VW can’t use the factories they have.

Ironically, “running the country like a business”.

Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.

Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.

But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.

How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.

Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”

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But how far should that consent exert its authority?

If this was anything other than nudes then totally different laws would apply.

Ie. if it was a terribly embarrassing non-pornographic film that woman sold it online. You put yourself online doing something you didn’t want family to see and now your upset. At best I would imagine she could claim it was piracy.

But because it’s pornographic, she’s suddenly allowed full authority over her works? In my opinion she gave up that right when she sold it for commercial gain.

If anyone else with a modicum of fame turned around and went “yeah I didn’t want my professional porn redistributed, here’s every website with my tits on it that did a crime” they would be laughed at.

So the school lunch program was just “can the existing (working) contracts managed by the government, write a contract with a single company to do what the government was doing, pat ourselves on the back”? All while expecting the new middleman to do the same job, for less, and still be profitable.

Not sure what I was expecting tbh. Just more smooth brain small government thinking.

Why didn’t they just get the prisons service provider to do it? Prisoners get a full monthly menu made by a nutritionist taking into account all dietary requirements. Like prisoners, School kids don’t go anywhere, and there’s (probably?) a prison an hour or two drive from most schools so (probably) not a massive logistical nightmare.

Are we feeding our prisoners better than our kids?

I re-immigrated after 15 years away shortly after COVID. Why the fuck I chose NZ and not Australia is beyond me.

Sure, compared to London, It’s very nice here. To my knowledge nobody has been mugged, raped, stabbed, murdered or any combination of in any local parks. Unlike the near weekly occurrence in London. Schools don’t have 10ft fences around them and metal detectors. 45mins in a car gets you somewhere interesting.

But it’s cold, the houses aren’t built for the weather and they’re (along with everything else) expensive; the pay is bad, and even if the pay was better the workplaces are petty and unproductive, not that there’s many opportunities;

Maybe Oz would have been a better choice? But equally, could just be a “grass is greener” situation.

I had an idea a while ago on how you could lightly regulate social media platforms.

Require them to:

• Group users into cohorts of a size greater than X. ie, individual level targeting isn’t allowed. The higher this number the better.
• make available to users the cohort they are in
• publish openly every single cohort and their size
• make it possible to view feeds as if you were in a specific cohort.

Will this stop them funnelling customers into rabbit holes? No, probably not.

But it would make “targeted indoctrination” harder as they would have to try and indoctrinate multiple people at once. And it would make it more transparent just how many people are being fed propaganda or whatever you want to call it.

It seems like a long game, with a lot of work (and a bit of luck) to get to somewhere of note (ie, an MP position).

Running as an independent is about as likely for success as Seymour’s school lunch program.

So you need to get yourself into a party. But you can’t just rock up to your party of choices offices and have them put your name next to their logo in the next election.

And if you do slog through however many years of volunteering and lower level staff jobs, there’s still no guarantee you’ll even get a shot at a candidate opportunity.

And if you do get a shot, you’re at the whim of the party, at least until you’ve made a name for yourself.

This. But Pandas and Numpy.

Pandas and Numpy and Bash.

You can get wide mouth thermoses from briscoes/m10 etc. Then you can send yesterday’s leftovers for lunch.

We send ours with curries, spagbol, chilli, dumplings etc. anything that can stay moist and warm.

But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?

Ah silly us.

We spent a decade hating on IE, it’s slowness, poor support for any standards, plugins that fuck your shit up, etc.

But it was obviously the best because it had that huge market share.

Could you imagine the enshittification cries if they did this. “Mozilla to add subscription model to your browser”.

They have other products that have subscriptions you can pay for to support the company.

Instead of using Mullvad, use Mozilla VPN (it is literally exactly the same, you just pay Mozilla not Mullvad)

If you’re a web developer, Subscribe to MDN Plus.

Hate spam? Firefox Relay.

I don’t believe Mozilla doesn’t have the best interests of the browser at heart, I believe that they do think their browser is the their number one product.

But that’s the problem. It’s free software, going up against a juggernaut whose browser is just another side project to drive engagement with their core product.

A juggernaut who just so happens to be one of Mozilla’s primary source of income. All it will take is a little bit of legislation somewhere in the world to make that deal less attractive and Mozilla could be dead in the water. And it will take all of those forks with it, paving the way for Google to become the true web Hegemony.

Mozilla needs to diversify to ensure they can continue to provide stewardship to the browser.

But trying to make money in 2025 just seems to summon the enshittification brigade.

Free software is not free. Someone has to make it.

I think I would rather a mechanism to allow longer term projects and policies, without needing to worry so much about the incoming government cancelling or repealing them.

Even a one-term grace period might be sufficient.

But, probably rife with problems Ive not considered.

What’s the consequences for making an illegal citizens arrest?

Can a citizen arrest a citizen performing an illegal citizens arrest? Who arrests the citizen illegally arresting a citizen arresting another citizen?

He didn’t say anything about regulating them.

Tax revenue is small fry compared to the harm they can (and do?) cause.

Further: the Canvas API doesn’t have any requirements on rendering accuracy.

By deferring to the GPU, font library, etc, tracking code can generate an image that is in most cases unique to your machine.

So blocking the Canvas API would return a 0. Which is less unique than what it would be normally.

Iirc, Websites can’t query addons unless those addons manipulate the DOM in a way that exposes themselves.

They can query extensions.

Addons are things installed inside the browser. Like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, Firefox Containerr, etc.

Extensions are installed outside the browser. Such as Flashplayer, the Gnome extensions installer, etc.

What do you mean.

We’ve got land to put bunkers in, and citizenship for sale.

We’re a perfect place to take billionaire investment money. That’s good for all of us.

(/s)