Pretty crazy to think they got broken up in the late 90s/early 2000s for simply including IE in a fresh Windows install (im probably over simplifying but still). Yet these days they're pulling this kind of shit

Bitter, nasty, regressive. Not a single positive thing on that list unless you're a landlord, millionaire or a bigot.

This goverment will be a complete disaster for thousands upon thousands.

Cool, we get to watch an national/act government tonight, a no vote in Australia overnight and a genocide tomorrow

I don't think it's surprising, but good research to have backing this up nonetheless. Pretty much every problem in this country can be traced back to the lack of affordable and stable housing. It makes complete sense to me that a state house with security of tenure comes out better than a private rental you know you have for a year at most (and likely less if no cause evictions come back).

Incidentally, the authors of this study have done a lot of research into housing quality too. They found that providing insulation grants for our notoriously cold and damp houses generated savings many times the cost due to less pressure on the health system and fewer sick days from school and work.

Mate, if you're concerned about the cost of living you should be worried about National prepared to dump over $15 billion onto the housing market through tax cuts geared at the upper end, landlord incentives and reintroducing foreign buyers. At the same time they're wanting to put through other changes that will restrict new supply. Prices are going to absolutely explode again.

I honestly don't know how these types of changes track against the prevailing economic state, and it suspect it doesn't really matter - every rise to the minimum wage, every increase in entitlements gets the same response.

You could probably go check out the Parliament hansard records from 2007 when annual leave when from 3 weeks to 4 and find the exact same arguments.

An absolute dumpster fire of policies from national that are designed to make the housing crisis even worse and completely gut our climate response. He seems to think he can just hand wave it away and just repeat his lines over and over trying to tell us the sky is green. And it might work...

Add in act, who want to do even furtherand add a layer of cruelty over the top just coz, and I think a lot of people are in for a very hard time over the next three years if they become the govt.

What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.

Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.

It's amazing this argument still gets trotted out, but in a way kinda not because it serves a purpose. It's an excuse to do nothing, or if we're being charitable a coping mechanism, to avoid confronting the reality of a very bleak future if we don't act.

I think Rod's point lands particulary well because it balances the urgency of the crisis with a bit of hope that small countries can act and can make a difference.

Presumably they maintain full access because they control both ends. The encrypted part would stop others intercepting messages. At least that's how I've always read it

Edit: I'm wrong, end to end does exclude even the app provider from seeing messages. So yeah, either not enabled or they lied