Of course there was a a plan and a website and loads of background information. What was missing perhaps was insufficient marketing to get the public on-side and understanding that the reforms were going to make everything work better - upgraded & more ...
I had a similar issue from my (now deceased) iPad - the only workaround was to turn off Javascript to submit a comment thru the vanilla HTML interface.
Farrrrrk. I am supposed to be going to Aussie tomorrow., This Crowdstrike thing is a major pain in the arse Live: IT outages reported worldwide for banks, stores, airports, media
There is a sickness in American Christianity. False prophets everywhere tickling the ears of the credulous.
Farming activity does have benefits to rural communities but if the associated costs are properly accounted for I seriously doubt that mass producing milk powder is a worthwhile enterprise. We do not properly manage the effluent of the national herd - ...
WTF is wrong with this government. And how many scandals will the public and the MSM continue to ignore, while shitting themselves over the Green Party? It’s still ‘poison’: Australia maintains its permanent prohibition of heated tobacco “None of the ...
How the fuck is Peter Thiel a citizen. He's a danger to democracy and fails the good character test.
The only answer that springs to mind is a metaphor. Pounamu is formed under immense pressure and heat. Its fibres and imperfect materials are all crushed together, and come out strong and beautiful when held up to the light. There have been two New ...
Absolutely they speak with forked tongue. None more so than David Seymour. They claim to be doing positive things for society but the actual outcomes of their policies rip up the social contract and enrich the top 1% at the expense of everyone else.
It might technically be unenforcable, but refusal to comply is likely to be career-limiting. My manager once sent me a personal request to become an "ally" to his community. This feels like recruitment to a quasi-religious ideology. While these stupid ...
This is a pretend solution to the housing crisis that Labour was fixing via Kainga Ora and HUD projects and generally supporting the building industry to produce higher intensity dwellings. Bishop's proposal is a mandate for sprawl and McMansions, the ...
General Practitioner, i.e. Doctor
I've heard this status quo argument so many times. Doesn't make it ethical, or a good direction for encouraging capital flows, or a positive for the housing industry, or net helpful to renters and home buyers. It simply reinforces everything that's wrong ...
Some of this stuff wanders into the category of protected beliefs and trying to impose it on a diverse society, no matter how righteous you feel, will backfire. Live and let live, indeed.
It is the current government that is destroying social services, cutting funds to food banks, pissing off the Police so much that they are all leaving for Australia. There is 'not enough money' because Nicola Willis gave massive tax cuts to the rich and ...
The Greater Auckland blog (formerly TransportBlog) sets aside its usual dispassionate factual analysis and states openly that Minister Simeon Brown is telling porkies, ignoring experts, and making our public roads more dangerous. A brilliant takedown rich ...
Some of us have been robustly 'encouraged' (coerced) by our employers to pledge allegiance to those things
Deja vu - I refer you back to our previous interaction, where you appear to have learned nothing. https://thestandard.org.nz/get-ready-for-your-water-to-be-privatised/#comment-1989682
It's a purge of Māori culture and language and an attempt at whitewashing history. Because Mâori claims stand in the way of massive land grabs and privatisation (plunder) that NACT1 want to perpetrate. This government came to power on an unprecedented ...
you are either a liar or a complete fool to try and cover for this racist government
Yeah the oil companies have lost interest in prospecting around NZ. Our taonga isn't found by digging up stuff
Insightful: Every single serious problem in this country is rendered damn near insoluble by the collapse of consensus reality --@seanilling Our culture and our communities are under attack and splintering by the manoeuvres of an elite class that has ...
A hot war seems unlikely but Trump is certainly pushing towards authoritarian rule that looks a lot like fascism. Attacks on the Media Abuse of executive power Attempts to criminalise opponents Voter suppression Erosion of trust in electoral integrity ...
Pretty effin scary numbers here https://polymarket.com/elections https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-evangelicals-nar/ A great darkness has captured the "Christian" Right, as they lurch towards fascism, fear and ignorance.
Jan 6 was just a warm-up. The same forces are still there and have not been idle while Joe Biden bumbles about hopelessly
That is one issue but there are actually more critical things like poverty, housing, collapsing NHS, and disgusting water supplies across England, which a more confidently Left-wing party is more likely to tackle seriously.
Starmer is YABN (Yet Another Blairite Neoliberal) in the endless parade of them that infest supposedly 'left' parties everywhere, sponsored no doubt by banks and big biz
She's hardly to blame for NACT1's acts of sabotage
TS has probably blocked every Apple device using "IP address tracking protection"... sigh
Regarding France: Who would have thought that the destruction of a genuine radical left and a neoliberal consensus across the rest of the spectrum (offering nothing to anyone but the rich) would lead to fascism across the west? -- @IrvineWelsh This is ...
Nah, let's not leave our water supplies and ferries to the tender mercies of the free market.
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