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Written By: mpledger - Date published: 1:51 pm, February 10th, 2025
I may not agree with the orthodoxy but there is no harm to me in listening to a 90 minute course on it. I can sit there and be informed and still leave and disagree with it all.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 1:47 pm, February 10th, 2025
Do LBGT+ people think about, and use, land and housing differently to the other cultural groups they belong to? I wouldn't have thought so but if it's a marked difference then why not?Written By: mpledger - Date published: 3:26 pm, February 9th, 2025
A professional body is allowed to set standard for it's members. Some of those standard may be around continuing education. The real estate agent didn't want to do a 90 minute class about very basic Maori culture. Noone is asking her to change her opinions ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 3:12 pm, February 9th, 2025
What noise will there be on a solar farm? We have solar panels on our roof and there is no noise at all. They want the solar farm near people (or industry) as people (or industry) use electricity. If you place any generation far away then you get line ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 1:48 pm, February 3rd, 2025
If you accept "Time" as an authoritative source. https://time.com/6074707/republicans-courts-congress-mcconnell/ "How Republicans Have Packed the Courts for Years" It's from 2021.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 12:58 pm, February 3rd, 2025
I'm going to take issue on one point. That means, in a room of 100 academics, on average, only 2-3 bothered to respond. When I realised that the email for the survey request was from curia, I emailed around my academic colleagues and laid out who was ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 6:13 pm, January 30th, 2025
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_in_the_United_States#History "Since 2021, at least 28 states have introduced legislation to weaken child labor laws and 12 states have passed them. Modifications included lowering the age in which ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 10:56 am, January 24th, 2025
I can imagine that if all your movements are being followed to cause harassment then you might put personal items (e.g. hair colouring, some medications) under cover to avoid increasing the harassment. It only becomes shop lifting when you walk out of the ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 3:20 pm, January 11th, 2025
Biden bought back the "prestige" factor back to America by quietly getting on with it and not looking like a clown. Immigration will go down but it will be the wealthy and the highly-educated who will stay away. The poor will continue to come because where ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 7:10 pm, January 1st, 2025
I really, really hate tipping but ... I hope this bill includes employers stealing worker's tips. Now that tipping has gone electronic (i.e. paid via eftpos) there is no way employees can find out how much they were supposed to earn by tipping because it ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 8:48 am, December 18th, 2024
All they appear to do is pillage and destroy. And the pillaging isn't even for their benefit (or for minor benefit like campaign funds), it appears to be for overseas interests. Olden times National would do stupid stuff but at least it was for the best ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 8:43 am, December 18th, 2024
The classic rules are that in a downturn you don't cut govt spending and you don't give tax cuts to the rich. The former stifles the economy and the rich put the money in the bank for safety, to wait for better times - both things take money out of ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 8:19 am, December 18th, 2024
Social Credit Systems and Mass surveillance - according to Wikipedia there is one lens for every two citizens. Knowledge from experience is always worth more than knowledge from facts, and maybe outdated facts.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 2:58 pm, December 11th, 2024
I am from Miramar, I don't want a second tunnel. The busses are fine because they go through the bus tunnel not the car tunnel. The problem isn't the tunnel, it's the traffic lights by St Marks School because there are a ton of people trying to go E-W and ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 11:50 am, December 7th, 2024
This guy talks about his health insurance costs - for him and 3 dependents (prob wife and two kids). https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/rage-against-the-insurance-machine He pays $30,846 per year for insurance of which his employer contributes $ ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 10:20 am, December 7th, 2024
There was a graph in the video that showed the insurance company where the guy was CEO was denying 32% of claims. A near identical graph is on the Boston Globe website. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/data/unitedhealthcare-claim-denial-rates/ There ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 9:59 am, December 7th, 2024
The "expert" panel just means if things go wrong then it doesn't track back to the minister. The minister can pre-pick the panel then when things go wrong s/he can just say "it wasn't my decision".Written By: mpledger - Date published: 11:44 pm, November 30th, 2024
They don't do it more cheaply, they do the easy types of operations for people with few complications which have lower cost.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 10:00 am, November 28th, 2024
It's the American Republican playbook. Stop measuring stuff so that people don't know how bad things are getting. Their other play is to stop speaking about the stuff that is measured so politicians can lie with impunity.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 12:16 pm, November 12th, 2024
Illegal immigrants have often been there a very long time. They fit in and don't look illegal. The Pew Research analysis finds that 35% of unauthorized adult immigrants have resided in the U.S. for 15 years or more. (https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and- ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 3:47 pm, November 10th, 2024
I think a lot more leaders will have got his handle by now. They'll placate him face to face and do nothing. Even friendly leaders will be less invested in keeping American relationships humming - they'll see no economic value when there are tarriffs ahead ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 3:17 pm, November 10th, 2024
When you look at the two people who tried to assassinate Trump, you would have expected them to have some major manifesto with detailed justifications about why it was necessary. But one was barely connected to politics and the other to a really fringe ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 1:39 pm, November 7th, 2024
Musk didn't spend a boat load of money on Trump to let Theil's man gain all the power.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 1:36 pm, November 7th, 2024
I'm not sure how much gerrymanding they can do. It's pretty much optimal for the Republicans now.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 11:05 am, November 1st, 2024
The best ideas will rise to the top more quickly and more easily if bad ideas are not around in the first place. Debating bad ideas just takes up resources. We don't owe a non-resident any of our resources.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 9:24 am, October 30th, 2024
The person leasing the building can build dodgy to save money. Then when the problems show up they can stall and stall and stall and then declare bankruptcy. And then the govt has to pick up an even bigger bill.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 10:41 pm, October 28th, 2024
Of course, the other interpretation of that is that she changes her opinion when new evidence comes to light.Written By: mpledger - Date published: 12:34 am, October 26th, 2024
The thing is that Epsom can be split into multiple electorates. Rongotai is at the edge of the island and can only eat into Wellington central who in turn would have to eat into Ohariu or Hutt South. There are a lot of geographical features in Wellington ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 10:46 am, October 22nd, 2024
It all sounds like the ... The Narcissist's Prayer That didn't happen. _______________________(I didn't call him a fuckwit) And if it did, it wasn't that bad. ____________(I had a brief interaction) And if it was, that's not a big deal. _________(They were ...Written By: mpledger - Date published: 11:41 am, October 21st, 2024
With Elon Musk virtually taking over Trump's electioneering and Thiel setting up JD Vance as the vice-president nominee (R), it will be interesting to see which puppeteer wins out post-election if the Republicans win. Maybe Musk until Thiel can organise an ...
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