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drahardja, to cars
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I guess Elon is getting his wish to lay off 20% of Tesla because sales fell 20% (which is an idiotic equivalence by the way).

“Tesla announces fourth round of layoffs in four weeks”

#cars #ev #tesla

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/

Salty,
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@drahardja Tesla could save $55B and the company by laying off just one employee.

Salty, to random
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That didn’t take long. If only someone had warned them … oh, wait, the privacy commissioner DID. Facial recognition is a privacy disaster.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/514155/supermarket-facial-recognition-trial-rotorua-mother-s-discrimination-ordeal

Salty, to NewZealand
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#nzpol

Today's letter to the Minister for Climate Change --

Minister,

On RNZ this morning you were quoted as being disappointed that we have not inherited a climate change action plan sufficient to meet our targets.

Your government has already or is committed to:

  • Cancelled the Clean Car Scheme
  • Taken $500M in funding away from public transport and active mode transport projects
  • Directed Waka Kotahi to stop all work on cycle and walkway projects
Salty, to HashtagGames
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We Are The Centenarians - Queen

#ElderASongOrPoem
#Hashtaggames

Salty, to HashtagGames
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The Pensioner - Iggy Pop

#ElderASongOrPoem
#HashtagGames

Salty, to HashtagGames
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Light My Pyre - The Doors

#ElderASongOrPoem
#HashtagGames

Salty, to HashtagGames
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It's Hip to Be Replaced - Huey Lewis and the News

#ElderASongOrPoem
#HashtagGames

Salty, to random
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I don't really like carrots.

Salty, to random
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Apropos of nothing whatsoever daylight savings can die in a fire, and also that all records should be in UTC to save confusion caused by daylight savings having not yet died in a fire

Salty, to random
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TFW the Mayor tells you you just handed him a $2B funding shortfall, and the alternatives will piss off all your core voters a ****load of a lot.

Salty, to NewZealand
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Tsk. The way this is going, we’re about to find out that a man who owns 7 houses is going to introduce massive retroactive tax cuts for landlords or something. #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350166539/pm-christopher-luxons-sister-law-works-tobacco-company

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normalise giving out 7s for awesome service in NPS surveys

dgar, to random
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Salty,
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@TimWardCam @dgar

As usual, XKCD has you covered

https://xkcd.com/927

Salty, to NewZealand
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'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.

#nzpol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504703/cop28-deal-significant-step-forward-climate-change-minister-says

Salty, to random
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Sending this to PM, Health Minister:

Prime Minister, Minister,
I would like to draw your attention to section 15.A. of the National-Act and National-NZ First agreements as published last Friday, 24th November 2023. It reads:
A. Principled – making decisions based on sound public policy principles, including problem
definition, rigorous cost benefit analysis and economic efficiency.
(Emphasis added).
Your plan to repeal the Smokefree legislation will inevitably lead to more New Zealanders

Salty, to HashtagGames
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Derpy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

#dumbasong
#hashtaggames

Salty, to NewZealand
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Salty, to random
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Power outage last night mitigated by the power of V2L. Got home at about 90%, plugged in fridge, freezer, water pump and router (plus a couple of phone chargers). By the next morning we were down to about 82%. So we can definitely run the essentials off the car for a couple of days and still leave enough battery to get to somewhere we can recharge it. (Would only need about 10% remaining to get to a charger in an area that is typically back on well before we are).

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"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."

Sounds like someone is asking for a unionisation.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/300970393/we-need-to-see-pain-australian-multimillionaire-says-unemployment-must-rise

Salty, to NewZealand
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"Protecting the most vulnerable through this economically sticky patch must be priority number one for whoever wins next month’s election."

But we will, say NAct. Landlords have been doing it tough ever since 2017!

#nzpol

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-09-2023/do-we-really-want-a-government-that-spends-only-enough-to-keep-the-lights-on

Salty, to NewZealand
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From today’s live blog on RNZ:

‘The ACT Party says it would allow builders to opt out of council building consents to improve the quality and cost of housing, if elected.’

Opting out of consents sounds like a fantastic way to ensure quality.

#nzpol

https://rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs/64fccc3bcdcfebdab0aa44b9/index.html?liveblog._id=urn:newsml:localhost:2023-09-10T03:17:17.950926:14bb96c0-3789-402f-8147-dc6e86bf229c-%3Eeditorial

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Ugh, we need a name for companies at this end-state of vampiric rent-seeking Everything as a [pay forever] Service ...

No, Microsoft, I will not subscribe to Windows.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/04/linux_desktop_cloud_desktops/?td=rt-3a

Salty, to random
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My feet are cold.

Should I put on socks?

Yes. Yes, I should.

Am I going to put on socks?

Clearly, no, I'm going to whinge about it on the internet.

Salty, to NewZealand
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I know the feeling.

https://xkcd.com/2797

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