Maybe all the backers are overseas?
Yep, same here. The insurance premium increased by 50% and 30% (Content and House) for us. For me the Climate Crises and Cost-of-Living Crises are closely interlinked. Oh, the insurance company didn't mention another important factor... greed-flation.
The only (EUV) photolithography machines capable to do 3nm or similar chips are from ASML Holdings at the moment. There are restrictions in place for ASML to export and now servicing their top technology to China (Bloomberg): ASML Faces Tighter Dutch ...
Agreed. The National (Polluter) Party and ACT will set us back for many many years (after very little progress under Labour). Here a quick overview where each party stands: Stuff - Climate election survey: See how the parties compare We have to get our ...
Would like to see more details on this: Stuff - All vehicles to move to road user charges under National, including EVs So far, it looks like the "normal" people subsidise the polluting vehicles of the rich (not the emissions is taxed, but kilometres, ...
Hahaha... good one. She really said that? It's a little bit like Australia in the last year where the LNP suddenly finds a voice for the "not so well off" after screwing them for years, every year (ROBODEBT anyone?). It's always a little hypothetical to ...
Labour... the Horror, I tell ya Here we go (Stuff - Election 2023 live stream): He [Our PM] also outlined some economic headlines: Under Labour The economy is 6.7% larger than before Covid. Since the depths of the Covid recession, New Zealand’s economy has...
Sounds interesting: The Food Crisis: The urgent, timely documentary every Kiwi voter should watch Only one quote from the linked site: “Why is it – in a land of plenty – does food cost so much? And what can we do about it?” the Scottish-born septuagenarian...
There's a link between "Climate Change" and "Cost-of-Living" and this link is growing stronger every day, every month, every year. Not many people (or the relatively useless media) speak out on this yet. Expect: Higher (central / local) government spending...
Reminds me of this Utopia episode: Utopia - Australia's Defence Policy
Germany has two tax rates for the GST (MWST): Standard - 19% Reduced - 7% The reduced GST applies to fresh food, books and transport. I would expect most software used in supermarkets, retail etc. to be able to handle multiple tax codes. However, the ...
Maybe it's the other way around. There might be a war because food production is impacted or will be significantly impacted in the near future. There's a reason Napoleon and Hitler targeted the East ("Kornkammer" - grain storage): It's incredibly fertile ...
With over 90% of drivers speeding outside the school near my home, I can guarantee you it's not limited to a certain age range (younger people maybe on their mobile phone while speeding though). Speeding is widespread and excessive in this country (there ...
Yep. I lived / worked in UK, Germany, Australia, Sweden and always consider NZ preferable: work / life balance low tax (for high earners) easy to do business great outdoors good beer, wine and food Close to a job in Germany. Made it clear it’s 100% remote....
Did you ever shop on the "Golden Mile" or you just make stuff up? Where exactly did you park with your car for that shopping? On Lambton Quay, apart from the north end between Old Bailey and Midland Park, which is the "dead end" shopping-wise, there are ...
After all those years of research we finally found a male contraceptive
I can see your point. I sort of stopped reading Open Mike, because of the "trans debate". Every now and then I scroll through to find the bits I'm interested in, which hardly exist nowadays. I suggest to split those "small culture war discussions", that's ...
I think there will be a couple of "learnings" coming out of this: A stronger focus on water / climate change is required. To be honest, I don't think you can have a stormwater system capable to deal with such an amount of water. We have to significantly ...
Did he run an airline before?
They might have a different line of thought: There's also money made from desperate people that don't earn enough for a living, like payday loans, credit card interests.
Grant Roberson goes list-only: Grant Robertson to retire from electorate, run on party list (NZH) With Nicola Willis competing for Ōhāriu now (see Stuff), it could be an interesting electorate - Wellington Central that is. I think James Shaw (assuming he's...
Sooo anyone in IT working for a govt department get the memo today about offshoring IT jobs. ... And now nz's health systems IT workers all have to prove that we are worth our meager pay or our jobs will be offshored I know people working in government IT...
All houses / dwellings or state houses? I don't think we're talking all dwellings in NZ, which is over 2 million. And NZ builds around 25,000 to 30,000 houses a year. For state housing: Kainga Ora manages 69,000 homes and around 1,500 are build a year.
Don't know. What makes you think those "people" leave her alone now?
Here some older numbers about the forecast success rate in NZ: Taken from https://blog.metservice.com/Forecasts-and-Uncertainty I would expect the numbers to be a little higher nowadays (9 years later), because of higher processing powers and more detailed...
I used "For example" (with example being the country German and the industry being Steel) and I'm relatively certain other European countries did exactly the same thing, incl. colonial United Kingdom and France (to name two more major previously heavy-...
US and European climate gas emission levels are falling fast. For example, Germany was at one point the largest producer of steel globally. Now it's China. Steel production creates massive amounts of CO2. Easy for Germany to claim a significant reduction ...
It was very quiet around COVID recently, so I checked on the FT Covid tracker over the weekend. Surprised no real actions have been taken and we even allow cruise ship with significant COVID cases to unload and roam the cities without any precautions (same...
Could you please double-check your numbers for 2022? Looking at this chart (figure.nz) the number of "estimated private dwellings" is over 2 million. Looking at this table (emi.ea.govt.nz) the number of residential ICP is 1.9 million (September 2022). The ...
I agree (also with Sanctuary - reminds me of Logan's Run). However, how many people (public) are actually going out and looking for such information themselves? I do it every now and then, but sometimes it's a little time consuming and the provided ...
Twitter & Facebook. Always stayed away. In hindsight a good decision.
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