That’s true and I’m aware of it. If we had an authoritarian leader who would build houses then I’d be all for it, but more likely we’ll get some out-of-touch boomer who brings in a racial agenda and other crap, while not fixing the daily problems that people like me face.
I don’t mind these topics, I think we need real life meetings, not people online who ask “hey has anyone else feel the same way as I do, regarding __________”. If people feel the urge to get this out of their system, they need to do it offline. Supermarket posts need to go into a cancer category. Some topics just crop up every week or month, and there should be a board called cancer, for this purpose. Some of these topics (usually people’s frustrations) wear my patience, but I want to support those people if I can.
It could go either way, depending on who votes and who doesn’t. I’m 32 and I don’t care for left or right politics. From my perspective, Luxon looks like an out-of-touch boomer, but he could get elected by swing voters. That’s if he can appeal to people who believe in careers and mortgages, and all that other wholesome stuff crap.
Luxon is a joke even among the realest right-wing people I know.
I think it’s a good thing if people trust the government less and less, all this conspiracy stuff just means that people have access to other information. I’ll end up dying alone in a run-down hostel at the rate things are going, I have no interest in defending the government here in New Zealand after everything they’ve done to spread poverty. I don’t care what the official narrative is. I may be aware of it, but I don’t actively follow it.
I think you need a totally off-topic channel for all those posts about police sirens being heard somewhere, or someone asking what is this weird bug in my room. I actually found a weird bug in my room recently, but there are tools to photograph and search, so I didn’t need to ask about it online. It turns out it was a fluffy wee carpet beetle.
I think there should be a way to categorise this in another group. There are lots of things that happen that have nothing to do with NZ, but regardless of that, New Zealanders will discuss those things anyway (sometimes with other New Zealanders).
Since there are gamers and anime/manga fans here, there should be a science and technology channel which includes all of this. Scientific or technological news, but also posts about public figures who are respected for their work in programming & technology. Unless that belongs in another federated network.
Drugs and prostitutes? Sounds like any reasonable motel, anywhere in New Zealand. I went to Timaru for one night a couple of years ago and I was shocked to see that the motels were full of WINZ clients. I thought that only happened in a few parts of the country, but it’s universal. It was a nice motel too! I asked if I could get a discounted rate somehow, but they told me they already had WINZ paying the full nightly price.
Your description is insightful, these places are garbage. They should be knocked down and have purpose-built state housing built in their place. Someone should sneakily try to introduce regulations for this situation, specifically for housing that attracts people at the bottom of society. Make it mandatory to provide social services on site, and if landlords can’t afford it, just force them into selling it ROFL xD
It’s the market, my dude-bro, if you don’t like it, just sell and invest money in something else :-)
Of course Nicola Willis and David Seymour would hate this, but they don’t believe in a free market anyway: they control the trickle of zoned land, and they also control the floodgates of immigration. The market is rigged. These politicians shouldn’t be talking about “the market”. Supply and demand is 100% controlled by government. Only a landlord would say otherwise.
Nice to meet a fellow renter! xD
You don’t have to explain to us what the light bulbs were used for. It must have been for smoking drugs. They could use a spoon too, or melt some drugs in a pot and put it on their tongue. I don’t do drugs but I read The Heroin Diaries, White Line Fever, and Dave Mustaine: A Life In Metal.
That’s why you should know things first hand and not trust reviews. How many times have I seen reviews for restaurants, made by customers who have an entitled attitude, who can’t accept that some businesses struggle to get staff when everyone is sick. Knowing via word-of-mouth is superior. I’m impressed by how reviews can be really good or really bad, but not reflect actual experience.
BRUH. Any light sleeper would wake up when a fully grown bed bug crawls all over them. The guy across the hall from me said that he hated it when bed bugs crawled up his nose while he was asleep. People are just really stupid when they’re in poverty, they just can’t stand up for themselves. Nobody in NZ does anything about mosquito either. You can buy netting for your windows but almost nobody does this because fly screens look bad.
I can’t remember the article but this was 10 years ago, perhaps more. Usually I remember where I lived when I saw a particular article or news story, but in this case I can’t remember. It was during an active conflict. Some Israeli hackers must have edited a page, because there was a comment about child sacrifice in the middle of a BBC article. It said that Jews gave up child sacrifice 3,000 years ago and Palestinians were still practising it.
They’re now saying it was 15 articles since a year ago.
Whether we have a policy or not, and whether we have allies or not, the politicians certainly lean strongly towards the Pentagon. I remember John Key when he supported a “no-fly zone” over Libya in 2011. Then in 2017/2018 Jacinda Ardern supported missile strikes against Syria, but was aghast when Russia did a similar thing in Ukraine. It’s a trick when they say we have friends, not allies, or that we have an independent foreign policy, or we don’t have one at all. Washington DC rules this country’s foreign policy ideology. It will remain that way until an American aircraft carrier sinks in the South China Sea. Then Wellington will lean toward China. It’s a deception to think that we’re an innocent country that’s completely neutral. Wellington is full of people who are slaves to foreign powers. It’s disgusting yet predictable.
Thanks, I’ll ask Luke how that came about. University costs here don’t fluctuate much, but rent and food have got much worse.
We’ve reached the point where the amount of outrage, false info, and bots is too much to handle. We actually need networks like Lemmy or Urbit which are closed off from the public internet, and invite only. Give people an invite code like Gmail did when it was new and coveted. When everyone comes to one place it will naturally degenerate into garbage. That’s why we need a variety of different groups, made by different people. With some more open than others, so there can be actual debates instead of downvote mobs.
Being able to downvote without contributing any thoughts is just childish and stupid. I hate websites with a downvote feature because it ruins the authenticity of the website. People begin to act cautiously and don’t say what they think, and don’t challenge anyone on a touchy subject. The word “troll” has also lost meaning. It used to mean someone being intentionally disruptive, but now anyone with a different view is just a “troll”. I could go on Reddit and use my real name and I’d be a “troll” for having my own opinion, while anonymous cowards chuck insults from the safety of their keyboards behind a VPN.
There are ways to handle dissenting views, like having a debating board on a website that’s separate from the main topics. Of course nobody does this on the big websites.
I’d like a place where people are more intelligent than the average Redditor LOL. There are so many nay-sayers on Reddit. Anyone with initiative just gets attacked. I’ll invite some people right now in fact. I’d like to talk about the housing crisis, the rental crisis, the cost of living crisis and also foreign policy (especially Ukraine and Taiwan). I believe that New Zealanders are being misled by the media and government.
Ardern’s government might have sounded progressive, but it was all talk. They never did anything good and I’m still poor and I struggle to save any money. My future has been destroyed by these people who pretend to be progressive.