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Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:30 am, February 9th, 2025
I kind of view this post as being stupid waffle, and probable outright misinformation. I came to that conclusion when I read this. Trump had a friendly call with Xi Jinping upon inauguration. The opening tariffs he imposed on China (10%) were lower than ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:20 am, February 8th, 2025
Waitangi weekend, fine for a change, a number of draft posts. Open Mike hasn't been at the top for a while. Obviously the rest of the world isn't on holiday. Break-in attempts have shifted from the US to Poland to Türkiye as the hackers move server ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:31 pm, February 5th, 2025
It never really dies out. It seems to be an instinctive pattern with humans, and mostly currently restricted to between humans. I suspect that the first time racism will die back a lot is when we find a competitive intelligence to compare our species to. ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:15 pm, February 5th, 2025
Definitely not meant to be grammatical in any way. My partner says that I have no sense of grammar and it frustrates the hell out of her. Personally, I abhor and ignore grammar in language (except when a compiler is involved) because it constrains ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:43 pm, February 5th, 2025
Offhand I can't think of when Dennis Frank last got moderated. I had to look it up for bans and notes. I know that it happens... These instances were noted https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-08-12-2024/#comment-2019120 https://thestandard.org.nz/open- ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:56 am, February 3rd, 2025
Better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all - eh 'Rose'. In my experience the best help you can usually get is people who have taken on uphill tasks in difficult to win electorates, and who then use the experience to help other teams to ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:39 pm, February 2nd, 2025
That is the point. That Act was part of the legislation required for signing up to the ICC. I can't see any reason for us to not be signed up to the ICC. After all NZ Soldiers are not widely known for their tendency to indulge in the following acts with a ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:33 pm, February 2nd, 2025
People like Dave Dobbyn, Stan Walker, or David Shearer, who are seemingly more realistic as candidates than Leoni. I don't subscribe to the NZ Herald because it wastes my time with way too much bullshit waffle. It hasn't been worth the price. I can't ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:03 pm, February 2nd, 2025
I read that article as well. The supply chain issues from Mexico will be a major issue. Much of the manufacturing in Mexico was moved there from China or went there because of previous worries about China. It is often labour intensive work like assembly ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:10 pm, February 1st, 2025
Just a nit-picky point. Dutta obviously doesn't have a good grasp of the history of the FSC Dutta also noted the Free Speech Union was formed initially as the Free Speech Coalition “in response to the cancelling of an event at an Auckland Council-owned ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:08 am, January 31st, 2025
Thanks for that explanation. That is also the kind of cost/benefit analysis that would be useful - like site construction work. The issue with that I can immediately see would have dealt with a number of guesswork issues in the detail. Quite simply there ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:23 pm, January 30th, 2025
I added Croaking Casandra to the feeds. Interesting writer on economic, probity, analysis and treasury. I find that I disagree with a lot of his analysis on the pandemic response. Probably because as he said... You can find the full 700+ page report here. ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:07 pm, January 30th, 2025
So it is attempting to reboot as illiberal and reactionary. Such as base favour to tobacco and transform its nationalism into one of advocacy for team assimilation (our retreat from modern nation in accord with the Treaty and UNDRIP). But ACT is on this ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:51 pm, January 30th, 2025
Interesting how the awareness of Atlas and its soft approach to influencing policy is becoming more apparent to a wider audience here.Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:40 pm, January 30th, 2025
Sure, they’ve become the party of the pro-Covid Cookers. Entertaining conspiracies and taking it to the man by re-electing our longest-serving, pinstripe-wearing party leader who has chowed through troughs of baubles – as the anti-establishment option. ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:08 pm, January 30th, 2025
How would he like it if right-wingers set up a phone hotline asking people to dob him in whereever he goes so that local right-wingers can let him know what they think of him? As far as I am aware, that is still the case, as it has been the case for ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:12 pm, January 23rd, 2025
From "Vindictive, malicious, unscrupulous racists" would be my top pick. Mine too, except I'd add the word misogynist in there as well.Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:07 pm, January 23rd, 2025
...the coding to develop as male or female is present in the earliest cells after conception. Sure. But there are a lot of tissues to build and assemble after that. Processes which sometimes gets quite confused in the non pure genetics world of protein ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:47 pm, January 23rd, 2025
Good lord, who wrote that hot mess? That I agree with. But it really does highlight the difficulties of writing language about biological gender into legislative instruments. I am just glad that in NZ, the legislation has only a few very residual attempts ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:37 pm, January 23rd, 2025
We still live in a quite patriarchal world (and becoming more so in Trump’s US). US law because of the way that it is made and fragmented has virtually no cohesion and is decades behind our systems - which is why it is so seldom even referenced in our ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:28 am, January 23rd, 2025
I don't think you fully understand what is being explained in your link. I don't think that you bothered to read my comment. Or you are deliberately ignoring my point. I wrote a comment about the statement... In human beings (like all mammals) sex is bi- ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:36 am, January 23rd, 2025
Sure. But the counter argument is about spurious complaints that look like they have been essentially fabricated for political effect or for defamatory purposes - like these ones appear to have been. This clearly wasn't whistle blowing. This was a ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:31 pm, January 22nd, 2025
Personally I just find for this style of debate, I usually just need to spend time releasing the more obnoxious parts of my personality. Pedantic, a strong literal interpretation about what people didn't say, more than a little obnoxious, and strongly ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:35 pm, January 22nd, 2025
Most of my family have moved out of Auckland. I would because I don't really work here any more (as pointed out above) as it is pretty unworkable if you have to commute. Lordy I would welcome any party to come up with a believable economic plan that is ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:51 pm, January 22nd, 2025
From google AI... Destiny Church in New Zealand lost its tax-free charity status in 2022. The Auckland Trust was removed from the Charities Register because it failed to file Annual Returns. Umm https://register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC29039 They ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:28 pm, January 22nd, 2025
Clearly not deeply enough.Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:13 pm, January 22nd, 2025
...there are two biological sexes... Nope. See my comment above. You didn't even qualify the species family. For instance have you considered insects, plants, bacteria. At least subversa tried to limit which species group they were talking about. Even ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:05 pm, January 22nd, 2025
You are making a assertion about a social behaviour. But I suspect that you are merely just very limited religious parrot who has never read any history or looked at languages and what they express about gender. Try Britannica for some reading on this. "6 ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:50 pm, January 22nd, 2025
In human beings (like all mammals) sex is bi-modal and immutable. We come in only 2 varieties, female or male. Misinformation. FFS, if you want to claim science (I am arbitrarily assuming you referred to science in your comment) then it pays to do some ...Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:25 pm, January 20th, 2025
Bernard Hickey did a good economic summary this morning at the The Kaka I cherry picked a few - my notes in italics.... Luxon said the reshuffle was all about re-focusing the Government on restarting economic growth, but the main changes were in the big ...
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