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Just as a suggestion; because its interesting stuff. Maybe have a read of some of the work the Waitangi Tribunal has produced over the years.

What's been happening in recent years is Act, Don Brash and others approaching the issue with race baiting sound bites. Its mostly vibes and bad faith.

Compare it to the huge amount of research and historical context the Tribunal has put into their work.

https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/news/report-on-stage-1-of-the-te-paparahi-o-te-raki-inquiry-released-2/ https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/assets/WT-Part-1-Report-on-stage-1-of-the-Te-Paparahi-o-Te-Raki-inquiry.pdf

In any case, to understand where Maori are coming from, its important to remember this finding: "... rangatira who signed te Tiriti o Waitangi in February 1840 did not cede sovereignty to the British Crown.

Ie, if sovereignty wasn't ceded back in 1840 why should any Maori give two hoots what Seymour thinks?

It would just be a different representative body negotiating the relationship with the pakeha crown I guess. Its entirely their choice as to whether they want to represent as individual iwi or as a whole in that relationship.

I think about it like it seems pretty normal that at an official level the NZ Government talks to the Australian Federal Government, not to the Melbourne mayor :)

A lot of folks don't understand that the recent more moderate approach by the Crown is still not following the Te Reo version of the treaty which means the approach still does not meet international legal standards for which version matters.

Its really not that impossible to tell. There's loads of work done over years by historians and lawyers that have helped to bring understanding to the document.

Bear in mind a treaty is effectively a contract, and the Te Reo version was the one signed by the vast majority of Iwi. And even if they had signed both, my non-lawyer understanding is that international falls on the side of the one in the indigenous language in situations like this.

So, now its 2024, the agreement has to be interpreted to come across into English law language norms; and understanding of historical context and meanings of terms matters, that's why its a bit fuzzy but that's just the way it is. Act saying its not clear is more a sign that they reject the consensus that has emerged among experts than that there is no clarity.

The principles were clarified. Act just disagree with them so want to change the principles. Partly that's libertarian principle, but its also just race baiting electioneering. Changing the principles to what Act wants might remove ambiguity and make it clear but its done unilaterally and effectively reneges on the Crown's commitment to the treaty.

If you want to know why Maori might be angry about that, try telling your bank you have changed your understanding of your responsibilities on a loan document and won't be meeting their expectations anymore.

Its not just more jobs for more money over in Aus; working conditions are much much better over there thanks to their union movements maintaining influence while ours were deliberately undermined by the 80s "Labour" government, then the 90s National governments.

The fair pay act which Nactional Fist are scrapping would have finally started to bring the balance back into employment negotiations - and while some of it would have been to cause pay to go up, a lot of the focus would have been on ensuring consistent work conditions across industries.

Alas that's gone now and the gap between us & Aus will just continue to grow.

Or storage for our more intermittent renewables such as wind & solar. Pumped Hydro would have been useful early this morning for instance (and is what lots of places in the rest of the world are doing).

Common enough; but I wonder if this is a symptom of new generation not keeping up with attempts to reduce emissions. Less coal/gas power generation & less wood-fired heating combining with a cold snap.

But the intent of a grid notice like that is to encourage generators to turn on more supply I think - its only a grid emergency notice that indicates supply isn't meeting demand.

The other thing that'll happen is where areas have ripple control they'll turn off hot water & street lights & whatnot to reduce demand as well.

Its hard not to wonder if they're also held to a different standard; there's no way a Green candidate who beat the shit out of a younger kid with a bed leg and was credibly accused of being a bully later in life would be allowed to stand for election.

Yup; and the previous increases to size & weight of freight trucks bought in by National governments is a large factor in the cost of building and maintaining roads now. While at the same time we continue to let most of our rail network degenerate and have done nothing to try to recover coastal shipping from when it was destroyed in the 80s to de-power the maritime unions.

You wouldn't even need to be in your 80s; lifestylers just shouldn't keep rams.

Yeah it comes down to energy density and time to replace expended energy. That's why the most successful electric trucks i've seen basically go to a depot where the entire battery pack is swapped out for a pre-charged one.

Of course there's a whole other piece of calculus that is ignored in New Zealand - and that is energy efficiency. Reducing the size of, and need for, long distance trucking by utilising far more fuel efficient rail & coastal shipping would also reduce emissions; and would allow us to decrease maintenance and new build costs for roads.

Just wanting to add, that apart from being very angered by the supermarket's in general & their use of this BS technology; I think I kinda want to try chops with fried rice.

If you use any of the rewards cards at supermarkets they've got lots more than just your address.

A successful mass transit system almost necessitates being mostly separated from private vehicles; there are plenty of cities around the world that are 500k or smaller which have metro systems so there really isn't much of an excuse for Auckland to not have one.

I think the smallest I can find on a quick google today is Lausanne which is only 150k people but has a separated rubber tired metro of some kind. Ghent is another small one with a mostly separated tram system, Rennes has a mostly underground system and is for an urban area of around 360k.

But we don't even need to look overseas, Wellington Region has 4 1/2 lines for only 550k or so people. 2 of those are fully dedicated to passengers, and one of the others is almost entirely passenger as well. Mixed Freight & Passenger works in NZ, we've been doing it for decades.

I always have a jar of doubanjiang now - it gives such a deep savory spicy kick when cooking. I think some new world / pak'n'saves carry the Lee Kum Kee jar which i've used before and is ok but not quite as good as some of the other jars i've tried (I usually just pick one at random from my local grocer). At a pinch you could probably sub gochujang, its not the same but does a similar job. One thing I really like about this youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified) is they try to show as authentic a recipe as possible but almost always include substitutions for things they guess aren't readily available in the west.

The other thing i've started having on stock are these packs of sichuan ma la hot-pot base. They're like a lump of chilli and spices and oil mixed together, i've used them as instant flavour for an otherwise fairly plain stir fry as well as a flavour hit to stews and braises. They have that spicy & numbing thing going on obviously so not everyone's cup of tea.

The rail is already there, and already maintained, so its not really a consideration. Both of those routes i've mentioned are already in use for a small number of daily freight runs and due to their weight in comparison require far more maintenance than some relatively lighter passenger carriages would. Road also costs a lot of money to build, and increasingly more money to maintain - both of those calculations increase the more lanes a road has too. I wouldn't expect the Hawkes Bay Regional Council to have to fund all of that themselves, especially as the idea is to mode shift vehicles off State Highway 2, which is central government funded.

More cycleways is always great; but a railcar set that can do >100km/h on a route like Waipukurau to Napier with capacity for say 100-120 commuters or shoppers is 100 vehicles worth of congestion and pollution off the road. Its also a distance that almost nobody is going to commute on a bicycle, particularly when the weather is wet and/or cold. If it proved popular enough you can expand the set to carry more people or add additional service times as well and the beauty of that stretch of rail is that originally there were a lot of small stations built which were closed in the 80s when the areas they served became less than villages. Some of those areas have subsequently become quite popular for lifestylers so over time considering opening the stations back up would be a possibility.

Its easy to make passenger rail look impossible if you try to make it so the passenger services have to fund the entirety of the rail infrastructure - but NZ has always run freight and passenger on the same rail and in the past used to run far more services than we do now. I'll concede building passenger rail is an overly expensive proposition for the population outside of Auckland, but my point is that in many places we don't need to the rail is already there and once its there you don't need 5 million people to make it thrive - see Wellington's commuter rail network.

I'll take the bait (slightly).

We probably don't need to build rail in a lot of places; just use what is there which would limit it the cost to an investment in some railcars and staff.

Eg a feeder service from Waipukurau -> Napier airport (or even up to Esk Valley before heading back) could get passengers off the expressway which can get very congested at peak times and is probably cheaper than 4 laning it.

I'm not as familiar with where the rail goes down in Christchurch but a similar service running from Burnham through Chch to Rangiora could be worth investigating.

Yeah they definitely saw through that BS very quickly and started writing articles pointing it out. I'm not sure how much it was WCC's vs that panel that they were calling out though.

That's the kicker - we're in a technical recession now, before the weight of Nactional Fist's cuts actually take effect.

A great many people really like OSX; its been a long time since i've daily driven it but there's stuff about the way it works that feels more efficient than windows, and easier than linux. That's not something that appeals to everyone but its obviously worked for a lot of folks.

So back in the day it was about getting to use OSX (and in other cases apps that were OSX only, or just ran better in OSX) but not having to pay so much for the hardware. That's a calculation that to me really only made sense for desktops; as for quite a long time Apple's laptops weren't actually massively more expensive than a similarly spec'd windows laptop.*

Overtime i'd argue that linux desktops have caught up to a lot of what made OSX feel good; but they're not like for like even now. Though take that with a grain of salt as I spend more time in cli/tui nowadays across my macbook, work windows laptop and various linux boxes i've got running :)

*The thing was that the average windows laptop was under-spec compared to a Macbook Pro so the latter always looked way more pricey.