"Perfect" would be to have complete/proportional diverse representation.
"Good" is having any diversity.
Them too.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Yeah, saw that and had a micro-rage.
That kind of bullshit is what makes me vindictively reduce my retail spending.
The plan? Ukraine surrenders unconditional and in totality.
Good luck finding the labour required to build them.
Or the timber.
Or the sections.
It's like they expect the orange to endlessly give juice when squeezed.
Those aren't wickets, at least not cricket wickets. Unless the hoops used in croquet are also called wickets.
Though depicting a factory that produces an otherwise ordinary wooden pole would be a little more challenging to be unambiguous.
Eeeh, if anything, systemd is Microsoft's contribution.
/s sort of
Ah yes, another victory for zero tolerance policies.
Everything about this is asinine.
There is argument to support burying these kinds of article. To reduce exposure to copycats.
It's similar to guidelines for reporting on suicides: e.g. don't describe the method.
On the other hand reporting that the guys was caught and the plot foiled shouldn't be buried.
The current spending plunge is the worst in decades, data shows.
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction?
Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
I get gerrymandered, I kill Jack.
The biggest idiots. Tremendous idiots. Nobody's ever seen such idiots before, people always tell me. Everyone's always saying only idiots hire him, everyone knows that.
Of course the party that's "good for business" would be sucked in by that latest CxO craze of "AI everything".
They can't but help fall over themselves chasing a technology that promises fewer employees.
Thanks! I was pretty sure the Australian senate was elected, and was hoping for confirmation.
The senator is elected to the senate, party affiliation is not a requisite. If a senator is evicted from their party they just become an independent senator.
Note: I'm assuming this is how the Aus Senate works, as it's probably similar to any other western democratic parliament.
It's a weird one. "Retard" is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.
Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.
The rope attached to the anchor chain is called the "warp". Hence warping.
"This is a problem throughout our country."
What in the actual fuck.
How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get?
This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil.
Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens?
This is Captain Planet level evil.
Employment dispute costing TVNZ nearly $6000 a day a ‘total cluster’, says union
This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind.
There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover.
It seems to manifest in two ways:
- distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy
- cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be
Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling".
Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it".
In this case there's one of two root causes:
- ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses they'd negotiated
- malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
Police estimate the harm from alcohol to be about $7.8 billion a year.
TL;DR:
- Alcohol $7.8b
- All illicits: $1.8b
- Meth: $0.365b
I wanted a figure for cannabis and found this from 2020:
> PDF https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/the-nz-illicit-drug-harm-index-2020-10-feb.pdf
- All illicits: $1.9b
- Meth: $0.824b
- Cannabis: $0.911
I notice that the per kilograms measure for harm is also useful to account for volume of usage, but think that per 'dose' would be better.
- Meth: $1.1m per kg with 743kg consumption
- Cannabis: $0.35m per kg with 58000kg consumption
These figures include 'associative crime' as harm. So it apparent counts the cost of buying it as harm, it also counts the tax loss of that expenditure, so IMHO it skews unfavourabley to higher expenditure. But put that aside.
These figures show that all illicit drugs combined are less harmful to society than alcohol, and tautologically the harm is inflated by illegality.
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.
The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
Families ‘hung out to dry’ by new restrictions on disability support
So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children.
Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something?
How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?
The announcement comes just two days after Newshub’s owners said its news operations on TV3 will end in June.
A quarter of a century ago TVNZ knew that "digital", or rather the Internet, was the way of the future. I know, I was there.
It created nzoom.com for those that remember it.
A decade ago, it was still a "broadcaster" with an adjunct "digital" presence with TVNZ Ondemand.
Only on the last few years has it started to truly operate "digital" (internet) first, I'm afraid that it might be too late and we see another newshub-scale catastrophe in the next few years.
Hawke's Bay and East Coast councils say they can't afford to fix the cyclone-damaged roading networks in their regions.
> Councils in cyclone-hit regions staring down a decade-long roading recovery say they simply cannot afford it.
Emphasis mine.
The duration of the remedial works is the problem more than the cost.
If it takes a decade to recover from an event that is likely to reoccurr more frequently then it's a losing game.
It's a shame that local and central government in NZ just can't/won't maintain infrastructure.
Simeon Brown says "economic impacts" need to "count" alongside safety.
Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.
> The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.
That's all there is to it.