Xcf456

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Xcf456 ,

I like the idea of a weekly megathread type thing.

I agree that the daily threads don't seem well suited to the number of people on here. One of the good things about here is that conversations can carry on across multiple days, unlike reddit was where stuff got buried very quickly.

But having a daily thing sorta sends the message that that thread is done after that day. Sometimes I'll read something from an old daily and think of replying, but then think "nah its moved on" because of this.

Xcf456 ,

It doesnt have to be large amounts of complete non attendance. Regular attendance is defined as attending for more than 90 per cent of the term. Terms are about 10 weeks so 50 days, to be counted in the non attendance figures you have to miss five days in a term. A couple of illnesses can easily knock kids under that, not that there aren't more long term absences for other reasons as well.

On illness, term 2 2022 is the middle of our biggest covid outbreak when omicron got in and all the rules were being relaxed. Attendance has gone up again since then but is still lower than pre covid. Seems cynical that Seymour would pick this period as the end point when these stats were being collected until term 3 last year.

PM Luxon announces nine government targets for 2030 ( www.interest.co.nz )

Posting mainly for the very good first comment on this article, which queries how they might actually achieve 50,000 fewer jobseeker recipients in six years when the population will grow, many recipients are either already working and can't get more hours, or have health conditions limiting or preventing them from working....

Iwi Chairs Forum reps pull out of anti-racism plan due to 'continued racist rhetoric' ( www.rnz.co.nz )

"Our government has signalled changes to the plan, including a reduced focus on institutional racism and colonial racism against Māori, which would render the plan pointless as all instances of personal racism result from the institutional racism of our society," Ngata said....

Xcf456 ,

Why can't it be about anti-racism for other groups, and be about systemic and colonial racism? It doesn't have to be one or the other but gee this government sure loves playing the two off against each other.

It reads a lot like the kind of colonial and institutional racism theyre wanting to address in the first place.

Xcf456 OP ,

Nah they won't act against their base - those are "operational matters for the police". We'll see it when there's counter action akin to the anti TERF protests last year.

Xcf456 OP ,

I'm blaming the government for emboldening it through their constant culture war bullshit, not for this actual act. They are definitely connected issues.

National aren't the whole government. ACT and NZ First are well into this to try and stave off the coalition curse, and National is unable to control them.

Xcf456 OP ,

What parts of what I said do you find confusing?

Xcf456 OP ,

I can see the case for this, but my view is means testing super itself is the wrong way to go about addressing this.

You create a whole bureaucracy around applying means testing and a cottage industry of wealthy people avoiding it through trusts and so on.

Then when it becomes means tested it becomes a target to slash and burn politicians, just like all the other benefits. The fact it's universal is the only reason it's survived in the relatively good shape it's in, because so many have a stake in it.

Imo it'd be far better to claw it back by taxing wealth, property and high incomes.

Xcf456 OP ,

I'm not saying we can't, I'm just saying I think it's a bad idea that undermines the scheme as a whole. Better to address the issue through the tax system.

Our means tested benefits are dogshit compared to super.

Xcf456 ,

That's why they're so hung up on race / gender / sexuality: those things are caste markers to them, and determine the right and proper role for people in their eyes. If someone steps out of their pre-ordained caste, that's violating the hierarchy and eroding the rules that keep society ordered-therefore-safe, and therefore inherently immoral to them.

You've nailed it. Also, if people start to realise these labels aren't as fixed they may naturally extend those conclusions to other arbitrary markers - like class and wealth.

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too ( www.theverge.com )

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...

Xcf456 ,

Pretty crazy to think they got broken up in the late 90s/early 2000s for simply including IE in a fresh Windows install (im probably over simplifying but still). Yet these days they're pulling this kind of shit

Xcf456 ,

Wow you suck

Xcf456 ,

The people in this picture worked too, then the system collapsed due to rampant financial speculation and they were made destitute. Along with hundreds and thousands of others. People literally starved to death during this time.

If your response to the idea that perhaps things could be better for the people who work and contribute labour for your stuff is "well if you don't like it, go live in the wilderness", you suck.

Xcf456 , (edited )

Sorry, just go farming and build your own house? Do you think those things don't have significant upfront costs that would be a barrier to people in precarious conditions?

This is not a serious argument, it's completely detached from the actual barriers people face in reality

Xcf456 ,

The reddit api blocking 3rd party apps pushed a whole bunch of people onto lemmy, and lemmy is very big on FOSS and Linux so it's been a gateway of sorts

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