Daily review 03/12/2019

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  1. A 1
    3 December 2019 at 6:18 pm

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018725237/cannabis-govt-proposes-legalising-14g-purchase-a-day

    It's a good thing that is designed to minimise harm; I still favor Portugal's solution over all others as it's a better use of resources.

    Proposal:
    Requirement to be “fit and proper person” to sell it
    14g a day is about half of the Canadian limit
    Minimum legal age of 20
    Allows state licensing campaign for products eg edibles
    Won’t allow for consumption
    Home users 2 plants per person, or 4 plants per dwelling

  3. aj 3
    3 December 2019 at 8:08 pm

    Spotted a kiwi version MAGA cap yesterday, same red. Make Adern Go Away. Was when TV1 News were interviewing people about the 5g rollout, in Queenstown I think.

    • Fireblade 3.1
      3 December 2019 at 9:20 pm

      My cousin lives in San Francisco. He reckons wearing red caps is becoming a trend to let other men know your gay and available. I wonder if the trend will spread to NZ. Maybe it already has.

    • Stuart Munro. 3.2
      3 December 2019 at 9:44 pm

      I think the Make Adern Govern Again version may ultimately become more popular.

  5. greywarshark 5
    3 December 2019 at 9:31 pm

    That kid Wood in the image, whom I instantly dislike as creepy for some reason. Says he has been interested in politics since he was >12<!

    Thinks he brings value to politics because: ""Understanding young people and their passions is an important thing that our political scene is lacking at the moment," he said." Many of us understand Greta and her cohort. I doubt that he is in that group – so what passions? (And I hate that fake-sounding term too.) He talked to Mike Hosking today, that's nice.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12290162

    • Incognito 5.1
      3 December 2019 at 10:04 pm

      Which person under 40 uses “cohort”? Maybe he likes Scrabble …

      • greywarshark 5.1.1
        3 December 2019 at 10:19 pm

        Sorry I gave the wrong idea. His words were just in the quotes. I think that he didn't mention her when he talked about young people and their passions, is a significant omission. I like scrabble though.

  6. pat 6
    3 December 2019 at 9:44 pm

    "At a shopping parade in the Wolverhampton neighbourhood of Penn I met two sparky, loquacious twentysomethings whose jobs pay less than £9 an hour: he a duty manager at a town-centre hotel, she a care assistant. When I asked them whether they had thought of joining a trade union, they bluntly told me they did not know what that term meant."

    ." In Grimsby, I spent time at Centre4, which offers everything from financial help for new small businesses, through support for people experiencing loneliness, to a gym. Its volunteers – women, for the most part – talked about the election as an extraneous event that didn’t much interest them."

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/02/labour-red-wall-brexit-progressive-industrial-england

    the disconnect

    • greywarshark 6.1
      3 December 2019 at 10:37 pm

      Interesting vox populi. Jeremy is stretching people's commitment to Labour to its ultimate with his lacklustre actions, even if he can arouse meetings with hopeful rhetoric. He seems to be waiting at the corner for the Labour marching team to catch up and tell him what tunes they want played. But I think they have all gone home to watch the Chase on TV.

      Labour has let people down so often that they can't believe in The Party having any usefulness for them. The free market comes after Thatcher's schoolgirl motivation in being the brightest girl in the Commons with unsophisticated conservative certainties that cheered the Party but left huge swathes with nothing to cheer. Now my Party left me, is probably the frequent thought by ex-Labourites.

  7. Jackel 7
    3 December 2019 at 11:28 pm

    Some young people have the ability to sound older and more mature than they actually are. Alas some older people can do the opposite. Some young people are remarkably mature. It's not always easy to work out who the adults in the room are. But usually with a bit of time people show their true colours.

  8. pat 8
    4 December 2019 at 12:15 am

    Emergency = R × U = p × D × τ / T

    Act now

    "In our view, the evidence from tipping points alone suggests that we are in a state of planetary emergency: both the risk and urgency of the situation are acute (see ‘Emergency: do the maths’)."

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

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