This kind of thing would ideally be posted to NZ politics.

Luxon did promise us we’d get tired of winning! 🤣

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Then these companies basically can’t do anything.

Objectively a better move than prosecution by any stretch of the imagination.

I agree. But I don’t think a legal, highly commercialised system is going to be much better than what we have now, at least in health terms. See: alcohol and tobacco.

It’s true, but legalising cannabis for revenue rather than health reasons wouldn’t be a great move

It’s suddenly sunny here! Almost like it’s summer…

The international headlines about NZ recently have been quite embarrassing… we definitely seem to be a country going backwards on climate change, reducing smoking and COVID (and probably other things).

That’s a shame… I don’t buy lunch much in town, but have been there a few times and it was always good. Seems like it’s pretty tough for retail right now everywhere

I think it’s just that this new government is reversing a lot of the things the previous government did.

I actually don’t think this has been a huge problem in NZ politics in recent times. When Key and Ardern came into power, they didn’t do massive “policy bonfires”. They kept most of the major projects currently in progress, didn’t mess with too much settled policy, and generally where they wanted to make changes, either did it through careful reviews or just made some tweaks. There were a few exceptions for headline policies (e.g. the tax cuts that Labour cancelled when they got into power), but for the most part we haven’t seen the massive reversal of a huge number of policies we’re seeing this time.

It seems like polarisation between left and right might be growing, which is likely to lead to these reversals, so the policy “ping pong” might continue and get worse as governments change.

Yes, it only seems to talk about comments. But it seems to me the intention is not to delete entire threads when someone deletes their account (which is good, because it doesn’t make any sense to do that). Whether the changes will fix it for posts I’m not sure, but it seems like they’ll fix it eventually anyway.

Had a look thru GitHub (because apparently I don’t have anything better to do) and it looks like there will be a “fix” in 0.19 for deleted posts: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3965

Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.

I am not too worried about bots posting discussion threads. Sometimes there are probably people who might post in the discussion threads but don’t want to create the thread.

Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.

What a historic moment!

@Dave@lemmy.nz knows the record, but I think it’s closer to 70…?

I heard the plane fly over around 2:50pm… didn’t see it though. I guess it was nothing major, nothing on the news about it.

Ah right… I guess maybe they don’t quite understand the concept of screen sharing?

True, but Office is also really shit in a whole range of ways, some of which make it confusing.

Yeah, it’s crazy how people seem to have so little understanding of how to use basic apps, like Office. I guess it’s partially a failing of UX, etc. The vast majority of people I work with have no idea how styles in Word are supposed to work… although that is definitely a case of poor UX.

I’m quite shocked at how willing Nicola Willis has been to say the quiet part out loud, i.e. “we’re only doing this because it will pay for our tax cuts”. In other words, they want to collect more tobacco tax from vulnerable people to pay for tax cuts for wealthier people. There were other ways to frame this, e.g. we don’t think this is the right way to cut back on smoking, there are better ways to do it, etc. etc.

I think this is already quite a bit miscalculation by National. This will not be a popular policy… it’s something nearly everyone can relate to and understand, and other than a few extremist libertarian nutters, no one thinks it’s a good idea to loosen up smoking laws. It’ll be one of the few things people still remember coming out of the coalition agreements in a couple of weeks time. They needed to think more carefully about how they sold it.