#NZpol same in New Zealand.
MaddowBlog"Politicians like Ken Paxton, they use those difficult issues to rile people up, to divide us, to distract us in order to win power for themselves." -James Talarico on not taking the bait on trans panic.
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Phil Garnock-Jones
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And a rail network , post office in every town, family benefit. All achieved with a population half what it is now.
David MohringYou mean the generation complaining about the demographic situation that had near-free supported tertiary education,widespread apprenticeships,relatively low cost entry into the housing market & parents who grew up in the age of full employment government policy? [ bsky.app/profile/nzhe... ] #nzpol
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
You might find out! But go for it I reckon.
Ben HarrapYikers, I hope we're past those kinds of comments now!
I can’t afford to put money in my #GreensTipJar every time he says something dickish, but $2.00 for this one.
Ben GracewoodLuxon's "I was out there building a kick-arse business" just galls me so much. Bro you were employed by a couple of gigantic inefficient enterprises. You did not build a pie shop or a landscaping business. You did not build a tech startup.