My reaction to

employment 50,000 fewer people on jobseeker

Is shockedpikachu.jpg.

Who’d have thought firing half Wellington would have made that number go up.

And it’s predicted to continue get worse for the rest of their term.

Weird, I was just thinking about my PC strap that I have no idea where it went.

I think I used it more for taking parcels to the post office than I did my PC tower. The thing was surprisingly useful.

Lack of preparedness, and lack of planning for future crisis?

Better dismantle the health system and turn it private then. It’s obviously fundamentally and irrecoverably broken. /s

Oh, yeah, 100% that too.

But also, 180k is coincidentally the around the salary of middle management positions within government.

I would not be surprised if the 180k number drops should National get a second term.

Who is this policy for? Other than maybe creating a path to kill off management roles in government without needing to pay redundancy. Or maybe it’s just the first step to wind back employment protections.

And what does this mean for existing employees, and termination procedures? What’s stopping an employer giving you a salary increase and firing you?

What? That would be like saying Chris Hemsworth got “Thor’d” because that’s all he played in the MCU.

Belzer played way more than just Munch.

Caveat: I’ve never been to wanaka.

But McDonalds can make restaurants in the middle of many old European cities look “in place”, surely they can do Wanaka?

It’s obviously enough of a thing to warrant Google to crack down on it in both chrome and YouTube.

If it’s such a small problem, why spend the effort?

You don’t strap your dog in?

Just a few more billion dollars .

We’re so close!

Took me a while to realise that it was talking about the non-police role-playing as police.

Not police role-playing sexual scenarios, like it’s some regular daily part of their job.

If they know we have savings. They’ll just increase prices again to take them.

Alternative headline: “Is NZ ready for low quality low effort everything?”

And I’d probably answer “yes, that is our every day”

Imo, the term “buy” for all goods should pass some sort of litmus test. Eg:

does the product being sold have the same properties as a brick?

• can the product be resold privately?
• can the product be lent to another user temporarily?
• would the product still perform its function when the manufacturer stops supporting it?
• would the product still perform its function if the manufacturer ceased to exist.

if the product does not pass all these tests, the customer is not buying. Consider using terms such as ‘rent’ or ‘lease’ or ‘subscription’

If 2000 out of 5,000,000,000 images can be found, why couldn’t they be found before the dataset was published.

It’s America, so the answer is probably “No”.

Do you not have consumer protection laws?

We’ve had digital price tags for decades. But you couldn’t do this in NZ. Stores are obligated to sell you a product at the price they advertise it for AND have a reasonable quantity of units at that price… you couldn’t sell 1 TV for $1.

So these systems would need to track what price you saw it at.

(Caveat: Our stores are still cunts and have been found to overcharge people)

They are also IR controlled. A lot of them have a little window on the front of the unit, and an array of transmitters in the ceiling.

Same volume, just increased length but reduced girth.

Why would it result in zero women playing? I’m not suggesting you merge the women’s teams with the open team.

But have it so your women’s teams performance counts just as much as the men’s.

Two teams (men’s and women’s), each playing against their own gender, scoring points in one league.

No point paying your dudes millions per season to get the best players if your women’s team sucks and loses every game.

Get teams and fans an incentive to invest and in both genders by playing for the same trophy.

Why does nobody watch the women’s leagues? Is it because nobody else does? can’t have all the social aspects of sports if nobody else is doing it.

Imo, they need to stop the segregation. Ditch the women’s leagues, but keep the games and teams. Have both teams play in one league, and contribute to the overall score of the team.

It’ll add new strategy to the seasons. Spend all of your budget on the dudes and hope they keep winning despite the ladies; build a strong women’s team to carry your b-tier men’s team; or something in between.