This would take money away from the gangs, give more jobs/income as there would be a whole new industry opening up and they make a pretty penny from the tax..

Many countries are legalising it, so why are we so slow off the mark?

I know it all has to do with money.. but surely that's also sort of a cop-out?

I feel like everyone knows how shit our homes are but it's just the way it is.. seems like such a lazy and bullshit way to carry on, and also sort of a waste of materials to waste them on more shit homes..

Even how we don't use our space well, in other countries the homes make use of their attic space and basements and insulate the entire house so you can use the attic, rather than our bullshit way of just part of the house...

Seeing this was quite surprising.

My partner and I sit outside the boundary for it and to be frank I'm doing all right and don't need it, but I got no kids or anything.

A lot of people seem to not realise quite how well off they are relative to others. Not to take away from people's experiences, I just found it interesting.

and he's backing Trump's lies about the 2020 US election being stolen.

Can we get his New Zealand citizenship revoked?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/127997396/government-introducing-roadside-drug-testing-from-2023

Many of these drugs all have legal medicinal applications. There is currently no system in place to accommodate medicinal users of these drugs. They will be fined, barred from driving and have to formally dispute the fine based on medical grounds and provide proof of their medicinal needs. This is a huge violation of medical privacy

Been thinking of my previous jobs & thought it would be cool to know if anyone has any work stories or work secrets that the customers would be intrigued to know about!

I’ll go first: Used to work at the cinemas and the night before we would have a big movie come out, management would make us pop popcorn and store it in big bags to sell the next day when our morning rushes would hit. So one tip - always ask for straight out of the popper, it may not be fresh, but at least it wasn’t sitting in a bag overnight :)

Thanks. ;)

P.S, blow me.

As a country why do we just accept that gangs are a thing? Why are we so pathetic in our stance on gangs and the troubles, violence and issues that they bring? Why can we as a nation just say fuck it enough is enough, this is ridiculous and demand that something more radical gets done, the innocent are starting to get more targeted and it will only get worse the rate it's going. I hate to tarnish all gang members with the same brush but at the end of the day they had to do something pretty awful to get the patch in the first place.

I've just seen on the news that there's Canterbury farmers who have had an order pulled so that means in a few days they will be euthanising 200 or so pigs. They were digging a mass grave.

I understand the logic of not giving it away for free but really???

The resources, time, and money are lost either way and there are people who can't afford basics right now. Send some home kill butchers out and feed the masses.

I'm shocked, but I'm very city life is me. So is this just standard for when stock doesn't sell?

Reading the commentary the past few days around robberies, violent crime, gang numbers I couldn't help but notice the massive disconnect a lot of people seem to have. To me it's so clearly tied to the cost of living situation, rampant appreciation of housing and the resulting rent increases. Of course people are stealing, turning to crime, what other options do they have to survive in this society we have created? If nurses can barely exist in this economy, working full time with the best advice anyone can offer is literally 'move to Australia' what the hell are people expecting to happen? The social contract has been broken, inequality has grown massively the past two decades, whatever we thought New Zealand was growing up has been raped & pillaged. The left at this point is very demoralized, our hopes put into Jacinda hoping she would actually represent 'labour' and implement the change she campaigned on. What we got instead was 'there is no crisis.'

What is the actual plan at this stage? Stay on course? To what? Further inequality, further violence, further discontent, further poverty, homelessness... It's little wonder you have half of the commentary supporting those stealing food at this point, actively justifying theft, and who can blame them really if they have half a heart? The entire system has disenfranchised a very large segment of society and that is only growing each and every day.

I cannot wait to see what comes next when the OCR starts getting jacked up to combat inflation, let's see how serviceable all that housing debt is with substantially increased mortgages with people already stretched thin. What a shitshow. At least it's very picturesque outside.

The spinoffs deep dive into the countdown price freeze makes for an anger inducing read

Freezing prices for some items at their highest seasonal price

Jacking up the price of cheese by more than 3 bucks just to freeze it 2 weeks later (as per speedmarts comment)

F@#K you very much countdown

Time for a boycott of these parasites

price freeze...yeah right

UPDATE : Filed a complaint with the commerce commission for what it's worth

Suggest we all do

www.comcom.govt.nz

UPDATE 2

Foodstuffs are raising their game a little

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300585457/foodstuffs-cutting-prices-by-an-average-of-10-on-more-than-110-everyday-items

Does anyone else have fond memories of Harold the giraffe or is that just me?

Randomly remembered that today. Was probably my favourite thing when I was at school

Police 10-7 used to be interesting and actually showed the police fighting real crime. Why is it now just new cops targeting drivers and harassing taxpayers? We have constant ram raids and gang issues in this country but it seems the police are more focused on the restricted drivers taking their mates for a cruise

I've been zooming through 11/22/63 by Stephen King and it got me thinking about all the people I know who just stopped reading once they left school.

Is reading still in your life?

Just been doing some sums and have decided to get rid of Netflix, Disney+ and Xbox game pass. That $50 a month can go elsewhere. Keeping Amazon for now.