liv @ liv @lemmy.nz

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Tangelos! It doesn't belong to me but it's where I live. The tree is about 40 years old, we eat it and some of the windfall gets repurposed as bird feed.

Here's mine:

Yes austerity is sort of entrenching our downturns for longer. I guess it's not so much that we're losing people, as who we are losing.

Found it! Also there's commercially made gin with gorse!

That's a good point.

I have wondered if the private sector can absorb the public service cuts, but that's not thousands and thousands.

Oh wow, did it taste nice?

I've only eaten ferns and stuff. I really love bracken shoots and wish it wasn't a carcinogen.

Sounds quite serious:

Of those leaving the country on a long-term basis, an estimated 81,200 were New Zealand citizens – a 41% increase on the previous year. The figure is a rise from the previous record of 72,400 departures in 2012.

With 24,800 New Zealand citizens arriving during the period, that put the net migration loss of citizens at 56,500 – exceeding the previous record of 44,400 in 2012.

They really do mean "record". I think if we adjust it for population growth since 2012, it's not as stark but it's still bad.

For real? I saw that referenced somewhere and assumed the author was just being fanciful.

I really want to try gorse now but I don't know where any handy gorse is.

Omg I love calico cats!! What a cute problem to have.

It really is a super cool tree!!! Glad the people who cleared the land around it saved it.

Heheh.

Seriously though I wish professors didn't say stuff like that. It's bad pedagogy.

The trouble with that is, we get so much more crime this way. Like you say, there's much better interventions.

I'm not sure that it's just logistics and fear of the unknown (though given how long it took Aucklanders to be okay with building a subway, that obviously comes into play)!😀

But talking to people over the years I've come to the conclusion that there's a sizeable chunk of people for whom punishing criminals is much more important than having less crime. I can understand feeling that way, but emotions probably isn't the best thing to base policy on.

If they were the size of a penis it would just be the male condom with extra steps.

I think tighter regulation's a good thing.

For a start I would love to prohibit alcohol aimed at kids. In my student days I participated in a lot of market research groups and there were so many groups about late teens taste-testing insanely sweet gross RTD alcohols or discussing which alcohol bottle design was more "fun" "feminine" "flirty" etc.

Heard an interesting perspective from a criminal lawyer on this. They think we should copy the Portugal model because meth is attracting the cartels like Sinaloa, and cartel presence normally corrupts police.

Thanks for the explanation! Sounds like the devil's in the details, we'll have to wait and see.

Ha ha of course... Seriously though, I really liked the upbeat, memey feel of it and especially the repeated imagery of the servers that turns into weird things happening to them!

Happy birthday and thanks @Dave@lemmy.nz for creating and maintaining this cool part of the fediverse.

The recap is really interesting as someone who came a bit late to the party. And the video is cool!!

For a moment there I was thinking maybe people in Invercargill always have to check potential demo sites for tuatara before they proceed!

Me reading headline "omg there are a lot more tuatara down that way than I realized"

Is there no other way we can stop them doing this? It seems like they are overturning NZ's democratic process not just specific environmental decisions.

I''d have thought it was against our constitutional documents or something.

I'm sure most National voters didn't actually vote for Shane Jones to replace the RMA with his bank account number (pretty sure both main parties were involved in redrafting it). This is going to hurt everyone.