When I think about Contact being able afford to give me free power for 16 hours a week, I think I'd be happier if they removed this option and dropped their overall pricing instead.
It's a hell of a fucking rort when you think about it.
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Just received notice that my daily power charge is rising by 45 cents per day and the per unit price is rising by 17%.
SEVENTEEN PERCENT!
How is this justified? My cost of living crisis sure as shit isn't fixed.
[#]NZ #Power #ContactEnergy
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This is a list of bills and when they close for submissions. The Regulatory Standards Bill closes on Monday January 13. It is missing from the list. Some journalist needs to be asking questions about why it isn't on the list.
[#]NZ #NZPol
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/
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The Regulatory Standards Bill submisisons are closing on Monday 13 January.
You do NOT have to submit via the 10 page form on the Government consultation website. You can by pass this ridiculous document and simply email your submission to RSBconsultation@regulation.govt.nz.
[#]NZ #NZPol
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I get so tired of organisations changing things and making them worse. Latest is Microsoft changing Teams and combining the Chat and Channels so no-one can find a fucking thing.
Everyone in my work is shouting in frustration until someone shows them how to de-separate. I make sure they send in a complaint when they make the change.
[#]Microsoft #Teams #UnwantedChange
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I enabled Google Gemini on my phone a couple of months back. I have to say it is the most useless service I have tried. When I'm doing something and want to use a hands free service, I actually want it to be able to do useful things like Make An Appointment. It can't seem to do anything which the old Google Assistant can do which makes it completely useless to me.
I have switched back now.
[#]Technology #AI #UselessTechnology
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We get ripped off so much in this country. This nifty wee portable screen is $NZ 163.00 if bought in the US.
First place in NZ I found sells it for $549.00
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09237LL5Q
[#]NZ
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I cannot recall another New Zealand politician who has been perceived as being openly corrupt as Casey Costello is. In all my conversations over the past year, I have not heard one person support her and her tobacco moves. No one I have talked to believes anything she says on this subject
[#]NZPol
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This government is Anti-Science. They govern through pure ideology and their own 'reckons' as in "I reckon...".
They are setting NZ up for some very bad future outcomes.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/24/search-stalls-for-chief-science-adviser/
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National claimed prior the election that they would be an evidence driven government. Since they were elected they have not so much backed off on that position as reversed away from it at high speed.
It's clear they have no time for actual evidence. I suspect Luxon in his fundamentalist wisdom sees science as physical things like computers and engines; that anything more complex than "Plane goes Up, Plane goes down" falls into the realm of God created magic.
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Worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxhq094tiQ
[#]Music #MusicVideo #Live
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Looks like Brazil (or something) has borked Bluesky. Nothing in any feed and I get an Internal Server Error.
[#]Bluesky #Twitter
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Bernard Hickey, a person who I always have seen as fairly right wing, unloads on National (again)
[#]NZPol
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/what-austerity-actually-means-and
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Ahh - they include the line charges.
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What the actual fuck?? My rate is something like 29.x cents per kw. How is the rest of CHB paying over 40cents per kw? And 45+ cents in NL?
"It shows that consumers in the Far North, using Kerikeri as an example, pay 45.59 cents per kilowatt-hour for the priciest power in Aotearoa.
Consumers in the Buller District, which includes Westport, pay 44.05 cents, while the rest of the top five is rounded out by Clutha ...
and Central Hawke's Bay (41.42 cents).
"
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526335/lowest-income-new-zealanders-paying-highest-power-prices-data-reveals
[#]NZ #Power
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Link: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350392000/three-things-government-says-will-help-make-power-cheaper
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So the government is going to urgently overturn the ban on oil and gas exploration to help control electricity prices. This is so disingenuous of them.
[#]NZPol
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NZ Parliament search is a bit borked
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Whinge of the Day
This morning the MS 365 Admin application is refusing to work properly in Firefox. The entire left hand menu panel and top bar are both missing.
[#]WhingeOfTheDay #O365 #MS365
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Whinge of the day:
Google updated its Authenticator app last week (or thereabouts). Ever since the update, the first code I enter on any site fails. I have to wait until the code changes and then it will work.
Every fucking time!
[#]Google #Authentication #Whinge
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