The government always talks about how many public were hired unter the Labour government but they never get more specific. Is there a breakdown of where these public servants were added?

Is is police, teachers, and nurses or is it middle management?

For context, this guy leads a party that is part of a coalition in government at the moment. However, they only got 6% of the vote. He/they (the guy/the party but I find it amusing given the context that I could have been referring to his pronouns) is certainly not representative of the country as a whole.

More concerning is that the other parties in the coalition are also trying their best to mimic Trump.

This wasn’t a crime before?

As I understand it, an employer not paying your wages is (was?) treated as someone not paying an invoice. Like if you don’t pay your power bill, you owe the power company money and your power company has a range of options to get the money from you but it’s not a crime to not pay your power bill, even if you never intended to pay.

I think this Act recognises that there’s quite a difference between not paying an invoice when you are a private individual vs a company who is responsible for many people’s livelihoods.

Hmm I think I have read that first article in the past. Man I hate the direction we are heading.

Ah ok, that sucks. Maybe with some luck it will get diluted through the select committee process.

The site has this message for me:

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I assumed ad blocker was the issue but maybe it’s something else. There are half a dozen potential reasons and I’m kinda sick of Stuff’s shit 🤷

Edit: I discovered I can just use the reader mode in firefox and it shows me the article.

The first one was paywalled or something (unspecified “you can’t read this” message) but I read through the second one. Do we know to what extent this is in the coalition agreement? Is it pre-determined to become law or is it one of those things where it’s been agreed to get it past the first reading into a select committee?

I think number 1 is it’s important to people, and this is the government actively reaching out to hear from people. So it’s a chance for their views to be heard, on the record, which I think is really important.

2 is that when negotiating you start with an anchor value, something too high to be realistic but it pulls the negotiating in that direction. This bill we knew would not pass but the next one may go through because it’s not as bad. Now the government knows there is very little support for any change to the current stance. If no one made a submission we would be back with a new bill in not too long.

I don’t know much about the Regulatory Standards Bill. I read the summary but I feel this is a devil in the detail type thing. Is there a good write-up about it?

Yeah I presume so. My kids aren’t a fan of them anyway. I think they aren’t as sugary as they used to be.

I don’t mind so much about pandering to the grand parents, but the worrying trend is that NZ First are finding support with the young as well.

The explanation was that yes dried fruit (all fruit) has a lot of sugar, and dried fruit in particular sticks to your teeth. They said adults tend to pick at this with their tongue and clean it off their teeth but kids don’t and it just sits there.

Can I hope that this is just a minor party proposing a bill they know won’t go anywhere in order to pander to their supporters?

Too easy! I suspect it can’t use more than one input source at once, and you’re supposed to switch between them using the Super+Space combo. So it was probably still set to English.

I tested in Zen and it works fine for me 🤷

I don’t have English as an input, only Māori. It doesn’t prevent you using letters not in Māori, in fact it seems to work the same as English but allow the macrons. I noticed the same thing in Windows as well.

Idk, anything for novelty? If another kid gets chips or roll ups a lot they might want a marmite sandwich?

Yeah true. I refuse to buy those little bags of chips that contain more plastic bag mass than chips.

those mini packets of cinderella raisins

Ooh I forgot about those! The dentist told me not to give the kids dried fruit haha.

I can’t remember what age I started not taking lunch to school, but it was before high school. Before that, yeah, two sandwiches. I never got little packets of chips or things like that as a kid, not sure when that got more common.

I wonder if your kids are trading or something?

For sure. I see empty chip packets come home in their lunch boxes that I never put there. Sometimes a muesli bar wrapper or roll up wrapper. Not sure what they are trading, fruit and sandwiches doesn’t seem exciting enough to entice the other kid,

You can buy bacon without nitrates, but the nitrates are the yummy bit… it does make it pink but if you taste bacon with no added nitrates it’s not the same.

In terms of dosage… this isn’t really a case of benefits outweighing risks. I’m not aware of any health benefits of eating highly processed meat (that you couldn’t get from the unprocessed equivalent). Easiest to minimise consumption to reduce the risk. I’ll still eat it on a burger in the same way I’ll still have the occasional beer even though alcohol is a known carcinogen, but I don’t want processed meat to be an everyday food.

I also have right alt. I can do āēīōū by holding right alt and pressing the letter. Just checking settings, I seem to have the compose key disabled but the alternate character key enabled. I have Māori as the input language.

Hmm the UK Marmite I’ve had wasn’t very syrupy. Well, I haven’t had it except once a long time ago so maybe it was and I don’t remember. Or maybe there are different brands.

Well this is going to turn a bit dark but processed meats are loaded with nitrates (normally sodium nitrate, listed as “Preservative (250)”), which is one of very few things on the WHOs “definitely causes cancer” list. So I try to avoid it if possible.

Outside of occupational risks (and biological ones, like HPV), the “definitely causes cancer” list is very short. The main ones are basically smoking, alcohol, and processed meat.

So it’s not a case of “everything causes cancer” and more a case of specifically avoiding processed meat in lunch boxes/in general.

The list is here: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications

Group 1 is the definitely causes cancer group. I find it easiest to download and filter in Excel.

The list of groups is here: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/agents-classified-by-the-iarc/