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Comment: Covid D day
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 8:45 pm, October 11th, 2021
No, individual Pakeha are not to blame. However, all Pakeha have benefited from colonisation and many continue to do so. So, arh, could y'all help decolonise?Comment: Terra Incognita
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 11:00 am, October 10th, 2021
Nice try but events unfold, hence disaster response and recovery always suffers for a lack of preparedness. There's no cycling back to strengthen that building etc.Comment: Key’s baaaack
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:42 pm, September 26th, 2021
What's disgusting about her? Can't be her whiteness, right...Comment: The Golden Ticket
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 5:06 pm, September 24th, 2021
Actually there is. The Signal CodeComment: The antidote page for all those chickens
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 5:03 am, August 20th, 2021
Why feck is NZ vaxing Europeans! ;)Comment: Covid-19 and the risk-based border plan
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 11:02 am, August 14th, 2021
Sounds like a medium sized spreadsheet job to me, team of 4 over a long weekend, then a team of 2 to surveil relevant databases.Comment: Covid-19 and the risk-based border plan
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 10:58 am, August 14th, 2021
4th wave where I am in Canada (SK). Numbers 4x last August when we were in semi-lockdown. Neighboring Alberta has dropped many rules over isolation. Hard rains gonna fall ... (cruel metaphor given the hundreds of wildfires exacerbated by climate change).Comment: Covid-19 and the risk-based border plan
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 10:34 am, August 14th, 2021
PM's role has always included pimp. I expect them to travel and fly the flag. And the current one is extremely well known and widely admired. I'd send her to the US first, then China on the way home ... and definitely take the baby.Comment: We are stuck
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 1:22 pm, August 12th, 2021
C'mon. Most of Australia is a scorched bbq area.Comment: Judith’s last stand?
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:14 pm, August 4th, 2021
Cherry duly picked...Comment: Oppose this new hate speech bill
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 3:52 am, June 28th, 2021
Several years ago, I discouraged my students (undergrad and postgrad) from reading social media or mainstream media on Maori issues, and essentially disengaged my courses from researching much of the internet-located debates, due to online abuse. Stuff was ...Comment: Greenpeace on the cow shaped hole in the Climate Commission report
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 1:30 am, June 11th, 2021
Whatever happened to the Greenhouse Gas/emmissions blah blah research collaboration between industry and CRIs? Was set up maybe 8, 9 years ago?Comment: The Covid India issue
Written By: simbit - Date published: 12:42 am, April 10th, 2021
"Requiring a negative pre-departure test likely influences behaviour." Exactly. Wife and kids just out of MIQ, avoiding contact with her father (heart) and sister (frontline health) for 5 more days. Self-isolated for 17 days in Canada, 3 Covid tests @$250 ...Comment: Covid Zeitgeist
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 5:50 pm, March 21st, 2021
My wife and 2 of our 3 kids just boarding an AirNZ flight outta LAX, returning after 4 years away. They're rather excited. I'm working on (Canada) with 17 yo till he graduates high school and we'll follow. We're pretty optimistic...Comment: We must resist US pressure on China that could lead to war
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 3:39 am, February 21st, 2021
"The Chinese system prioritises communal welfare, so it has raised millions out of poverty." Not sure if you mean the Chinese Communist Party or some sort of traditional Chinese society. The CCP plunged China into famine which it took many years to dig ...Comment: The Parler purge
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 1:14 pm, January 13th, 2021
Once read of a Buddhist sect that believed we went through 10,000 rebirths and then attained nirvana, regardless of karma and our attitudes and behaviours. You can see why they purged that...Comment: Nanaia Mahuta – Peacebroker
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 3:15 am, December 17th, 2020
You're not wrong Lettuce. Trouble is the Chinese, and the Israelis, and anyone else we wanna lecture can always cite Taika Waititi on NZ racism, or Nicky Hager on NZ war crimes. If they wanted to be really smug, they'd quote the bible, the bit about the ...Comment: The reeferendum fails
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 1:59 pm, October 31st, 2020
The Scottish referendum was closer.Comment: Election Night 2020
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 4:30 am, October 18th, 2020
"...there were uncles giving lectures on ancient Irisk history..."Comment: Did any National MP not receive confidential information from Michelle Boag?
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:31 pm, July 10th, 2020
Wow, he was bad. More fun than I expected!Comment: Did any National MP not receive confidential information from Michelle Boag?
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 10:28 am, July 10th, 2020
Listening on internet radio from a sun drenched deck on the Canadian prairies. Better than cricket for summer entertainment... [Not really]Comment: Is there something wrong with Judith being white?
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 3:47 pm, May 28th, 2020
She's not as dumb as we hope and she's more racist than we fear.Comment: Don’t plan on a vaccine or persistent natural immunity.
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:02 am, April 20th, 2020
Ditto. First time in ages I've persisted with any thread. We (wife plus 3) emigrated to Canada 4 years ago. This discussion informs our thinking for our next big decision: when, and how, to return. A post above talked about 10% of expats returning? Could ...Comment: Are the Vultures Already Circling Above?
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 3:04 pm, April 14th, 2020
When did Hemingway drop out? In response to Fitzgerald's comment, "The rich are different from you and me," replied, "Yes. They have more money."Comment: The right is splintering on climate change
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 12:20 pm, January 25th, 2020
And then capitalism became 'human development '...Comment: Why is Jacinda Ardern so popular?
Written By: simbit - Date published: 2:01 pm, August 29th, 2019
A live human came out of her. More than I've ever done in the world...Comment: Dunne reckons next election will be close
Written By: simbit - Date published: 1:43 pm, July 26th, 2019
Trump, Johnson, Putin, Erdogan et al. = end of empire. Neither surprising or necessarily scary. Actually in many ways reassuring...Comment: Boris for UK PMⁿ
Written By: simbit - Date published: 4:28 pm, July 24th, 2019
Not quite. This is what end-of-empire looks look. Get used to it...Comment: Deranged Jacinda syndrome
Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:46 pm, June 10th, 2019
Thanks for those details Mac1. She sounds like a class act, not the first time she would've been at risk of being compromised by poor local leadership I'm sure. Won't be the last. I suspect she picks up 20, 30 votes everytime she's in a public meeting of ...Comment: Kiwi Cultural Cringe is Alive and Well
Written By: simbit - Date published: 1:51 am, April 23rd, 2019
As a young Maori I loved reading, went to university, ended up with a PhD and am a tenured professor (overseas). I suspect your point is to support a diversity of educational pathways?
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