Hey Chess Player, I am a keen player myself, just having gone back to the club this year. Would be good to have a chat about that. Hopefully the mods will let this through. Perhaps we could touch base on GD or the likes.
I think its one of those things where "fat used to be bad now its good" type situations. So, food manufacturers reduced the fat way down, but increased the sugar so that the food tasted good. But now, added sugar is seen as the villain, but fat, not so ...
It would be interesting to see the figures on that. From my anecdotale experience, it is quite rare for me to see people smoking these days. But I do see lots of people vaping.
In the case of vapes it isn't though. Several of my off-spring have gotten off cigarettes throught the use of nicotine vapes. They are gradually reducing the nicotine dosage in the vapes, so hopefully soon will be off the habit all together. So, I think ...
Weka, latest studies suggest that several cups of coffee a day are actually very good for you. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/is-coffee-good-or-bad-for-your-health/ I usually try to limit my coffee intake to the morning to avoid the ...
I agree that nicotine is more addictive for sure. Though, caffine is still quite addictive. I should know. I would find it hard to go without my daily dosage of caffine. lol.
Fair point. Reading the article you link to, it seems to me that they are talking about very high doses of nicotine. Otherwise, those who vape with nicotine products would experience similar effects. So, it is important to consider the dose with these ...
In messages to the Public Service Costello claimed that nicotine was no more harmful than caffeine. She probably isn't too far wrong in that respect if nicotine is considered in isolation. Though, I think it is still more harmful than caffine. If nicotine...
The problem with Labour claiming credit for the drop in inflation is that I remember their narrative when facing criticism about inflation was that inflation was mainly due to international factors beyond their control. So, it seems to me that either the ...
I think it is debatable whether smokers actually are a larger drain on the health system than others. That is because they tend to die earlier. Hence, have less time to incurr costs than non-smokers.
Ok, I will bite on this one. Firstly, I fully support helping people cease smoking. The advent of vaping has certainly made it a lot easier to quit. Several of my children have been able to get off smoking that way. As Gosman points out above, smoking ...
Here is an excellent video by Sabien Hossenfeilder explaining the key science that proves that modern climate change is caused by humans. An excellent video to give to skeptics or climate change deniers you may know. She also provides an excellent video ...
I think if the operation focuses only on preventing attacks on shipping it should be ok. For instance, firing on missile sites identified by their launch location. So, a missile fired at a ship initiates immediate counter-battery fire. Also, taking out ...
Yes, you have nailed it. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Firstly, there is no justification to fire on innocent merchant shipping, especially since many of those ships will likely have nothing to do with Israel. Secondly, we are highly dependent on sea trade as a trading nation. So, it is in our interest to do ...
Thanks for watching the video. Glad you enjoyed it. I don't know if you noticed, but there is a clip of the ceiling of our activity room where the ceiling is wallpapered with pics of people and groups who have been through Crossroads. Quite moving. The ...
I guess the point I was making tongue in cheek is that those who can afford EVs etc can likely also afford to pay the RUC charges.
If most EV's are purchased by realatively wealthy people, then wouldn't it be easiest just to call the RUC charge on those a "rich pricks'' tax? I imagine those who are less leaning would rejoice in the charge if it were framed that way, lol.
Your video link is "no longer available" it says. A bit weird. Working fine for me when I click the link. Be interested to see if others are having problems with it. You may want to be judged by your actions, rather than your words, but you've made the ...
Again, putting words in my typing. But we prefer to be judged by our actions rather than our words. Here is an example of what commitment to the community looks like. The founder of our trust regularly (weekly I think) took a daughter of a long term ...
Again, putting words into my typing. I didn't say we don't answer with a Maori greeting. In fact we do. Just that if we just focus on the trappings without attending the the substantive matters then we are just engaging in superficial posturing. And, from ...
I guess from the perspective of Crossroads, "superficial or token posturing" would be to give ourselves a name with "Maori" in it somewhere, have a Maori logo, have a mission statement that specifies meeting the needs of Maori, require our staff to answer ...
That would be putting words in my typing don't you think?
Our organisation is heavily involved in the Maori community. Working with youth also means considerable contact with families as well. The originator of our trust (now retired) ended up being seen as a Komatua, despite not actually being Maori himself, and...
I didn't say they should be sweet. Just likely to be more effective, assuming the programs are well designed in the first place. But, if the programs themselves haven't been well designed, then the outcomes for all the groups in target demographics won't ...
Several comments from me here. Firstly, my understanding is that National has guaranteed to support Act's policy to the first reading only. I suspect it will die a natural death after that. Secondly, should we be focussed on poorly targeted measures, or ...
Maybe.
I made a comment on a youtube video about how it is unbelievable that a country as big as the US can't find two better candidates than what seems will be the case. I got a reply from someone saying that "one should be in jail, and the other in a nursing ...
Retailers everywhere will now be rejoicing that police are treating shop lifting as a crime worth investigating. I assume that now every time a retailer makes a complaint about shop lifting, instead of ignoring the offence, the police will be sending ...
I don't really see the point in trolling. It doesn't achieve anything other than just annoy the people who dislike the views of the troller. If that is the objective, then I guess the troller achieves that. But, other than that there is little value or ...
I think the Police pretty much ignore retail theft now given reports of people just wheeling out trolleys full of groceries from Supermarkets without paying for them etc. In the current case, I think Golriz, due to her profile, has probably suffered a lot ...
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