absGeekNZ @ absGeekNZ @lemmy.nz

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No we shouldn't.

If we want to subsidize a set of foods; well why not just do that. A subsidy also will not limit you to 15%; it will not complicate a very simple tax.

We can get the effect we want in a more targeted and logical manner. We can also target any subsidy at NZ producers and make our locally produced foods more competitive against imported produce.

Flat taxes are regressive and generally bad; but making a bad tax worse by adding carve outs will not give us the outcome we really want.

I run mint 22.1 and have a 9070xt.

I used mainline to install kernel 6.14, works flawlessly.

First of all.
Life has no inherent meaning; there is no grand plan or objective purpose to your life or any other persons.
Thus; what you choose has meaning is objectively meaningful (to you).

On a grander scale. As far as we know currently, we are the only example of advanced intelligence in the universe. We are almost certainly not; but we have no evidence at this stage. This is objectively meaningful; for humanity as a whole, if you choose to participate in ensuring the continuation of the only example of intelligence is totally up to you. As long as some people choose to continue the species intelligence continues in the universe.

Carbon credits are secondary.

What we want to do is lower emissions; one way to achieve this is to place a cost on those emissions. Thus giving an incentive to lower the emissions; carbon credits are a bit of a shit way of doing this. But it is better than nothing.

I think this is a valid concern; but you have to look at the challenge of measuring the emissions over the entire country.

There is no other way to capture this data.

Mint Cinnamon.

It's easy, stable and gets out of my way.

I haven't seen the need to dostro hop for years.

Agreed, and if you go with similar tech; as was in the first one, it should be cheaper...since it is no longer the absolute cutting edge anymore.

It sucks that we lost contact.

But the mission is not a complete failure, a whole lot of data were collected. We will get better for the next one.

Easy fix, stop doing studies. The problem will just disappear.

We can't have dirty ethnics hanging around now can we.

For you, the day the IDF graced your camp was the most important day in your life, but for me? It was Tuesday.

I don't disagree that we are bad at voting....but a lot of Nat voters didn't sign on to Act/NZF bullshit. Luxon is just so weak that he is letting the tail wag the dog.

As I have said in other threads, we need a cross bench party. Because what we have now is FPTP with extra steps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg1G5bZgKc4

You left it in the parlor

Caution: Mermaids with strapons, waiting on subsurface rocks.

Cantonese food is the best in my opinion. Not the westernised shit, the traditional greatness.

Interesting; I was in hospital last year, opioid pain relief doesn't work for me. They tried a few times at increasing dosages and it just does nothing.

Paracetamol works well, they tried ketamine and I told them to stop because it made me feel terrible.

Very effective.

The RAM section with the hand woven memory modules is so awesome. 1kb of RAM; tiny iron rings with fine copper wires threaded through them.

In the compsci building at uni, there is a museum of sorts in the hall to the labs. At the beginning of the storage section, there is a 20Mb storage device. It is the size of a washing machine, I have no idea how much it weighs, but it has to be in the 100's of kg range.

Sitting on top are much more modern devices, 5.25"/3.5"/2.5" drives; I haven't been back for a decade to know if they kept going as tech improved.

Ah yes appeal to authority. There is a reason this is a well understood fallacy; assuming something is true (or false) because the speaker says it is flawed.