NASA and SCUBA are two acronyms that show acronyms clearly don’t have to be pronounced like their source words as a rule.

My kids don’t have kiwisaver accounts, and the reason is simple. There is very little benefit in paying into kiwisaver accounts for them when we could put that same money into a similar investment account under our name and then decide later what we want to do with it (hell, there’s virtually no benefit in paying extra into kiwisaver as an adult once you are paying the minimum to get the few coins Willis found under the couch cushions, you get the same benefits in a PIE fund without it being locked away).

This proposal actually gives incentive for people to contribute to kiwisaver instead of some other investment fund. I think that’s what’s missing in the current approach.

The money is going to go into the KiwiSaver account anyway,

What were you referring to by this? The kick start contribution was ended quite some time ago, were you referring to parent contributions?

Allocating $30 million over four years to increase the services available to communities hardest hit by meth, within the Vote Health mental health and addiction budget.

Oh yay, their idea of mental health and addiction support is to take money already allocated to this purpose and spend it in the communities that would benefit the most. Ok but where was this money going before? And why does this government have a habit of announcing spending where the money was already ringfenced to spending on that thing?

Yes of course they want them to be moved elsewhere, but those people elsewhere aren’t going to be happy with them there either. We can’t solve problems by making them someone else’s problem. We need to solve to root cause of the problem.

“We’ve tried cutting funding to the department building homes, we’ve kicked everyone off the emergency housing list, we’ve ensured efforts to pay women as much as men have been stopped, and we have made an incredible number of people jobless both directly and indirectly; that’s basically everything we can think of to cure homelessness and we’re all out of ideas”

(paraphrased)

Interesting article, thanks for posting! I have to say, with the joke about House always thinking it’s lupus when it’s not, I had assumed it was super rare. But this says 1 in 900 in NZ, which is thousands of people just in NZ.

It comes after FENZ made an offer in June (5.1 percent over three years), which was declined.

NZPFU said members had not had a pay increase since July 2023.

Holy shit, so the offer is actually for a 5.1% pay increase from 2023 to 2028? That’s 1% per year, and inflation is already up over 4% since mid-2023.

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.