The Daily Blog Open Mic – 25th August 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Voters are going to love this – not
The proposed rule could induce gentailers to raise the price charged to their retail arms – thereby pushing up retail supply costs for everyone.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/570941/attempt-to-lower-electricity-prices-may-make-problem-worse-expert-says
Driver’s licences would have to be the most common form of ID in NZ.
And now, a bill (which was supported at first reading by all six parties in the House) is set to make it digital
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/23/drivers-licences-and-wofs-on-phones-get-green-light/
Since we’re descending into 3ed Whurl status with 1 dentist serving 10,000 people, and while children suffer the pain of rotting toofs, AND since many of our existing railway infrastructure serves on, or near some of the worst instances of lack of dentistry and other health issues, how about the Good Karma Mobile Train:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtI2rk7t6Q
A carriage or 2 for Medical and Dental, security and Kiwirail staffings (going forward), another for a waiting room for the plebian population, one for supplies and presciption dispensary, another for chairs for the murder house dentistry, and finally another 2 for nurses and doctor consultations.
Over a week you could pick up the West Coast, Canterbury north and South, Northland, BOP, and North Island’s East.
Yea/Nah! Can’t be done. It’s lacking in imagination and we’d probably need to import some sort of persons with off-white complexions who didn’t mind being away from their families (baggage in the eyes of INS) for a while.