JustSaying<p>So IF he wasn't an All Black as long as plead guilty and say sorry no conviction for speeding and requiring a police pursuit now?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564898/all-black-caleb-clarke-discharged-without-conviction-for-dangerous-driving" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/national/564898</span><span class="invisible">/all-black-caleb-clarke-discharged-without-conviction-for-dangerous-driving</span></a></p>
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JustSaying<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BobLefridge</span></a></span> and I assume the cost of these "negotiations" are all included in the costing for ferries...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a></p>
Jason Howlin<p>How is it that we’re always “sprinting” but never never stopping to catch our breath. No accident, I’m sure <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yeahright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeahright</span></a></p>
Ciarán Fahey<p>As if Meta can be trusted, after you opt out, not to use your data “to develop and improve generative AI models for our AI.”</p><p><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/yeahright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeahright</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a></p>
Hav-Anka<p>"1980–1990-luvuilla vielä keskustassa oli hyvää pöhinää. Taksi toi ja taksi vei. Autot kulki Hämeenkatua ja kaikki viihtyi. Nykyään on näkymä autio ja tyhjä." <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tampere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tampere</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p>
JustSaying<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@robjingram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>robjingram</span></a></span> The positive feedback on school lunches comes from another school you won't know it...</p><p>Unnamed Schools Unnamed Students....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>Local generation, storage & management of solar power is the way to go. State governments & local councils could be leading this.</p><p>Until then - why not use a wholesale provider like <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Amber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amber</span></a>? Customers pay a monthly connection fee plus a subscription fee of $19, then buy & sell power at market rates. Households with solar systems have their output curtailed when feed in tariffs are negative (as happens often), export solar power when prices are positive, & if they choose to, export from battery when prices are high. You can allow the system to automate the process or you can control it yourself. This is cost effective for households that have a battery, although those with panels only may see no financial benefit compared to standard retail plans (it’s very difficult to compare relative costs of a curtailed system with those from the same system operating without curtailment, so wholesale plans don’t appear on cost comparison sites). For households with no solar, if you’re able to shift most of your usage to times when there’s lots of solar in the grid, costs are Way Way Cheaper. We did this before we had solar installed & the difference was Huge. If you need to cook dinner every evening or like to heat your house a lot, savings are not so much. </p><p>Whatever our situation, buying electricity <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wholesale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wholesale</span></a> makes it immediately easy to see where our power is coming from & to make informed choices. It allow allows us to support the grid, & our neighbours.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Subsidies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Subsidies</span></a> to support households installing <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/batteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>batteries</span></a> to back up new or existing systems, along with investment in local area generation & storage, would lower power costs for everyone while protecting the grid.</p><p>Why are we not doing this? Anyone? </p><p>Whose interests are served by keeping debate focused elsewhere? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CostOfLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOfLiving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/solar-households-hand-over-excess-power-to-virtual-power-plants/104827052?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/sol</span><span class="invisible">ar-households-hand-over-excess-power-to-virtual-power-plants/104827052?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>Who benefits from our ignorance? <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/civic-education-curriculum-assessment-students/104946138?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/civ</span><span class="invisible">ic-education-curriculum-assessment-students/104946138?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other</span></a></p>
JustSaying<p>Heard from a person working in the tourism industry in Australia, they get paid 4 x's there what they would be paid here.</p><p>No doubt Luxon's focus on tourism will include huge pay increases right?....right?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a></p>
JustSaying<p>Has Brian been arrested for breaking the law yet?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a></p>
🐟🐠🐡🐙🦑ptoothfish🦑🐙🐡🐠🐟<p>i'm really excited to hear about this yes to the food grant, yes to the accomodation supplement, yes to the school uniform subsidy too <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nzpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nzpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/yeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeahRight</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>Spot on from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grogsgamut" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>grogsgamut</span></a></span></p><p>For most of us, <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/superannuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superannuation</span></a> is about saving for retirement. For people who are already wealthy it’s an effective tax minimisation system allowing them to pass on more wealth to their kids. Tax concessions to this latter group cost taxpayers - all of us - a motsa, while a quarter of age pensioners live in poverty.</p><p>This is so obvious! Yet even the most modest reduction of these tax breaks is greeted with a media scare campaign. And as always, <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> puts perceived political risk ahead of responsible governance.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SelfFunded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfFunded</span></a> retirees* with huge super balances? <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> We see you. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> 🎪</p><p>* This is a diverse group, as I have been reminded in the comments below. Not all are retiring in luxury or passing on millions to their kids. </p><p>Misleading fear campaigns may kill Labor’s superannuation changes. But here are the real numbers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/business/grogo</span><span class="invisible">nomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>Which of our cities are at risk of a LosAngeles-scale catastrophe as as <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> accelerates? Currently the most vulnerable are Perth & Adelade. By the end of this century it’s a band running from Sydney to Perth.</p><p>Perhaps we could stop mining, burning & exporting <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> now? <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ResponsibleGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResponsibleGovernance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/much-of-australia-enjoys-the-same-mediterranean-climate-as-la-when-it-comes-to-bushfires-that-doesnt-bode-well-247205" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/much-of-au</span><span class="invisible">stralia-enjoys-the-same-mediterranean-climate-as-la-when-it-comes-to-bushfires-that-doesnt-bode-well-247205</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>Interesting reflections here on how ideas about <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>masculinity</span></a> make it difficult for some men to navigate <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ageing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageing</span></a>.</p><p>BUT….</p><p>We have been taught to fear ageing & to belittle those who do so visibly. It’s the ‘youth is sexy, buy this product & you’ll have it for ever, stay on the treadmill, capitalism is great’ cycle. Who profits from this? <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p><p>We don’t need to do this.</p><p>Imagine if we learned to <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ValueOurElders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ValueOurElders</span></a> for their experience & for the things they see, having lived through times we cannot imagine, & experiences that have never been acknowledged or recorded. We could recognise & celebrate - as well as mourn - the changes that come with ageing. We could learn from our elders as they navigate their last years. We could learn how to be gentle with ourselves & to support each other. We could learn to let go & to pass on peacefully when our time comes.</p><p>We can do this, together. Let’s start now.</p><p>‘He kept going until he couldn’t’: why do <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/boomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boomer</span></a> men refuse to slow down? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/dec/18/boomer-men-ageing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/wellness/2024/</span><span class="invisible">dec/18/boomer-men-ageing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>Emissions Reduction Plan to meet 2050 target being announced tomorrow.</p><p>My $10 is on flying (carbon negative) pigs. What's yours?<br><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CarbonEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonEmissions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p>
John Mastodon<p>Lions, tigers and panthers simply won't say: I will eat it only if I don't kill it. Contrary to carnivour humans.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/carnivores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carnivores</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/yeahright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeahright</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/johnmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnmastodon</span></a></p>
Fabienne Gallaire<p>"Dolphins"<br><a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/yeahright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeahright</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.antiquarius.it/en/-marcantonio-raimondi-and-his-school/15860-venus-on-the-dolphin.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">antiquarius.it/en/-marcantonio</span><span class="invisible">-raimondi-and-his-school/15860-venus-on-the-dolphin.html</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>I’m all for improving everyone’s skills in critically reading research & identifying areas where we can do better.</p><p>Targeting black women scholars who work within disciples that critique the methods by which knowledge is produced & legitimated is a sideshow. See the 🚩: disciplines that develop & teach tools to critique the operation of power are ‘fake’. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/23/plagiarism-culture-war-feature/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/</span><span class="invisible">23/plagiarism-culture-war-feature/</span></a></p>
quackademic<p>A man shot & killed his ex partner’s friend & her daughter bc he thought they were hiding the woman he was seeking to assault. She feared he would do this & had warned her friend to hide. The police say he had no police record & it’s not about domestic violence bc the women he killed were not his partner or family.</p><p>If this is not a man enacting <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CoerciveControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoerciveControl</span></a> as part of a campaign of <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a> (‘if you leave me you’ll make me do something stupid’ segues into ‘look what you made me do!), what is it? </p><p>Maybe another <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GoodBlokeWhoSnapped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoodBlokeWhoSnapped</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p><p>ENOUGH 💔💔💔💔💔</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/perth-mother-and-daughter-killed-in-double-murder-suicide/103892146?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/per</span><span class="invisible">th-mother-and-daughter-killed-in-double-murder-suicide/103892146?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other</span></a></p>
Tom Lorenz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flexghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> I have always loved this song: Bad Company’s “Silver, Blue, and Gold”. <a href="https://youtu.be/xdvI4G11eBk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/xdvI4G11eBk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Hopefully this will be my last one tonight. <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/YeahRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YeahRight</span></a></p>
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