The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch.
Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it at and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.
@cstross Oh I think you under-estimate the speed-run to inbred moronarchy they've got going here. Chances of Donald Trump becoming Eternal Benefactor of the Imperial United States of America are growing by the day.
When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.
An interesting moment for New Zealand’s Rugby players to be considering strike action just as the prime minister scolds protesting workers for planning strike action.
@billbennett God help the New Zealand government that has managed to piss off the All Blacks to the point they go on strike. Luxon, Seymour & Peters gone by lunchtime?
Memo to eugenics death cultist David Seymour: The pandemic has not "largely subsided" and we reserve the right to keep kids home from schools where the risk management protocols are unacceptably low.
Normalise masking and fund air filtration, you ghoul.
I have a question: When you connect to an unsecured network, you get a warning that messages (e.g. login information) could be intercepted. So it's recommended that you use a VPN.
But doesn't that mean that your VPN login credentials could be intercepted?
@heiglandreas@skyglowberlin All you've done in that case is changed 'someone nearby might know my DNS query' to 'the VPN provider definitely knows my DNS query'. If that's something that worries you you can try DNS-over-HTTPS. If you're watching porn in public it probably doesn't though. :)
@heiglandreas@skyglowberlin Hmmm, and by the same logic, using DNS-over-HTTPS just changes 'VPN provider definitely knows my DNS query' to 'Mozilla definitely knows my DNS query'.
'Climate Change Minister Simon Watts said New Zealand was calling for more ambition but "at the end of the day, we've got a step forward and that's pretty historic".'
Then he came back to Aotearoa and voted to resume exploration and extraction of fossil fuels, per his party's policy.
The NatACT government's Fast Track legislation takes final decisions over resource management consents away from regional councils, and hands them to government ministers. Think Big 2.0?
I look forward to strong non-partisan resistance from all the people who supposedly objected to Three Waters not because it was Labour policy, but because they thought it gave central government too much control over what were rightly local decisions.
It just occurred to me that most people alive in Aotearoa today will live to see 3 English monarchs serve as NZ Head of State. Some kiwis born since February 1952 only ever saw one. I wonder how having 2 changes of monarch might change how people feel about the prospects of electing one of our own as Head of State?
Idly wondering if making the Governor-General an elected position, while still formally reporting to the Crown of England, might satisfy both monarchists and republicans?
@strypey Not sure what the point of electing the GG would be ... Were you elected because you ran on a platform of striking down everything the government attempts to enact? What would that mean?
I think HoS should be appointed by a 75%+1 of Parliament, with the threat that Parliament dissolves if a new GG cannot be appointed within 90 days of the nominal end of the previous GG's term.
That should ensure the appointee is suitably acceptable to everyone.
"We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around."
