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y'knowthatguy

@yknowthatguy.bsky.social

Social Democrat | NZ Politics | Graphic Design | TTRPGs | Choir | Mostly interested in the welfare state and universalism

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y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · last mo.

#nzpol National's latest scare tactic has been claiming 'Labour will tax households an additional $2,263.' Read my article to find out why they're either completely dishonest or stupid. Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is yknowthatjournalist.substack.com/p/labours-hi...

Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is

National’s $2,263 Claim is Full of Holes

yknowthatjournalist.substack.com

y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · last mo.

#nzpol National's latest scare tactic has been claiming 'Labour will tax households an additional $2,263.' Read my article to find out why they're either completely dishonest or stupid. Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is yknowthatjournalist.substack.com/p/labours-hi...

Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is

National’s $2,263 Claim is Full of Holes

yknowthatjournalist.substack.com

camwing@camw.ing · 2y ago

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some thing I would add to the Greens' new plan (including their other policies)? #nzpol -Free/Further Discounted Public Transport -A plan to further reduce free carbon credits -Reconsider moving from the ETS to a border-adjusted carbon tax -Consider a carbon dividend -Expand Warming-Up-Homes

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y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can the policies in the Greens' new plan improve? #nzpol -Return agricultural ETS revenue to regions/provide double credits to methane reducing activities -Be more open to or at least about GE R&D -Consider a different tax mechanism for the Clean Car Discount -Reconsider the Jobs Guarantee

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y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

-Green infrastructure plan:✅ -Agriculture in the ETS:✅, though an idea I might push is to use the revenue to provide additional credits for agricultural emissions reduction -Clean Car Discount:✅, but the revenue mechanism could be more elegant -Green Jobs Guarantee:❔, highly highly skeptical #nzpol

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y'knowthatguy@yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 2y ago

#nzpol Any of you ever heard of the parabole of the blind men and the elephant? I'm considering making a political cartoon about that, but with politicians (or party voters?) as the blindmen and the issue of housing as the elephant.

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