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- Turns out that, entirely predicably, subsidising electric cars gives a pile of money to rich households while doing bugger all to reduce emissions. Just as we told them two years ago. Stupid.
- I'm not a Ben Sheeran fan, but I'm cheering for him in this lawsuit. Another stupidity long foretold. If you haven't read Spider Robinson on Melancholy Elephants and Infinite Copyright, do attend to that. That's the stakes on the Sheeran lawsuit.
- Meanwhile, Chris Luxon wants to follow Australia in banning vaping, if National should form government. I'm cheering for the smugglers in this one. I don't know why Luxon's pro-smuggling. On the plus side, I love having something I can cheer about no matter who wins the election!
- The government says it wants a no-frills budget. NZ's videogame sector's pretty convinced that subsidies to the videogame sector aren't a frill. I think NZ should go further than simply not playing the subsidy game. Instead, NZ should seek the equivalent of international arms control agreements banning film and videogame subsidies. The dangerous nature of these subsidies is obvious if we're even talking about having them in a year that's going to require a lot of budget restraint.
- Looks like there's a treatment option for lakes with too much phosphorus. Of course, New Zealand doesn't seem interested. Presumably it isn't sufficiently circular. Too much like waste-to-energy plants that solve the obvious problem, but that don't solve the underlying problem of regulators wanting to tell people what to do. If the thing works, farmers ought to be able to fund remediation if that's more cost-effective than other options.
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