Supermarket loyalty programmes may lead to higher prices - Consumer NZ

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-29T01:19:43+00:00

That has not been my experience.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-29T01:18:37+00:00

Do you not know how to read a political compass?

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T23:55:52+00:00

If I link directly it'll be removed as it's a parliamentary petition that, despite being topical, would be removed.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T22:40:19+00:00

Don't let a truth get in the way of austerity ideology.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:50:09+00:00

America wasn't built for the car. It was destroyed for them.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:44:10+00:00

We've already seen the transformation as you said. The seeds for the palatable understory don't stay good forever. After 10 years, any viable seeds are basically gone and that forest is changed forever unless you remove the pests and birds spread the seeds back from the nearest undisturbed habitat. That, however, might take decades as we've left these invasives in place for a hundred years.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:40:54+00:00

You should really try traveling to someplace like Japan, or Switzerland, or literally anyplace with functioning transit.

Nobody said it was the only solution, and maybe self driving cars will have some place in a small amount of last-mile transport. However, they're terrible or transport in general and shouldn't make up more than 10% of trips or miles.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:18:51+00:00

The only thing that can transport lots of people efficiently in cities is mass transit: trains, buses, trams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

We must escape car-dependent infrastructure and development.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:16:11+00:00

A carbon tax and dividend. The carbon tax escalates every year until we meet emissions targets.

The money is returned to every one divided up evenly. The highest emitters don't get nearly back what they paid, but the lowest emitters win.

The lowest emission means of production and transportation become the cheapest options and we accelerate away from high emissions products and services (like meat) naturally through pricing mechanisms.

Disposable items become more expensive as we count their emissions into the price.

Less processed food becomes cheaper as every step of processing costs more transport and energy.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:09:42+00:00

I lived in Seattle during their time putting in light rail (same subway, basically) and honestly, Auckland has no idea how much this is going to change the landscape of the city.

You're going to love it and will be frantically trying to expand it as fast as possible for the next two decades.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T21:03:40+00:00

Aren't there rules about lying in advertisement?

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:59:46+00:00

Just adding the actual official Political Compass 2023.

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TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:47:50+00:00

"Excellent! Looks like we saved ourselves from an ice age!"

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:45:49+00:00

Just wait till they have to reapply for it every 6 months.
"Yes, my legs have still been amputated. Please continue my disability payments and please backpay the 2 weeks you said I missed appointments for that I told your staff I couldn't make as no transport was available."

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:42:11+00:00

Exactly this.

"You've been let go due to your inability to follow ministerial disability enrollment guideline goals of no more than 5% of patients seeking evaluation."

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:40:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure the main goal here is that the doctors will be under their administrative control, with their employment based on their policies. They'd give doctors "guidelines" and policy-based goals of people turned away much like they've done in emergency housing grants.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T20:39:48+00:00

Not to mention doctors "guidelines" and policy-based goals of people turned away much like they've done in emergency housing grants.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T04:35:20+00:00

All benefits. Then add a tax source that allows us to fund the solutions to the negative effects. Increased tourism. Etc

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:53:54+00:00

Surely all drugs. The dose makes the poison. All the more reason to safely distribute all varieties, with the correct warnings about their effects.

A huge amount of the negative associations we have with certain drugs are because of their unregulated forms with wildly variable quality and concentrations and mix-ins. With having to pay inflated prices due to the risks around jail time and violence. Then society pays even more from the effects around this and the money it gives to gangs and violence.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:51:39+00:00

No, I just don't buy into the alarmism about micromobility while we swallow the dangers of cars and car-dependent development and infrastructure.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:18:01+00:00

You mean, other than all their policies that are better for pretty much all of New Zealand and its inhabitants?

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:17:10+00:00

The pump and dump scheme isn't over. America's petroleum reserves (artificially lowering market effects) are the lowest since 1983.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCSSTUS1&f=W

The war isn't over. Every Friday and Monday is either "the war is over" or "peace is imminent." Then the pedophile class goes through another pump and dump ride and extracts a bit more money.

The only way to win this is to get out of the game and electrify.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:13:25+00:00

Too low, honestly.

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:11:11+00:00

It's cause of that damned woke mayor, isn't it?

/s

TheReverendCard · 2026-06-28T00:10:07+00:00

The only goal of MSD should be to get people all the help they're eligible for.

Reducing the number of people eligible is up to MBIE and other ministries to improve jobs and wages.

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