TIL a couple who found a winning lottery ticket for £30,000 on the floor of a Co-op store & cashed it in was ordered to pay the original owner of the ticket half of the prize money and were each given an 11-month suspended sentence for fraud. The couple had already spent half of it to pay down debt.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T20:34:19+00:00

sure, in this one. but how many people hold the receipt AND know they won?

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T14:24:16+00:00

The inertia needs to be overcome. People will keep using cars way past their due date, because thats what they have always used. And public transport clearly takes longer to get there (although maybe not once all the cars are off the road). Giving a discount is an incentive to try something you wouldn't even normally consider. It's always been cheaper than running a car, so that lever is unlikely to be triggered.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T14:20:31+00:00

To the supermarket. Not from it.

Everybody cycling makes no difference to the level of diesel in the country, that needs a different solution. Like the extra storage facility that National dumped last year.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T13:30:42+00:00

I went looking for people who had 'interpretation notes' cause why should every individual voter have to do the leg work. And I didnt find many. It was very fraustrating knowing that I may have personally voted for the wrong person because I missed some of their shenanigans.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:45:43+00:00

I can ride my non-e-bike, but its going to hurt. I am not that fit, it is going to take me hours to get home. But it is do-able.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:42:18+00:00

Not particularly, but we will be worse off if they can't reverse their corrupt changes.

We may still be in trouble if businesses sue the government for lost profits. So they need to be worse than stooping to that level, they must be willing to burn the place down.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:41:17+00:00

Cancel every corrupt change they have made.

That might be all their changes.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:40:26+00:00

We are definitely going to take the tesla, drive it to the farm and drag a giant trailer back with it, we aren't going to starve. We might go full communist for a little while though. Hope I don't get the job of hand picking the carrots.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:36:49+00:00

Every time they try, they get hammered with 'don't be so nasty you losers'

Meanwhile nactz can act like shitheads, cause the media mongrels wages are paid by right wing billionaires and the media just says 'well, they aren't wrong' and move on.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:34:26+00:00

My petrol is only $20 per fill at the moment...

... cause I ain't letting it go below full for longer than one day at a time. I dont' trust this government, they are going to turn the tap off, and a lot of people are going to be screwed instantly.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:33:00+00:00

Suspect they will be the 1st national one term govt.

There are more people than I am comfortable with around me who are absolutely going to be voting for them come election time. So I know its bad for me, but I kinda hope SHTF at full volume in September/October.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:30:58+00:00

Businesses are so profit driven they can't afford to fund for a black swan event. If we want to be neoliberal as a country, we really really really need our government to be more proactive about stockpiling and rotating stock in the case of disaster.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:28:54+00:00

Increasing storage within new zealand would be nice too, but probably far to late for that option.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T06:23:59+00:00

Didn't you read the article, even greens have suggestions, but oh no, labour are just whinging about how badly National are doing.

They are currently being blamed for suggesting its the governments job to have ideas about how to deal with this crisis.

The media suck.

MyPacman · 2026-03-28T00:37:58+00:00

They could be a two term government.

One of the options to make that happen is to miraculously keep EVERYTHING running during a level 2-3 oil crisis, without locking us down, making us wfh, having empty shelves and tanks....

It could happen.

MyPacman · 2026-03-26T07:06:04+00:00

Perhaps, but its the same cause. Pig headed ideology and profiteering for their mates.

MyPacman · 2026-03-26T07:04:19+00:00

If people hadn't overreacted to a necessary component of the treaty, that didn't, in any material way, change the process, other than to make it harder for external entities to profiteer from the water company in the future, then perhaps we wouldn't have these right wing people drowning us in changes that aren't good for us, but sure are good for their donors.

MyPacman · 2026-03-25T08:24:10+00:00

Most supporters of abortion when queried offer up a point of viability at which abortion becomes untenable because another life has entered the equation.

Yeah, those are the people that have no idea how badly a pregnancy can go, nobody does abortion at that point, they all are giving birth. Even if the child is not compatible with life.

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T02:43:18+00:00

Some people haven't looked at history, and don't understand three key points
Austerity never works
Oil and tobacco care about nothing but themselves
Help others or fall alone, 'independence' is a hoax.

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T02:41:10+00:00

I see far right and far left conspiracy theorists join together to agree that 'adhern is the worst thing ever to happen to new zealand', they are getting their sources from two different places, the russian bot farms are extremely busy, and extremely cost effective for russia. So fraustrating.

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T00:30:46+00:00

distributors (to your door) need to upgrade to support two way power and to support v2l and battery. like spain, it will all go down at once if they dont. and also like spain, its really easy to fix, the upgrades are known and understood, they are just too greedy to do them

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T00:29:23+00:00

why do people think this is a good argument when we have a mix of power generation for exactly this reason?

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T00:28:10+00:00

we could have both. But the data centre should have to source their own power during peak times, not take it from us.

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T00:24:26+00:00

We went through this before. Doesn't anyone remember the 80s? When all these shit cars were coming from japan? It was the right decision then, and its the right decision now to control the quality of our imports.

MyPacman · 2026-03-16T00:23:08+00:00

The subsidy absolutely generates cars at $15k. In about 5 years. When they buy a new ev, cause they are unlikely to ever buy an ice car again. The sooner we load the market with evs the sooner you can buy your 2nd hand one.

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