middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 13hThe teacher know the kids and will do their best to meet their needs, rigid government rules just mean they are very limited in the tools they can use, maybe support is really what is needed. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Has anyone done a review on the actual delivery of ybe last lot of National road promises. Seems like an election go to, promise roads, roads and more roads 030
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pretty sure that now the Gov has rewired the settings at the request of NZs legaculy auto importers they prefer NZ as a dumping ground for fossil cars. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Women would miss out on more, not not all of those women are in Government funded roles. 030
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Problem is most of us are helping them fund it via our Kiwisaver and other investments that have a tech stock component. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is the the supermarkets flexing at any talk of Government intervention? 030
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Interesting this is a China conversation, in the US GM got done in court for collecting and selling drivers data. Its a much broader privacy conversation that needs to be had in NZ 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Got to recommend Zorin, you can trial it off a USB stick prior to rebuild. Very Win 10 like to navigate 021
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Moved to Linux as well, got to say it works like a dream, all my Steam games have worked so far. Win 11 is so claggy and bloatware/ AI clogged its become horrible to use. 120
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes, the CC review does feel like a sneaky escape clause. 020
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not just Boomers, I make no excuses for them but seen younger generations doing this as well. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The question should never be" do you believe in climate change" it needs to be " do you believe the overwhelming scientific consensus warning about dangerous Human created impacts to our climate systems" 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And to top it off Trump is blaming Ukraine 100
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Meanwhile the Chinese phone makers are delivery far more at a fraction of the cost in their local market. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So with you on the being tired on every level thing, not so much on having the patience to remove 200 apps from a phone - thats hammer time. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Its also a sign their faith in their own policies is very thin. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026How did Labour go from refreshingly progressive under JA to trying to put some form of left looking polish on the neoliberal turd. 100
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Overcrowding in EDs will be greatly impacted by the fact folk can't get or afford a GP visit to get early intervention, we have become accustomed to accepted 2 week waits and getting re directed to high priced A&E clinics, some folk are just holding out until an illness escalates. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The other point to note is most of the jobs are at the platform / tech management layer, for hyperscalers these roles are all offshore. NZ has a shrinking number of these roles with companies like Datacom and Spark, but these are being displaced by Orgs moving to Hyperscale providers. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You know how this shit show ends, A government holds out and hopes trading partners withdraw from the agreement, B emissions targets are made an issue for the general public through some form of cost transfer. 020
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Don't know how many folk have been to a large data centre, there's usually a security guy/s full time then some technical folk coming and going for things like provisioning kit, cabling, HVAC and power. Once running its rare to see more the 5 people onsite at once. 130
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not new, the US Patriot Act and Cloud act should make any hosting of private information with a US provider a privacy breach under IPP 12, yet I estimate 70% of our Government and private enterprise data will sits with Microsoft or AWS. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Not only shameful to this Government but shameful to us as a country as so many choose for this to be OK. 030
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Have a look at the capatative funding model and how this encourages over enrolment, while bumping actual sick people off to emergency care because they can't provide an appointment. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Where did the get the tiny shovel and tiny gumboot? He looks very grown up in them. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026NewZealand trying to get free of New Zealand first? #nzpol youtu.be/4s1vXBQUoT4?...youtu.beOctopus Latches Onto Fisherman's Face in Hilarious Tug-of-WarYouTube video by New York Post 040
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We should not forget the Ag sector also did not want central control that was harder to manipulate and that could actually have the resources to enforce and investigate standards. They just pitched it as a co-governance issue to pick up the racist uninformed vote. 160
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Great to see results from the hard work from LFCA, there seems to be no evidence anywhere pointing to this being a smart investment, so who benefits? 100
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Was thinking the same at this article, either massively lazy and incompetent or just pushing an agenda. 151
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Agree totally, and the building of hyperscale data centres is the opposite of a silver bullet. They provide no long term jobs and remove existing jobs from the local tech sector. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What these lobbiest don't think about is how do we compete in the future with countries that transition to a low cost energy systems if we are still held to ransom in a fossil fuel economy. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Problem is when you are CEO, no one judges you to your face, as long as you can bullshit the board. When you are PM everything you say is scrunanised. 140
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Yes the foreign bit is a joke of coursee, but he seems very much in favour of fiddling around the edges of the countries accelerating drift to the right. I hope the Green vote is enough to send Labour a clear message. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You think he is a foreign / neolib-light asset, seems very intent on not selling Labour as the next Govefnment. Really cements in my vote for the Greens. 120
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Feels like he has been in the ranting grumpy old man phase forever, and now his apprentice Shane Jones is catching it to. Seem like a global trend at the mo. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026You mean like when GM and friends brought up tram systems so they could dismantle a popular and effective system and shut it down? 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Got AI to run a comparison between the current Governments implemented changes and the intent defined in project 2025, there are a frightening number of parallels. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026We should also remember the RSA scheme is fundamentally there because employers do not want to pay wages that Kiwi locals would work for. 110
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Could write a book on this stuff in the NZ digital health sector, the important part to note is through the years of stop start restart IT projects in the DHB world the same names pop up again and again, through each iteration. 060
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Postman Pat springs to mind, not sure why. 001
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The saddest part is he does this knowing there is a large cohort of stupid New Zealanders that will be frothing at the bung over it and it will lock in votes. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The big question is how do you de-spud the cup holders after your test. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026They also miss the counter, if we stopped doing things their dirty polluting way and pivoted to better, clean local solutions, what are the upsides. 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Will the government use these power to target out Ute drivers that drive 5cm behind other drivers to intimidate, or is anti social driving for the young only. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...rnz.co.nzHow new Antisocial Road Use Legislation brings back car crushingExplainer - National is hyping it as the return of car crushing. But what do tough new antisocial road user laws mean? 000
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I can't believe our Government hands over all of our private details so this global corporate can run an extortion racket. I am sure there is no auditing of this data use by NZTA. 010
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Charging has been crazy today, so many new EVs on the road and still no functional planning across the network, where are our 10000 new chargers 2141
middling-nz.bsky.social @middling-nz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Muldoon, the pinicle of health and safety that National aspire to today. 120
