So for now, this will be it 😂

We prob could, but I honestly don't have the time and energy to sort that out.

Tada: @cfcamp.bsky.social

NZ has chosen another path, which is fine. But the consequences of that might be a less fortunate macroeconomic situation.

He talks about the welfare system in one half-sentence-ish length. That invalidates everything else?

Scandi countries - specifically Norway - also has an abundance of money from natural resource exploitation and investing well in their pension funds among other places.

Reality is that NZ's productivity is highly problematic compared to the rest of the western world and comparative countries and that's what his column is about this week.

I don't have to like the guy or some of his opinions to whole-heartedly agree with that. 🤷

That's not necessarily the issue. A lot of these decisions are made around rebooking options and reuse of a stranded plane. A 737 stuck in PN helps no one, but from CHC it can be used for another mainline service. Pax can be easily rebooked on a CHC-WLG service later that day etc.

Looked into FedEx, and they are prohibitively expensive (4 x the most expensive NZ Post option - it's not just the keys, it's essentially a small bag with stuff).

I have similar issues with people every single day. And from my experience even videos don't help.

I know. To be fair to Apple, even I think their smart watch story is much better than Android's though. And it's a great lock-in factor into their whole ecosystem obviously.

I'm generally annoyed with the shift to subscriptions for everything and that people go for it.

There's a bit more maths and counting rules eland other detail to to it, but that's kind of the gist of it.

... effectively gets waived for that party and the difference between what their party vote would have given them (say 2.6% = 2 MPs) and what they won in the electorates (say 4) becomes what we know as overhang members.

In short: the party vote determines how many seats a party get. And based on the 5% threshold they'd normally not get any MP.

But they won electorates. So, they *have* to get these electorate MPs, say: 4 pending all votes.

Now, because they have won at least one electorate, the 5% threshold...