Politics

[Waltzing]

well this is great job if you can get it in politics...

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/representative_gets_8000

[Waltzing]

US education department being dismantled... how many NZ departments and off shoots need dismembering here that has left the government in debt that it cant fund defense...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order/index.html

[BlackPeter]

US education department being dismantled... how many NZ departments and off shoots need dismembering here that has left the government in debt that it cant fund defense...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order/index.html

Hmm - not a fan of Trump's dictatorial actions, and don't know enough about the US Education system and the ministries role in a deeply divided country. Considering however that the US system produced a mongrel like Trump as its best man, it clearly can't be good, and given that Trumps clientele are the dumb and the uneducated people, it is no surprise that he tries to work hard to increase his voterbase.

If however the US Education ministry is similarly (or still more) useless than the Ministry of Education in NZ (speaking as a parent and a former member of a board of trustees), he actually might have unintentionally done the country a service. NZ schools clearly would run better and have more time to produce good outcomes, if they wouldn't be constantly hold back by a hapless MoE.

Better use the money saved to pay teachers and educate children.

[Waltzing]

its all the government offshoots.. back to basics...in fact if robot production gets really going you just rent a robot on you tube and thats your school...the robot comes from robo blocks gaming software...

they think there software is going to control the world...

but there are other models running now....

[Waltzing]

its like this forum... its dead...and we have our own GUI AI LIVE under research now...a very special software engine running as of a few months ago..

it bye bye to the old paradigm of software and AI extended think anthropic agrees.

[HAWKDOG]

Interesting - new RMA proposal from the coalition govt.

Don't know enough about it to comment on its validity

However its pretty dickish putting it to the house mid December and closing consultation towards the end of January.
Anyone who wants to submit feedback basically has to work through the holidays.
Talk about shoving changes down the people's throats.

[BlackPeter]

Interesting - new RMA proposal from the coalition govt.

Don't know enough about it to comment on its validity

However its pretty dickish putting it to the house mid December and closing consultation towards the end of January.
Anyone who wants to submit feedback basically has to work through the holidays.
Talk about shoving changes down the people's throats.

Same with me ... don't know enough about the proposal to comment. Agree however with your timing assessment. Things like that need to be discussed by stakeholders and shouldn't be rushed through over the holidays and in many cases as well with new local governments just learning to crawl ...

[HAWKDOG]

Crazy thought - what if Labour and National joined in a coalition ditching both the right and left extremes?  Chris squared.

[BlackPeter]

Crazy thought - what if Labour and National joined in a coalition ditching both the right and left extremes?  Chris squared.

Might well be the only option possible ... and hey, they do this in other countries these days (like currently in Germany).

The only thing is - its not typically a growthstrategy for the  parties involved in this government ... and the step after the big coalition is not quite clear and not always quite pleasant looking.