Asklemmydeadbeef79000 5 hours ago • 100%
Yeah, I agree that it's unfair that it underrepresents childless people, and over represents large families.
What annoys me is that a very large portion of the population is disenfranchised (but still taxed in my country). Children have the most to lose, they're voting with an 80-year view, the oldies are voting with a 5 year view.
Lefty Memes
Know your nazi
deadbeef79000 5 hours ago • 100%
It fucking sucks.
Lefty Memes
Know your nazi
deadbeef79000 18 hours ago • 100%
My ancestors spent generations screwing over Māori, maybe not personally (I don't know) but I'm not prepared to give them a pass on it.
I'm quite happy to let some laziness slide or some rules being taken advantage of or me personally having some tax dollars pent when it's making up for generations of actual evil.
I've been studying our history and it's pretty fucked... It's not what we got taught in school.
deadbeef79000 18 hours ago • 33%
As opposed to billionaires just buying politicians?
Parents somehow "taking advantage" isn't the problem.
It's not like someone can just pop out 100 children to skew votes.
Greentextdeadbeef79000 19 hours ago • 100%
Being able to treat people as things is pretty much the core of it.
Ask Lemmydeadbeef79000 19 hours ago • 75%
Literally anything you find interesting.
Learning begets learning. The more you learn the easier learning becomes.
So start learning things that are interesting... then worry about things tha are "valuable".
deadbeef79000 19 hours ago • 28%
Parents should be allowed a vote on behalf of their children until their children reach whatever age the jurisdiction allows independent voting.
Today I Learned
TIL: It is illegal to curse at a cop in Ohio.
deadbeef79000 19 hours ago • 100%
"They had a knife!"
Lemmy Shitpost
Obama
deadbeef79000 20 hours ago • 100%
Was it an official act as president?
Lefty Memes
Know your nazi
deadbeef79000 20 hours ago • 80%
I realised after posting that my post could easily be read contrary to what I meant too; it could easily read like I'm minimising the problems Māori face (TL;DR: colonisation).
I was trying to imply that an immigrant could be spared attention from our Nazis because the Nazis are already busy being Nazis to Māori.
It's not like our government has spent the last 150 years being Nazis... Ah shit.
deadbeef79000 20 hours ago • 100%
The most vitriolic responses were from fathers who don't want to admit they mutilated their sons.
deadbeef79000 1 day ago • 100%
Circumcision is genital mutilation.
Newsdeadbeef79000 1 day ago • 100%
I think Hilary Clinton said it:
The worst man is still favoured over the best woman.
It's something like that.
Lefty Memes
Know your nazi
deadbeef79000 1 day ago • 75%
Come to New Zealand.
We still have Nazis but they spend all their energy on hating the Māori population.
deadbeef79000 1 day ago • 100%
Urgh. Now I see an auto-corrected error.
Technology
Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it?
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
But then they can't force you to watch claim that you watched the ad at the start of the video for that sweet advertiser revenue.
Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related
The FDA wants to place warning labels on food packages to combat obesity and other health conditions
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
Meh. Informational labelling is only ever going to be supplanting marketing noise on a product anyway.
Any actual fact printed on the packaging is better than "100% natural ingredients*", "the healthy choice**", "99% fat free***", and non-representative imagery****
* The 17% puréed orphans is entirely natural.
** when consumed at the recommended serving size once a month.
*** but 25% sugar
**** serving suggestion
Today I Learned
TIL of the continent "Zealandia", a large, mostly submerged continent in the Pacific Ocean which New Zealand is a part of.
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
It's just this, just simple geology.
The water level is actually irrelevant.
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
Fascists who cannot win democratically will reject democracy rather than reject racism fasicm.
World News
Cisco slams NSA for intercepting packages en route to customers
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
That's awesome.
I suspect there's still ample opportunity for the NSA/etc (indeed any state actor) to interfere with shipping at almost any point and have disclosure that it happened be a crime.
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
I assume this text is also plastered all over your car in don't-dead-open-inside fashion.
World News
Cisco slams NSA for intercepting packages en route to customers
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
If they can't route a package with it being tampered with how am I supposed to trust their packets?
World News
UK terrorism laws used to suppress journalism
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
If y'all can't be bothered reading 1984 at least go and watch V for Vendetta.
No Man's Sky
How different/unique are the space stations in No Man's Sky?
deadbeef79000 2 days ago • 100%
I have to say, the exteriors are amazing. Not quite to the same degree as Elite Dangerous, but still gorgeous.
Gamingdeadbeef79000 3 days ago • 100%
Same boat, but I gave D4 a go. I'm enjoying it. YMMV.
I entirely understand being burnt by D3.
deadbeef79000 3 days ago • 100%
Guess what skin colour was most associated with cannabis products in the public eye at the time.
Not The Onion
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
deadbeef79000 3 days ago • 100%
To increase efficiency consumption is being regulated.
deadbeef79000 3 days ago • 100%
The higher paid high performers... They're not interested in reducing head count as far as reducing staff costs.
No Man's Sky
How different/unique are the space stations in No Man's Sky?
deadbeef79000 3 days ago • 100%
The interior of normal stations are identical. Ditto pirate stations. Ditto abandoned stations.
The exterior of standard, pirate, and abandoned vary considerably.
The space anomaly is unique.
Atlas stations are identical.
The significant variation in the game is planet side and your base/freighter building.
Programmer Humor
Developer vs Tester
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
This is why it's important to have tests that assert a system's failure modes too.
shouldFitTriangleInTriangleHole()
shouldNotFitTriangleInAnyOtherHoles()
Bonus points for just parameterizing it.
politics deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
Stop! I can only get so... dry retch.
Memesdeadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
Plausible to within 1/5 of a plausibility unit.
Ohiodeadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
But why 3% why not 2% or 4%, I assume 5% is right out.
... Want t, I'm trying to reason about something reason forsake.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 92%
Welcome to tabloid news.
Please check your facts at the door.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
Tremendous stench. Everybody knows. The biggest stench. No one has stench as big.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
They are.
His personality is "stuff" and you are smelling "stuff".
196deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
Yep.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 92%
Thanks for writing that out. I'd never quite groked why it (and similar wording) sounded wrong: reducing a person to an adjective.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 100%
the erroneous claim that "the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists" during the American Revolution.
What.
deadbeef79000 4 days ago • 88%
"This jacket looks ridiculous".
Guy walking in with hat: "Uhh...."
www.rnz.co.nz
Yes. That's the point.
www.1news.co.nz
> I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving. Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though. Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates A special _fuck you_ to these kinds of people.
www.rnz.co.nz
Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?
www.rnz.co.nz
This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind. IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).
I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest. I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month. I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.
www.rnz.co.nz
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction? Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
www.newshub.co.nz
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.
_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
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
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.
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"?
www.1news.co.nz
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
> 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.
www.1news.co.nz
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.