Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "1News" channel.

The common thread here of course is all of these people paid the full build amount upfront. If a builder doesn't have the cash or product on site to build your home with a deposit only with the rest due on delivery, that's a red flag they aren't a reputable business. These are likewise all tiny homes costing dramatically under the market rate. That's another red flag. Scammers shouldn't be scamming, it goes without saying. But they're crooks, so they aren't going to just stop. So people need to take some responsibility for themselves and realise they live in a world filled with people trying to take them for a ride. As these victims are unfortunately finding out the hard way you're responsible for making sure you don't get defrauded. So be vigilant. Don't use businesses advertising on Facebook market place or other such unmoderated classifieds. Check the history of a company you're going to spend any significant amount of money with before you agree to do business with them. Don't pay anymore than the minimum deposit up front. If you fail to do your due diligence, don't be surprised when it turns out you've been scammed.
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The opening of this story is a lie. Australians didn't vote not to recognise aboriginals in the constitution, if that's all the referendum were about or the questions were separated Australians would have voted for recognition. What Australians didn't vote for was ASTIC 2.0 but this time embedded in the constitution instead of just in legislation. Australians voted no to a question that hadn't even been properly defined and the PM who has resided over Australian living standards dropping by 10% during his term refusing to answer questions about the proposal. Edit: It is utterly false and frankly racist, to talk about any ethnic group as if they are a monolith. As if they all think the same, want the same things, have the same political goals/ideologies and feel the same about outcomes. There were just as many indigenous Australians opposed to the voice as there were for it, and the overwhelming majority of those it claimed to be aimed at helping hadn't even been told about it. Across Arnhem Land, Northern Queensland and the Torres Strait aboriginal communities weren't being told about the voice even though that's who the Canberra mob claimed it was to help. When they were told about it by journalists seeking opinion, they didn't want it. The voice was the canberra mob trying to cement their power over all indigenous australians again. It wouldn't have helped anyone. Real inclusion is the only thing that will help and that means making the NT a state, including tewee country and all of Torres Strait in voting and redefining electoral boundaries in QLD, SA and WA to give aboriginal communities a real say over candidates instead of being swamped out by larger population centres. That drives more indigenous candidates into parliament where they can have a real voice and secure real outcomes. The way forward is through unity, not division. NZ could stand to learn that too.
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Wow. Chloe is just all the obnoxious ey. Trying to make it about her, talking over Shane, not waiting her turn and just generally acting unprofessional. She needs media training stat, my gosh. If the greens ever want to try to understand why they don't have more support, it's behaviour like that. She understands she's at work, right?
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You mean the kind of emotionally immature person who would stand as a Greens MP is also the kind of person who would shoplift? Shocker. No one surprised.
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lol what is brave about this? Why is it that this is becoming a gendered issue? That is, why is this being played up as an issue exclusive to females? The story in this interview was of a man peeing on the floor. But no one stopped to think how horrific it is for the men in that room to have to deal with a girl taking a poo in there, which they said she does. One of those things is not only much more smelly but a higher infection risk than the other. Meanwhile, we might ask WHY an unwell man was peeing on the floor? Could it be because all the nurses on the ward were preoccupied holding curtains while this girl defecats that no one was around to hand him a bed pan or help him to the toilet? Is it really all that better if the person showing off their genitals has the same ones as you? Is it really all that better if the person peeing on the floor is the same gender as you? If you gender segregate ward rooms where do you put the trans people? How does that help anyone? This victim nonsense has to stop.
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@britishmalayasociety What you're not saying is • H-FCEV is only just starting to roll out around the world • It's the standard the consumer automotive and logistics industries have settled on • Any existing petrol station can have it's pumps converted from petrol to green hydrogen with minimal cost • There is a $100M NZ fund for upgrading pumps to hydrogen • Costs drop every day and there only need to be 100K H-FCEV vehicles on the road for the price to drop to around 15c/L • It does not involve combustion of any kind, so it is not a petrol substitute. It uses chemical reaction to generate electricity. • A H-FCEV can travel up to 1800km on a single tank. • Home green hydrogen generators as an automotive accessory for your solar system can be purchased for as little as $600 Battery EV aren't just a waste of money they're an environmental disaster.
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Now do a story on H-FCEV and how everyone who has purchased a battery electric vehicle has completely wasted their money.
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😂😂 You have to prepay for 1000km at a time in order to drive at all, they have expiry dates and you must buy a new RUC before your existing one either runs out of k's or expires whichever comes first. It's a physical sticker that has to be displaced on your windscreen so you can't just pay online on the day and be good to go. It's going to take real fore planning and management of the distance you're driving. This is going to be a disaster. The smarter way to do this would be submitting OD reads as part of rego and calculating the RUC at the time of rego renewal. But nup, NZ went with prepayed stickers 😂😂 "Sorry boss, I can't get to work this week I forgot to renew my RUC" 😂😂
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This was a pretty empty segment that went nowhere, said nothing and introduced no new information. The difference between the past and now isn't about resources scarcity, that's factually incorrect. We had quality right into the late 80s and for some product segments into the early 2000s. What changed was both consumer and corporate behaviour. In the 1940s and 50s, companies even very large ones, were family businesses. As such they were interested in more than simply maximising profits. There are plenty of dramas from the late 50s that cover the transition away from the family business and towards the profit centric faceless corporation. Today companies have a legally bound obligation to put profits before everything else. The government, and it's the same across the OECD, have commanded companies to put profits first at the benefit of shareholders. It's usually to do with keeping poor fiscal retirement policy afloat because super funds are the biggest investors in the market. Consumer behaviour has also changed, trained in over the years by corporations to maximise profit. In 1960 if your iron broke, you'd either fix it or go make your own new one. Products needed to be of high quality in order to attract customers whom otherwise would either make it themselves or just not have one with no hard feelings. Today if something breaks the consumer will just go buy a new one. Because of brand loyalty it'll be the same piece of junk that just broke too. You don't need to build quality to get people to buy something anymore, you just need to get some kid on the internet whose only claim to fame is saying how cool products are, to say how cool your product is. Then every man and his dog will go buy it. Once it was cheaper to build a thing yourself. Now it's dramatically more expensive to. The retail price of raw materials has been artificially inflated over the years to make this very scenario. Go check out the unit pricing for manufacturers raw materials. Even wholesale raw materials. Huge difference to retail. Many products you can't build yourself at all no matter the price because they contain proprietary electronics that they won't sell to you. Consumerism has turned us into drones who work to give our earned wealth to someone else for things which have a high price and low value. They use social manipulation and psychology to compel you to buy. Only government can solve this through thoughtful regulation. Think about it, you have consumer rights but how do you enforce those rights these days? The commerce commission does nothing to help, it's hands are tied. Your only option to enforce your consumer rights is to sue which often costs much more than just wearing the loss.
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Because not being physically present increases the likelihood that he will lose the debate and seem even weaker. It's safer for his campaign to not do the debate than to do it via video conferencing.
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Yawn
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Her name is A man duh, and she presents herself like that. Everything she said was not just a lie but the direct opposite of the truth. Why was she on? She clearly has no clue what she's talking about. What troubled kid committing crimes is voluntarily sending themselves to get fixed?
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@britishmalayasociety False. Consumer H-FCEV has only been around for 14 months. Toyota launched their H-FCEV in April 2022. Batteries have lost. Don't cry too hard.
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It's something dodgy dealers do. They get certified for WoF and then buy junkers are auction for cheap, rubber stamp them with an WoF and sell them at a ridiculous price for what they are. It's a well known scam the world over. That's where the sleazy second hand car dealer stereotype comes from. It's why you should never buy from off market lots, particularly ones that are willing to give you finance no matter your credit history. Those guys are always selling vehicles that aren't roadworthy
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@marsspacex6065 Nice non-sequitur. Did you even actually read my comment?
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If Uber drivers are employees, then they should be regulated as Taxis. They should also be required to undergoing interviews, background checks, etc before being able to be an Uber driver. This could very quickly go sideways for those unskilled people trying to use the gig economy as defacto employment because they can't manage to get a traditional job. People wouldn't be trying to work Uber full-time if they actually had options. It was never intended for that kind of use. What do this union think they've got as leverage? If union members walk out what do they care, fewer cars in the area mean more surge pricing events.
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I noticed Kim Hill never answered why she didn't prepare for the interview. I wonder if she ever quietly reflects on this shameful interview and ponders the answer to that question. It certainly calls into question her entire credibility as a journalist because it demonstrated she's happy to simply be an uninformed mouth piece. It's a travesty she was awarded NZ journalist of the year in 2012.
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I'm not sure you understand the concept of a con artist.
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@britishmalayasociety You've "been in the ev game for years" 🤣 Keep crying.
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@samjam6989 Your claims are laughable. The thing is I'm not defending anything, I don't have to H-FCEV is a technology that's already won. It's always amusing when the battery electric die hards crawl out of the woodwork though. What a joke.
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@samjam6989 The only fanboys here are you and your battery EV mate up there whom described himself as one. Keep crying mate.
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@steverielly This is completely false. It's your misunderstanding of branding and nothing more. Nissan NZ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nissan Japan. However, whilst it is owned by Nissan Japan that does not mean they're the same thing nor that they have access to their parent companies files. It is a completely separate entity with it's own board, it's own CEO and it's own processes. They are purposefully separate entities without access to each others records. This is a very common structure in international business. What you're suggesting is the equivalent of expecting your local McDonald's franchise to be able to track a particular beef patty that was purchased a decade ago in yankville. Or it's like expecting that Vodafone NZ can tell you about phones in South Africa or the UK. They're completely different companies. All they have in common is who owns the profits, nothing else.
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@steverielly Fonterra is a NZ owned farm co-op. They wouldn't be telling you about Chinese milk, because they firstly exist to push NZ dairy products and secondly Chinese milk wouldn't pass NZ standards. Given it's HQ'd in NZ and has a totally different company structure I'm not sure why you're even bringing it up. At any rate Fonterra UK can't tell you about what happened to a block of cheese after it was purchased from countdown in NZ 10 years ago and taken to the UK. They have no way of knowing, and neither do NZ. You can only know what you can know. That's limited to your manufacturing and distribution process. Once it leaves those systems you're not going to know about it unless someone actively reports a thing to you. This vehicle was made in 2006/07. Nissan will have no record of it's private seller and third party dealer 2nd hand sales. It will likewise have no idea about it's collisions history, modifications history, etc. It's like expecting them to know (or care) why your Datsun 180b suddenly won't crank over. There is absolutely nothing to suggest this is a manufacturing defect. Particularly given how far out of warranty the vehicle is and it's history. If it isn't a manufacturing defect, it has nothing to do with Nissan Japan let alone Nissan NZ who not only didn't manufacture it but have never even sold that model in NZ. She purchased a lemon. That's the risk you take when you buy a used third party import. Importing severs the vehicle history, that's a common reason vehicles are imported. Her beef isn't even with the import company though because she wasn't the first owner after import. If she had any kind of claim it'd be with the last owner she purchased it private sale from. This vehicle could have been in a collision and rebirthed through private sale or have a known fault with the airbag/wiring. That's extremely common and is a risk you take in buying from a private seller. Again even more risky because it's a third party import. If you want the manufacturer to have a vehicle history you have to buy from the manufacturer and have your manufacturer scheduled servicing done by the manufacturer. Tell them absolutely everything that happens to the vehicle, even when that may mean you have to pay more than the vehicle is worth.
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@steverielly There is no global recall involved here. You look more foolish everytime you comment.
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What a ridiculous brain fart comment, you should feel ashamed of yourself. Here are some common scenarios where emergency social housing applies 1. You have a cognitive, developmental or physical disability that prevents you from working 2. You are in an abusive relationship and leave for your own safety, and need temporary housing tonight 3. You are a single primary carer for a child or children and thus can't afford housing 4. You work full-time but your landlord puts your rent up beyond your means, and due to the current market you are unsuccessful in finding a new rental before your lease expires 5. You are elderly and living on the old age pension. 6. You are 18 and escape abusive parents There are many more legitimate scenarios. Emergency housing is short term housing for emergency situations. As they said in this video the overwhelming majority of people who receive emergency housing do not then move on to social housing placement. They move to private rentals. Stealing people's children and placing them in the foster system which is rife with abuse and is funded by taxpayers anyway is not a solution to anything. Indeed thats the fastest way to create a crime epidemic. Think before you post
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I don't understand why this video exists... It isn't like she accidentally purchased diesel. She got 95 instead of 91. Her car will work fine on both. I can't see what's confusing about the app. It gives you 4 separate opportunities to change the fuel setting, and does so with different methods and colour schemes so they stand out. The only mitigating circumstance here is that the employee told her what to push. The excuse for not being able to transfer balances is absurd. The transaction is for a fixed amount of legal tender. It therefore shouldn't matter if prices chance, the value of the transaction is fixed.
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@jonathanclayton9107 That's covered under taxi regulation, which is a licenced profession requiring participants to pass a series of written and practical tests.
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@MountainMaid238 Unity by the dictionaries definition, you know what the word actually means because that's how words work.
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So the TPM president was not there? Then it's third party hearsay he's spouting and nothing more. Let's say for a moment his version was accurate. He'd still be making claims of racial discrimination against not only this guy but the police as well, without any evidence whatsoever. Just his word that it's "fact". Seems anyone who disagrees with him is instantly racist because they disagree. That's the very definition of a bigot. He also contradicts himself claiming police and the justice system are racist. But then says he's going to sue civilly. If the justice system were racist you wouldn't feel comfortable suing. When he inevitably loses that civil case too, he'll come out calling it racist again. I don't know who the candidate in question is. I don't know what did or did not happen to her. Political intimidation has no place in a democracy. I feel bad for her if she has been receiving threats. But I feel even worse for her that she's tied herself to this blow hard muppet. First thing I'd do if I were her is distance myself from the TPM president and make clear he does not speak for me. If this is a tiny community we're talking about, and the man in question is her neighbour, how do we know it isn't normal in that area to walk into each others homes? The spouse answered the door, where is he to give a first hand account and answer questions? You can't make a big deal about this publicly, then claim it's a criminal investigation so you can't say anything. This just seems so disingenuous.
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Un-bell-ievable. I hope a good chime was had by all.
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@davidkamen If you have no means nor will to spend 60 seconds understanding the subject, then do not. Indeed, if such a short text is your idea of a dissertation one shutters to consider how you might take in the world. Perhaps twitter is more your speed.
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@davidkamen Your words have value. You waste your time here troll
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