So the chud is against the limit, but I feel the most interesting thing about this article is the breaking ranks. If they were confident of entering government again (at all) they wouldn't be undermining their own political career by ignoring the expected messaging.
What ever happened to the strong caucus discipline they used to be known for?
I have no great love for Helen Clark and her 3rd Way politics but she was what NZ needed at the time, and I see her government as one of the most progressive in my life time but I will always push for more.
As a senior statesperson, she is not wrong here and reflects much of my own thinking on what TOP are offering. And this is without them releasing any specific policy around labour rights and AI regulation which are going to be hugely pivotal to the overall impact of their already released policies.
Just got off the phone with my activist mother and found out that they will be attempting to put a 250MW GPU data center in just down the road from her. I've been filling her in on some of the tech stuff, and lots of the other issues with them but I was wondering if anyone here had some good resources available for the evidence to take along to council meetings (and the like) to try and sway the wider community away from this?
This would potentially be the first built in my country, and so there isn't necessarily the same level of immediate aversion that has developed in the US.
Luxon?
Stanford?
Bishop?
...
It's 12.38 and we still don't know who the PM is!
To all those thinking that this will result in a boost in the polls if Luxon is rolled, no it will not.
There's so much going around about how the last time there was a single term government was back in 1975. I ask you... When was the last time that a first term government had this many leadership votes?
This level of dysfunction and ineffectiveness turns off voters like nothing else. Sure, they're more likely to go to NZF and ACT than Labour and TOP but... They ain't going to be voting National this election. Win or lose this current confidence vote, Luxon is out.
Long may the speculation continue. If they're having to play defense over self inflicted injuries like this, then they're going to be incapable of effective campaigning.
Their "three core pillars" according to this release are going to be:
Honestly, there should be no way anyone other than the far right neoliberals should be working with this government past the election. These proposed measures are basically austerity on steroids and given that we are currently in an "economic downturn" (I'd call it a recession) with growing inequality and a failing housing market - I don't see how "more of the same but harder" is going to do anything but finally kill the economy.
Looking at the OECD stats we are currently sitting at approx 60% government debt (to GDP) after 3 years of this government already so the idea of cutting that to 40% is abominable.
There ain't no way I'm watching this even on 5x speed. Anyone here willing to take one for the team?
This is for a QNAP TS-464-8G with two WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0 (8TB) drives in RAID-1 with a Samsung 500GB SSD (970 EVO) in one of the M2 slots.
I have been trying to figure out for a while now (using all the various pieces of info either in subreddits or on various forums) to try and figure out why there is constant disk activity on this NAS and I haven't yet found one single solution that answers it.
On the NAS itself I run Plex Media Center and I have various devices (all flavors of Linux) around the house using Samba to mount the shared filesystem. There is a Pi 4 running a *arr stack with Audiobookshelf and Grimory as well.
Even if I turn everything off, including the Plex Media Center, there is still disk activity on the NAS. I've taken a screenshot of what Glances is showing me currently but I'm unsure what the labels relate to. Can anyone help point me in the right direction to solve this?
Can this man even read the room?
There is always talk about how there are very few single term governments in the history of NZ politics but this level of economic mismanagement is probably what will lead to another one for the record books.
In the piece there's also this gem of a quote from ASBs chief economist
> "Hopefully this is as high as unemployment is going to go ... should things happen as we expect them to we expect the economy to generate more momentum as we go into the end of this year and entrench a labour market recovery in 2027."
We've been hearing this same story every year that this government has been in power. "Just another 6 months, the recovery is right around the corner!"
This government has done nothing to fix the issue and yet it seems economists keep believing that doing the same thing over and over will somehow change the outcome.
Long time user, first time poster here
I use Obsidian as my daily driver for all note taking, in both my personal and professional life. My partner and I really appreciate it for the openness of the Markdown format (we are both coders).
However, I really need some way to manage my work life on a project-by-project basis and I know from reading a lot of the threads here around various solutions through TaskNotes, Bases, DataView, etc etc... that the most common response is to stop expecting Obsidian to be an "all singing all dancing" app.
In that spirit, I ask, has anyone found a tool for project/task management that is similarly designed with a focus on open formats like Markdown? I'm so tired of everything being gated behind subscriptions and proprietary formats.
Given that it IPO'd at USD 135, this represents being USD 20 underwater already... and all I can say is...
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She's saying what I'm thinking. Marama is a goddamn queen.
This current group of vandals proving that there is no new racist low that they won't stoop to.
Get yourself a party to vote for that doesn't keep thinking "well what if neoliberalism but harder".
Honestly, was hoping for this kind of policy from the Greens and if we could turn back the clock even slightly on the neoliberal power reforms of the 90s then the power market might actually work for us again.
So I turn to you, the IBCK community, to help me know how bad this goddamn book is? I just read the blurb and saw the guys face on a TEDx video, and I'm already out... but apparently this was assigned reading for upper management and we're expected to "align" around it. I don't really want to ChatGPT it because I want the snark, because it looks completely bullshit.
Anyone here got a good breakdown of it?
So tired of this fawning coverage.
>Kingdon-Bebb believes many New Zealanders are relatively centrist, as are the two major parties, but the Three Waters and Resource Management Act reforms are examples of how important issues can become heavily politicised.
What has made them so politicised? Answer that fucking question.
Oh that's right - it's your potential future coalition partner.
Just I can't even with this.
>New Zealand has an income tax that does not tax all income; it contains a massive loophole. That loophole is owner-occupied property whose owners enjoy the income from those properties, tax free.
Referring to "not paying rent" as "income" is fucking wild.