ powers to ban rough sleepers and beggars The Government is giving police the power to issue ‘move-on’ orders to ban rough sleepers for up to 24 hours, a move Police Minister Mark Mitchell calls a “public safety” measure.

If there was any doubt that PM Luxon was out of touch, fining homeless people and beggars $2000 dollars for being homeless and begging would be it

After seeing how banning gang patches was ineffective, we are now going to do the same with homelessness

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

afaik, our Parliament should not be driving any traffic to immoral billionaire oligarchs

But it is almost like they don't know who owns Facebook.

Politicians with such close relationships to organisations like Atlas affiliates or the NZ First Foundation are not going to focus on the top end of that market.

And bottom feeders don't have good lawyers

Sadly yes.

I worked with wool. Funding was cut, lots lost their jobs, and decades later wool is effectively valueless. But it's probably just a coincidence we shouldn't learn from...

This is going to become my daily affirmation.

Darn. Even as an ex scientist, I went with some other options:
1/. tax everyone so we can commit to imported fossil fuels for longer despite the higher running costs and environmental damage (the LNG terminal)
2/. the constant hits on kiwisaver
3/.incite social division (thanks David)

Unfortunately, the current low polling of the mainstream party leaders means some voters will be looking for something different. Atlas aren't stupid, and will be making the most of this unique situation

bach or beach house many us its no contest https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360938914/bach-or-beach-house-many-us-its-no-contest

I am continuously amazed to see pieces like this

While so many kiwis have given up on getting their own home, and an increasing number of people have nowhere to live, here is an opinion piece about about what the best kind of vacation home is that should appeal to the one percenters

On the bright side, soon we can all feel happy that we are getting an extra levy to pay for the LNG you won't be using

And the margin of error is 3.1%

But it does show how disillusioned kiwis are with our politicians at the moment

Also, I wish I could spell betterer.

Meanwhile, in NZ businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...

Sadly, the man who has said "No to renweable energy" over a desire to commit us to buying LNG is happy to admit that Australia is wealthier and more productive than us, but just can't quite join the dots.

Darn you #nzpol

'Deeply shocking': Minister orders KC probe into child safety failings at Teaching Council Erica Stanford says damning probe into troubled agency hit her 'like a tonne of bricks'.

After a review requested by the Teaching Council finds the Teaching Council is going badly:
- the Ministry of Education orders a review of the Teaching Council
- the Minister of Education orders a review of the Teaching Council

No wonder nothing gets done
#nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

Well worth writing off a billion dollars on...some people think

Business confidence surges to 12-year high as recovery gathers pace A new survey puts optimism at levels last seen post-GFC, reinforcing hopes of stronger hiring and investment in 2026.

I don't understand business sentiment surveys - a 12 year high at the same time as nearly half of owners considering giving up

thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sma...

This is quite the contrast to the anti-science approach that the US Govt seems to have adopted....how things have changed...

What other job would let someone sell at a loss **and** increase homelessness at the same time?

Am i the only person who remembers 2023 when the National Party was releasing policies after special votes had opened?

Ah yes, the double standards of the libertarian: You must calmly and rationally discuss your existence & basic rights, but how dare you call us bad names.

Did you consider extrapolating based on a sample population made up of entirely politicians? I suspect that the volume per person would be much higher...

Just don't look up the definition of levy. Our PM didn't.

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that our PM didn't spend that $1 billion on joining the Board of Peace on the off chance he would get a prize from FIFA as well

But solar panels do seem to make some right wing peoples heads explode....

Is this why the police were not investigating any crimes under $5K & this govt can't even recruit 500 frontline officers Or is it because gang numbers have climbed to never seen before levels while they are making double profits - or maybe the raging meth and cocaine crisis in play? Which is it?

It's a great reminder that ACT and the TPU might be dodgy, but Atlas has trained them well

I like the "likely to cause widespread or serious offence" because people shouldn't have to see signs about critical thinking or human rights

We are about to enter an election cycle which will be full of bs and personal attacks. But we call that "campaigning", so that's all good.

And yet so many people will continue to financially support Amazon...