"Finance Minister Nicola... Willis isn't giving up on her tax relief centrepiece and told those gathered in Silverstream on Thursday morning that she knew how 'devastating it would be if we were to give up on overdue tax relief'."
I may have misread Jo Moir's intention there. But it just infuriates me that not only will those on benefits not get anything much from NatACT First's tax cuts, they're also effectively cutting benefits by changing the way benefit rises are calculated. All while restoring prescription charges and increasing the cost of public transport. So their answer to a cost of living crisis, is to take money from those with the least, and give it to mainly to those with the most.
Just understood the weird dryness in my right eye. We got kinda drunk Saturday. On Sunday morning I thought I had a kind of conjunctivitis.
I was starting to think the issue was really bad since drops didn’t help with the dryness even on Monday. Until this morning (Tuesday) coming out of the shower I looked at my stupid face close up in the mirror and saw a contact lens on my eye …forgotten for 3 nights.
"More than 180 New Zealand public agencies have transferred masses of data to Microsoft cloud computing servers in Australia for storage and processing since 2019. Sensitive courts data could be headed that way."
"The NDMS [National Disease Management System] was being hosted within a 'private isolated section' of Amazon's 'cloud' of data warehouse servers in Sydney."
When overcrowded buses replace train services, they should be free of charge. It's nowhere near the same quality of service, and charging for it is kind of rude. If it's free, it encourages train operators to do everything they can to avoid replacement bus situations.
@negative12dollarbill
> the 1980s-era buses we get don't have the technology. Ripped seats, hint of cigarette in the air, yes. Opal card terminals no
What your government needs to do is redirect huge swathes of public transport funding into Roads of Dubious Significance with no allowance for bikes or pedestrians in the budget. Like our enlightened coalition is doing #FacePalm.
T'imagines, t'es l'une des voix starifiées de l'émission d'actualité de la radio phare du service public @franceinter
et ta vision du journalisme dont tu es fière, c'est le buzz, ou "le moment" (pour faire plus "pro" lol), au dépend de l'analyse journalistique.
Et la vidéo est titrée "J'étais sous les tours le 11 septembre à New York"
Tori Whanau's column in this weekend's Sunday Star-Times talked about introducing water meters and charging households for water.
Have we learned nothing from the privatisation of the publicly-funded electricity network? Which has led to households facing massive price hikes since the 1990s - a contributor to the rising cost of living - while effectively subsidising commercial users who can get power much cheaper on the spot market.
Why the biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth
Earlier this year, two distinguished gentlemen, Judge Hyde and his adviser Julian Stafford, sampled a mineral-enriched flapjack — alas, a year past its sell-by date — and pondered its qualities. (Flapjacks are slabs of oats stuck together with a glue made of butter, sugar and syrup.) The question: was this unconventional flapj
A comprehensive review of the tax system made a series to recommendations intended to raise revenue and stop the tax burden falling hardest on wage and salary earners. While encouraging people with money to move it into economically productive places, instead of bidding up the value of real estate.
NZ Labour mostly ignored it for 6 years, and arguably lost the last election because of that. The NatACTFirst government is going full austerity.
Welp, here's some nightmare fuel. FISA 702 expansion is even worse than I thought.
"Legal experts—including a rare few attorneys who’ve argued cases before the FISA court in the past—say the new ECSP text ensnares owners of facilities housing equipment used to store and carry data, as well as commercial landlords and virtually anyone with access to communications equipment in those spaces." https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-reauthorization-expansion/
"Liza Goitein, a FISA expert and senior director at the Brennan Center of Justice at New York University School of Law, says the bill signed by Biden on Saturday represents 'a gift to any president who may wish to spy on political enemies'."
Giving up on configuring #forgejo to send e-mails. No matter what I try, it can't authenticate to my mail server. "Password mismatch" though it works without problems when I connect with my normal e-mail client, so I know the password is correct. I tried putting the password as PASSWORD and without the backticks in app.ini, no luck.
SOLVED: The key in app.ini is named PASSWD not PASSWORD. #facepalm
i had too much chocolate today, so i am simultaneously tired and vibrating into the next dimension, so i guess i'm as ready as i'll ever be. #monsterdon