stuff article thumbnail "I didn't come here to be insulted, says Winston Peters in fiery speech"
nz outlets are now CONSTANTLY giving Peters free positive media - they've picked a side and it's VERY obvious
It's outright boosterism at this stage
people are drastically unprepared for what the media & discourse environment is going to turn into this year, I think
consider the smears on Green & TPM MPs last year, the months long coordinated campaigns between muckrakers, politicians & media that led to death threats
2026 will likely be worse
screencap of Peter Beck's twitter post pic: Beck standing next to Hegseth motioning at something out of shot text: "Building at speed and at scale is what we do at Rocket Lab. Great to have @SecWar come visit and see."
what the fuck are Peter Beck and Rocket Lab up to and why tf are they hosting Hegseth and selling him on their build capacity?
Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches
He is making NZ a target
Was definitely upsetting to see not one but two "vibecoding" bundles being offered on Humble Bundle.
i think the worst new word of 2025 i started seeing used everywhere was “vibecoding”. please stay on linkedin with language like that
i think what's FUCKING FUNNY is that this is almost indistinguishable from most Stuff/NZME, even RNZ articles where the current government is asked for comment EXCEPT that it doesn't have 3 paragraphs verbatim from David Seymour
The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage, titled: "Rebuilding the economy by “Fixing the basics and Building the future”" With a tag saying "Brand Content"
Headline and subheading for previous article: Rebuilding the economy by “Fixing the basics and Building the future” Advertisement by the NZ National Party. Funded by Parliamentary Service
The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage
what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party
We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences
is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this
why the fuck isn't the government pouring money into and emergency response to this??
I only really property started this year, still working out what works for me.
Def skim through this, especially the flange sizing, latch technique and tapering off dom.
www.reddit.com/r/AdultBreas...
Feel free to dm me and I’ll try to help.
Make sure the flange size is still correct, mine were different on each size AND all over the place depending on the week :<
It beggars belief that, even with this milquetoast centrist nonsense so incredibly unpopular and ineffective in the US and UK, Labour are still committed to running on it. Read the room guys. Read any of the rooms.
Keir Starmer is a neoliberal piece of shit and it's evident every time Hipkins opens his mouth that he definitely thinks he's a Cool Guy with Good Ideas. The homework copying is so transparent. He's got a boner for austerity we need to be VERY aware of.
If the project is really to move politics left by presenting a moderate message to get people on board THEN do progressive things (something I have literally been told by multiple Labour strategists), why would you keep drawing angry lines through any idea even *slightly* more radical than your own?
You NEVER see National's leaders leaping to denounce ACT policies. They don't have to endorse them; they just brush off the question. Then when they get into power, they form a coalition and suddenly a whole bunch of stuff which didn't fit National's ~responsible manager~ brand gets done on day one
2026 is going to be Winston screaming about trans people and immigrants, Seymour advocating we sell off everything and National going "let us finish all of these reforms" and tbh if you think Labour have the leader or the ideological mettle for this, nah sorry it's going to be 2023 again.
Children are not born knowing how to pick on people for being different or how to ostracize newcomers or that social relations should be based on dominance and aggression
Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US
Tbh I think we’re justified in no longer sharing any bbc articles about trans people (please), not least because the link preview text invariably includes their fun new alternative to the phrase “trans woman” 💀
once you've started transitioning you'll never stop wanting to beat medical "professionals" to death with your bare hands
All the Lab stans saying individual members have made statements against the puberty blockers ban. Yep, they have. The leader hasn’t. The Party hasn’t. winnie the anti-trans piece of shit is a possibility for a Lab coalition.
I don’t know what else to say.
It’s insane that I have to say this, actually. We have the benefit of witnessing exactly what has happened overseas. If you believe we can’t get that bad, you’re wrong - especially if we don’t fight it.
as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns today's decision from Minister of Health Simeon Brown introducing a ban on new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. This ideologically driven ban will have a devastating impact on the lives and wellbeing of our transgender and gender diverse young people. We know that children, young people and their whanau will be highly distressed by this decision. We also acknowledge health professionals' frustration at the way their expertise has been ignored and disregarded. "The ban will lead to a deterioration in mental health, increased risk of suicidality and increased dysphoria in gender diverse children and young people, and will put them at a higher risk of experiencing marginalisation and discrimination," says Dr Elizabeth McElrea, GP specialist in gender affirming care and PATHA Vice-President. "The prescribing of puberty blockers is always undertaken with the utmost care and consideration. They have been prescribed safely for decades for transgender children and banning their use will lead to profound distress in this already vulnerable group." This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care.
This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care. While the evidence brief identified some limitations in the academic quality of evidence regarding the risks and benefits of GRH analogues, limitations in evidence quality are common across a number of areas of medicine, especially within paediatric medicine, and do not justify a ban on access. "PATHA supports evidence-based medicine, which consists of three key components: academic evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences and values," says Dr McElrea. "When the quality of available academic evidence is of lower quality, it's incredibly common for clinicians to lean on guidelines drawn from clinical experience." "Practising medicine, and paediatric medicine (not just within gender affirming healthcare), often necessitates providing care without a high-quality evidence base. The absence of high-quality clinical evidence does not mean providing this care is wrong." "Children benefit from innovative medical treatments that improve their survival and quality of life. Pediatric care would all but cease if physicians denied treatments for which the evidence base is imperfect." (McNamara et al., 2024, p. 15) 'An Evidence-Based Critique of "The Cass Review" on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent
The new restrictions will be in place until the conclusion of clinical trials in the United Kingdom, which are not due until at least 2031. "In no other area of care would life-saving medication be withheld from a vulnerable population for six years. This will have a traumatic impact on a generation of transgender children," says Avery Zavoda, PATHA Executive Committee member. PATHA is strongly against the decision. It is a shocking act of discrimination against transgender children and young people. "That New Zealand First announced this news three hours before the Minister of Health shows the way this care has been politicised, and how politics have been prioritised over the wellbeing of New Zealand children," said Zavoda. "Banning puberty blockers will not prevent children from being transgender, despite the disinformation New Zealand First are promoting," says Jennifer Shields, PATHA President. "It's obvious that this has been a political decision made to appease a coalition partner based on an imported culture war, rather than a medical recommendation reflecting the expertise of NZ clinicians and researchers who have been working in this field for over 25 years." Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences
Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences of rainbow young people showed "the proportion of young people who wanted puberty blockers and were able to use them was nearly half the number of young people who wanted these medications but could not access them." These findings made it clear that the prescription context and existing regulations "did not result in the easy access to young people who wanted puberty blockers that some people have claimed existed. In fact, the results demonstrate a seriously constrained prescription context that urgently needs further attention to be more equitable." "We call on the Ministry of Health to publish their consultation report immediately, so that health professionals, trans people, and the wider public can see that this decision has been made by politicians rather than based on clinical experience," says Shields. "We also look forward to the Minister now immediately allowing the updated guidelines for gender affirming healthcare to be published." "We also call on Labour, the Green Party, and Te Paati Mãori to commit to reversing this harmful decision if they are elected into government next year. Our communities need the reassurance that this ban will not last." "PATHA is committed to ensuring all trans children and children experiencing gender dysphoria have access to the best quality care.
PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
we need people to call this what it is - social murder
no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy
any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves
I got prescribed 50mg daily in 2017, doctors are baaaaad.
Yeah people really don't understand that actually typing code is like, the least important part of writing code
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully
