RecallMadness

VW can’t use the factories they have.

Ironically, “running the country like a business”.

Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.

Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.

But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.

How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.

Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”

But do their products phone home?

HA integration is one thing, manufacturer independence is another.

How long until “Yeah, we’re withdrawing HomeAssistant support. You have 30 days to migrate your automations to SwitchBotPlus”

But none of that is going to stop them from detaining you until you give them the pin.

US citizens might have it a little easier. But foreigners are certainly going to regret their choices if anyone ‘close’ to the border has an issue with them.

Someone GraphQLs

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545340/swarbrick-pleads-for-cross-party-support-for-israel-sanctions

Some politicians are trying to do something.

Single window mode was the last major milestone (to me at least) for GIMP. It made such a huge difference to usability, to the point that GIMP became a viable photoshop alternative.

I thought it was a 2.0 (released 2004) feature, but turns out it was a 2.8 (2012) feature. (2.0 was the GTK2 switch)

Either way, I remember both releases, and now I feel old.

GIMP, Inkscape. Keep on trucking. It’s been 20+ years and every one has shown improvements over the last.

Not working? More people for the meat grinder I guess.

The year is ~~2050~~ 2026. The suburban streets, once a place where kids could be seen playing are now devoid of life. The shouts and laughter of children gone.

They have been replaced by roving bands of cyber trucks, carrying mail and parcels for the residents. Honking outside homes to goad the occupants to collect their mail.

But they do not. For they know if they leave their homes, they may be identified as tarmac and run down by the self driving AI.

This is the new world order. This is DOGE.

But how far should that consent exert its authority?

If this was anything other than nudes then totally different laws would apply.

Ie. if it was a terribly embarrassing non-pornographic film that woman sold it online. You put yourself online doing something you didn’t want family to see and now your upset. At best I would imagine she could claim it was piracy.

But because it’s pornographic, she’s suddenly allowed full authority over her works? In my opinion she gave up that right when she sold it for commercial gain.

If anyone else with a modicum of fame turned around and went “yeah I didn’t want my professional porn redistributed, here’s every website with my tits on it that did a crime” they would be laughed at.

So the school lunch program was just “can the existing (working) contracts managed by the government, write a contract with a single company to do what the government was doing, pat ourselves on the back”? All while expecting the new middleman to do the same job, for less, and still be profitable.

Not sure what I was expecting tbh. Just more smooth brain small government thinking.

Why didn’t they just get the prisons service provider to do it? Prisoners get a full monthly menu made by a nutritionist taking into account all dietary requirements. Like prisoners, School kids don’t go anywhere, and there’s (probably?) a prison an hour or two drive from most schools so (probably) not a massive logistical nightmare.

Are we feeding our prisoners better than our kids?

I re-immigrated after 15 years away shortly after COVID. Why the fuck I chose NZ and not Australia is beyond me.

Sure, compared to London, It’s very nice here. To my knowledge nobody has been mugged, raped, stabbed, murdered or any combination of in any local parks. Unlike the near weekly occurrence in London. Schools don’t have 10ft fences around them and metal detectors. 45mins in a car gets you somewhere interesting.

But it’s cold, the houses aren’t built for the weather and they’re (along with everything else) expensive; the pay is bad, and even if the pay was better the workplaces are petty and unproductive, not that there’s many opportunities;

Maybe Oz would have been a better choice? But equally, could just be a “grass is greener” situation.