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Take Mike Hosking ...

Relies on a traditionally ring leaning (well completely right really) audience to get his audience numbers up etc.

Now however we've seen a pretty strong and clear message that the right is in decline right now, not just by party votes but by that decimation we saw to the right electorate seats - some really stronghold seats are now gone.

So that being the case is it possible that more people than ever are just fucking sick of the sort of shit he prattles on about?
Could it be the people running these companies that employ the likes of Mike might actually think it's in their best interest to start becoming more left leaning (or actually unbias centreist if pos

2017 had about 2.63 million votes and so far with 100% counted we have 2.38 million votes.

Special votes last election were 384K which just surpasses 2017 however I would think A LOT less overseas votes with the large amount of returning NZers we had due the the pandemic.

I thought with that massive advance vote surge we might see the numbers really smash 2017's turn out but it doesn't look like that's going to be the case?

From what I can gather (and it's surprisingly difficult to get a straight, simple #) roughly 50-60% of the population own their home.

That means 40-50% of people would not be directly effected by a CGT.

Furthermore the amount of people that own only their family home is likely far higher.

Meaning those that would be effected by a CGT are those who own rentals etc. AND INTEND ON SELLING THEM and they make up a VERY small % of the overall population.

So why then is it whenever this topic comes up such alarge % of the population are against it?
Do people just like the inflated rents and house prices we see now or something?
They do realize that the hopeful effect of a CGT (or

Edit: Better link without ads https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/marcus-lush-nights/audio/chloe-swarbrick-joins-marcus-lush-to-discuss-the-cannabis-referendum/

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-demand/week-on-demand/

Go to Wednesday 7th October at 20:00 - 20:15 onwards.

Probably the best discussion around the Cannabis referendum I've heard so far.

Marcus and Chloe were inviting no/undecided voters to call in and put forward their argument and she did an absolutely fabulous job of pointing out the flaws in their argument and logic and hopefully appeasing some of the worries to swing a no/maybe into a yes.

I challenge anyone to listen to this and come up with a logical 'no' vote reas

I'm a pretty loyal customer of PB Tech but I've only ever gone in to store to buy what is on hand.

This time though I wanted an RTX 3080 and saw they had a bunch of different brands due on 2nd of October (this was about 2 weeks ago).

The text on their website reads "Ships on 2nd of October" so I of course assume that that's when I'm likely to see my card or there abouts.

Today though I see they have moved the date out by 2 months to now read "Ships on 7/12".

The response from PBTech has been:

Unfortunately we don't have confirmed eta for any of the RTX 3000 currently, all etas on the website for these cards are automated estimates based on typical lead times from supplier.

Being it's the 10 year anniversary on the Christchurch quakes I found it quite ironic to see an advertisement for Fletcher Living on TV about how great they are for building your dreams in your new home.

This is at the same time you can read many stories of the struggles people have had for years and the billions extra that you as a tax payer have had to contribute to to fixing their original fuck ups and cover ups in their repair process.

I don't know about anyone else but this is the last company I would ever trust with building me a house so let the past act as a warning. Fuck Fletchers in general.

This is the same Christchurch church from this recent post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/h9dxab/this_is_from_celebration_church_in_christchurch/

Basically last night they put on a massive gathering actively encouraging everyone possible to show up to revel in the 'power of god' etc.

There would have been 100's of people, no messages of social distancing were put up, no attempt at all ever to reduce to numbers of 100. They even had plastic dividers to try and seperate groups but never bothered using them and left them rolled up.

Went as far as actively telling members to cancel there weekly small group meetings so they could all instead come to this massive gat

Think about the life we've lived after our lockdown, pretty much 100% normal except tourism relying on international visitors which is never going to happen with a global pandemic.

A hard lockdown for a short period gets us back to that same state we've enjoyed for the past few months the fastest way possible.

Now look at other countries (Victoria a great example) that went again too slow and too soft (and they are STILL too soft) and they will look at a far longer lockdown and even when they come out of that they will have an even longer lockdown at lesser levels.

That means in the long run, going fast and hard will result in business back to normal in the quickest way possible as

It's often worried about if a Covid-19 case that we keep seeing come in and sent into Isolation/quarantine somehow got out in to the community and the virus.

Yet what is quite interesting that even with all these cases we are not seeing any spread within the isolation facilities themselves between those that came into the country with the virus and those that did not.

This seems to tell me the facilities must be doing a pretty good job and there really is a very low chance of community spread coming from these facilities if there is no spread in the facilities themselves.