The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies. He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?

ever since being in Japan i've transformed into one of those theme park tycoon npcs thats like 'i wish there was a vending machine here!'

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We should want better things for everyone in our society than aspiring to a pat on the head from capitalism

Being in paid work sucks, actually. Even the most fulfilling job becomes a grind by the simple fact of having to navigate an economic model that atomises your life into a series of unbalanced financial transactions. When you HAVE to do something to survive it can't give you unalloyed satisfaction

"Youths playing Xbox all day need a good kick up the pants" is the exact same rhetoric as "women having babies for the benefit" and "migrants are lazy but also stealing our jobs" amd "disabled people just need to ~believe in themselves" the message is Only Paid Work Is Good, So You Must Love It

It tells you a lot, the way politicians (not just National Party ones) take dismissive, vicious swings at young people. a) Their actual target is people 45+ b) Who also hate young people c) Also they assume young people won't vote d) So who cares if it's true, it gives people an excuse to be mean

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third. Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation. Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

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The point isn't really to win over existing supporters though. Instead, it's broadly 3 things: 1) Deter anyone current non-supporters from moving to support them 2) Winning over *anti-racist* voters to oppose them 3) Delegitimising them as not deserving the same benefit of doubt due to other parties

My best guess is that Shakespeare and 19th century texts were added and made compulsory, and Māori and Pacific authors removed, is because it made the senior English curriculum more aligned with Elizabeth Rata's vision. Remember: she started as its lead writer. It's a long read, but here's why.

Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.

donald trump has been an experiment in maximising the elder abuse of an abuser. thank you for engaging with this horrible project

why is no one talking about the new animorphs covers? i love that the next evolution up from crazy photoshop distortions is "someone who at minimum has looked at a LOT of furry art"

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incredible how transphobia is such a reliable bellwether for all the other terrible opinions someone holds

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Also, this claim: "Go look at other Western economies around the world and how fast they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk on the planet." Australia - voting day 3 May and final results 12 June (37 days) NZ - voting day 14 Oct and final results 9 November (26 days)

Hey Chris Luxon, maybe have a wee read of the Electoral Act 1993, s7 before trying to play the Big Business CEO, huh? "The Electoral Commission must act independently in performing its statutory functions and duties, and exercising its statutory powers, under— (a) this Act ..."

Would this get more attention if I used words like 'Ombudsman tells TERF complainant to get stuffed'?

When we were living in the Netherlands it too 255 days for them to form a govt after the 2017 election. 🤣 Like sure the votes were counted but we're not the slowest in the world at anything except a CGT. LOL.

Thing I can’t get over is How many people watched that woman get slammed . Didn’t help her , didn’t check on her But they got their shot. Right?

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Richard Dawkins, friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has contributed to a new book compiled by Lawrence Krauss, friend of Jeffrey Epstein who publicly supported him after his conviction for soliciting child prostitution, in which he argues that recognition of trans people are a threat to women’s rights

Do you know the games I remember? The ones with unique styles and art that set it apart Paychonauts, hades, slay the spire all these games have unique art styles that set it apart and make them memorable

This is a terrifying read especially as a parent of a boy. This is my biggest fear - Raising a violent angry woman hating man. 😰😨

Paying superannuation only to people who survive until they're 72yo sounds like Systemic #racism. Who live longer? People who are rich + white! People who need a social safety net the most are poor and marginalized, many of them brown. It's not as if there is much work for people 60+ anyway. #Nzpol

Oh no... Andrew Dice wasn't just a cool, friendly pillar of the community, he was one of the people most influential in bringing down the boundaries between the Japanese indie games scene and the rest of the world. He opened doors and brought so many great stories to us. Farewell to a real one.

Absolutely devastated by this news. SpaceDrake was no doubt a huge influence in drumming up interest for Japanese indie games localized into English and pushing for them on digital distribution storefronts like steam. Huge loss. Might be time for another playthrough of Recettear in his honour.

Fonterra stated we make up only 5% of their market. I'm yet to hear a compelling reason why local prices can't be decoupled from the global price. If the government is worried about farmer backlash, they could introduce a fund to help grow the global market to offset the miniscule drop in profit.

It’s vile on its own merit but pulling this shit in the midst of contract negotiations is particularly heinous

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Seriously though, if you want to help the "Eat God" Kickstarter hit its goals, the best thing is to download the playtest (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god), read it, give it a spin if you have time, then post your thoughts on it. That's going to be time times as effective as sharing my dumb promo posts.

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Can't recall the number of times I've talked to secondary, & even tertiary teachers in New Zealand around what's noted in this article, since early 2022. That it's this bad now is awful. | 'Trump boys' in NZ classrooms: Teachers warn of rising student extremism www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

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yeaaaaah i'm just gonna use the vpn

Very important advise on how to deal with misinformation and lies, when confronted with them. Of course, works even better if you have enough background knowledge. But even if not, never start or end with repeating the misinformation/lie, at most in an embedding about what actually is going on.

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EUROPEAN: Ah! [American third-rate politican]! He texted his dick to people. I know this basically against my will. AMERICAN: I don't know what's going on over there. You're ruled by the Marquis of Racism or something?

There is a difference between the responsible world citizen thing of knowing the major political stuff of important allies, which we'd do but cannot ever expect Americans to do in return, and the basically involuntary way knowledge of z-tier American political actors is forced on us.

spiritually and emotionally I am these lions from a 1500s painting

it's more a side story since DLC 3 closed the last major gap in the story's timeline, but it's a fun one

This video is very good, actually. Watch and share: Change-Makers: Opposing Fascism In Daily Life h/t @afterthoughts.bsky.social

This game rules. The “walking shooter“ subgenre is kinda forgotten but this game gets so much mileage out of it and does a great job marrying it with modern shmup design. Lotta fun ideas.

Asians for Tino Rangatiratanga holding a workshop on Te Tiriti o Waitangi on 28 Sep, Sunday. Get along! It will be good #NZPol