The Weekend Collective

Prices are going up.
Food prices are up, and will keep going up alongside fuel. Practically any goods that travel by land air or ocean to get to you will become increasingly unaffordable for the foreseeable future.
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Health NZ have had to tell their staff to stop using free AI tools such as Chat GPT for writing clinical notes.
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The latest numbers, as at one week ago, there were 24 days of petrol and 18 days of diesel in the country.
Things are looking to worsen for the foreseeable future, although an uptick in public transport use and EV purchases point to people taking things into their own hands.
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New Zealand First will be campaigning on a policy that would see half of all mining royalties go to the region from which it came, rather than Wellington.
The party says it would build up wealth and infrastructure in the regions, allowing for future development rather than having the money spent across wider national projects.
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Social media giants Meta and YouTube have been found liable for deliberately designing their platforms to be addictive.
We don't need to look too far into the details of this specific trial, because parents everywhere will have stories of their own to some extent, but how much of the blame falls on the parents? There are countless things in the modern world that young people risk becoming addicted to - they don't even have to appear sinister. Food, sugar, video games, any number of apps - social media or otherwise.
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