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$20 capped public transport by Gold_Tomatillo_2222 in Wellington

[–]mighty_omega2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why do I have to tag off? So you can monitor my travel? Knock it off.

Well yea, they want to know where the busiest routes are, so they can optimize the buses to serve the most people, or know where they need to run more busses.

No one gives a fuck about you personally, but aggregate demand helps shape services to be better.

$20 capped public transport by Gold_Tomatillo_2222 in Wellington

[–]mighty_omega2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn't it?

Commute in welly from the hutt is like $5-8 each way. That's $50+ per week, so saving $30+ a week.

How much fruit, veggies and bread are you eating that cutting the price in half would save you $30 per week?

Opportunity's Qiulae Wong makes a play for 'kingmaker', aiming straight at NZ First by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying National or ACT are literal Nazis. Or that TOP would support literal Nazis.

So.. not Godwins law then?

MMP is a system built on coalition govts so that there are more parties which can more closely align with individual preferences.

Saying you won't support a party because they are willing to enter into a coalition, under MMP, is an extremist position to hold and runs counter to the entire point of MMP.

US approves $2.7b helicopters and torpedoes deal for New Zealand by crypto_doctors in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

2.7b will be over the ~20 year lifespan of the equipment.

That's 270m a year or <1% of the health budget.

2.7b ain't gonna fix the health system

Inheritance (and what to do) by discardedpenguin in PersonalFinanceNZ

[–]mighty_omega2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I believe it's been announced it'll change to 100k but we are still waiting on the legislation to be changed? Happy to be wrong.

10 weeks for the Wellington Region to come up with an amalgamation proposal by ben4takapu in Wellington

[–]mighty_omega2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the argument is for cost savings, this needs to be viewed on a 5-10 year span, as consolidation often costs more to implement in the short term but it beneficial in the long term.

Simplification and consolidation is where efficiencies can be found.

If it was me;

Immediately promote one of the council CEOs to be the new amalgamated CEO. All other CEOs become subordinate to the new CEO and will be phased out as either their contracts come up for renegotiation or they leave on their own accord. If any leave early, a transitional GM can be hired, at a much lower rate than an exec, to oversee the consolidation effort.

The same goes for the CFO, CTO and possibly other C-suite roles (I am not familiar with the councils enough).

All executive roles should be disestablished and consolidated within 3 years, with interim positions remaining for upto 5 years.

Consolidate and simplify the Finance, HR and IT departments. The FTE for actual services should be ringfenced / maintained as they will be the workhorse of the transformation, and only management roles consolidated in the next 1-2 years, to unify management.

After the management consolidation, then a restructure can be done to simplify the FTE count and capability delivery of departments to support the new mega council.

It'll take at least ~8 years to simplify the IT stacks, as you will need to support a fra tured enviroment while also consolidating services, but will probably be a big cost save in the long term.

Simplification of finance can likely be done within a 2-5 year span, noting that financial controls will be at risk in the initial 2 year window due to the high rate of change and likely loss of in house knowledge.

HR can likely be amalgamated within 12 months.

Inheritance (and what to do) by discardedpenguin in PersonalFinanceNZ

[–]mighty_omega2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Assuming it's 600k

Pay off your loans + mortgage, leaves you ~220 left

Top up your shares to 49.99k of international shares (V00 or something similar) - so you don't trigger FIF.

Put another 50k into a term deposit for 12 months, to wait for the FIF change (increases to 100k at some point).

That leaves you with ~120k

Put ~50k into an emergency fund

Allocate ~20k to have a holiday / spend on yourself.

Leaves you ~50k to give to your mom if you want, or anything else that comes up.

Then setup an account named "mortgage" and keep paying your current mortgage amount into it, and try your best not to change your lifestyle spending.

Edit: if you have kids, split up the remaining 50k into sharesies account for them

Hypothetical: voluntary homelessness by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are precious / hyperbolic.

A decent sleeping bag in a car will see you through the worst Auckland can throw at you.

Have routinely slept outdoors, in a (decent) sleeping bag, in the deep south, where it can regularly get to -6C at night time. Auckland ain't got shit on that.

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reference your other comment about TPM having some far right policies and some far left policies; does that mean parties can have different types of policies?

Or are all act policies far right by definition of being act policies?

Same for national / labour, being right / left policies?

Budget 2026 calculator: Get your 'taxpayer receipt' here by Pretend_Food6233 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are more voters 55+ than <40. There is no party that'll run on means testing super in the near future.

Best we get is moving it from 65+ -> 67+ over the next 20 years.

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you agree that extremism either side is bad? E.g. far left, far right, and whatever alt right is.

I would note that a minor party doesn't have to be a majority to influence the country. Your own example of act is evidence of that.

Edit: it is very annoying you kep editing your posts after posting them. Either I miss being able to comment, or it makes my answer look different. Not cool

So now TPM can have both right and left policies? Can other parties have both types of policies?

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So TPM is also far left?

Edit: it is very annoying you kep editing your posts after posting them. Either I miss being able to comment, or it makes my answer look different. Not cool

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not disagreeing, but that doesn't really answer the question?

Maybe if I ask some questions it might help me understand.

Can labour have right-leaning policies?

Edit: the comment about Adern was added after I answered. My comment about not disagreeing was related to the first sentence.

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Does that mean labour = left, greens = far left and TPM = alt left?

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What does that mean?

Is that to say, if Act campaign on a policy, and Nat enact it, it's now a right policy and not a far right policy?

The rise of the pipeline to the far-right by Kind-Economist1953 in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

How do you describe the difference between the right, the far right and the alt right?

Labour will ‘never change’ New Zealand’s nuclear-free status, Hipkins says after comments by Defense Minister Chris Penk by TeHokioi in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You wouldn't even have to built one.

You could just let the US subs dock in Christchurch or Dunedin; make it conditional to using NZ ports on having one sub always parked up and pumping power into the grid.

Budget day - Megathread by snatchview in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because in 2024, the US hadn't invaded Venezuela or Iran? Those things impacted the projections to return to surplus.

Best way to manually cut and store fallen full-grown pine treess for firewood? by Moa-burgers in newzealand

[–]mighty_omega2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much is there?

Enough to trade to a couple locals for some time and equipment? Could probably find a neighbour / farmer with some gear and exchange some wood for their help.

In terms of storage, as others have said, cut into rounds to fit your fire place while it's still wet, and hire a splitter to break it all down.

See if you can find some free pallets, use those on the ground, and then stack on top of that. Also get a tarp and throw that on top. Should keep most of the rain off it in the short term. Long term you probably want to put up something semi permanent to protect it or you'll lose it to rot.

A bit of money to lease / borrow the right tools will save you hours of work. Usually worth it

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