This is a great push by the Greens. But they need to be open about the way interests are working across sectors politically, including on them. Nobody will fault them for being honest. They may win back some supporters. It they achieve equitable public ...
Ah, the inevitable recruitment attempt by Vladimir Putin.
(it's also not an attack on the United States and, certainly, not an attack on the American people, who, it looks like, have had enough).
Do it anyway. Those who would jump in can only be rebutted. But I know it's tiresome. A voice of reason on this site you are, Bill. It's interesting to note that many of the experts, commentators, and academics who bolster these narratives in our press are...
It is, in that it concerns Assange and is not as fulsome expose as referenced by you in the links you provided. But it is relevant, because the regime-change NGOs, media organizations, and fact-checking groups and the billionaires who back them that Max ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT1-tbJ9Mak
Winston Peters: the plastic bag Jacinda Ardern can't do without?
Prince Andrew linked to yet another child rapist. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/prince-andrew-linked-to-fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-facing-rape-sex-trafficking-claims.html
fair enough! You're a busy man, with two jobs. But that's also a choice. Shame there isn't a better solution for you, though, in your self-imposed circumstances. I'll go back to being a dimwit in my garden. Horas non-numero nisi serenas.
Sometimes people who have dedicated their lives to politics get irritated around people who actually live their values, Robert. It's tough to succeed in the former if you practice the latter. They are going to want to throw you overboard, or force you to ...
That was a bit of a joke. It's hard to know what to do with you, lprent, as you've painted yourself into a corner apartment. But your example provides the blog with a great problem-solving exercise. It also brings up how design practices and city planning ...
Countdown uses electric vehicles.
Exercise for firmer carrots. It's a win-win. Or you could always get your groceries delivered...
Get creative, Lyn! https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1216011049801043969
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-store-carrots/
Hi Lyn, it may sound crazy but you can store carrots in soil! I’m not sure when the nearest soil would be in your 3rd story 55m2 apartment, but you could always find yourself some sort of soil-filled container and stick your limp carrot in there. I ...
Yas, Philosopher Queen-In-Chief: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-praised-for-legendary-instagram-response.html Who needs DNcensorship measures when you're holding devastating snapbacks?
the gadfly being Socrates, of course. Your Isocrates (note the "I", a different person) stood by and watched, much like many of you disgraceful liberals have stood back and damned Julian Assange. Disgraceful then, disgraceful now. But you don't need my ...
I've spent the past three years studying ancient Greek and Latin. Please tell me how Aristotle's conception of virtue is relevant to my argument, and why you brought it up. Thanks. Don't let me put you off. Studying the classics has been one of the most ...
Nobody is arguing with any intelligence or knowledge. Hit me up, brother. You've got two-and-a-half thousand years of philosophy and literature and history to argue from or with. Don't see it in your comment. Aristotle was of a different school from the ...
And that's why I refuse to accept curbs on speech, my brother, especially by the horse (or whomever is whipping it).
Ha! Those concerned with eudaimonia had some contempt for the contemporary rhetoricians or sophists of that time, too. I have noted that some of our contemporary sophists get red in the face in media or other public appearances also. And they, like ...
CORRECTION The idea *of the good life – pursing long term strategies for maximizing pleasure and in the name of social harmony and virtue – is hardly *a new one. I would love to see our representatives debating these concepts more substantially in the ...
A random thought on this sunny afternoon. The criticism of the Labour government's push towards well-being has been called flighty and novel and empty. It's been used to push the claim that Ardern is some sort of airhead. I'm not on board with a lot of the...
I appreciate this, thank you, Andre. I'll read further into it. Some of my friends refuse to drive. Of course, that means I am the one to drive them to the garden centre. Still, we're doubling up, I suppose. Being mindful of our energy usage is the best we...
Is the CO2 used in producing / extracting the minerals required for batteries like cobalt and other minerals factored into these equations, especially given batteries have a limited shelf-life? I'm not sure it always is. But you seem quite well-informed. I...
Yeah. Ultimately, this push could drive seabed mining. No doubt some persons have invested accordingly. I've seen open cast mines in third world countries. And batteries have a limited life. There are more cycle lanes in Christchurch and around the place. ...
I read somewhere that this plan by the UK would require double the amount of cobalt than is produced globally, annually, to implement. I don't have time to find the reference. Certainly, cobalt mines are massive producers of CO2 and highly dependent on ...
That's nice of you to say, Robert! I appreciate that. It is something I really believe in. I don't expect everyone to do 2 hours in the garden every day under orders or not, but expanding existing community garden projects especially for people who are ...
I expect I will join some sort of community gardening group... That will probably be the extent of it! I'm unlikely to be setting up by own school and shutting down bad environmental or resource related labour abuses, etc, all on my own, am I?
I know of one in a rural area. They have the space. It's a great start.
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