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I've had a front row seat to this campaign in Aotearoa, and I can tell you that your hunch about it wrong, here at least. It's simply parents who are scarred or scared, and want to protect children. It's no more complicated than that.
I find it extremely offensive that my and my family's pain, bravery and efforts to fix such a dangerous situation can be so easily dismissed by childless keyboard warriors as some kind of nefarious scheme to get at other people's privacy.
What, I'm either an agent of evil or a useful idiot? F that
Its too late for us. It's for all the other poor kids and parents who dont know what's about to hit them
"...and possibly also a ban on that guy Andrew on Blue Sky".
I mean, they didn't actually say that either, but it could thoetically be a possible outcome. Better focus on this one particular minor hinted at possible outcome then, instead of a substantive engagement with the actual content.
Who is suggesting banning VPNs? The Select Committe report released today didn't.
As for our family, having two currently teenage daughters, we are staunch supporters of a ban. Life-altering harm directly caused by social media, x2, gives you a different perspective.
selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/e05a9618...
Oh god, read the report, and not just the axe-grinding hot takes on this stupid website.
They are recommending just that.
Sorry, where does it say banning?
Goddamn, this trite trivialisation pisses me off no end. Tell me how many teens in the early 1900s were sexually victimized or bullied to death by novels?
This isn't apples to oranges, its apples to anthrax
Thanks. Yeah, if they did the rest of the stuff, especially instituting a regulator with real teeth, the age ban wouldn't be needed.
Spaghetti meets wall, now which strands will stick?
Good lord, can everyone calm down about VPNs. The SC report does not propose banning them, nor even explicitly recommend exploring the banning of them.
Yes we get it, you are smart and practical and virtuous. But you are losing your mind about a mischaractization of a very minor point.
Oh okay, thanks.
So, what do you find so unserious about the report? Too broad and thin? Did they miss the most obvious next step or recommendation?
The VPN thing is a very minor point in the whole report, and despite how its being talked about here, noone suggested banning them
I still remember how good the thin slices of raw turnip were after my granddad jumped a fence to nick it
Whenever I have the pleasure to speak of her, I say "your future Prime Minister, Chloe Swarbrick"
hopefully no one dies this time
Wut do yoo mun?
Its great, eh? I've been feeling a little musically listless, but this album has inspired a whole new angle of digging and a whole new vibe I'm getting into since hearing it
Life is tough for evidence nerds these days. However, the complete disconnect between reality and the commentariat echo chamber is leading to a point where the evidence is simply not going to be able to be ignored.
Thanks for your generosity!
"We shouldn't do a thing because its never been done" is the most circularly self-defeating argument you can make.
Right up there with "we shouldn't do a good thing because it's not perfect".
Can I get published in Nature now?
Truly a death cult
Bernard pulling a fierce pΕ«kana in a split screen view of the subject interview
Great interview.
I had connectivity issues and the shot here froze just as David starting talking about leveraging the billions in Superannuation. Clearly you have strong feelings about that topic!
I'm very with you on this point. Too much focus on what species are present, conserved, or restored, and too little focus on maintaining or adapting ecological functions in the face of change.
"To be clear, the US faces no hard financing constraint. It does not need exports to pay its debts. It issues the currency in which those debts are written. But if it surrenders command of advanced manufacturing and crucial tech supply chains, it risks something else: slower productivity, weaker global leverage and domestic decay. That is not a payments crisis. It is a crisis of power." full story at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/24/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-tariffs-a-nostalgia-that-misreads-a-changed-world
"To be clear, the US faces no hard financing constraint. It does not need exports to pay its debts. It issues the currency in which those debts are written.
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That is not a payments crisis.
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It is a crisis of power."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Given his complete lack of imagination, i suspect he probably has friends from his time living in the USA, who happen to be visiting soon, and who happen to be called Chuck and Mary.
Yes! And then disestablish the Ministry, folding it into the new Ministry of Sustainable Development
Delicious!
