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Note: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529638/air-new-zealand-cutting-back-capacity-of-domestic-routes
Have you signed for the ferries!
https://www.together.org.nz/our_ferries_our_future?utm_campaign=our_ferries_our_future_email_o&utm_medium=email&utm_source=together
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529667/prices-are-up-for-parking-tickets-but-what-can-you-do-if-you-get-stung
…Parking penalties have jumped 70 percent throughout Aotearoa – but is it fair and can you pass the buck?
Parking fines are up for the first time in 20 years and misbehaving parkers will now be facing stricter penalties across the board.
What used to be a $40 fine for not paying for parking in Wellington is now $70.
If you miscalculate how long you need the spot, those penalties are also increasing – going up to almost $100 if you really overstay your welcome.
Autocratic chicanery by govt central or local. Extortion or la-la-larceny as another means of making life harder for citizens, and imposing swingeing laws with hefty fines, those being hefted beyond reason. At a similar rate to the declining value of wages. And this largely caused by the choice to turn public services into private and profitable businesses!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529676/worksafe-struggles-with-high-staff-turnover-amid-stalled-restructure
Are we a sort of giant video game – a big Sim City. How fascinating to be sold as a game for advanced players around the world – make real-time decisions, ignore calls for help and complaint from the simps like real dictators. Upset cultures and living styles, set people flying in all directions like startled ants etc.
Let us not mistake the matter – even family can model the behaviour after someone with a decent-sized estate dies. None of the relatives are short of money but various people will whine or rage about size of outcomes. Who gives a f..k about real people these days it’s riding the gravy train that counts, making things happen for YOU. People don’t even look up from their message oblongs to see who is around them. I love the word gormless Old Norse; Northern English and Scots since 1700s) – it sounds right for meaning – stupid, dull , clumsy. (Doesn’t apply to me of course.)
Learnings:
Automatic not autonomy – slip up of dictionary meaning.
Truth: Automation and autonomy are not interchangeable. concepts. Automated systems take predefined actions based on predefined triggers. By contrast, an autonomous system leverages context and data to get to a desired state, adapting to dynamic environments along the way.
What Automation and Autonomy Really Mean for IT Admins
VMware https://www.vmware.com › vmware › pdf › docs
Now we have to look at cryptocurrency – USA being riven by it tomorrow or next year – us.
Patrick Boyle goes into the details we should know. 24:10
Crypto has bought the 2024 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZvC_5leDY
Long read – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lwgn9p8z4o
The cryptocurrency industry is “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”, one of the United States’ top financial regulators has told the BBC.The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, says the “investing public around the globe has lost too much money” because of crypto companies not following the laws his agency tries to enforce.
(Trivial note – Compare the two heads – Gensler of thee SEC and the wild,wooliness of Sam Bankman-Fried who looks like a man deep into the big scheme with the power to undermine the closely monitored financial world.)
Expert talks digital currency in the 2024 election and more…
11alive 4 weeks ago 6.08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGdzgvjHmg
(Another incarcerated person like Julian Assange – this time for trying to monitor bad outcomes in the monetary and crypto markets apparently. And was in bad health 4 weeks ago – what is the USA doing about it?)
Get this on record. Gives you the willies this soshall investment.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/529489/social-investment-what-you-need-to-know