Matt Willis

@carnage4life@mas.to "we didn't pay attention to the people who actually know how things work" is quite the admission.

@davemosk @Niall @phil_stevens Individual, distributed action will never be enough to counter this stuff. Collective, concerted action is necessary, whether channeled through a government or some other form of human organization. Precisely because it is not a level playing field. Me individually choosing to drive an EV, or to not subscribe to Netflix or Amazon isn't going to meaningfully move the needle. It's me living my own values, sure, but it will never make a difference to these massive entrenched interests. To @Niall 's point, in many ways big and small there's literally no way to live in the modern world (go to work, have access to telecommunications, eat) and individually act against them.

@joshjacobsen@hachyderm.io "Either that or they are deliberately starving public services to make them easier to privatise" That's _exactly_ what they're doing. It's the right wing/libertarian playbook. @AlexsandraSmart@mastodon.nz

@phil_stevens we clearly can't have the government doing woke stuff like "preparing" though. Also conservatives hate conservation.

@paulh It's so gross and so obvious. @thomasbeagle

@carnage4life@mas.to libertarians hate it when other people are libertarians.

@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz this feels like a subtoot about David Seymour.

@jdmcg @billbennett butter chicken, it's what's for dinner. 😝

@lightweight Personally I'll be voting for the Greens to the extent possible in my electorate, but they're not very popular with the majority of voters, despite standing for pretty much everything you've said here.

@futuresprog very, very safe.

@futuresprog unplugged, encased in *ice*, _then_ encased in concrete, and dropped into the Mariana Trench. 😝

@futuresprog Oh! Hah, duh. Thanks! 😅

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @tknarr@mstdn.social @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io @mathowie@xoxo.zone @MissGayle@urbanists.social this is typically referred to as a "stablecoin" - see USDC.

@billbennett OMG 😳

@lightweight I suppose this is why it's a crazy idea. 😆

@lightweight totes. Though often the pushback I see to that is along the lines of "we can't be mean to them, they're very important to the Economy™️ !"

@KiwiEV I'm less concerned about how it looks, and more that it's so non functional as a "truck" that they had to redneck engineer that monstrosity.

@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz I loled 🤣

@SimonCHulse @MichaelaKHulse we are so in the same boat! Our next door neighbour has a very prolific tree, so any advice is welcome!

@KiwiEV so jealous. When we upgraded the model of Leaf we had, we lost the trees, and I miss them every time I drive.

@keoni@mastodon.nz Congratulations! Well done!

@joshjacobsen@hachyderm.io They campaign on the idea that government doesn't work, then get elected and prove it. @AlexsandraSmart@mastodon.nz

@serverlessaoife This is why adding alt text is important even for sighted folks. Without it, I'd never have worked out that was a beaver.

@futuresprog out of curiosity what do you use for visibility/observability?

@RupertBBare@mastodon.nz Couldn't agree more. My question is why do people vote for them?

@spocko@mastodon.online PREACH!