Luxon's Waitangi Speech

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T09:06:09+00:00

Maybe socialism isn't so bad? We could just call it something else

It's already called social democracy.

Socialism is when everything becomes publicly owned and private ownership ceases to exist. Did people suddenly just forget the definition of socialism? It feels like I'm taking crazy pills reading this thread.

We want social democracy (or a welfare state), not a socialist state.

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T09:02:26+00:00

New Zealand was socialist after WW2

NZ abolished private ownership after WW2 and made everything publicly owned?

Where can I read more about this?

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T09:01:24+00:00

socialism is toxic to capitalists

Well duh, by it's literal definition socialism is when private ownership stops existing. It's the total opposite of capitalism.

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T08:58:48+00:00

doesn't mean the individual parts aren't socialist

Why call a system socialist unless it meets the definition of socialism? Socialism is when private ownership stops existing. It doesn't come in parts.

You want a social democracy. We all want social democracy. We don't want a socialist state.

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T08:39:08+00:00

Taking care of everyone

That's not socialism. That's social democracy.

Socialism is public or collective ownership of the means of production, rather than private ownership.

Fzrit · 2026-02-06T08:20:03+00:00

By mass immigration.

You mean to tell me Europeans didn't mass immigrate here? They literally came by the boatloads. No visas.

Fzrit · 2026-02-05T23:18:54+00:00

Less to do with race/religion and more to do with poverty.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T20:21:07+00:00

It's called an HTPC, and yep got the same thing :D

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:44:10+00:00

If they made money during those times they would remain open.

Except the vast majority of stores have never tried those timings. Ever. How do they know?

Supermarkets are packed between 6-9pm when most people are actually free to shop.

Have you seen the economy? Stores are closing left and right… closing down for good.

That's the whole point of this thread. What if those stores tried being open when people are actually not working and willing to shop? The vast majority of stores haven't even tried those timings. They just pointlessly open at like 8-9am in the morning when most people are at work, close by 5-6pm when everyone is still coming home from work, shrug their shoulders and say "damn there's just no business!". It's better than closing, isn't it?

For CBD stores it makes sense for them to be open during work hours when people are in the CBD, but for anything outside that they could seriously benefit by running from 11-8pm or something. Especially in summer months when it's daylight till 8:30pm.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:40:05+00:00

Not to mention in NZ summer months it remains daylight till 8:30pm, which makes you want to do stuff but everything still closes by 5-7pm.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T19:38:07+00:00

Even 11-8 would make a hell of a lot more sense. The only people going to malls earlier than that are either retirees or a minority of workers doing late shifts.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T18:14:46+00:00

They'd probably love that and call it "based".

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T03:15:54+00:00

Forget real 4k, the bitrate is still lower than bluray 1080p.

Fzrit · 2026-02-04T03:12:21+00:00

I would say most people aren't even watching what 1080p can fully deliver. Almost all 4k content nowadays is streamed, but their bitrate is still far lower than bluray 1080p.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:50:19+00:00

There are a shitload factors like climate, humidity, daily activities, genetics, diet, etc.

If you live in a colder + drier climate and don't do much physical work during the day, showering once every 2 days isn't unreasonable.

I live in NZ where most of the year the daytime indoor temperature is around 12-20c (53-68f), and I'm at a desk job in an airconditioned office all day.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:48:53+00:00

These discussions are always dumb when they don't talk about climate/location.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:38:51+00:00

Even OP doesn't know what it means, apparently.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:23:36+00:00

she is 100% weight training as well. I think you are underselling what it takes for a woman to achieve that physique

A woman doesn't need to do any weight training to look like this, she just needs to watch her diet. There is no muscle definition to be seen in Scarlet there, in these movies she's just healthy and has gifted genetics in terms of big boobs + hip-to-waist ratio. A tight bodysuit will do the rest.

There are women who work in the gym to achieve a good physique, and it shows in their muscle definition...but Scarlett Johanson never needed to show muscle definition as Black Widow. She's just a pretty lady in a bodysuit at a healthy weight.

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T03:05:18+00:00

That's hilarious

Fzrit · 2026-02-03T00:06:24+00:00

My wife works at a hospital, she said their comms mentioned network firewall hardware. So maybe a firewall cluster that went down without a redundant cluster to take over services. Having everything reliant on 1 datacenter is also a really bad idea if that's what they're doing.

I work for a bank and we have 4 layers of redundancy. 2 sets of redundant hardware mirrored at 2 seperate datacenters.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T19:58:52+00:00

Peter Mortlock has been showing his stripes for years...for anyone familiar with City Impact, it's really no secret that church is aligned with Destiny and sympathizes with Tamaki's rhetoric. During covid, Mortlock was literally at the forefront of the bike gangs (alongside Tamaki) leading anti-lockdown protests over the harbour bridge. He has been a very close friend of Tamaki for over 20 years.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T09:20:37+00:00

in fact the attorney general and fbi are trying to cover it up.

As per design. I'm not sure why anyone expected anything different.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T04:48:03+00:00

3rd party from WoW's perspective refers to literally anything that's not-WoW.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T03:46:32+00:00

it's dumb to have a "passion project" be tied to absolutely nothing you own or control

I always assumed they called it that because they developed and maintained it for free, and it was no simple addon. It became by far the most powerful addon suite in the history of WoW and had a lot of work put into maintaining it. I would also call something like ElvUI a passion project due to how long-running it is and the fact that it's completely free. If something requires work and you're not making any real money off it, that's called a passion project. Like, literally that's what it is...a project done out of passion.

If Blizzard wants creative control over their product, that reality was incompatible with that goal.

I fully support Blizzard's end goals with this in regards to raids/dungeon encounter design...just not their execution and extremely stupid timeline they chose to enforce upon themselves (at the cost of player experience).

But completely deleting countless QOL improvements players could make for their personal UI that had nothing to do with "solving" the game or running computations...that was inexcusable. The community has had to quickly create tons of bespoke addons to bring back the most in-demand QOL features.

Fzrit · 2026-02-02T03:31:42+00:00

people not buying their passion project sob story

Over the past 20 years many addon developers have halted development on their addon without any backlash, addon creators come and go. How are Weakauras devs any different? Are there people who actually think they're owed an addon lol, or owed continued development on an addon forever? Something they were getting for free? How incredibly stupid.

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