Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476524/ex-breakfast-host-kamahl-santamaria-breaks-silence-with-apology
Ice skating has faded from the spectrum of NZ sports but I think that people like Santamaria need to become more saint-like and skim over thin ice with a veil of hygiene ensuring he is always a few millimetres away from actual contact with the surface. Then he can’t sink into the frigid cold water that paradoxically burns like fire.
Nelson readers amongst others, might like to know whether Talleys has improved after protests in past years. This is the whole link below, and then a summary for those who want to double down. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/10/12/the-daily-blog-open-mic-12th-october-2022/
1News highlighted the programme earlier this year as part of an investigation into Talley’s Group, one of the country’s biggest employers using the programme.
The story revealed an ACC monitoring report in February 2020 found “consistently inaccurate” payments by the Talley’s Group to workers hurt at its meatworks.
And some background that gives something to chew on besides your boots…grrrr.
So a special scheme that allows the powerful and wealthy to get away with damaging their workers and not looking after them?
How charming.
This country is a network of old boy nods and winks that produce monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies.
The Governments responsibility to Capitalism is to regulate it so that consumers have actual choice, in NZ we pretend to be regulated when it reality the Government allow the big players to write the rules while we suffer…
…ACC lawyer Peter Sara has helped many workers challenge accredited employers. He described the AEP [Accredited Employers Programme] as an “experiment which has failed”…
Sara said there was still a clear “conflict of interest” for employers.
“They’re wearing two hats – they’re wearing the hat of an employer and they’re wearing the hat of an ACC provider – and the two are not good bedfellows, they just don’t work together,” he said.
For reading, remembering and cogitating! (Note to myself)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018861850/kris-de-decker-can-low-tech-become-the-new-hi-tech
From Saturday Morning, 10:05 am on 8 October 2022
After 11 years working as a science and tech journalist, Kris De Decker realised that low-tech is actually the way of the future.
He’s the creator of Low-Tech Magazine – a solar-powered website hosted from his Barcelona balcony…
After years of interviewing researchers and scientists, De Decker realised technological innovations are not really environmental solutions.
Electric cars are a good example of an invention that isn’t quite an environmental solution, he tells Kim Hill.
Even though they don’t use gasoline as fuel, e-cars are still reliant on a substance – lithium – for energy.
Many include unnecessary features that are wasteful of energy such as screens that aid parking and entertainment systems.
If you want a car without air conditioning and electrically operated windows, you can’t even find one these days, he says…
“What is inefficient in a car is its two tonnes of metal to transport one or two persons… 95 percent of the energy used by a car is actually used to transport the car and not the passengers.
“Most cars these days have a top speed of 250km an hour and there’s no need for that – they accelerate in a couple of seconds…
It’s tempting to think of the internet as a weightless thing but even it uses an increasing amount of energy.
De Decker’s solar-powered website is hosted from his balcony in Barcelona.
Because Barcelona is so sunny solar power is the obvious choice there, he says, but the best form of renewable energy depends on the environment.
In the Netherlands, that would be wind. In Finland, you could power a website via a wood stove.
“You could even use human power if you’re kind of a sporty type.”
Comments are closed.