It’s there, if you follow the trail down the Upper Hutt links:

Just reading up on his Wikipedia page, someone in Upper Hutt is quick off the trigger with the results 😆

This bit was interesting:

Guppy diverted money from Three Waters funding to pay for floodlights for the rugby club which he is president of. He was accused of a “conflict of interest”.[16]

No, but it’s a pretty clear message to the people of New Zealand 🙁

Also see: New Zealand on ‘wrong side of history’ with Palestine position, opposition parties say

I’m not sure what standard this refers to, but I dug up this article I remember reading previously (it doesn’t appear to be published on the site anymore)

The applicable standard for many vehicles sold in NZ is a European standard that specifies that speedometers must not indicate a speed less than the vehicle’s true speed, or a speed greater than the vehicle’s true speed by an amount of more than 10 percent plus 4 km/h.

If true, that means a speedo is considered legally accurate if it says 114 when you’re driving 100, which is a pretty massive difference.

Bigger tyres is a nice workaround, both our cars over read by 4kph so I just do the maths.

I’ve had a few toyotas and driven many more and with the roadside speed signs they don’t seem that far off. I find pretty much all cars over read by about 4kph, give or take a couple, putting the filmer’s speed at a bit over 100.

It does seem like the filmer and the one in front are camping in the right lane when they shouldn’t be.

I guess I just don’t think this is a zinger since this doesn’t even register on the scale for me among all the driving craziness I’ve seen.

I don’t like Seymour as much as the next guy but what is the problem here? Undertaking isn’t breaking any rules as far as I know.

Edit: oh is it that he’s passing a car already doing 110?

Just FYI to any readers, this article is from April.

This is lemmy. Most of us use linux. And Nvidia support is so bad distros literally have Nvidia specific builds.

I dunno, I fell like this is not a new problem and the “opposition” were in power not that long ago, with the first outright majority we have had since bringing in proportional parties in the 90s. Why didn’t they do something?

Sorry, in a cynical mood today.

This is a cool analysis of something I hadn’t considered. I had assumed our right wing government winning the last election was a sign we were following global trends but it seems we are at least resisting.

Does this actually answer the question of why?

My best guess is “now is not a good time to piss off Trump”.

There are Wikimedia guidelines here, the table just says no to commercial use without clarifying (the part about NZ further down also doesn’t clarify): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements

I am guessing there is some editorial allowance here, otherwise a freelance photographer couldn’t be paid by a newspaper. So I’m thinking the photographer selling it for editorial use on stock image sites may not actually break any rules, though I have failed to find those rules.

I did find this from the Police:

However, you can take and/or publish photos or film of people where there is no expectation of privacy, such as a beach, shopping mall, park or other public place.

https://www.police.govt.nz/faq/what-are-rules-around-taking-photos-or-filming-public-place?nondesktop

How on earth is this legal?

Well, it says in the article they weren’t allowed to use this photo for this purpose.

I’m going to give it a 70% chance they knew there would be drama and were banking on this free exposure for their cause.

Unemployment at highest rate since it was illegal to go to work: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569145/unemployment-rate-rises-to-highest-level-since-2020

Yeah I agree, and as per that Wikipedia page it seems like a direct cause and effect (fire heaps of public service, this leads to direct unemployment plus indirect by causing unemployment in supporting industries then those that supply them etc).

It’s honestly pretty impressive that National can get voted in on a promise of fixing the economy time and time again, considering how bad they are at it.

Yes, definitely a shocked pikachu moment.

This is a pretty accurate depiction of the PM and of NZ politics in general at the moment.

Chris Bishop claims this in the article, yes.

He said the code of practice for traffic management risk assessment had been overly prescriptive, and the New Zealand Transport Agency has now stopped using it for work on state highways.

“They have instead moved to a far more pragmatic guide which allows contractors to use their experience and common sense to keep everyone safe on a worksite, rather than specifying road cone use down to the centimetre.”

Bishop said many councils, which own and maintain local roads, were still using the code of practice.

"Which is why we still see ridiculous temporary traffic management measures on local streets, such as quiet cul-de-sacs covered in road cones because of minor work on a footpath.

So it seems there is an old guide that did prescribe the distance, but it’s no longer used by NZTA.

(how true this is may be in the eye of the observer)

Basically “Collins only said this proposal clashes with the Bill of Rights because she’s required by law to review it. But we will do it anyway.”

Emphasis mine, but holy shit, a 90% increase in homeless people in Auckland in less than 12 months.

I’m sure this has nothing to do with this government’s policy of kicking people out of emergency housing.