Both you and weka are completely fucking out of control as moderators. It is blatantly obvious and I am loosing count of how many good faith and acceptable contributors you have either burned off or intimidated. You have both had too much power for too ...
I tend to agree - although both cases can be true at the same time. Conventional welfare handouts that are conditional and constrain a person's opportunities and agency are I believe prone to trapping people in poverty. There is a fair bit of evidence to ...
Yes
It was my sense that the govt. made 'saving lives' the number one priority during the pandemic. And in hindsight it was all a lot less use than was trumpeted at the time. Extended lockdowns achieved little at high cost, the vaccine mandates much the same....
I get your point - it seems like a very long bow to draw from the reality of a nascent train service and a few busses to get to a world in which you have to present papers and ask permission to leave your '20 min neighbourhood'. (But then again there is ...
The 20 minute city is a perfectly ordinary, non-controversial idea. Most of our smaller towns and cities reflect this principle already - at least to some degree. The problem is that COVID over-reach has caused a fraction of people to become disillusioned,...
Yes - in my comment below I've already pointed out this is effectively what I am already doing.
We could also read that as rather an imposition on them in a lot of circumstances. If you think the genetic evidence is weak - on what basis are you making that claim? In a world where infant mortality often reached 50% in the first year, and only another...
NZ is fortunate to have a demographic pyramid that is nowhere near as inverted as many other nations: https://www.populationpyramid.net/new-zealand/2023/ Nonetheless ageing is no longer quite the same proposition as it was when the scheme was first set up ...
Given that pretty much everything we might know about our deep ancestors relies on a rather modest evidence base - dismissing the clues that genetics does offer, for unspecified reasons, seems to me a tad arbitrary. If we accept the general idea that if ...
Fair enough - I think we can agree that what is true for our genetic heritage at a population level is not necessarily true for our individual genealogy. They are different contexts. In the context of the thread this means the idea that partriarchy somehow...
Nothing worth doing is ever easy mate - good luck!
Well you are entitled to your pop reckons - however it remains generally agreed by published researchers that over deep history about 80% of females had children, while only 40% of males did. This is quite a striking difference in reproductive success and ...
This is a good example of what is true at the level of the individual - as you correctly say each child has one male and one female parent - is not necessarily true at the population level where social dynamics of society come into play. This is obvious if...
A little searching on the topic throws up a range of material. For example: Once upon a time, 4,000 to 8,000 years after humanity invented agriculture, something very strange happened to human reproduction. Across the globe, for every 17 women who were ...
Same from me - looking forward to seeing your write up.
The original meme might come from the mining industry where if you are on a remote FIFO site and fuck up badly enough, you will be offered, "Window or aisle?"
Agreed - that is my sense of it as well. Men were expected to be responsible outside of the household, women inside of it. There are many non-Western societies where this social mode still holds sway. What is easy for us to forget is that in the pre-...
I would not be so tough. While historical materialism is heavily associated with Engels, it is nonetheless a way of thinking about our world that has some real value. It goes a long way down the road of discovering why we are the way we are - and helps ...
Only if it is accompanied by strong workplace legislation that protects older workers. Otherwise you just finish up with a cohort of people in their 50's and 60's relying on state support anyhow. Nothing much changes. Still given that some people are ...
Time at a marae, does not come into it. Why not? If memory serves me it was about 9 different marae in very rural settings spread over the King Country, Urewera and the East Coast. Probably every third weekend or so over most of a decade in the 80's. ...
Yes I think you are mostly on point there. A diversity of views has always been a point of difference here at TS and this is something I have consistently defended for years. I was one of the first handful of commenters here when Lynn started the site in ...
The neo-liberal global market reform resulted in two income partnerships to afford home ownership is sort of relevant For once I think we might agree on something. That and the fact of women entering the workforce en mass also put a dramatic downward ...
Apologies - I'm not able to keep up with your goal-post shifting. That is indeed a whole other discussion, but not for me I think.
You’re obstinate. According to you I am "cowardly" - make up your mind. If " genuine discussion " was your wish, do you think your answer "42" is a "genuine" response to anything?
Yes you have a point there - the CCP scarcely needs to covertly manipulate their electorate.
I won’t moderate you this time for your direct attack on my integrity that’s evidence-free. Your ban on Liberty Belle was in my view a recent evidence point. You raised increasingly obtuse quibbles with that commenter until you have created a plausible ...
A worthy initiative. Do you imagine the Chinese will pay it attention?
In the short clip I quoted - you were referring to the OP. I wanted to know whereabouts in the OP you found this claim clearly laid out. How you chose to qualify it is a ... red herring.
In the western world at least, that this condition no longer applies scarcely supports the idea that everything is an oppressive patriarchy in the present.
You are the one with the power here, and given your recent track record in provoking commenters so that you find it convenient to ban them - yeah nah.
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