"Rust is an activist language" is technically true, but the ideology it's pushing is "it's bad when the computer gets rooted and incorporated into a botnet because you wrote everything in C", not communism

People and businesses who thought they had it bad during Covid are finding out how it is during bad times when the government actually does abandon you. The differences couldn't be more stark #NZPol

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

Luxon abolished the Govt fund to help industry decarbonise, as he said he didn’t want to subsidise them and carbon price signals were the answer. Then he gave $200m for more fossil fuel exploration and abolished price signals for agribusiness, the biggest polluter.

New Mayors plan 2nd round of local austerity after voters punish rates hikes due to Govt's first round of austerity; Less than a third of enrolled voters voted; Methane goalposts shifted to halfway; Net interest costs barely 1% of Govt revenues. #nzpol
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One of the symptoms of the 'resource curse' is that Govt becomes captured by one industry. In NZ that is dairy. Methane is the dominant GHG for NZ but it is now exempt from prices or regulations to cut it, which means all other sectors have to carry the weight of emissions reductions.

sheesh Hanami is fast!

I haven't needed my tricks to make things feel even faster yet!

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

Dear local body voters.

You can have zero rate rises or clean water.

Over to you. OH WAIT.

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

Either he agrees with Kirk or he makes decisions with thinking through the consequences. Neither is mayoral material.

$200m would give you ~18,000 rooftop solar installations with a peak of ~5kW each.

That would total ~90MW peak generation. All without ONGOING fuel cost!

It would save in hydro during the day - acting similar to pumped hydro.

This is uneconomical and a waste of tax money!

#nzpol

😭 If only NZ experienced wind, even offshore, and the light of the sun also

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Was he though or was he pretending. One of his recent tweets implied he had been coerced into being nice and now he’s doing his own thing.
Also being a horrible person doesn’t mean you can’t be nice to some people. Shades of grey etc

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

Rottweiler puppies are so cute.

Minister "for" the Environment, Penny Simmonds pressuring environmental regulator, Horizons Regional Council, to give water abstraction consents to the agribusiness owned by her colleague, National Party MP Suzy Redmayne. If only she cared this much about the rivers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Sigh, TFW when you agree with Wayne Brown

They love them sweet sweet dividends

Rails has enabled me to have a good career, but I’m done. I’m not supporting this shit any anymore.

If Ruby Central’s* goal was to split the Ruby community then they have done a brilliant job of it.