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Hypothetically, what could we do to our political system to foster cross-party policy? (lemmy.nz)
 

I'm wanting to see more well-rounded policy that can be supported by the major parties regardless of 'who floated it', hoping for better enduring government rather than this 'rip and replace' bullshit.

Obviously with the right wong think tanks invading, this is nothing more than a thought exercise, but i reckon its worth exploring.

My heretical angle is significantly reducing thenterms that parties have in power - not extending to 4 years but instead reducing to 1 or 18 months. The thinking being: If you cant get anything done because the only work one is interested in doing is ideological nonsense that caters to a narrow part of society maybe it shouldn't get off the ground in the first place?

Dunedin skateboarder’s free lessons for new migrants in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That's lovely to see. I hope it goes well, sustainably

Size of NZ compared to Europe and Asian countries. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ha! In that case, a quality shitpost

Brown Town defends racially tiered event ticket pricing amid backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh for sure, heartily agree. Didnt mean anything akin to 'shut up and take it.

Those 'in power' should absolutely lead by example (and there's bound to be plenty of time before the victims can actually pull back from 'defence mode' - now I'm starting to think of it in the same context as abusive relationships, however). Sorry, my analogies are all over the place!

Brown Town defends racially tiered event ticket pricing amid backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fair point - I'd moved on from this example of the tiered pricing to the big picture of 'how does a society eliminate racism' in principle.

You are right about this.

I do wonder what might the future look like though, when we're all trying to 'get one back' either due to responding to the systemic racism or ...bear with me here, the hypothetocal is a little gross: counter-responses: lets imagine pakeha with perceived past hurts in response to similar gestures? (as im sure there are quite a few completely blind to their privilege and so on...). I'm not saying they did the wrong thing at all with the gesture, I'm merely trying to find ways to avoid escalating things (which in hindsight sounds dangerously like 'peace at any price', but I don't think it is...).

Brown Town defends racially tiered event ticket pricing amid backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I get what you mean.

I'm hoping somehow there's a way where we can get to some sort of parity and then work to de-escalate from there, but I actually just don't think humans can do that.

We really need better tools to handle our insecurities, as a species...

Brown Town defends racially tiered event ticket pricing amid backlash in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

So, what's the answer then - woukd it be just declaring there is no racism in NZ and trying to keep everything 'level'?

Police seek to expand list of gangs subject to patch ban in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Charming... The main rule is 'don't be a dick', no need to come in strong.

You are correct that they had an 'emotional argument' (as opposed to a rational one - I'm sure there's better terms for these), but need you be so obnoxious about it?

By the numbers: How big is the Stop the Treaty Principles Bill petition? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I suspect there's a lot of this going on: https://mander.xyz/post/21175408

ACT's David Seymour won't 'bow down' to his hapū leaders in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a fairly profound contrast, I gather, between the urban/young vs. the rural/aged.

Dunno what we can do about that, really - but it's looking more and more like the divide in America, unfortunately (and I think Seymour butts is consciously pushing for that, sadly)

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 15/11/2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had good luck with windy

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 15/11/2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Good point, the travel disruption and congregation on parliament grounds was the protest

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 15/11/2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have a random brain fart, that in trying to measure just how curmudgeonly it is: going to the hikoi today was great, but I seem to have trouble accepting protests having live performance and other 'party atmosphere' elements.

Presumably the party elements attract hangers on and waters down the focus (but I'm a grumpy old bastard that doesn't enjoy fun, for perspective)

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ACC trial of copilot sees boost in quality, speed of work (www.rnz.co.nz)
 

While I'm never excited about these general uses, it seems like they did a reasonably good job with this experiment. Hopefully other Dept's don't just loosely 'throw it in'...

Some tidbits:

The AI operated on a fixed dataset. It did not collect information, nor did it tap into the main client record systems, so privacy risks were low.

It did not learn from the queries staff made or the information they used with it, and did not add that information to its learning banks, the reports said.

The two tests - first with 25 staff, then with 300 - found that along with boosts to service came gains in employee wellbeing, such as helping people with ADHD or poor hearing focus more in meetings, or those with dyslexia to revise content.

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random thought about the Google monopoly lawsuit (lemmy.nz)
 

I was curious to hear what people think of the telecom breakup into chorus (and wasn't there a third party as well?) after all these years?

I was working there at the time, so some of the staff training was entertaining. I felt like they seemed to be on board with the general thrust of the changes, which I was a little surprised about (I expected a little more lip-service, I guess?)

Has it been a good change? I feel like the national fibre has been great but that's not actually related (but may have relied on the breakup as a precursor?)

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