So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer
Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?
A short thread.
#nzpol
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.
The problem with the debate on the social media ban is that everyone pretends the goal is child protection and that the adult surveillance is a regrettable side-effect, rather than the surveillance being the goal and the protection a convenient excuse.
Do you think it might be getting slightly different coverage, and more of it, in more prominent places, if Iran had just massacred a hundred-odd little girls in Tel Aviv?
news.un.org/en/story/202...
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
All the 5E jurisdictions introducing this near simultaneously and the well funded, out-of-the-blue "civil society" campaigns in support should make it pretty obvious what's really going on.
This is obviously good in itself, but also illustrates how the senate in a semi-parliamentary system can act as a constitutional safeguard www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I'm also sympathetic to some of the reasons. For example, if someone has done the tough mahi of digging themselves out of a disinformation rabbit hole should they be forever dogged by the things they wrote while down there?
As usual there's more nuance than can fit in 300 characters, especially in specific instances.
While I'm confident of our legal position, that doesn't stop upset people causing trouble with sponsors and providers.
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
I used that a lot in my travels through Europe. 😅 dns2tcp was faster though.
In terms of coherence of policy positions, Labour were moving towards lowering the voting age to 16 years old.
They would also be in favour of civics education for children, so that when they can vote, they understand some of how the system works.
But now they support cutting off access to info?
Better ban SSH port forwarding.
Brought to you by the same people who thought disconnection of internet access in response to claims of copyright infringement was a good idea #s92a
Requesters. Their names go into PDF responses which are difficult or impractical to redact.
(Names of others in responses is already well dealt with under the OIA.)
I can understand people regretting things they wrote years earlier.
People wanting their name removed (which is often impossible without removing entire requests) is close to making @fyi.org.nz impractical to operate.
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying
Message received loud and clear. If you find cash, don't tell the police about it.
One time a cop emerged from behind a tree where he'd been watching a homeless person from across the street where I had just been, to ask if they'd harassed me.
He seemed disappointed/annoyed when I said no.
I see this a lot in lower Cuba / Victoria St too.
There are now so many beat cops walking around (usually in groups of 3-4) I think they're quite bored.
The modernist facades of Tehran. www.instagram.com/tehranfacades/
A rogue state brought down the rules-based postwar international order, you'll never guess which one
