I think you're right.
Body corporates can be expensive and not having one is foolish. Even with townhouses I anecdotally know someone whose efforts to remediate their leaky house took many more years/dollars than it should have because the overseas owner of the abutting house kept refusing permission for things to do with their shared wall and roof section.
It really is a super cool tree!!! Glad the people who cleared the land around it saved it.
Heheh.
Seriously though I wish professors didn't say stuff like that. It's bad pedagogy.
The trouble with that is, we get so much more crime this way. Like you say, there's much better interventions.
I'm not sure that it's just logistics and fear of the unknown (though given how long it took Aucklanders to be okay with building a subway, that obviously comes into play)!😀
But talking to people over the years I've come to the conclusion that there's a sizeable chunk of people for whom punishing criminals is much more important than having less crime. I can understand feeling that way, but emotions probably isn't the best thing to base policy on.
If they were the size of a penis it would just be the male condom with extra steps.
I think tighter regulation's a good thing.
For a start I would love to prohibit alcohol aimed at kids. In my student days I participated in a lot of market research groups and there were so many groups about late teens taste-testing insanely sweet gross RTD alcohols or discussing which alcohol bottle design was more "fun" "feminine" "flirty" etc.
Heard an interesting perspective from a criminal lawyer on this. They think we should copy the Portugal model because meth is attracting the cartels like Sinaloa, and cartel presence normally corrupts police.
Thanks for the explanation! Sounds like the devil's in the details, we'll have to wait and see.
Ha ha of course... Seriously though, I really liked the upbeat, memey feel of it and especially the repeated imagery of the servers that turns into weird things happening to them!
Happy birthday and thanks @Dave@lemmy.nz for creating and maintaining this cool part of the fediverse.
The recap is really interesting as someone who came a bit late to the party. And the video is cool!!
For a moment there I was thinking maybe people in Invercargill always have to check potential demo sites for tuatara before they proceed!
Me reading headline "omg there are a lot more tuatara down that way than I realized"
I think the section/lot is too narrow for that though. Realistically the non-detached option is probably "townhouses" which are increasingly prevalent in Auckland.