Yes, but you get to live in the Land of the Free...
The US is $40 trillion in debt and has none of this Or a good health insurance system Or high speed rail Or a minimum living wage But we have a trillionaire!!
Since the coalition was elected, landlords have received benefits equivalent to more than 25 years of Treaty settlement redress. #nzpol
Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b
National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.
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Maybe we need to recreate John A Lee's Democratic Labour Party or Jim Anderton's New Labour Party? #nzpol
time for a quick checkup on facebook, the everything app
they'll have big CSR programmes obviously but I'm convinced most of Big Tech is anti-literacy
Arbaz Kakkar5@arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 5d agoIf Dolly Parton can gift 20million books a year to children, why can’t Amazon, Apple and Microsoft do something like this??
The #Stoics thought that #Philosophy was comprised of Logic, Physics, and Ethics. The love of widsom requires all three, given a suitably broad definition.
Evidence that you probably pay too much for your accounting software: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/xer...
Xero CEO’s $30.9m pay package 'difficult to love', says shareholder group
Half of chief executive Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s bonus will be for sticking around.
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In Wairau Park there is a Raw Essentials pet food shop next door to a Japanese restaurant. In my mind I always think of that place as Katfood Don.
No kind of socialism was ever about a few free doctors visits or universally free prescriptions. #nzpol
The situation is similar for soy. About half of all US soybean oil is used to produce fuel, not food. We could rewild close to half of the midwest just by switching from biofuel crops to solar + EVs. www.grainjournal.com/article/1058...
Renewable Diesel Production and Expanded Soybean Crush
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Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 7d agoUnderappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
it was a slow decline the first couple of years of Kogan ownership - I think cos local management was mostly still in place. When they left it started to dive, then a genuinely disastrous website redesign to allow vendors to let people use it as a temu slop reselling platform has finished it off.
Labour's Barbara Edmonds has for the first time revealed the party intends to support the government's legislation for rates capping through initial stages. Are they out of their minds?? #nzpol
It is extremely foolish and self-destructive for the left not to be consistent in supporting academic freedom.
Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you ever get pissed off about me mentioning my books on here & decide to complain about it, do remember as I instantly block you that I'm coming from the perspective of someone who had £20,000+ of earnings stolen from him by his ex-publishers & could not give less of a flying fuck what you think.
It sounds like Gollum telling you it's time to get going.
TThomas Harvey@happyspastic.bsky.social · last wk.
"Better starts now" sounds like a commercial slogan. #nzpol
"Better starts now" sounds like a commercial slogan. #nzpol
That these two headlines can exist is a ghoulish indictment of the state of New Zealand politics. The country in disarray & the main opposition 'left' party can't form a Govt. Fucking disgrace. I'm done with NZ
I overall enjoyed it, but had mixed feelings about how much it relies on making fun of people who aren't aware they are being filmed. But I might be in the minority on that! It's been bought locally by Madman/DocPlay so it will be available locally sometime after the festival.
Dude fired all the public servants in the capital fucking city and enabled like 1,500 businesses to close down and is now whingeing about the vibes being off here. It’s your fault. You are to blame.
7/6/1907 — b. Frieda Kahlo, Mexican artist, feminist icon. Surrealist painter, and one of Mexico’s greatest artists. She is noted for her self-portraits, and became renowned posthumously. The wife of famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera #womenshistory #womenartists #womensart #surrealism #painters
Kiwis! Please! Say NO!!! to the Makarewa data centre! Data centres take constant enormous power, fresh water & create carcinogenic effluent. Despite what politicians say they create NO JOBS!! #NZPol
"Direct comprehension of truth takes place through understanding" -Thomas #Aquinas
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 3w agoanother classic in google ai scraping but not understanding
Honest Government Ad on #AI Data Centres #DataCentres #Billionaires #Palantir #Oracle #AtlasNetwork #Zionist #fascism #water #fossilfuels #energy #gas #RenewableEnergy #jobs www.filmsforaction.org/watch/honest...?
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres | thejuicemedia
4 minutes | The Government™ made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. 👉 Help us to keep making videos: 🔹 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/thejuicemedia 🔹 ...
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The reason radical critique of tech needs to be at least discussed seriously is that the changes recent tech has ushered/is ushering in are not just functional but anthropological. And the anthropological change is at the behest of corporate tycoons.
Archived Here: www.mixcloud.com/Radio_One_91... My interview with Gerd Pohlmann (on his Jim Anderton doco 'Last Man Standing', screening at NZIFF this weekend) kicks off around 15 minutes in.
Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social · 2w agoArchive Pending:
