Necrotic puss ulcer…lovely

Indeed!

Should have a category for dangerous river animals, with the major rivers marked.

Of course I do, sometimes I need expert advice!

Balgging, getting the kids hooked!

But he was supposed to solve it in one day

Maybe profit isn’t the only motive…

I don’t see how both these claims can simultaneously be true.

Sorry, my poor communications…I was referring to the social media companies, when I said they had been trying and failing for years. Not trying that hard mind you; moderation is a very expensive problem to solve, and they don’t want to spend money they don’t explicitly have to.

(it’s) actually about making citizens more easily identifiable online.

Maybe. That is speculation, probably a nice little side effect. But not the primary goal.

Independent social media sites however, don’t all have the resources to implement verification systems, so some will feel the financial burden of compliance a lot harder, and others

This is a great point; and there is an easy way to solve this problem. Not that the govt will care that a simple solution exists. If you don’t have an algorithmic feed a lot of the spread of misinformation is curtailed. If you are not allowed to host images/video etc directly than the moderation of them can be off loaded to 3rd parties.

What’s more, knowing that the platforms they’re using have their identities will make a great many people more hesitant to speak critically about existing power structures.

Another great point. I don’t have a good answer to this one, but there are anonymous leak avenues etc for serious stuff.

Who knows.

In any case, this ban is literally worse than just leaving the problem be.

I don’t really agree; the ban will do two things.

1/ it will show the social media companies that, Australia at least; has tools that they can use to reduce their power.

2/ show kids that this is really serious; it is not just your parents saying shit you can ignore.

Will some kids work out how to get around it; yep, 100%. Will it be a big portion; maybe, tech literacy is not as high as it could/should be.

Holding platforms accountable to a bare minimum standard of moderation against misinformation, bullying and harassment might be a starting point.

This would be great; but it is also too little too late. They have tried, and failed at exactly this for years.

And hey, if socmed’s really that bad for you, then us adults could benefit from this alternative, too!

It is that bad for you! Algorithmic social media is doing you harm.

I figure holding tech giants directly accountable for the specific harms they’ve caused

What if; the social media giants are in another country. Your country doesn’t have jurisdiction there and can do fuck all in reality.

Maybe fine them??? Sure, which they will fight in court until the end of time; all the while the harm continues.

I don’t know if a ban will work, or what extra harms it will cause. But there are no good options to tackle this on the large scales of whole countries.

Algorithmic social media is mind cancer; if you have a better suggestion for tackling this issue. Let us know.

Lemmy is social media; but there is no algorithmic feed, my views are not being manipulated by some engagement maximizing machine.

There is a lot of good in here if implemented correctly. But if implemented poorly it will make things easier for big money to ignore the concerns of small players.

Take the bottom 4, they work as a group:

• Clearer consultation requirements
• Faster conflict resolution
• Clear environmental limits
• Better, more consistent enforcement

If implemented correctly; speed up: who needs to be consulted; what limits they are allowed to imply; adds a cheap easy framework for when there is a dispute (for low stakes impacts) and makes these the same across the country. Enabling better consistent guidelines for all.

However if implemented another way: limits who can be impacted; limits this smaller group to only ‘approved’ impacts; fast tracks complex issues in favor of development; and enables big players to apply wins from one area across NZ regardless of local considerations.

Fewer effects managed; gives me pause either way.

• How ‘many’ is many?
• “competition impacts and the financial viability of a project” is just terrible policy; this is because a lot of their “roads of national significance” can’t be justified economically.

Spatial planning; is good.
30 year plans for regional growth are great; assuming your forecasts are not wildly incorrect. Planning for population growth at close to the real growth rate is sorely needed in NZ.

Fewer plans; could easily go either way.
Just because there are fewer plans says nothing about the quality of the plans.

OK, RFK Jr may be a loon, but a 71yo that can do 20 pull us is impressive.

It is scorching hot, when was December ever cold.

That is an interesting idea; but since the parties set the cabinet ministers. They could just re-appoint the same person, thus making a mockery of the “cost”.

I would like to see urgency used very sparingly; it is not something that should be able to be “buy”. Circumstance should dictate its usage.

Na; it is not.

Singing carols with my kids; one instantly got that at 4!!!

The moral is being useful is the only value; taking the piss about physical differences is completely normal.

Santa (the authority in the song) doesn’t give a shit that the other reindeer “used to laugh and call him names”; until Santa found a use for him.

I think urgency needs to be justified.

There are rules; there needs to be a mechanism to test anything passed under urgency against the rules. If it is found to have not actually met the requirements for urgency.

There needs to be hard consequences; what these are…I don’t know. But urgency should be easy to use and hard to justify…if something really is urgent, we can’t put barriers in the way. But know that after the fact, you are giving your political opponents a big stick yo beat you with.

Losing the seat of someone could easily create perverse incentives…

Mr Fulffykins yawned. The endless eons stretched before his dainty paws; the process to become immortal had uplifted his intelligence. It was worse than just being an immortal cat.

He yawned again and cursed his existence; how old was he now? One or was it two billion. It didn’t matter, really what was a billion years when compared to infinity.

The old instincts flared; something moved like a small mammal. The hunger burned; that million year hunger, no food, nothing to catch. Just dust and desolation.