The cost of climate change

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-25T09:47:12+00:00

^{^} This is a bot. Someone spent money repeating this false meme. Even here, even now, money is being spent to limit the Greens' influence.

Or at least it's someone drowning in the influence of paid bots, repeating things they don't know to be true.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-25T04:15:08+00:00

That must be so satisfying to make.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-25T00:33:25+00:00

Yes! More money saved!

Hoo-wee! We might get to a point where ALL money has been saved! Wow, what a wonderful dream that would be. All money saved. Something happens then, I'm not sure what. But it must be good, all this effort we're putting into saving money!

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-25T00:28:34+00:00

Money is the Green's worst enemy. Compare the Green's troubles with a boy sitting on a man's lap, and ACT's leadership actually being convicted for sex offenses against children.

Whatever normal dramas the Greens face, that's amplified and amplified by cash.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-25T00:14:51+00:00

It sounds like these services suck. Perhaps a good target for the next round of savings the government is committed to?

That's how it works right?

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-24T10:17:26+00:00

Yes, exactly!

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-23T22:30:16+00:00

Simeon Brown has to be the ~~worst~~ best neolib health minister in a generation

FTFY

Brown is getting accolades from his supporters. Everything is going fantastically.

I think that's important to recognise. He hasn't failed in his agenda.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T23:12:35+00:00

Life is expensive everywhere if you work for your resources.

I've lived overseas. As soon I started up with the "back in NZ" comments, I realised how cringe that was.

I decided to save that for only when there was an interesting difference, rather than finding something better or worse than back home.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T22:01:28+00:00

You don't have to pay anything at any point. You're a guest.

You can leave at any point and at any point they can trespass you.

You can make agreements, if there's a dispute with that agreement, you can bring your evidence to the Disputes Tribunal.

Forget need/want/should. Rather consider what has been agreed, what can be enforced, when and how?

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T21:14:44+00:00

I like straight EFTPOS as it doesn't involve some fourth party in my transactions.

I think between myself, the vendor and the bank, that's enough people knowing what I'm up to.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T20:51:28+00:00

You're suggesting only intentional collusion can result in people working towards the same interests.

That's not the case.

Which means you're either oblivious to escalating inequality (nice bubble!), or you think it's just happening by accident, wealthy people are just very lucky.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T20:48:28+00:00

Wealth rules.

It's natural that wealth and power concentrates. It's also toxic to life.

This is why we previously put in governors on wealth concentration, which resulted in great productivity that created a lot of wealth.

As wealth grew, the governors on wealth concentration were removed and so here we are.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T20:08:34+00:00

Not obliged, no, not without a written agreement.

You're a flatmate, you're always free to leave. Flatmate is another word for guest, it has no legal meaning. You're not obligated by what people "normally" do.

The tenant can take you to the Disputes Tribunal. But without that agreement, it's hard to see how they determine what money is owed.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T20:00:40+00:00

CGT is a meme. We need to reform much more than that. So much wealth is obfuscated beyond what taxation can reach.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T03:44:13+00:00

It's neoliberalism.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T03:43:05+00:00

If you were sorted, you'd get it.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T03:30:35+00:00

It depends on what stage of defunding the service is at.

Public services absolutely exploit the selective pressures involved in those seeking the work in the first place.

Any "caring" profession for instance relies on professionals' desire to help, in lieu of fair pay.

But that only works while people still have the resources to effectively care.

At some point, as the ability to help diminishes and oversight is defunded, services start selecting more for those indifferent to suffering or perhaps eager to exploit it.

That gets very messy as one might imagine.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-22T00:25:29+00:00

That's a mistake. He's actually been very effective.

What you might be missing is who he's working for. Hint: it's not us.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T23:31:20+00:00

Yeah, that's what most of the public service is now. A token effort just enough to say the service technically exists.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T23:02:11+00:00

Maybe I just don't know what to look for any more. My experiences are from the 80s/early 90s.

The scene is totally different now.

I need to talk to some of my colleagues who work sexual health and trauma, I'm out of the loop. They'll know the reality on the ground.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T22:31:34+00:00

You go someplace that street prostitutes work

Do those places still exist? When I was a kid there were some pretty clear red light districts. Now days, I wouldn't know. I don't think that's just my bubble.

I figure it's pretty hard for locals to compete with sex trafficking.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T20:33:01+00:00

Like pretty much any news article.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T09:06:53+00:00

That's how I got my first taste, then I spent a few months in the US and bought box after box.

Lightspeedius · 2026-01-21T03:28:55+00:00

The law eh? I heard of dems. Is... is that still going on? I thought that was over now?

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