Nini

I'm just an idiot. Far too much politics, not enough furry stuff and goofery, working on a balance.

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2025-04-23 08:06:35

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@nprofile…60lz Co-op housing then, everyone is equally responsible for making sure everything is maintained. If one fails, everyone does which is a major flaw but still better than an indifferent slum lord as you can at least encourage that someone to improve things or leave.

2025-04-20 08:40:29

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@nprofile…60lz Yeah, things are not working for teachers right now beyond those things even, they're getting it from the kids too who are being swayed by the manosphere and are now just backsliding into sexism and homophobia. As I've mentioned before, the Greens could use this as an opportunity to raise their public profile and should try to associate themselves as supporters of teachers.

2025-01-04 09:30:33

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@nprofile…60lz "public" even.

2025-01-02 13:35:53

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@nprofile…60lz If I became a passive income rentier type would I be economically inactive? Money continually going upwards to me but I hoard it?

2025-01-02 09:01:27

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@nprofile…d2rl Similar situation here in the UK, many companies simply are not going to do things here rather than have such a huge security issue on their hands. It's unenforceable, horribly overreaching and makes everyone vulnerable as a result given it applies to any content offered to anyone over 18.

2025-01-02 08:27:44

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@nprofile…60lz Sounds like Streeting's plot to collapse the NHS is going well, if everyone hates interacting with the system it'll be that much easier to partially sell off chunks of it to private investment.

2025-01-01 10:59:02

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@nprofile…jpfa I'm fine with not being mentioned, less likelihood of having to fend off the bots and other personalities we don't like. Popularity is a double-edged sword after all and not all attention is good attention.

2024-12-27 09:12:58

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@nprofile…60lz The question currently is a mix of "how much profit can we make from cutting workforce?", "we need to use this new tech, just shove it in!" and "we have this tool and no clue where to put it, let's just apply it to everything and see if it fixes it."

2024-12-26 11:34:06

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@nprofile…v8hl It shows contempt for artists, human artists. It shows an incredible lack of attention to the real issues surrounding LLMs and I may go as far as saying the corpus Stable Diffusion uses could never be fully open source due to the very nature of LLM scrapers. Do not lessen your good works by using machine-extruded visuals to illustrate them.

2024-12-26 11:11:03

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@nprofile…v8hl I can and have but why would I trust any outfit as into AI garbage as yours?

2024-12-24 09:16:37

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@nprofile…60lz And I keep saying we don't need to build necessarily, there's a lot of empty buildings we could put to use for social benefits rather than private investments. I say this mainly due to a changing climate means our green belts are even more vital now and need to be protected from short-sightedness. Nobody wants their lovely new house to be considered uninsurable after the third flood in two years either.

2024-12-23 10:00:25

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@nprofile…ktql @nprofile…60lz It is why a lot of things fail, nobody at the upper levels is thinking further than their own tenure and how much they can leave with. Problems left for the next exec to fix, who needs to care about institutional knowledge if you can get contractors for cheap?

2024-12-21 19:58:32

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@nprofile…60lz Given the increased melding of profit and governance since privatisation of the water boards, what's the likelihood that bringing them back into public ownership would do anything?

2024-12-20 16:59:49

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@nprofile…r5de @nprofile…7a2f Violence isn't the answer but it might be the only one that gets a response. Violence is the answer when every other answer has been denied and ignored if not treated as hostile.

2024-12-17 10:05:48

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@nprofile…60lz It's where the realities of nature bump up against needing more housing, can't build on floodplains when devastating rare events become more common and the space needed for floodplains grow due to rising water levels.

2024-12-13 20:52:07

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@nprofile…hz70 When they tell you there's a housing crisis, this should be what they mean.

2024-12-12 09:18:34

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@nprofile…60lz Seems like it's just offloading the responsibility of protecting consumers by "enabling" them to protect themselves, much easier to let it fall to the individual to solve than legislation to prevent them doing it at all. Deregulation rarely helps anyone besides scammers and abusers.

2024-12-11 08:07:36

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@nprofile…q6a8 @nprofile…60lz There is a plan, just it doesn't involve the homeless or the vulnerable. They will be hurt definitely but it's more an incidental thing, not so much something done out of a specific malice per se (there's always some) but more done because they simply didn't notice or care.

2024-12-07 22:08:47

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@nprofile…60lz It can be done but given we're still working on a timeline that spans to 50-100 years of zero emissions I doubt the will to do it without thinking it a waste of time and/or money a decade or two hangs over it.
These sorts of commitments are multi-generational in nature, they will last beyond our lifetimes and beyond that of every human alive today because they have to, without lengthy commitments there are no further generations to keep it going. It's not cheap no but this is the cost of a hundred years of emissions, low cost upfront but has a horrible interest rate.

2024-12-06 14:41:27

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@nprofile…r5de @nprofile…gfm6 That alone does make it feel better knowing I may have cost nobody a job and instead given then a bigger variety of tasks.

2024-12-06 11:11:46

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@nprofile…gfm6 That's the double-edged sword I find myself dealing with. I don't want to go through self-checkout because that's a job lost and partially replaced by me who is not getting paid. Thing is, it helps me to shop, it enables me to shop most importantly as does scanning my items as I go.
I know I'm leaking huge amounts of data everytime, permitting myself to be tracked and filmed in the process but it's the difference between getting to do it and simply not doing it, it's unfortunately the price I pay but I am happier to have the option than none at all.

2024-12-06 10:16:27

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@nprofile…60lz It'd be more profitable long-term to keep EDI going but then short-termist thinking might see it as a pointless exercise and will make excuses for abandoning it. Or much like in the US they'll abandon them as they're way more scared by the far right being angry and loud about it.

2024-12-01 10:13:01

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@nprofile…60lz Well, there has been a long-term campaign to vilify and dehumanise those at the bottom. Marking them out as workshy, incompetent with money, selfish, liars and at the core of it blaming the poor for their own situation as if it was some form of radical self-determination to be poor.
Of course paired with that is the illusion that you, non-poor citizen, could be a rich person and not at all that you could far far more easily end up one of those poor.

2024-11-27 08:27:15

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@nprofile…60lz Might simply be part of the ongoing process towards privatisation, make the social option take forever (occasionally with limited options within it) so people will either suffer with the problem or go private.

2024-11-27 08:23:53

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@nprofile…60lz Wondering about if they'll add on an age conditionality, feels like the sort of thing they'll attach where it'll be more difficult to get someone to sign off on it if the person is under 70 let's say.

2024-11-24 10:18:28

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@nprofile…60lz Still don't like it, three authorities need to sign off on dying a few months sooner? What are they fretting about exactly? I feel like we're placing way too much on the "sanctity of life" while ignoring the individual who apparently has no free will.
My opinion that assisted dying shouldn't be determined by age nor health condition (be that mental or physical) but solely by the individual involved is a bit of an outlier sure but why can't someone leave this realm while their faculties are still intact and not be subject to a gradual deterioration of body and mind? All very Catholic if you ask me.

2024-11-23 11:59:46

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@nprofile…60lz By which you mean these automated spammers? Yeah but it's also meaningless given they'll go anyplace they can find and spam there just the same. It's all coming from one instance which makes it easy to block but it's the biggest instance too which means cutting off some voices you might want to hear from or are hearing from.

2024-11-18 11:21:21

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@nprofile…pam3 "But doctor, I am Pagliacci!"

2024-11-17 11:38:06

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@nprofile…60lz I doubt their plight will ever be fully understood, how could it be when in a highly stratified social system with wide chasms in between they're well insulated from the realities others live with?
If it is ever understood it's usually in a very specific paternalistic way that's often patronising and ineffective for the actual issues with a lot of "self-reliance" nonsense to fill some of the gaps of which there are many. Not too much "self-reliance" though, you're poor and that's a personal failing so you can't be trusted too much.

2024-11-16 16:06:21

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@nprofile…60lz Our leadership has long been too divorced from the populace in terms of wealth, common experiences and working for everyone, not just those who can pay you to work for them. Democracy is a sham, why should we expect anything from our supposed leaders that isn't just expected from rapacious pigs gorging themselves?
Nothing to do with the toot, just more a general vent of indignation.

2024-11-14 22:00:39

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@nprofile…phqu @nprofile…uem4 This specific haka, Ka Mate, will be commonly known to most Kiwis as it's the one the All Blacks rugby team do before matches. It's a song of defiance and a strong one everyone will understand.

2024-11-10 11:02:04

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I don't think we can, we're still stuck in a mindset that a social housing project should be squalid and plain, fit for purpose but only just about. Too fancy? Nope, then that housing stock will be RTB'd and sold privately taking it out of the pool so what do you do, take away the power of private capital? Not likely, no it'll have to be the most begrudging of offerings in case people might actually like where they live.

2024-11-10 10:27:10

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 If there's one thing corporations can't take back from the pandemic, it's remote working. It's worked well for everyone besides the beancounters with their vast empty buildings and the middle managers not able to surveil and loom over their minions.
I'd argue it might not be one they can win, they need the workforce more than it needs them.

2024-11-03 09:53:00

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Funny how they ignored devastating flash floods happening elsewhere in the world but when it happens in Europe it becomes a problem. Still, I don't think we can do much to stop a disaster in progress once it begins, if we did want to avoid it we'd have killed Big Oil back in the 90s when it was most needed.
These changes we need work on long timescales and we could hit zero or fully go into the negative today yet would still be dealing with a crisis for a decade because of how the effects are cumulative and slow to have impact. That slowness is what made people complacent, easy to kick down the road but that complacency is what'll cost humanity, wildlife, everything in the end.

2024-11-03 09:33:50

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 It is weird that they're not entertaining decreased population numbers, is the idea of not growing that anathema?

2024-10-22 19:06:12

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Right, yes... "we pissed away all that money you gave us, can we charge people more so we can pay for those investments we forgot to pay for?" Embezzlement by any other name...

2024-10-21 08:38:09

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Need to wonder who has in recent times actually been given a bonus who wasn't part of the executive set. It's twisted that they get to pay themselves dividends for failure while everyone else would be fired with such flagrancy to their jobs. Just pigs gorging themselves on money they didn't earn but felt entitled to more of nonetheless.