If you are wondering: LVT = Taxing the value of the land instead of the buildings and everything on it (Capital Value / CV) which encourages people to improve the land and revitalise the city instead of just sitting on empty lots or dilapidated buildings waiting for the land value to go up (land banking). This usually leads to more housing and lower prices and generally a better vibe.

☝️ After reading the comments I realised we were all talking about it like everyone knows what it is so I just dropped this here for anyone that stumbles by.

It's a bit of a bummer the mindset is around sending interest payments to banks instead downsizing and releasing property back into the market. I was hopeful there might be some kind of market correction as the boomers cash out on their "investments" but it seems like there will be no break for Gen Z and instead we can look forward to bank profits instead.

I wonder what kind of dividends they pay?

I thought it was a satire piece but then it just keeps going on. The comments are gold: boomers complaining about the price of shitty 2 bedroom apartments and refusing to downsize because it's inconvenient.

What about median income instead of minimum wage?

Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?

Is there a link to the actual text of the article or are we just sufficiently enraged by headlines now?

Have you tried a USB-C to HDMI cable for you phone?

I think QSV is the new "easiest" way if you have an Intel CPU. Here are some docker compose values that might help:

    group_add:
      - "110"
      - "44"
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

110 is render

44 is video

You can grep render /etc/group to find your values.

I found CPU accelerated transcoding to be as effective as using GPU acceleration for my small media server setup. Nvidia wasn't worth it for me.

Rice and dried beans and veggies are still pretty cheap, for now at least.

There's some type of irony in the penalty being free housing (jail), or blood from a stone ($2k penalty).

I was just looking for the cost of keeping someone in jail fro 90 days and it looks like Bernard HIckey beat me to it:

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

From: The Kaka https://thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-threatens-to-imprison-homeless

"If there weren't unions: people would just have to individually put up with our shit"

Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can't we just transfer it in reusable bins?

There is a fork that usually works: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I don't see either of the dominant political parties making any meaningful changes to address these issues. The current government acknowledges the issues in their Budget Policy Statement 2025 but then acts in contradiction to their own statements, by disestablishing Callaghan Innovation and gutting CRIs. Their Strategy for AI is basically a "legal thumbs up" with no incentives for businesses to move into this sector.

Instead of investing in public schools, they are allowing charter school which will make education pay-to-play, which will grow inequality at a time when young people are already locked out of the housing market. All while teachers are walking out in protest over low wages.

My fear is that when many young people are disenfranchised and aren't offered a "good deal" to participate in society, then we will get more crime and more drugs.

Labour isn't going to fix it and National seems to be actively sabotaging it.

I just read the book "Abundance" and I can see many of the partisan issues described in the book in the New Zealand context. We're cooked.

https://lemmy.world/u/aza has a similar posting pattern to https://lemmy.world/u/linatio1 (bots)

N.B. A normal water filter doesn't remove nitrates. You need ion exchange or reverse osmosis which aren't the standard charcoal filters used to make drinking water taste better.

Dry beans are even cheaper than canned beans. Just soak em overnight, put them in fresh batch of water, and then cook them for like 20 mins. Beluga lentils are smaller and cook faster than regular beans. You need to add salt to the water before you cook them. You can add fat into the beans to make them more delicious. If you have a tough set of customers, a 1/4 teaspoon of MSG makes beans really popular.

Soaking them and tossing the water makes them less windy according to research-based evidence.

Bishop prioritising the few over the many. These few just happen to all be his friends.

It's alarming! We could take the wind out of gangs and save a bunch of money on incarceration if we followed the advice of NZ Drug Foundation

Yes. "Rainbow Community" or "Rainbow Communities" has been used since the early 00s. If you want to use the term then using the plural "Rainbow Communities" is preferred as an acknowledgement of the diversity within the cohort.