The Daily Blog Open Mic – 17th February 2023

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.

The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.

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  2. When we finally go whacko and stop trying to find sanity and real humanity and goodness – perhaps we might find an alternative life and lack of purpose?

    In 1986, Charlie Pickering’s dad, Ron, was pushed into a pool by his best friend, Richard. What followed was an all-out water pistol ambush in a five-star restaurant and then ten years of tit-for-tat payback and near fatal high jinks that eventually involved the State Emergency Service. When maturity is the first casualty of war, things tend to escalate.

    Impractical Jokes is the true story of two seemingly responsible middle-aged men who opted out of having a mid-life crisis and instead gave themselves permission to be silly. It is also the tale of how Charlie finally learned something from his dad – that being grown-up shouldn’t mean losing your sense of humour – a lesson he lives to the full as one of Australia’s leading comedians.

    Charlie Pickering – Impractical Jokes (ongoing Practical Joke ‘War’)

    and Hella Nation charts Wright’s deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood uber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America’s far right. Along the way he meets runaway teens in Hollywood earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism from tree-sits in the Oregon rainforest and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom The American Dream is either just out of grasp, or something they have chosen to reject altogether.

    Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Wright’s meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.
    Book – Evan Wright – Hella Nation (In Search of Lost Tribes of America)

  3. A somnolent government and warped regional councils need to act to prevent the slash, one of the things that an interested townie is aware of wo=hich is harassing country folk in Tolaga Bay and elsewhere. Jobs should be done properly, better housekeeping done with the after effects.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/484404/cyclone-gabrielle-triggered-more-destructive-forestry-slash-nz-must-change-how-it-grows-trees-on-fragile-land
    Clear-fell harvesting of pine forests on steep erosion-prone land has been identified as a key source of this phenomenon.

    So we need to ask why we harvest pine forests on such fragile land, and what needs to change to prevent erosion debris and slash being washed from harvested land.
    Pine was a solution
    Ironically, most of these pine forests were planted as a solution to soil erosion that had resulted from the clearing of native forests to create hill country pastoral farms.
    The clearing of native forests happened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the consequences – erosion, flooding and floodplains covered in silt and rocks – only became apparent decades later.

    Research has shown that pastoral farming on our most erosion-susceptible soils is not sustainable. The productivity of the land is being degraded by loss of soil and large areas have been buried with sediment eroded from hill country farms upstream.

  4. How to debate so we can get where it’s a good place to go! Please read/listen to this fellow talk quietly about how we can argue with each other to effective ends.

    Bo Seo transferred from Korea – had to align his ideas with a new language and find how to put his ideas forward, get reasoned debate about them and appreciate the best result from combining ideas with others respecting truths.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjUFuW2J0A 11.50m How to Argue : Why You’re losing your arguments.
    Train for any argument with Harvard’s former debate coach | Bo Seo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTTbsHJlwM 2.34m Why Bo Seo Started Debating

  6. Can anyone advise Radionz or the leaner RNZ, if there is anything else happening ion NZ/Ao besides C. Gabrielle? It is a mistake to encourage us all in the belief that we can only cope with one disaster at a time; these are difficult times!

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