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Congrats to Geordie Rogers and the Greens for winning the Pukehīnau/Lambton General Ward vacated by Tamatha Paul. In true Greens tradition, Rogers is a tenants advocate being the former president of Renters United. I'm sure he will continue to promote renters' concerns in Wellington which has dreadfully poor housing stock.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509775/green-party-candidate-geordie-rogers-wins-wellington-city-council-by-election
Geordie's win over the right wing candidate has put the wind up the nut jobs with Heather Duplicity-Allan this afternoon calling for National and ACT increase their brand exposure by standing candidates in local elections.
That's a huge call so Geordie is already having a massive effect!
Take a walk around aro Valley, heaps of shitty old villas and the like take up vast areas , probably all protected by various quiant loving fools , keep one free a museum level the rest and build modern community apartments
You are asking for an unoaked chardonnay to be thrown in yr face with that talk.
It's cardonah you chunts
Sections of Aro Valley could and should be repurposed and that has happened from time to time but it would be a mistake to throw out all that Pākehā heritage.
I don't have an issue with those houses disrepair being gentrified as long as much more decent and more dense housing is built within it and around it. You might lose a bit of the raw bohemian aspect but physically knocking down a city's identity removes it entirely.
One as a museum from each decade, sorted
So, I've just asked google a couple of different ways, looked at The Greens site, but don't know who the candidates are for Shaw's spot. Nominations closed 8 days ago.
Can someone enlighten me please?
Chloe Swarbrick and the Scottish lord I think.
An evolutionary adaption/advantage favouring exploration over resource depletion.
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Abstract
All mobile organisms forage for resources, choosing how and when to search for new opportunities by comparing current returns with the average for the environment. In humans, nomadic lifestyles favouring exploration have been associated with genetic mutations implicated in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), inviting the hypothesis that this condition may impact foraging decisions in the general population. Here we tested this pre-registered hypothesis by examining how human participants collected resources in an online foraging task. On every trial, participants chose either to continue to collect rewards from a depleting patch of resources or to replenish the patch. Participants also completed a well-validated ADHD self-report screening assessment at the end of sessions. Participants departed resource patches sooner when travel times between patches were shorter than when they were longer, as predicted by optimal foraging theory. Participants whose scores on the ADHD scale crossed the threshold for a positive screen departed patches significantly sooner than participants who did not meet this criterion. Participants meeting this threshold for ADHD also achieved higher reward rates than individuals who did not. Our findings suggest that ADHD attributes may confer foraging advantages in some environments and invite the possibility that this condition may reflect an adaptation favouring exploration over exploitation.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2584
I found that interesting, well the article in the Guardian on it .
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/21/adhd-may-have-been-an-evolutionary-advantage-research-suggests
It does seem to have an ancient lineage, rather than being a modern day pathology.For people with it, ( a much loved family member) modern times make things very difficult .
It looks like David Seymour can't destroy Māori and the NZ film industry at the same time:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350189480/tova-podcast-after-casting-doubt-future-film-rebates-government-finally-commits
Dear, old Janet Dickson. Too racist and afraid to go to a 90 min Tikanga course, now threatening Harcourts (one of the most Pakeha institutions in the land, no doubt) with a Hobson's Pledge backed judicial review costing $150K.
If she’d just gone to the course she'd have saved some nut jobs $150K at nearly $1700/min or $28/sec!
There were probably scones and refreshments and she might have learned something too…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/realtor-janet-dickson-facing-5-year-ban-for-refusing-maori-values-course/RUVMVQWKFVBGZE43VH4YF6BL4M/
I'm all for having people learn more about Maori culture, but I think this particular case is one for the carrot, not the stick. Making it mandatory for someone to do that course, and whacking them with a possible booting-out from their profession if they don't comply? Pretty disproportionate, in my view. Surely there are less drastic approaches?
Yip watching learned Maori academics tut tatting about this on the news last night was comical, although we ate almost heading to group think being forced on us.
OK sure, but what if another agent down the road starts refusing to do required PD in ethics because it's "woke nonsense"?
We will also loudly tut about forcing things down people's throats? Or does that argument only apply to learning about Te Ao Maori because we value a citizen's right to be racist dickhole over multiculturalism?
If you want to become a member of a highly regulated profession with compulsory PD requirements, then you accept the jurisdiction of whatever regulatory body supervises you.
If you don't want to comply, it's a free job market (or so this new government keeps telling us) and you're welcome to find a new career.
What's if anything does the tiriti and te aou moari have to do with selling houses?
As opposed to ethics
Could be that the house your selling is owned by or being purchased by Maori. And maybe once you've finished clutching your pearls about the fact that yes, the bloody moaris can own property too, it would be good to deal with your client is a way that respects their culture and language.
More importantly, democracy and the regulatory state are based on the idea that you accept the rules set by the government of the day on behalf of society. You can agitate for them to be changed, yes. Run for public office. Publicly tell everyone how wrong and bad you think they are.
But you don't get to pick and choose what regulations you want to comply with just because you want to engage in some performative outrage over a bullshit culture war that doesn't exist outside of your own fragile ego.
Your making me out to be something I'm not.
""Run for public office. Publicly tell everyone how wrong and bad you think they are.""
Or be brave enough to stand up as an employee and say I'm not down for this.
Ir even have a mildly heated discussion with some other nameless person on a blog,
I didn't mean you in particular, Bwaghorn.
Fair enough,
It's part of professional development mandated by those far left woke activists, Harcourts…
Just do the mahi Janet.
(h/t @vlcnz)
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/woman-s-possible-5-year-exclusion-from-real-estate-for-protest-against-m-ori-values-program-cultural-wokeness-winston-peters.html
Thomas Coughlan of the Herald tries to blame WakaKotahi-NZTA for the Government's (probably Nic Willis) massive blow-out of $24 billion for its highway schemes.
This is the GOVERNMENT'S crazy plan; WakaKotahi just gave a cost estimate.
The real news is that our Finance Minister is not competent to balance a cheque book.
Looks like the Nats are going to go for a budget blowout, despite all their talk of cost-cutting. Nick Rockel's take:
It's all good , we'll get forign corporates to shoddily build them well gaurentee any and all cost over runs ,
I wouldn't mind PPP's if they actually worked but the public gets burned every single time.
Given the government now allows heavier trucks on the roads and the tax payer gets the maintenance cost of that, the PPP deals will be worse than ever before.