@AbsentHog

some short and sharp, and some long and arcane takes on nz law, housing, policy and politics longer thoughts here https://xitter.cf/t.co/76P9BspmQp

Joined August 2018
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Participatory democracy chat comes from educated and earnest people who haven't done that much participating in democracy
Brien Jackson@Brien_Jackson17h
You do not appreciate how stupid the average voter really is until you regularly go to local government budget meetings
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I do love the genre of joke which is like "first base: unprotected sex; fourth base: hold hands in public in daylight" but statistically single people are not having many casual relationships or all that much sex
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No view on the scott watson appeal in the supreme court. Evidence doesn't sound amazing. Not sure anyone in the 90s was convicted on all that much evidence
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Sounds good should do it more often Harberger tax when?
John P@SolidAirJohn5h
Land purchased under the Public Works Act for public schools or public housing is being sold to private property investors after being categorised as 'surplus to requirements'. This is netting huge capital gains, for the govt.
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I probably should have just done a big amazon order when I set my flat up
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This is ethical under crypto norms right?
Elena Hmelovs
@ehmlvs12h
new open ai incident: a model needed money for a task, so it it guessed 362 common seed phrases, found a crypto wallet with money asked itself if that was ethical, decided it was fine made a transaction
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Plausible But if you like small but rich cities, or consumerism, probably worse. Peak Australia is a selection of fairly big capital cities
Brian Lui
@brianluidog22h
Here's a one sentence description of Australia: It's like the United States but better, except if you're extraordinarily ambitious or you really like burritos, in which case it's like the United States but worse
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As a brave center left neoliberal battler - feels good The parties very much understand this! Attacks on TOP by actual politicians are from the right
Liam Vincent@liamvincent266h
A lot of left wingers are acting like Opportunity isn’t our only hope of getting into government
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Litigation funding and claim selling are good
🏳️‍🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦
@MariGO2thepolls13h
Should you be able to sell a lawsuit? Like if I thibk I have a pretty good case and I’m likely to win. But don’t rly wanna bother /take on the risk/ have a high discount rate. Couldn’t I sell it so someone else? Or bundle them and sell as a pack?
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Grumpy technocrat top bottom lines 1 land value rates mandatory 2 reinforce the ETS (end industrial allocations; permit farm co versions) 3 60 more list seats, 4% threshold 4 no big road projects 5 repeal 3 strikes, bail amendment act and sentencing reform act
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I have no particular view on the efficacy and practicality of the ocean and enviro ones
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But the benefits of my list is it sets up a good capital tax (over the complex and bad ones labour and the greens are lining up); focuses climate policy on an effective cap and trade scheme; and limits nightmarishly expensive new roads and prisons Plus MMP can keep functioning
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I am a top voter i think its 5 bottom lines are mid to bad we exist
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People should absolutely be drinking heavily with their colleagues and doing karaoke with them in other cities at 2am
vibe adjusted ebidta 🇺🇸🇦🇲@s0ymaliaOct 17
My controversial opinion is that heavy drinking with coworkers (especially on work travel) is the only team building activity out there that does what all other team building activities purport to do
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i am so wise so many are saying this
offline hog@AbsentHogOct 17
Replying to @leonardshong
Its ok to just say a proposal is clearly good, and not metagame the politics of it
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The UK Parliament shouldn't pass bad laws. It should not ban videos of lawful sex and taboo roleplay, nor do so with ambiguous words People fuck and wank, and its proper to give them a lot of leeway to do so
Jesh@cinamoorolllOct 16
This drafting is nonsense to me - it is illegal to possess images of sex between people “pretending to be related” unless it is “fanciful they actually were related”. To me, the fact they are actors in a porn shoot inherently makes it “fanciful” they’re actually related!
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I don't trust the jurisdictions proposed to be AI safety regulators, and I don't think there are realistic alternatives. Feels very much like a "must do something / this is something" situation
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might make myself even less sexuallly attractive to the locals and watch the england tonga league world cup game tonight
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my view on the regulation of 'professional dog walkers' in nz is we've not priced dog ownership correctly
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