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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe house prices dropped but my rent keeps going up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My rent went up under labour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Neither of them has a credible plan to end the 10+ years of housing crisis that New Zealanders have suffered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The way I read long and complicated threads is by going down one conversation, then collapsing that last comment at the end of it, and making my way back up the chain, collapsing “parent” comments if they have no uncollapsed “children”, and reading “sibling” comments and replies to those as I go up to the original “root” comment.

That's it, I didn't even realise there's a collapse button lol. Until now I just saw a lot of coloured lines that I thought I had to follow. I suppose it's simple enough to follow things here if I collapse threads, or if I read threads before they get dozens of replies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, but so far it’s your sole redeeming characteristic.

At least I'm not sarcastically criticising people, while holding no position of my own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

So you need to get yourself into a party. But you can’t just rock up to your party of choices offices and have them put your name next to their logo in the next election.

Just wait another 10 years for Megan Woods to resign and they will open a new position lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

According to my friend Vince McLeod, smoking weed and eating mushrooms is a sacred religious rite that dates back thousands of years. The government is wrong to leave it up to pharmaceutical companies to regulate this issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because people wouldn’t vote for me.

Where are you based, and do you care about local council issues? You can at least start with community board.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, the company is dying apparently. Good luck to him, lol. NZ Herald seems to have some fairly interesting premium articles from time-to-time, but most of their articles are about finance, business and investment. Not very interesting for me. If they made a newspaper or digital subscription for poor people I'd be more interested, but not if they dumb down language and assume everyone is a dolt.

Who listens to Newstalk ZB and reads NZ Herald? Nobody my age.

 

It would be nice if everyone would use tags or brief quotations, so I can see who is replying to who.

Modern forums are confusing my old brain because I'm used to the old BB code and old style of forum navigation, but a lot of things have changed in Lemmy, and also with proprietary forums used by large companies.

Sometimes I forget how to use features. I'm no better than a boomer who needs constant reminders on how to hold a mouse.

I think some people either don't care or they simply forget that you can highlight text with the mouse and then click "reply" to make a quotation. Maybe they are using a phone and it's too difficult to do this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At least you’re pro school lunches, I guess.

That itself isn't the hill to die on though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

And the left aren’t the ones obsessed with abortions.

Well not most people, but a small subset of the left is obsessed with it. They were very upset about the protests in Christchurch. Now there's a law to ban the pro-lifers in Christchurch. They used to protest all the time across from the hospital, at Hagley Park. There is a road between the park and the hospital, but the femmi-nazis weren't happy and obviously they made this law change so that the protests can't be within 300m of the hospital. It's ridiculous. Why not just ban protests within 1km of parliament while we're at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I agree but from Seymour's perspective he views it as ideological. I listened to Rodney Hyde on Reality Check Radio a while ago. He had good intentions to just make it easier to do business, but now he's embarrassed that he was in politics. He moved on and says it's bad that people view politics as a legitimate career (lasting many decades for some MPs).

I understand that Act Party want to make it simpler to invest and stuff - after all I wouldn't want it to become overly complicated to apply for a job, or government assistance. That said: I have come to realise that it's one-sided.

Act will make it easier for billionaires to buy just about anything, while making it impossible for anyone to build apartments or decent houses. It's out-of-touch. For a few years now, I consider Seymour's intent to be harmful to the country. These people would cry and demand a law change if rich people had to piss in a cup to get a job or fly their own helicopter or private jet. But it's fine if poor people have to piss in a cup every few weeks just to drive a class 1 or class 2 truck.

Rules for the workers but not for the elite class. It's total B.S. and I'm glad I can see everything clearly now that I'm a bit older and wiser.

 

Analysis: China has been accused of being provocative by sending warships into the Tasman Sea, but on the other hand, New Zealand plays its part in US moves that provoke Beijing.

I admit there has been good coverage of these issues in our media lately, but I'm still concerned that the media and government will stab us in the back, increase military funding, and bring up the idea of a draft. After seeing Ukrainian men beaten and thrown into vans to be taken to their deaths, I'm not enthusiastic about NZ becoming the Ukraine of the Pacific.

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