This kind of thing would ideally be posted to NZ politics.

Make sure you opt out to having your details available from a license plate lookup: https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transactions/PersonalInfoAccess/entry

Then these companies basically can’t do anything.

It’s suddenly sunny here! Almost like it’s summer…

The international headlines about NZ recently have been quite embarrassing… we definitely seem to be a country going backwards on climate change, reducing smoking and COVID (and probably other things).

That’s a shame… I don’t buy lunch much in town, but have been there a few times and it was always good. Seems like it’s pretty tough for retail right now everywhere

I think it’s just that this new government is reversing a lot of the things the previous government did.

I actually don’t think this has been a huge problem in NZ politics in recent times. When Key and Ardern came into power, they didn’t do massive “policy bonfires”. They kept most of the major projects currently in progress, didn’t mess with too much settled policy, and generally where they wanted to make changes, either did it through careful reviews or just made some tweaks. There were a few exceptions for headline policies (e.g. the tax cuts that Labour cancelled when they got into power), but for the most part we haven’t seen the massive reversal of a huge number of policies we’re seeing this time.

It seems like polarisation between left and right might be growing, which is likely to lead to these reversals, so the policy “ping pong” might continue and get worse as governments change.

Yes, it only seems to talk about comments. But it seems to me the intention is not to delete entire threads when someone deletes their account (which is good, because it doesn’t make any sense to do that). Whether the changes will fix it for posts I’m not sure, but it seems like they’ll fix it eventually anyway.

Had a look thru GitHub (because apparently I don’t have anything better to do) and it looks like there will be a “fix” in 0.19 for deleted posts: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3965

Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.

I am not too worried about bots posting discussion threads. Sometimes there are probably people who might post in the discussion threads but don’t want to create the thread.

Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.

What a historic moment!

@Dave@lemmy.nz knows the record, but I think it’s closer to 70…?

I heard the plane fly over around 2:50pm… didn’t see it though. I guess it was nothing major, nothing on the news about it.

“Also, I have three questions for you…”

Ah right… I guess maybe they don’t quite understand the concept of screen sharing?

True, but Office is also really shit in a whole range of ways, some of which make it confusing.

Yeah, it’s crazy how people seem to have so little understanding of how to use basic apps, like Office. I guess it’s partially a failing of UX, etc. The vast majority of people I work with have no idea how styles in Word are supposed to work… although that is definitely a case of poor UX.

Ok reddit-esque echo chamber

Not really necessary to start with a pejorative, is it?

It’s kind of an “easy win” policy he can point to and claim to be cutting thru “red tape” or whatever. Not too many downsides… I’m not sure if making it available really makes it easier to make meth, but if it does that’s probably good for Act too! Gives them something to target.

It’s quite amazing how much from the last 6 years is getting undone. I don’t think that’s really happened for a long time from an incoming govt (maybe 1984 was the last time?). Generally governments might repeal 1 or 2 high profile things, and then just water down everything else they don’t like. Some of it seems to be nonsensical from an economic point of view (e.g. removing Māori names from ministries, legislating English as an official language). Allowing oil & gas exploration has very little economic basis, since there’s not really much in the way of viable oil & gas fields left.

The COVID related stuff could be worrying (at least the direction it’s coming from), but I doubt it’ll have much impact unless they really fuck with the review process. So long as it’s mostly experts involved, I’m sure sanity will prevail. Let’s just hope there’s not a major COVID outbreak while this government is in power.

Let’s Get Wellington Moving cancelled… I guess Act wants Wellington to stand still?

Overall, it’s mostly stuff we’d expect, or it’s things that are not really going to have much impact (i.e. reviews, etc that’ll probably go nowhere). I doubt National will support a referendum on the Treaty. It also looks like the housing/cost of living crisis will get worse, at least in the long run.