gristc has gone to roam with the ancient elephants

@hackaday Attempt recovery. It still looks usable and changing locale isn't overly difficult.

At this point, do you: A: start over with a fresh OS image B: try to recover C: burn it all with fire

@snarky_mk Prediction: petrol prices will just go back up to close to what they are now. We all know they're demand based and not on cost. We also know they follow each other so there is no real competition.

This is very good stuff.co.nz/politics/36078…

@chrisluxonmp You're banning it at the wrong level. Stopping retailers passing it on explicitly just means the prices will go up. It needs to be banned at the credit card company level to actually be effective.

You shouldn’t have to pay to use your own money. We’re banning surcharges on debit, credit and eftpos payments.

@LewSOS My main problem with it is that it's not based on any extra cost to them. It's purely "this is more convenient for you, so we're going to charge for it".

With everything else going on, it baffles me how people can care so much about paywave surcharges

@SunnyGrove_Dave @LaurieFleming @actparty Please explain why you don't understand that tax breaks are how landords are subsidised by the govt, and by extension, the rest of us tax payers.

@LaurieFleming @actparty What money do landlords get from the Govt? Please explain why people providing a service, rental property, to those who need shelter in return for rent are so disliked by you Laurie and by the NZ political left.

Here we have a local council boasting about spraying around ratepayer money. ACT Local candidate Davina Smolders responds 🥊💥

@LaurieFleming Ask them what methane degrades into.

They’re frantically trying to find something to prove me wrong.

So are any of the so called "women's rights activists" we hear from all the time regarding toilet usage and sports participation speaking up against this pay equity cancellation?

@MurfittTauranga It's Wilson from Castaway. Have you not seen the movie?

An internet search returns this. I feel sick. Am I being a drama queen?

@EricCrampton @POLITIKwebsite I'm reminded of when Key sent our troops to Afghanistan for 'training' and then some of them got killed because they were actually on active duty. #NatsAreLiars #nzpol

Good news in this morning's @POLITIKwebsite newsletter. I really really hope that some of the training runs the other way - Ukraine knows more than anybody about modern warfare.

@LewSOS @GraemeEdgeler Exactly.

@GraemeEdgeler @GristC But volumes and proportions for and against are an element of select committee deliberations, and it looks like we will not even get a meaningful read on those (because the govt refuses to do the homework it set for itself)

It is a democratic outrage that we do not at the absolute minimum get an empirical breakdown of how many submissions, and how many in support, opposed, and ambivalent This is the most essential basis for seeing public sentiment towards the TPB in the absence of a referendum

@GraemeEdgeler @LewSOS It's not enough to just know the arguments. This is a democracy, they need to know how many are in favour and how many are opposed.

@LewSOS I think it is likely government members of the Justice Committee have heard enough to be able to be fully informed of the arguments going both ways on this bill to form a fully-considered view of whether it should be recommended for further passage and if so in what form.

@cexclusives_ If they were staffed properly this wouldn't be a problem. Point the blame where it belongs.

NZ hospitals face scrutiny over rising COVID infections, with experts calling for better tracking, ventilation, and mask mandates. Read More: zurl.co/DJTAf

Anyone else pushing back against the use of ChatGPT for writing content for your organisation? Maybe it’s just me, but if you don’t respect your audience enough to write for them yourself, why should you expect them to give your work any respect (or attention) in return?

@sophieodoom You should introduce them to "bursting with real fruit flavour!"

@TheGriftReport This smells very much like Russian propaganda. Even down to the 'namenumber' replies and the pro-reform post at the bottom.

@five15design @nzherald Ugh, I worked at Spark when he was in charge there. How he keeps getting jobs at that level I do not understand.

Hey @nzherald how about we plaster the face of Foodstuffs CEO over the articles about THEIR BREACH of privacy & not the victims there ok? Fixed it for you.

@neal_katyal Trump says all sorts of shit.

Just putting this out there, buff.ly/418L7lh

@bennettLmorgan All the space under the trees was full too.

From fb. Probably captures half of it

@DaveOshry Is it finished? Have all the votes been counted?

He even won the popular vote this time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ClintVSmith I hate the way the whole conversation is framed. Noone talks about how much money the army is 'losing'.