Looking at history, it feels more like an attempt to make sure the poorest don’t fall into the “nothing left to lose” category that can cause so much trouble.

That’s because it is. That’s the point of welfare, give the poorest something to lose and they won’t revolt. Even if it’s the most meager, unfair, dehumanizing scraps.

It’s worse here than in Aus.

I liked Quora as recently as a few years ago, it had some nice explanations that you couldn’t get anywhere else. Obviously you have to take everything with a grain of salt, but you have to do that anywhere on the internet.

The thing is, once they started talking about underground, the whole project got so silly that it was obviously never going to happen. $30 billion for underground light rail wiggling all over the place saving very little time on the trip to the airport, it’s clearly nonsense from people that are trying to get the project scrapped. So this money was genuinely and intentionally wasted by the public service and the consultants. Although the new government isn’t helping since they wanted the project scrapped too.

I was up all night chasing them away from my tent, they’re insane.

I’ve done it, it’s a pretty ordinary track and not dangerous if you have some common sense. The top part by the pylon(near to OP’s picture) might be the best view I’ve ever seen! Take the steep part slowly and carefully especially if it’s wet, don’t go on a steep snow slope if you don’t have crampons and ice axe, take enough warm clothes and waterproofs for the alpine environment, take a map. It’s just because it’s so accessible, and people think that it’s going to be the same as the well built tourist roads like the West Matukituki and Rees-Dart.

And watch out for the kea, they will stop at nothing to steal and destroy all your stuff.

It seems like they’ve been released on private land at Terawhiti station and West wind farm. The best publicly accessible reserve would be West Wind recreation area, but that’s closed at night. So there’s no good legal option to see the kiwi until the population establishes enough that they make it to the council reserves in Karori.

Any digital image is actually red green and blue, those are the colors of the pixels on your monitor. When there’s enough of them your brain is tricked into seeing other colors. To get even more meta, all colors are just made up by your brain.

So I don’t understand your distinction between black and white, and grayscale. Whether it’s a gray made of black and white pixels or a “pure gray” doesn’t matter, it can look the same. Unless it’s a style where the pixels are supposed to be visible, e.g. pointillism.

NZF said they wouldn’t work with Labor and Labor said they wouldn’t work with NZF. The voters would feel justifiably betrayed if they ignored those promises. And I see no reason why the left coalition would work together any better. Can you imagine NZF and TPM agreeing on anything?

I don’t understand why the parties play the game of ruling in or out. Surely it’s better to pretend they will work with any other party, it puts them in a much stronger negotiating position.

That sounds like a great outcome for the original company

No, I don’t think so. Living as if you don’t have free will would be impossible, you’d never get anything done. We have to ignore a lot of interesting philosophy in order to function.

Elon must have spent so much on x.com yet it still redirects to the primary URL twitter.com

Paracetamol is not considered an anti-inflammatory.

They don’t? They all get an accommodation supplement for when they’re staying in Wellington, which some choose to use on an owned home.

Uhh, this garbage ewaste is still wasting people’s money. This piece of crap will not be able to run modern apps. There need to be more accessible used options at this price that will not be thrown in the garbage in a few months when she needs a functional phone.

Sorry for the rant, I’m mad at Vodafone and PB tech for ripping you off and wasting your time, not you.

I tried to find a reference to OEM that built it because there might be other identical phones with different names, but I couldn’t find any reference outside of NZ or AU. If you can’t find anything either, you could try to find a similar shaped phone using the gsmarena phone finder. https://gsmarena.com/search.php

And yeah, Aliexpress and Temu are the best place for things like phone cases if you aren’t in a hurry.

Why would there be load on the clutch if the handbrake is on?

True, but low rez web jpegs is a huge part of the market for images. AI will replace stock photos and that’s incredibly disruptive on it’s own.

Conversely, I’m so opposed to the enshitification that I’ve carefully tailored my internet usage to places that aren’t shit and have no prospect of becoming shit, like Lemmy. Since I don’t even have the motivation of not supporting an evil company, I’m more addicted that ever.

That would be regulation of the banks. I believe the OCR is simply the interest rate that the banks can borrow money from the reserve bank. The banks can lend out money at whatever rate they want, it’s just market forces that keep their rate at around the OCR.

In the current system of free market capitalism the banks have to be free to leech as much profit as possible from the people, no equitable regulation allowed.

Hello. It’s the only walking and cycling route through a densly populated(by rural NZ standards) area. It’s also a very busy road that can be a pain to turn on and off. I’d rather they built a shared path, improved the busy intersections as they are doing, and left it at 100. But in the absense of that, this is an improvement.