I was just reading my grandmother's erotic journal...
WTF TNG.
CEO material.
Finally, oh wait, he's in the front.
Editor hasn't been fired yet... Then we'll see.
I mean, there probably was a carpenter called Jeshua... But you could probably say the same today.
Two nightmares from when I was a child:
- Earth is suddenly in orbit around Jupiter and it's filling the sky, everything is bathed in Jupoter-shine light.
- Earth is visited by human-sized black amorphous blobs that just appear and disappear at random, destroy anything they intersect with, instill abject terror in anyone who sees them.
Given the monarchy is the top class in a class system then yes: by definition.
I'll take "What's classy when you're rich but not when you're poor?" for $100 Alex
Greenland is the most obvious (to my eye) case of the distortion that Mercator projection causes at near-polar latitudes.
I'm not anywhere near as confident that I could say what shape Denmark is at the best of times.
Projecting a Mercator projection onto a curved surface... Greenland doesn't deserve that kind of treatment.
At least the map includes New Zealand
So as not to distract from the pretty things.
Broadly, and without evidence:
Women in formal situations were decoration, another piece of fashion attached to a man.
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation
A memo sent to all nursing staff in Waikato was clearly aimed at Indian, Filipino and Pasifika nurses, a doctor says, while nurses say it "reeks of systemic racism".
This is the thin end of the wedge. Whichever racist PoS manager at TWO whom sent this is simply emboldened by our current racist PoS government. It gets worse from here.
Objectively, even to the stupidst person, that a distressed patient and stressed nurse will be most effective when using a shared native language in interactions with the patient.
Communication with the rest of the staff obviously should be in the common language.
It's extra stupid because while we can assume a nurse has competency in English there's no guarantee the patient or patient's support does.
Some South and West Auckland liquor stores fear they could lose up to 40 percent of their business under new liquor sale rules.
Yes. That's the point.
Liz Whiteside, 71, has written to all seven regional councillors and chief executive Darryl Lew, taking them to task over soaring rate bills.
> I don’t agree with throwing money away on a service I am not receiving.
Ah, yes. That argument. She's fine with other people paying for her superannuation though.
Alternative headline: Pensioner Benefits Whole Life from Unsustainably Low Rates
A special fuck you to these kinds of people.
Action is desperately needed as power companies profit while growing numbers of manufacturers and households power down, commentators say.
Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?
First Person - When he walked into the prison yard for the first time as a teenager, having never been there before, Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena already knew most the men in there.
This is a somewhat challenging read but important enough a topic to read with an open mind.
IMHO The author should have explained what traditionally happened to child abusers: probably ostracized from the hāpu or just outright killed (utu).
I take issue with the article's assertion that it's a "sneaky payrise" as if it's somehow dishonest.
I've done this before after accumulating several years worth of leave due to a previous employer having strange ideas about project management and the mythical man-month.
I suppose I was kind of pressured into it, but I also liked having a pseudo-bonus that year.
The current spending plunge is the worst in decades, data shows.
Oh, is that the sound of a free market correction?
Is NZ oversupplied for retail? No, it's the consumers who are wrong.
"This is a problem throughout our country."
What in the actual fuck.
How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get?
This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil.
Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens?
This is Captain Planet level evil.
This is a bit of a personal rant, so please read it with that bias in mind.
There's a weird culture of management arrogance at TVNZ. It's persisted over the last two and a bit decades of personal experience with the company, despite restructures and staff turnover.
It seems to manifest in two ways:
- distrust of staff, as in management not trusting their reports at the bottom of the hierarchy
- cognitive dissonance between what is and what should be
Consultation with staff for restructuring has never been genuine: the plans are always already made and the "consulting" is actually just "telling".
Planning for the future has always been an ivory tower exercise by management, apparently because management have the "overview" but then don't place any value on the worker's knowledge of the actual work. Staff know there's plenty of penny-wise pound-foolish bullshit work done "but it's the TVNZ way so keep doing it".
In this case there's one of two root causes:
- ineptitude: no one thought that they'd better check employment contracts for relevant clauses they'd negotiated
- malevolence: they did but chose to ignore them
Police estimate the harm from alcohol to be about $7.8 billion a year.
TL;DR:
- Alcohol $7.8b
- All illicits: $1.8b
- Meth: $0.365b
I wanted a figure for cannabis and found this from 2020:
> PDF https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/the-nz-illicit-drug-harm-index-2020-10-feb.pdf
- All illicits: $1.9b
- Meth: $0.824b
- Cannabis: $0.911
I notice that the per kilograms measure for harm is also useful to account for volume of usage, but think that per 'dose' would be better.
- Meth: $1.1m per kg with 743kg consumption
- Cannabis: $0.35m per kg with 58000kg consumption
These figures include 'associative crime' as harm. So it apparent counts the cost of buying it as harm, it also counts the tax loss of that expenditure, so IMHO it skews unfavourabley to higher expenditure. But put that aside.
These figures show that all illicit drugs combined are less harmful to society than alcohol, and tautologically the harm is inflated by illegality.
New research suggests even building a giant wall in the sea would not be enough to stop sea level rise stemming from two crucial Antarctic glaciers.
This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.
The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.
So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children.
Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something?
How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?
The announcement comes just two days after Newshub’s owners said its news operations on TV3 will end in June.
A quarter of a century ago TVNZ knew that "digital", or rather the Internet, was the way of the future. I know, I was there.
It created nzoom.com for those that remember it.
A decade ago, it was still a "broadcaster" with an adjunct "digital" presence with TVNZ Ondemand.
Only on the last few years has it started to truly operate "digital" (internet) first, I'm afraid that it might be too late and we see another newshub-scale catastrophe in the next few years.
Simeon Brown says "economic impacts" need to "count" alongside safety.
Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.
> The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.
That's all there is to it.