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  • I’m not 100% caught up on NZ driving penalties.

    But my understanding is you can only get demerits in person, from another person, at the time, on the side of the road.

    This seems like a flaw. I can cope with a low-tier speeding fine easily. $30? Shit, that’s “don’t buy a coffee that month” territory. I can just not do that all year, if I get caught speeding by a camera every month it’s not great but it’s handleable.

    Demerits? I’m not fucking with that shit. I can’t offset them with lifestyle changes. Too many of them and I’m up shits creek.

    But you’re not getting demerits from fixed cameras or camera vans. Ie, all the speed cameras on motorways. You’ve got to be speeding enough to get pulled over. And if you do, it’s still up to the officers discretion.

  • Without the mandatory hours, why even have a restricted class?

    What’s the difference between our law abiding citizen ‘NightShiftNate’ getting his restricted, waiting 12 months with no driving (because he only needs to drive at night), then applying for his full.

    Or NightShiftNate just getting his full immediately after getting his restricted?

    I’d argue the latter is better, as it gets him on the road straight after his training is fresh in his mind, and confidence is up.

  • This isn’t foolproof.

    The same car might be manufactured in multiple factories for multiple markets, to multiple levels of certification.

    Your “new car” in one country, could be the previous years European model if the euro regs have changed.

  • This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.

    Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.

    I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.

    Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.

  • Ironically, “running the country like a business”.

    Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.

    Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.

    But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.

    How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.

    Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”

  • But do their products phone home?

    HA integration is one thing, manufacturer independence is another.

    How long until “Yeah, we’re withdrawing HomeAssistant support. You have 30 days to migrate your automations to SwitchBotPlus”

  • But none of that is going to stop them from detaining you until you give them the pin.

    US citizens might have it a little easier. But foreigners are certainly going to regret their choices if anyone ‘close’ to the border has an issue with them.

  • GIMP rule

  • Single window mode was the last major milestone (to me at least) for GIMP. It made such a huge difference to usability, to the point that GIMP became a viable photoshop alternative.

    I thought it was a 2.0 (released 2004) feature, but turns out it was a 2.8 (2012) feature. (2.0 was the GTK2 switch)

    Either way, I remember both releases, and now I feel old.

    GIMP, Inkscape. Keep on trucking. It’s been 20+ years and every one has shown improvements over the last.

  • But how far should that consent exert its authority?

    If this was anything other than nudes then totally different laws would apply.

    Ie. if it was a terribly embarrassing non-pornographic film that woman sold it online. You put yourself online doing something you didn’t want family to see and now your upset. At best I would imagine she could claim it was piracy.

    But because it’s pornographic, she’s suddenly allowed full authority over her works? In my opinion she gave up that right when she sold it for commercial gain.

    If anyone else with a modicum of fame turned around and went “yeah I didn’t want my professional porn redistributed, here’s every website with my tits on it that did a crime” they would be laughed at.

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
    RecallMadness @lemmy.nz

    High income workers unable to claim unjustifiable dismissal thanks to new policy