Is this guy not public domain yet, I thought that was coming up. Maybe next year? John Oliver did a whole bit on it
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I mostly argue with you to be honest, which means you're also in every thread. Not sure why you keep going for personal attacks though
What seemed angry to you about that?
Mate, if you're concerned about the cost of living you should be worried about National prepared to dump over $15 billion onto the housing market through tax cuts geared at the upper end, landlord incentives and reintroducing foreign buyers. At the same time they're wanting to put through other changes that will restrict new supply. Prices are going to absolutely explode again.
I honestly don't know how these types of changes track against the prevailing economic state, and it suspect it doesn't really matter - every rise to the minimum wage, every increase in entitlements gets the same response.
You could probably go check out the Parliament hansard records from 2007 when annual leave when from 3 weeks to 4 and find the exact same arguments.
All this 'we can't afford it' happened when we went from 3 weeks to 4 weeks annual leave 20 odd years ago.
And when sick leave came in.
And when the weekend came in.
Every improvement to workers' rights gets met with the same outcry. We'd still be in workhouses if we listened to it.
Check out this book if you want to understand the rationale here: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2649-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline
Now the government can't implement the stated goals or the next group protesting will try something even worse. >
I mean, they'll say that yes. But for a terrible example think back to the parliament occupation and how the realm of acceptable discourse shifted, despite how it ended and despite how a huge majority of the country hated them. Doing anything to mitigate against covid is a political third rail now.
Also on Gazeley, they were one of the car dealerships on Cambridge tce that mounted legal action against a cycleway through there. This 'just directly go to the government' thing just isn't how society works and isn't where all the power lies.
Oh yeah that'd do it
Anyone know why the article says on a scale unseen since the First World War? I would have assumed since the second world war given the scale of that conflict. Did WW1 have more amputees than ww2?
What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.
Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.
To be clear, my working assumption is that there is a nefarious reason, it's just not immediately obvious to me what it is.
As someone else mentioned though, you could be a bit fucked if your eyeball data is used to identity fraud you, so perhaps not the best idea for a security standpoint
So why do they want people's iris scans? Like they say it's an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I'm missing here?
Hard to know whether our wages are too low, or costs are too high, or both. But yeah, looking at how low some of these cap out after a few years' experience and our insane housing costs, you can see why trades may struggle to attract people.