That’s true and I’m aware of it. If we had an authoritarian leader who would build houses then I’d be all for it, but more likely we’ll get some out-of-touch boomer who brings in a racial agenda and other crap, while not fixing the daily problems that people like me face.
I don’t mind these topics, I think we need real life meetings, not people online who ask “hey has anyone else feel the same way as I do, regarding __________”. If people feel the urge to get this out of their system, they need to do it offline. Supermarket posts need to go into a cancer category. Some topics just crop up every week or month, and there should be a board called cancer, for this purpose. Some of these topics (usually people’s frustrations) wear my patience, but I want to support those people if I can.
It could go either way, depending on who votes and who doesn’t. I’m 32 and I don’t care for left or right politics. From my perspective, Luxon looks like an out-of-touch boomer, but he could get elected by swing voters. That’s if he can appeal to people who believe in careers and mortgages, and all that other wholesome stuff crap.
Luxon is a joke even among the realest right-wing people I know.
I think it’s a good thing if people trust the government less and less, all this conspiracy stuff just means that people have access to other information. I’ll end up dying alone in a run-down hostel at the rate things are going, I have no interest in defending the government here in New Zealand after everything they’ve done to spread poverty. I don’t care what the official narrative is. I may be aware of it, but I don’t actively follow it.
I think you need a totally off-topic channel for all those posts about police sirens being heard somewhere, or someone asking what is this weird bug in my room. I actually found a weird bug in my room recently, but there are tools to photograph and search, so I didn’t need to ask about it online. It turns out it was a fluffy wee carpet beetle.
That’s why you should know things first hand and not trust reviews. How many times have I seen reviews for restaurants, made by customers who have an entitled attitude, who can’t accept that some businesses struggle to get staff when everyone is sick. Knowing via word-of-mouth is superior. I’m impressed by how reviews can be really good or really bad, but not reflect actual experience.
BRUH. Any light sleeper would wake up when a fully grown bed bug crawls all over them. The guy across the hall from me said that he hated it when bed bugs crawled up his nose while he was asleep. People are just really stupid when they’re in poverty, they just can’t stand up for themselves. Nobody in NZ does anything about mosquito either. You can buy netting for your windows but almost nobody does this because fly screens look bad.
We’ve reached the point where the amount of outrage, false info, and bots is too much to handle. We actually need networks like Lemmy or Urbit which are closed off from the public internet, and invite only. Give people an invite code like Gmail did when it was new and coveted. When everyone comes to one place it will naturally degenerate into garbage. That’s why we need a variety of different groups, made by different people. With some more open than others, so there can be actual debates instead of downvote mobs.
Being able to downvote without contributing any thoughts is just childish and stupid. I hate websites with a downvote feature because it ruins the authenticity of the website. People begin to act cautiously and don’t say what they think, and don’t challenge anyone on a touchy subject. The word “troll” has also lost meaning. It used to mean someone being intentionally disruptive, but now anyone with a different view is just a “troll”. I could go on Reddit and use my real name and I’d be a “troll” for having my own opinion, while anonymous cowards chuck insults from the safety of their keyboards behind a VPN.
There are ways to handle dissenting views, like having a debating board on a website that’s separate from the main topics. Of course nobody does this on the big websites.
I’d like a place where people are more intelligent than the average Redditor LOL. There are so many nay-sayers on Reddit. Anyone with initiative just gets attacked. I’ll invite some people right now in fact. I’d like to talk about the housing crisis, the rental crisis, the cost of living crisis and also foreign policy (especially Ukraine and Taiwan). I believe that New Zealanders are being misled by the media and government.
Here’s another cool software project, called urbit: https://www.meetup.com/urbit-christchurch/
if you’re in Christchurch, join us at The Lotus Heart, upstairs. If you buy food, they’ll send it up via the elevator chute thingy.
Hi I just signed up to this Lemmy instance. I don’t like the so-called Reddit communities for NZ. There’s too much sarcasm and complaining, and not enough good sense, or enough political action (eg. on housing).
Ardern’s government might have sounded progressive, but it was all talk. They never did anything good and I’m still poor and I struggle to save any money. My future has been destroyed by these people who pretend to be progressive.