The Daily Blog Open Mic – 18th October 2022

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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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.

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  2. Idea – (imagine light bulb) – When someone in real need and in a low-status level of concern from the government when it comes to help – try this.
    Contact the authorities that you are in an accident of some sort, and ask them to send all necessary assistance, even a helicopter if they have one spare.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476867/pair-rescued-after-vehicle-driven-off-cliff-onto-beach

    How come we can organise to help trampers caught by bad weather while they are wearing sneakers and jeans for warmth and the weather shats on them, but we can’t organise to ensure services for citizens living ordinary human lives who are having babies, – our future?
    And …. put your own example here, perhaps Care for injured workers, Sensible ACC to help people get on their feet and well, Housing suitable for a 21st century modern world, and constant small free educational opportunities to keep people ahead and informed of the crap world that is flowing over us after the NZ govt. has opened the sluice gates to all the world’s problems and problem-makers.)…

    (That is just a few and you will have your own memories of suitable candidates for sensible and value-laden action from gummint. Light-bulb again – the gummint receives a lot of money even from a broken-down vehicle as NZ is, so where is it going and are we getting value for money, and can we complain about faulty product to someone?)

  3. From Kathryn Ryan interview with author and thinker Dan Schreiber – how to use the sleeping brain cells yet to be accessed in your brain or cope with your own manias and those of others clearly off the board – or are they?? Here is an audio link.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018863130/q-i-researcher-dan-schreiber-on-the-world-s-strangest-theories
    Dan Schreiber has made a career of combining quirky facts with comedy. He’s a Q.I ‘elf’ – part of the team of researchers behind the popular quiz show Q.I, co-hosts a spinoff podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish, and is behind the Museum of Curiosity, a comedy talk show on BBC Radio 4.

    Some of us are realising that we have to think along different lines to survive – how can we go forward as a group with shared values? I keep thinking that quote from Lord Rutherford –
    We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think’.
    https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/ernest-rutherford

  4. Good journalism hooray for you!
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2210/S00238/tenancy-law-investigation-wins-2022-jesson-journalism-award.htm
    An investigation which exposed the failure of New Zealand’s regulation of rental housing has won this year’s Bruce Jesson Emerging Journalism Award.

    Massey University journalism students Mary Argue, James Pocock and Lucy Revill found that many Wellington tenants living in clearly mouldy and sub-standard housing were unable to win cases against their landlords in the Tenancy Tribunal…

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