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A daily laugh perhaps that’s what we need. So here is one for the 1st of October.
Hale and Pace – Billy and Johnny …
Could be called stating the obvious which is what a lot of people do who come on political blogs. They have a moan once, set out their preferred outcomes and behaviour like aristocrats, and save up their observations to provide themselves with fodder for the rest of the year. But as they don’t have any more ideas everything goes on as usual with free speech enabling them to indulge themselves in the thought that other people should be doing things better to suit them. This thinking didn’t work in 20th century and desperately needs change to innovative ideas in the 21st.
But here’s Billy and Johnny demonstrating the behaviour carried out to its extremes. Watching corn pop is good. We often talk about watching politics unfold with a supply of
popcorn to hand! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvyBnzVpLBA
Sorry popcorn doesn’t always come up next – so here I think –
https://www.facebook.com/haleandpace/videos/theres-one-popcorn/10156004637857925/
Ooh aah that Covid thing, it’s like a rolling stone gathering moss. Don’t like the findings about it of this research.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/475820/viral-infections-and-the-causes-of-dementia
Among more than six million adults older than 65, individuals with Covid-19 were at a 70 percent higher risk than the uninfected for a new diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease within a year of testing positive for Covid-19.,,
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can invade brain tissue. Other viruses can also cause direct damage to the brain. A study of almost two million people showed the risk of Alzheimer’s was markedly lower in those who had been vaccinated against influenza.
(That was talking about influenza vaccination not covid19 but it is an example of how vaxxes are shown to be very valuable, in most cases, to people’s health.)
And just to remind people that are against vaxx because …. The mere antipathy (dislike) of it may be an early sign of degenerating brain, so quickly get vaxxed before you go further. Very few people die from getting the right vaxx and most are okay, not getting vaxxed can be worse than getting vaxxed. You know risk! – like crossing the road not on the pedestrian crossing, you have to size up the risk of being hit if you’re not fast at dodging between the traffic coming at you.
Life happens while we try to get our leaders to behave intelligently, ethically, rationally and usefully.
This is important. Funny (queer and haha) I am watching tvseries 24 at same time.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/475864/nord-stream-rupture-may-mark-biggest-single-methane-release-ever-recorded-un
…The Gulf of Mexico leak, also viewable from space, ultimately released about 40,000 metric tonnes of methane over 17 days, according to a study conducted by the Polytechnic University of Valencia and published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
That is the equivalent of burning 501,858 tonnes (1.1 billion lbs) of coal, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator.
Improved satellite technology has rapidly enhanced the ability of scientists to find and analyse greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, something some governments hope will help companies detect and prevent methane emissions.
The major leaks that suddenly erupted in the Nord Stream gas pipelines that run from Russia to Europe have generated plenty of theories but few clear answers about who or what caused the damage. Both Russia and the European Union have suggested the ruptures were caused by saboteurs.
Europe is undergoing a fuel crisis, partly fed by geopolitical tensions, and both Europe and the United States have heaped sanctions on Moscow in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, raising worries the Kremlin will seek to deprive Europe of crucial energy supplies leading into the winter.
This hurts. Why can’t hard working or just even ordinary people get full help from the authorities whichever they are, to enable their living. Can’t we at least get efficiency if not humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The store counter was also damaged and the group had stomped and trampled on stock, he said.
“I work seven days, it’s been six years since I’ve taken a holiday.
“We work really bloody hard to make a living, and someone comes in and does that to your livelihood – it sucks.”
There has been a spate of ram-raids throughout the country this year.
Morar said he knew it would only be a matter of time before his business was targeted.
He said he had spent months lobbying the local MP, Barbara Edmonds, and trying to get agreement from the council for protective bollards to be installed but delays kept occurring.
“That’s why it makes my blood boil … because I was genuinely trying to be so proactive to avoid this and this could have been [avoided].”..
I don’t trust anything and any changes or critiques supposed to be for good may not be.
Now I am wondering why radionz has done two investigative stories on Lotto. It’s wise to keep an eye out but what is behind it? Might we lose this State lottery because faults can be found with its running, and private industry can do better??
\https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/475019/lottery-grants-system-incoherent-biased-and-preserves-status-quo-review (Guyon Espiner)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/474779/how-nzers-bought-the-lotto-dream (Guyon Espiner)
PayPal cancels UKs Free Speech Union:
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/paypal-shuts-down-accounts-of-free-speech-union/369374
Possibly they didn’t pay! These free speech people tend to think that everything grows on trees – for them to pick as they please. But still they won’t pay for the trees to be planted. Closed loop thinking.
Another feather for PM Jacinda to wear!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018860941/christchurch-call-pushes-against-the-algorithms
Evan Henshaw-Plath is a social media innovator who helped create the platform Odeo in the mid 2000s, which later morphed into Twitter in 2006.
Twitter went on to lead the pack in micro-blogging and his former colleague Jack Dorsey became Silicon Valley aristocracy.
“It is fine if … there is some Nazi propaganda on the Internet. If you want to know about what the Nazis thought in the 1930s and 40s, it’s fine to read about that. [But] if you want to see a whole bunch of disinformation that’s about recruiting people, and take them from one video to the next video to the next video to next video to all of a sudden things that are white supremacist … this is what the algorithm does,” Evan Henshaw-Plath told Mediawatch.
Evan-Henshaw Plath, CEO Planetary and former co-funder of Odeo, a forerunner of Twitter.
Evan-Henshaw Plath, CEO Planetary and former co-funder of Odeo, a forerunner of Twitter. Photo: supplied
“It’s not about controlling what information is available. It’s about understanding the way engagement works and how people are going through it. It’s complicated and it’s easy to get the regulation wrong. But the regulation is the only thing that’s going to change the behavior of these corporations,” said Henshaw-Plath, who left the US for Wellington this year to work on on social media platforms that cannot grow to the scale of Twitter, Face
Those algorithms are private property of some of the biggest companies in the world. Is the Christchurch Call’s research going to help?
“They’re considered trade secrets, but that doesn’t have to be the way. There’s a bunch of movements – including the Algorithmic Justice League, where people are – we need to be able to see what these algorithms are and how they’re designed. And we need to be able to compare them,” Henshaw-Plath told Mediawatch…
Carterton, where time stands still and no alien viruses dare to enter, meets Wellington
where all those who do not wish to time travel meet similar others. In the USA they differ slightly in relation to aliens and sojourn with beings from UFO’s. Perhaps they need someone like Robin Williams to liven things down there.
Mork and Mindy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZOYWxtCsRQ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/475926/the-woman-behind-refreshing-local-democracy
Greathead said she had been present at the parliament protest for five days.
“There were thousands of people at the protest. I met someone who knew someone who knew someone, and they were very keen to get elected members – meet elected members, because everyone of course was undergoing these crazy, crazy mandates. We couldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t even go into my own council chambers that I had been in for the last 21 years for four months and no one said anything to me. It was absolutely shocking.
“People were pretty pissed off about not being able to go to libraries, swimming pools and council chambers.”