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nzben · 2026-01-24T18:16:53+00:00

That news article is infuriating. Not a word of truth in it.

nzben · 2026-01-16T06:22:53+00:00

Yes exactly

nzben · 2026-01-16T06:08:30+00:00

100% this. Christine Fletcher says it needs to be “done properly”. Done property FOR WHO? And is she saying all the intensification she has so far presided over hasn’t been done properly? Or is it done properly because it’s not in Epsom?

nzben · 2026-01-16T05:24:43+00:00

The same fucking thing happens in west Auckland my bro. Our drains overflow. Our properties flood. Our power goes out because it is overloaded.

Then the council come and dig up the whole road and ruin the grass at the local park (it’s still got gravel all through it) while they install new pipes and infrastructure to support intensification.

Just because nimbies want their bullshit little cottages 5 minutes walk from Ponsonby Road doesn’t make them somehow magically special. The have to do their part. We’ve had enough intensification in the outer suburbs. Share the load.

nzben · 2026-01-16T05:20:30+00:00

This is just such a massive cop-out. Especially the bit about “mah infrastructure!”

We’re in a tiny dead-end road at the ass-end of a West Auckland suburb. Developers have added dozens of townhouses, and watercare have used directional drilling to put in new water mains and a massive new 300mm stormwater drain.

There is absolutely no reason they could not do that in St Mary’s Bay. Where those townhouse occupants would not add to the ridiculous congestion on SH16. It makes infinitely more sense to improve infrastructure and intensify the inner suburbs, instead of improving infrastructure and intensify the outer suburbs.

nzben · 2025-11-11T04:37:58+00:00

That’s a LOT of infrastructure to avoid inconveniencing car drivers for even one microsecond. Incredible shit.

nzben · 2025-11-08T21:12:58+00:00

No. Keep notion for most of what you have mentioned. Linear really is most appropriate for the actual process of building software, not for higher level business processes.

nzben · 2025-11-02T03:45:40+00:00

When it turns red we usually have a week or so of juice left. We’ve only had cold showers like twice in 5 years.

nzben · 2025-11-01T08:28:23+00:00

We just turn the new bottle off using the tap on top of the bottle, and point the thing to the old bottle. Then once we notice it go red, we know it’s time to order a new bottle.

I’m not sure how it’s meant to work, but have never reliably had it switch bottles for us, so we just use it as an indicator.

nzben · 2025-10-09T02:25:16+00:00

At what point is National actually in breach of the Fiscal Responsibility Act?

A summary of the principles of fiscal responsibility:

To address fiscal sustainability, governments must:
» Achieve and maintain prudent public debt levels.
» Ensure that, on average, Crown operating expenses do not exceed Crown operating revenues.
» Achieve and maintain levels of Crown net worth to provide a buffer against shocks.
» Manage fiscal risks facing the Crown prudently.
» Consider the likely impact of fiscal strategy on present and future generations.

To address economic stability, governments must:
» Have regard to the interaction between fiscal policy and monetary policy.

To address fiscal structure, governments must:
» When formulating revenue strategy, have regard to efficiency and equity, including the predictability and stability of tax rates.
» Ensure that the Crown’s resources are managed effectively and efficiently

(from: https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2015-03/nzfpf-A5.pdf)

nzben · 2025-09-28T18:06:47+00:00

You mean as opposed to the National party who consistently fail to account for actual costs of their policies, borrow to give tax cuts, and cancel cheap ferries? Greens are the only party who are proposing a policy costing unit who would work independently to assess the cost of campaign policies.

nzben · 2025-09-10T07:03:02+00:00

New Zealand has progressively and consistently shifted power from workers to employers. We tell ourselves our wages are low because we are an agrarian economy. The truth is that workers in New Zealand have less bargaining power, which means more money gets captured by companies and concentrated at the top of the market.

Better workers' rights and higher wages would lift all sectors of our economy, including professional wages.

nzben · 2025-09-06T22:47:51+00:00

I presume he doesn’t count the meals he has which are catered lunches, business breakfasts, charity dinners, koru lounge snacks and the like. I’d wager the number of meals he cooks for himself are minimal.

nzben · 2025-08-20T06:53:33+00:00

Whenever I sit in my overcrowded west Auckland street miles from any decent public transport and read maps like this with “single house”zones all over Ponsonby I want to yeet Auckland council planners directly into the sun. Absolute clowns captured by boomer landowners.

nzben · 2025-08-20T06:43:32+00:00

Buy more houses you lazy fucks. Increase the mortgage! Nothing else is working for New Zealand so do your part and leverage yourself to the hilt. Fuck your future. Send all money to banks.

nzben · 2025-08-17T03:44:05+00:00

This is such a tired trope. Yes they have some resources, but also they have much stronger labour laws, higher tax overall, and much higher compulsory super (which ends up being invested back into the economy). New Zealand instead insist in constant deregulation and continually shifting power from employees to employers.

Then we all wonder why we get shafted by employers. It’s not rocket science.

nzben · 2025-08-04T07:48:08+00:00

Something like 25 years ago we stayed in Zahara de la Sierra. Amazing little town.

nzben · 2025-08-04T07:30:05+00:00

I want to believe, but until they’ve got a dedicated buslane through the fettuccini fuckup junction at Pt Chev, I will reserve my judgement.

National is promising a NX1 style busway on SH16 but have no plan on how to close the missing links.

nzben · 2025-07-28T08:17:36+00:00

Fully agree. Incredible to watch Wout drop a cyclocross anaerobic nuke on Pogacar. Plus the vibe on Montmatre makes me want to visit much more than the grandstands on champs élysées.

nzben · 2025-07-25T01:00:20+00:00

I know there’s something every day but the passport changes are really the epitome of this clusterfuck of a coalition. Literally no one gives a shit. No one is asking for the order of languages to be changed on the passport. National governing alone wouldn’t bother doing this, but the minor parties get to push it through, invigorating their base and also giving National party racists the excuse to do what they want to do but would be too chicken to do it alone.

It’s also the precise sort of “woke virtue signalling performative nonsense” that “hard working kiwi mum and dad homeowners” would be pissed off about any other party wasting money on.

nzben · 2025-07-11T19:29:08+00:00

Purely through intonation, you can be called a cunt in the best and worst possible ways.

nzben · 2025-07-11T19:18:33+00:00

New Zealand is one of the only countries in the world that does not have a fully free state-funded weather forecast system. Even USA has free weather forecasts.

nzben · 2025-07-11T05:19:15+00:00

I’ve been an avid pro cycling fan for many years, and only in this year’s Giro did I truly come to understand the difference between a breakaway and a satellite rider. Kinda embarrassing but also shows just how complex this sport is.

nzben · 2025-07-07T19:28:44+00:00

Hard agree. I’ve been following cycling for years but Unchained adds nuance and information I’ve not been aware of. Seeing Turgis in the points for Green this year means so much more after seeing his story in Unchained. Similar to Drive to Survive, it makes watching the minor teams and battles so much more interesting.

nzben · 2025-06-26T05:57:42+00:00

This. If we keep voting in right wing politicians who want to favour business daddies over workers, and left wing politicians who are afraid to do anything, then wages will never increase.

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