As long as your council splits out the LV vs improvements value on the rates bills; it is fairly easy. For renters it matters a lot less, since they won’t pay the tax directly anyway.
Opportunity has said that they will not reinvent the wheel here either; they will piggyback on the council data of land value; reducing any extra overhead to run that part of the system.
especially now they’re being explicit that they will go with either National or Labour.
This messaging hasn’t changed at all since at least the end of last year, when they were asked.
If we assume that Nat/Lab will be in the drivers seat approx 50% of the time each; having a party that will work with either side to ensure long term planning and stability is important.
Especially in 2023, we had a clear Left/Right divide; it was basically FPTP with extra steps.
MMP is supposed to be about compromise and finding solutions that serve more of the population; not using urgency to ram through unpopular legislation while you have control; which will inevitably be pulled apart by the other side when they get in.
I’m pretty sure we are in for a different style leadership next term. If Opportunity get in; there will need to be a lot more conversations.
The other thing that has be stated; is that they will talk to the party with the highest share of the vote first. Which on current polling is Labour. So change is more likely that not with the current numbers.
I watched S1 last night; I’ll catch S2 when it is finished.
Wow, that is so dodgy looking.
This is basically optimistic nihilism.
Once you accept that there is no “plan” and nothing you do matters, the only things that matter are the things you choose to do.
You are the master of your own destiny, for all the good and bad that it implies.
That is awesome. Well done.
Great work by The Spinoff
First though, it has to make it to November without being shanked by every other political movement in the country.
From their announcement; during their “match may” campaign which matched your donation with an equal donation from a big donor; they got around $220k from ~1500 donors, when matched was $440k.
They are not doing too bad on the money side, and it shows, they have more advertising and presence around the place.
88kWh is not big enough. And 88kWh/510km = 17.25 kWh/100km…that is either super efficient or more likely not possible to achieve.
130-150kWh is really the size needed. I tested the Riddara RD6 for a long weekend; real world open road range is around 230km (on a 360 km WLTP range). Towing a small trailer drops it by around 25%; so if I wanted to tow a trailer to a camp site without charging infrastructure…that limits me to camp sites within ~70km of home.
To hit the 360km listed on the 73kWh pack, you would need to maintain 20kWh/100km; which I couldn’t even round town, which I managed 21 at best around town and closer to 30 on the open road.
To replace my current Mitsubishi Triton; I would want 400km open road range. I have a smaller electric car for around town running, which is great to drive.
If they release a 150kWh version that comes to NZ; I would be very interested. We do already have Chery here, so I expect these to be available soonish.
If we take the 88kWh and assume it is similar to the Riddara, round town range is likely 420km and open road range is likely 295km. This is for 100% to 0%, so usable range is also 10% lower than that.
Well shit; I agree whole heartedly with David Seymour on something…who would have thought it.
I’d be happy if the get in, provide stability and a clear long term vision.
Being able to work with both national and labour, which will be in power around half the time each, is important.
If they take sine green votes to do it, that it the voters speaking.
Mostly I want them to get more votes than act, and thus more bargaining power.
Quite wrong.
Opportunity are hard to pin down; as the left-right divide doesn’t apply to them very well.
The media wants desperately to shove them into a partisan box; but they don’t fit.
Some policy looks very “left” - free public transport. Some look to be from the “right” - abundant energy. Their tax policy doesn’t really fit either left or right.
Specifically on tax policy, if you look from the right it feels very “left”; but if you look from the left it looks quite “right”. But really it is both; it looks like redistribution of wealth, but it also looks a lot like tax breaks. So both left and right at the same time. More people will have more money to spend, thus it is stimulatory; which in theory should grow the economy. What it does do (hopefully) is to move investment away from property as the ONLY thing we do; to other things that actually generate wealth.
Nice little bit of framing here
The left-centre-right positioning of the logos…someone is thinking.
And this is why the song “Fuck the fire department” does not exist.
Good people, doing good people things!
The final point that this isn’t a technical problem, is a little off the mark.
The two pillars of data sovereignty are access and trust.
Te Pā Tūwatawata addresses both of these pillars. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is controlled; it is built on open source technology, the platform can be audited and thus trusted.
Both pillars are fundamental, controlling access to data with strong encryption and effective governance ensures, control and ownership of IP, cultural knowledge, business critical information, etc… Whilst open source is not strictly required for trust of platforms, it does simplify things significantly (whilst generating it’s own problems); ownership cannot be ensured, if you are unable verify the security is implemented correctly.
Both pillars are heavily technical in nature.
Onion, garlic, butter!
The soundtrack is pretty great also.
followed by at least several hours of groaning and hating yourself
What the hell are they putting in their food?
For all mankind is great; I’ll also watch Star City when I get some time.
I was going to say this.
1984, A Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.