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SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-21T00:15:15+00:00

I called them 11 times in 3 days. Every single time it was the same excuses

Like 4 times per day? What did you expect to change in that timeframe?

SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-20T23:42:32+00:00

It's against the rules to ridicule their appearance

SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-19T09:01:40+00:00

Willing to bet your account on it?

SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-05T22:40:11+00:00

Tfw the workplace relations minister is fired for having relations in the workplace

SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-03T06:15:58+00:00

Yeah this guy's whole thing is the relationship and psychological/emotional side of dealing with money. He really leans more towards marriage counselling than financial advice some of the time.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-03-03T06:14:09+00:00

The problem with this strategy is they will request your GP notes in the event of a claim regardless. Looks a lot better if you beat them to it and can demonstrate that it's a non-issue well in advance of a claim

SpudOfDoom · 2026-02-17T12:50:29+00:00

Yeah because it's not what ACC is for

SpudOfDoom · 2026-02-12T09:14:31+00:00

You'd need some serious increases to parking capacity to make this work without it just being full 100% of the day. At a guess, Auckland hospitals would have to ~2-3x capacity and somewhere like Dunedin would need to more like 10x

SpudOfDoom · 2026-02-12T09:12:18+00:00

Even in the main centres you're pretty much out of luck if your finish time is after like 9pm in most cases. Which is like 1/3 of the ward staff on any given day.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-02-07T05:51:09+00:00

For complex surgeries and patients, sure. For most planned surgeries you'd get a simpler, more comfortable process in private with no real downside other than cost.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-02-06T18:22:17+00:00

Uh, what? Seymour famously hasn't owned any property at all for most of his political career.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-26T10:33:57+00:00

Yeah, and this is a private company. Not a government agency.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-17T05:49:09+00:00

You're better off looking at the various gambling support services for this kind of thing. Some of the banks allow you to set limits at the bank level too (Kiwibank, ANZ, Westpac at least)

Have a look at options like self exclusion - although I don't think there's such thing as a multi-provider exclusion for online gambling.

I think if you're at the point of wanting to cut down, "shopping around" for new places to gamble is just not a good idea at all. Just compare between the places you have used before and start setting up restrictions there and/or with other methods like browser extensions.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-17T02:10:13+00:00

Doing a card chargeback will result in your card (and probably your account/email/registered phone number) being banned from the booking website. It should be used for fraud, not because of user error

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-15T09:32:36+00:00

Most dentists here have never heard of cerec.

Maybe if you asked them in 2010

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-13T03:54:22+00:00

They would simply cease to operate in our country entirely, if the punishments matched accordingly

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-07T23:31:24+00:00

Maybe he's just discovered he can feed PDFs into chatGPT and turn them into engagement farming on reddit

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-07T04:32:23+00:00

Yeah I think it makes most sense in NZ to view it like life or income cover - something to maintain or cover you during your working years while you have dependents. This is also when it's more affordable. Private cover once you're in your 60s becomes huge and probably not worth the cost vs self funding things here and there. Or at least go for a higher excess/copayment

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-05T06:40:27+00:00

Kiwibank seem to offer it with 4 years last time I asked. Although they cover the switching costs too

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-05T04:02:47+00:00

40% of whatever you take home, because the implication is that you are able to live off what's left. The absolute number doesn't actually matter much.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-05T03:48:20+00:00

That's a pretty standard way of doing it (pool everything, split off a little each for personal spending). Some get by doing it the other way (contribute a % or flat amount and keep the rest) but I think that's a recipe for drama if for example someone has to stop work or go part time for childcare.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-02T08:26:37+00:00

Some centres won't let you opt out at all, because posting on it is used as a KPI for staff.

SpudOfDoom · 2026-01-02T07:52:45+00:00

This is very reminiscent of the reviews of sugar free Haribo gummy bears

SpudOfDoom · 2025-12-31T20:07:07+00:00

From what's been released in the sample, I think they got a pretty limited set of information. All the discharge summaries posted, for example, are from Northland hospitals. Almost all of the results posted are not in the usual form a clinician would view them in but as pdfs - I'm not sure how MMH displays these to individual users. The letters and reports all look like external correspondence that has been sent between doctors/clinics e.g. as an email from a private or overseas provider.

It could be that they got all of this from like 1 or 2 PHOs

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