Holy shit dude, have you used one?

Please place item in bagging area. Are you using your own bags? [Yes]. Please wait for staff member to come over and give you permission to use your own bags. Would you like a receipt? [No]. Please take this 30 centimetre long piece of receipt paper that isn't a receipt, it's just printed with stuff you don't want.

I don't think it's justified getting all upset about a few comments, but if I saw an article about someone getting arrested for smashing a self-checkout machine then I'd assume the machine probably deserved it.

Here's my view. Lemmy.nz is intended for an NZ audience. Hexbear has been defederated from 5 of the top 8 largest instances. This is problematic for us, as their All is much more likely to show lemmy.nz posts than All on other instances. It starts to feel like we're being brigaded, even though we aren't, because their instance is the 10th largest Lemmy instance and yet they don't see most Lemmy posts (but they do see ours).

I don't have a problem with international audiences occasionally posting in our posts, even people with no connection to NZ. I think it provides some great perspective on our issues. But when you post a thread, and it gets overrun with international users, I think this becomes a problem.

This may not seem fair on them, but what I want is a friendly-feeling community, and recently we have had a different vibe.

Personally, I have become less inclined to participate. I've written up a post about the Papakangahorohoro street, then decided not to post it because by the time I'd written my 150 word article the thread had such hexbear comments as "Get over it crakkkas" and "sounds like the crackers should go back to europe if they dont like it".

I want to participate in a friendly community, and the last couple of days I have felt like I didn't want to participate because of the hexbear participation - and the participation of others stemming from that. For that reason, and no other, I think we should defederate. However, I want to hear what others think. Some counter-arguments would be great.

I have temporary blocked hexbear so we can have the conversation in peace.

Interestingly, having just come back from Auckland, I was astounded at the number of Tesla’s on the road - given their price point, it would seem that the EV rebate is going to people who arguably don’t need it

I'm less surprised. Down around Wellington, there are Teslas everywhere. But also, there are shiny clean $80,000 utes everywhere too.

I think it's important to understand that the point of the rebate is not to subsidise the less fortunate to buy new cars. The point is that when someone who was already going to buy a new car looks at the options, they find EVs to be at a comparable price point to the petrol equivalent. It's to incentivise new cars to be electric, because new cars become the second hand cars of tomorrow. No one buying a new car needs a subsidy, but if it's not there then people are more likely to choose petrol options.

There was another scheme planned aimed at making EV use affordable for low income drivers (social leasing scheme), but this was canned at the time Jacinda stepped down and the govt did a reset of projects.

Ah that's a double blow for carbon emissions, two reasons EVs are less attractive.

PHEVs are an interesting case. I'm not sure what a fair system looks like for them, since different use cases will use larger or smaller shares of petrol/electricity.

Non-plugin hybrid are also interesting. If the intention of petrol tax is road maintenance, how come a hybrid gets to only pay half as much because it's using half as much fuel? Plus, hybrids are the heaviest. Leafs and Model 3s aren't that much heavier than other cars of a similar size, but hybrids are heavier than petrol or electric cars.

Are we looking at a future where all vehicles need to pay road user charges?

For sure EVs should (longer term) have to pay RUC, since they aren't paying for roads through petrol tax.

But it's another way we can make low emissions vehicles more attractive, and if we are gonna hit our emissions targets we are going to need to do that.

Probably need to understand the policy a bit better. If you get in line for a car but there's a waiting list from the sudden demand, if you don't get it until after they remove the policy do you end up missing out? It's a bit of a gamble.

We have a leaf, I've been hoping to get an electric long-distance car as well but was hoping to wait a year or two until ranges get better.

My other question is: are they going to extend the RUC exemption for EVs? Because if they don't, that will make electric cars much less attractive from a financial angle.Currently the RUC exemption is only until March next year, but it gets extended basically every year for another year. National might not, though.

That's surprising, considering Friday is traditionally the most productive day of the week.

I predict a big increase in the number of electric and hybrid cars sold in the next few months...

I like the discount, I think we need to encourage vehicles with lower emissions and NZ is a great place to do so since we have 80%+ of power from renewable sources (and if you charge overnight it's higher).

I don't mind other approaches. But so far National's policies don't really add up. Ok, remove this incentive, but how will you meet the targets?

Nice! You can never find the good stuff in NZ, the American section of shelves never have more than a handful of things. And I don't like cherry flavour or peanut butter so that means there's pretty much no good US junk food for me in NZ.

I went outside (😱). Blue sky was a lot cloudier than this morning but it was pleasant out. I even went for a bike ride, just to remind myself how unfit I am.

If by work you mean posting on Lemmy 😄

Pretty weird to not include their claim in the article.

The article says what this years NZ profit is, and then says what the Woolworths Australia total profit change is (an increase). It doesn't give us the information to calculate whether NZ profit is up or down. I guess the profit change is the 21% down but it's pretty sloppy article writing to not include your claim in the article.

This is an article about an RNZ investigation.

Here are related RNZ articles:

• https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/495727/rnz-investigation-reveals-11-alleged-paedophiles-active-within-the-jehovah-s-witnesses
• https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/495876/the-rules-and-culture-that-keep-child-sex-offenders-hidden-from-followers-of-the-jehovah-s-witness-faith

Where does the 21% drop in earnings in the title come from? The article says sales increased 4.6%

Morning! An unexciting day planned, but at least we have some blue sky. If it's still here at lunchtime I might go outside for once.

It was a bit annoying to switch all my open tabs over but otherwise pretty easy change. The snap version was freezing for me a lot but the one installed through the gnome store hasn't frozen at all.

Oh nice, sounds like it was worthwhile!

It's been a while since I had an unwanted weekend alarm since I use my phone and it's set just for Mon-Fri, but public holidays catch me out a lot!