Daily review 27/02/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 27th, 2024 - 10 comments
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Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

10 comments on “Daily review 27/02/2024 ”

  1. gsays 1

    This popped up in a biochar enthusiasts group e-mail.

    Why Solid Carbon is the Future of Energy Storage (youtube.com)

    Thermal energy storage as opposed to chemical bonds.

    17 minutes, communicated well (not too brainy) and optimistic.

  2. joe90 2

    You can take #ApartheidClyde out of SA but you can't take SA out of #ApartheidClyde.

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    @whstancil

    Gotta love how the prestige press has ignored the fact that Elon Musk has become a full-bore race science creep, promoting claims of black inferiority. The minor story of earth’s richest man converting to white supremacy was left to “Benzinga” to report on

    https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1762226305393725476

    In addition to weighing in on the hot-button issue of immigration, in recent months, Musk has replied to and engaged with accounts that post about racial IQ gaps and other data related to race.

    Will Stancil, a metro policy researcher, pointed out that Musk has had frequent interactions with an account named @eyeslasho. The anonymous account has dozens of posts about IQ test scores by racial group, crime rates by race and more.

    https://www.benzinga.com/general/education/24/02/37288311/elon-musk-engages-with-racial-iq-content-on-x-while-facing-drug-allegations-tesla-stock-turmoil

  3. SPC 3

    The Beehive Civilian can report that the government has moved to remove the racist Maori Health Authority and at the same time ensured the continuance on addiction to nicotine of smokers (predominantly Maori) to enable the affordability of lowering the tax burden on landlords (predominantly not Maori).

    This being the first step of a longer process of empowering the majority (predominantly not Maori) via their supremacy in parliament over the landless working class and the indigenous.

  4. Jilly Bee 4

    On the 30th annivesary of my late mum's 88th birthday celebration (a lunch at the Kopu Hotel) and a couple of months before she died, mum would have been mortified by what's happening in Parliament at present. She and my dad were literally rescued by the policies of the Labour Government led by Michael Joseph Savage, after dad had to walk away from his trucking business during the Great Depression – he never really got over it, after coping with a couple of 'Nervous Breakdowns' as they were called back in the day. Fortunately, he scored a job or two at Horitiu Freezing works for a few years then onto PTY Timber in Putaruru as a tally clerk, which allowed them to save a few dollars for their retirement. I could go on, but would probably bore you all senseless. Mum died on Anzac Day 1994.

    • Anne 4.1

      The same goes for my mum and dad. They arrived in NZ on the day NZ declared war on Germany, having spent two years in Australia where they lost all their money. Fortunately my dad had a British military background and it took him into WW2 as an Army captain. They offered him a promotion to major at the end of the war in an attempt to retain him, but he 'd had enough and quit. He was however given the opportunity to purchase a villa in Auckland at a nominal price. This was due to the largesse of the Labour govt. of the day. My dad joined the Labour Party in 1948 – a gesture of gratitude to them. He never regretted it to his dying day in 1982.

      My father would be looking on in horror at the parliamentary antics of today. I can see him now writing screeds to newspapers and demanding the powerful get rid of that “horrible little squirt, David Seymour.” 😮

      • Kat 4.1.1

        The speaker of the house, surprisingly, appears not to be that over enamored with that 'orrible little squirt' either…

        • Anne 4.1.1.1

          Doesn't surprise me. He has his questionable moments, but he's an old school Nat. and they no more like these jumped up 'johnny cum latelys' than we do.

  5. SPC 5

    The Hon Minister of Finance is going to ensure that only some trusts will pay the 39 cents tax rate and most stay at 33 cents.

    Apparently only a few earn most of the money, so the government is confident they can afford to do this and still collect most of the income tax that was forecast ($350M) from the move to 39 cents.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/opinion/

    https://archive.li/vorRH

  6. Muttonbird 6

    Fairly sure Usman Khawaja ain't your friend, you bald-headed cunt, so why would you indulge in such loose language around him? Nervous, schoolboy stupidity is the only answer.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350194206/premier-house-upgrades-will-be-difficult-pm-claims-he-did-not-say-residence

    Can you imagine the mistakes this dipshit Humpty Dumpty is going to make on overseas tours?