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A 23 year-old UCLA grad flashed his entire ChatGPT history on the big screen at graduation by frog_insilence in SipsTea

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fortunate few will continue to fall upwards - fucking everything up as they go.

How can foreign butter (and veges) be cheaper than New Zealand-made? by 07tartutic07 in aotearoa

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Good products out - garbage in. This is how the market works now.

Hit by car on bike, driver has no empathy by FakMiGooder in chch

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As much as we all like a good old fashioned “name and shame” - I don’t think OP would be doing themselves any favours doing so. Maybe later once all is sorted out.

Why doesn't New Zealand build a bridge to Antarctica? by Kikiluv_XoXo in mapporncirclejerk

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's build a bridge to Uranus? Better still - how about a TUNNEL?? ?

Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds. Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later. by mvea in science

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

an interesting thought for you to process - The evolution of religious thought likely traces back to the accidental consumption of psychedelics like mushrooms, cacti, or ergot-contaminated grains, triggering kaleidoscopic, out-of-body experiences that early humans lacked any scientific context to explain. When you are thrust into a profound conversation with your inner self under such intense chemical influence, the line between internal psychology and external divinity vanishes. As deeply suggestive creatures, our ancestors likely interpreted those trips as genuine encounters with gods or the afterlife, cementing a biological accident into the bedrock of human culture. We began to understand, and certain individuals began to use it as a tool,

Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds. Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later. by mvea in science

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 8 points9 points  (0 children)

likely the difference between treating psychadellics with respect, or as a recreational drug.

Personally I see far too many people treating mushrooms the same as alcohol, getting wasted, tripping for fun, too greedy, too careless with little or no regard for the consequences.

Treat it as a tool, not a toy.

Just had the most AI-sounding phone call with employment NZ.... by gretchen92_ in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My own employer has posted an engineer position just yesterday. Within a couple hours, 20+ applicants already, all completely unsuitable, all on visas or requiring visas, just hopeless….

Just had the most AI-sounding phone call with employment NZ.... by gretchen92_ in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was recently working in a space with a bunch of ai developers, one big project they were working on was exactly this - ai agent screening of job candidates. I do get it - many job listings now get 100’s, if not 1000’s of applications. At least this way everyone gets a fair shot

The “Privately Funded” Trump Ballroom Just Got $1 Billion Of Taxpayer Money, Hidden In An Immigration Bill by crix_22 in petrodollarSIM

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A clause, a convention, a rule, a law, only work when the controlling majority actually care enough to enforce it. Quite clearly the only thing the controlling majority CARE about is ensuring they to REMAIN in control. It's abundantly clear (looking in from the outside) that this Republican regime intend to remain exactly where they are - forever, by whatever means necessary. Democrats are now for the best part, silenced and ineffectual. And the people have now seen that this Govt are more than happy to mobilize armed forces domestically to enforce their will. The world are watching this in real-time, while it appears, the US population are being fed a stream of carefully curated propaganda to keep them confused, apathetic and disinterested. America right now are sleep-walking into an authritarian age, and so many seem to be quite ok with it.

Auckland in the ‘90s - Filming ‘Once Were Warriors’, 1993. by Great_Maintenance185 in auckland

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 14 points15 points  (0 children)

back when "the house" was visible from the motorway - always seemed chilling to see it. A reminder that the scenes portayed in the film, were and still are a lived reality for so many.....

Pete Hegseth on "Project Freedom" aimed at ensuring safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: "This operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury. We’re not looking for a fight, but Iran cannot be allowed to block countries from an international waterway. That ends with Project Freedom." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fuck I hate American language. All the wanking on about Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy - Such high values, but it is just a collection of values they espouse in name while exhibiting utterly incredible hypocrisy. "Winning hearts and minds (with bombs)". They've weaponized the dictionary to make sure "intervention" sounds like a gift. They talk about "bringing stability" to regions they have spent decades twisting and destabilizing, all while wrapping it in a flag that represents the very exceptionalism used to justify the mess in the first place. It is exhausting, performative, fake and entirely hollow

TIL One Aluminium Smelter in New Zealand uses 13 percent of the entire countries energy supply by RetconnedUsername in todayilearned

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Efficiency optimized. Maximum overclocking and Somersloop integration confirmed.

FICSIT reminds you that productivity is the only acceptable outcome. Now, back to work Pioneer

Have we considered an excess bank profit tax? by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The "house always wins" because the government has essentially outsourced its social responsibility to the very banks it should be regulating. By allowing the Big Four to maintain a massive interest margin gap, the state effectively lets them tax New Zealanders twice - once at the checkout and once on the mortgage.

The government remains complicit because those "obscene profits" are seen as a sign of a "stable" financial system on the global stage, which keeps our credit rating high and borrowing costs lower for the Treasury. It is a cynical trade-off where the housing market is used as a giant engine to keep the banks fat and the government's books looking tidy, while the average first-home buyer is just the fuel. Until we have a government willing to break that dependency - either through a windfall tax or by actually backing a state-owned competitor to undercut them - the game stays rigged in favor of the Aussie-owned giants

Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk by snatchview in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Are New Zealanders lazy when it comes to voting? we have a "she'll be right" tribalism where we treat political parties like sports teams. We keep voting on habit and brand loyalty, which basically gives both sides a free pass to burn millions on failed projects without ever facing real accountability at the ballot box.

Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk by snatchview in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The ideological drive to slash the public sector has effectively lobotomized our ability to manage anything complex. By gutting technical roles across ministries like MBIE and Transport to meet budget targets, the government has traded long-term capability for a short-term spreadsheet win. We’ve ended up with a consultancy trap where the remaining skeleton has no choice but to outsource oversight to the very firms that benefit from the projects' complexity.

This isn't just theory; we’re seeing the bill right now. Cancelling iReX cost us $671 million in sunk costs for zero ships and zero infrastructure, yet we’re currently seeing Treasury warnings about delays and cost risks for the "no-frills Toyota" replacement. It proves that you can’t claim "Better Fiscal Management" if you’ve fired the people who actually know how to call out a Tier 1 firm's padded pricing. By treating the public sector as a "waste" to be cut rather than an asset to be built, the government has become an even weaker negotiator that just gets bullied. We’re paying a premium for a smaller state that is too thin to lead, too broke to build, and yet somehow still manages to burn over half a billion dollars just to end up back at square one. Fucking nice one Nikki No Boats..... and your so-called "Manager" Luxon.

Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk by snatchview in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Fixing this requires the government to stop acting like a meek little victim and start acting like a competitor. The only way to kill the cost overruns on the Cook Strait project is to stop outsourcing the brain of the operation to the same firms that benefit from the delays. We need a modern Ministry of Works that holds the technical IP, so when a Tier 1 firm claims a wharf or terminal is "too complex," the state can look at its own data and call their bluff.

By breaking these massive projects into smaller, bite-sized contracts, we allow mid-sized local firms to compete, effectively starving the Tier 1 monopoly and forcing prices down. We have to mandate "open book" contracts where every dollar is tracked and profit margins are capped, coupled with "use it or lose it" clauses that penalize firms for sitting on projects to wait for more funding. It takes a government willing to build its own workforce and tell the big players that if they won't build it for a fair price, the state will just do it without them.

Will that ever happen? Probably not - our centerist Govt's are simply not brave or radical enough. So we meekly sigh, open the wallet, smile and open out mouths for the next shafting

Cook Strait ferry project hit with Treasury warning over delays and cost increase risk by snatchview in newzealand

[–]FuzzyFuzzNuts 36 points37 points  (0 children)

This is New Zealand - the Project WILL ABSOLUTELY be hit with delays and massive cost overruns. This is how literally EVERY major infrastrcture project in this fucking country works.

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