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James W
@jamesw228.bsky.social
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Takes about all kinds of things but predominantly politics, autistic people things and research, technnology. Opinions my own and all terrible. He/Him Pōneke/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 11h
@haydendonnell.bsky.social es not expecting my podcast for tonight to include hearing @davidfarrier.com talking about you freezing your dead cat and then it defrosting during a power cut while you were away 😂
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 12h
Palmerston North City Coungil makes it into the top 10 by population with ~90k people last time I looked
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 13h
Guess we should be grateful that they're really bad at it then
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 13h
Feel like they're going to learn the wrong lessons from this

Like, be better at hiding your connections to the toxic weirdos and pay slightly more for your foreign social media farm so they remember to switch accounts while astroturfing
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 14h
78 local authorities is really stupid in a country of 5m people. Especially when a single local authority represents 1.7m of those people #nzpol
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 17h
He's pandered to some groups during the campaign that it'll be very disappointing if he actually tries to follow through on. Like the local NIMBYs
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 17h
Transpower are so great though 😂😂
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 17h
And obviously we'd then have those costs passed to us by the ISPs who actually sell us Internet access
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 17h
So in the short term it'd be less maintenance, slower fixing of faults & longer waits for connections as they reduced staffing to increase profits from an essentially fixed income while they lobbied to increase the charge per connection & weaken how they're regulated so they couldI charge more
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
It won't impact in the short term. Chorus are a regulated monopoly with the price they charge per connection fixed by the regulator which is what puts the floor on the prices actual providers charge us but as the network operator they're responsible for maintaining the network & adding connection ls
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
Thank fuck this decision was taken away from councils
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
I'm not sure that was actually on the ballot
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
Ouch that's rough
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
Definitely can
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
Stop going
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
There's a simple solution to this problem
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
Seems kinda low given how weird Whanganui is
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 18h
On the Bright side, 3 years of him and Little getting into arguments with each other will be funny for the rest of us to watch
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 19h
This is true but it's also another vote (and the tiebreaker) which leans towards NIMBY which is one of the many things which suck about him
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 19h
Congratulations, looking forward to you keeping up the good work
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 19h
Great news, looking forward to you continuing the excellent work
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 19h
Sorry to hear this and thank you for the good and hard work you did over the last 3 years
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 20h
Very mixed feelings about having to care about what Andrew Little thinks for the next 3 years #nzpol
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 21h
I think they'll push him early next year if he's still the. They'll want the time to try and recover their position
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 1d
They learnt from the first term and bought in early this time (And between them if you see the list of current Trump officials who they paid for lobbying work)
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