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This caught my eye from post by Marijuana Media.
But this comes from ESR which counts any trace of illicit drugs but only counts alcohol if it is over the legal drink driving limit. Cannabis metabolites are stored in the body and can stick around long after any impairing effect has worn off, so detecting it does not mean the driver was impaired.
The above is connected to attitudes and understandings of meths that resulted in false, lying from the public housing department in their tests on houses and the following evictions of needy tenants. Treating all drugs as the devil’s brew is no way for a modern well-run country to handle the situation.
It’s simple-minded and mendacious – that’s a good word to explain the official attitude.
Just a thought – an appropriate dichotomy of leaders – simple and clear – will they be Ethelre d the Unready* or Good King Wenceslas.** These are ancient real actors in history that have remained in popular culture. I believe we need to look past the recent morass for an example to judge some able maestro of today.
*Ethelred – His epithet does not derive from the modern word “unready”, but rather from the Old English unræd meaning “poorly advised”; it is a pun on his name, which means “well advised”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready
**https://www.worldhistoryedu.com/st-wenceslas-the-duke-of-bohemia/
…Wenceslas is believed to have set up a number of churches and charitable centers all across Bohemia. This enabled him to win the admiration and respect of his people. He also devoted his life to caring for the downtrodden in the society, particularly, the widowed, the sick and afflicted, and the orphaned children. [Though] In spite of all his benevolent works, and his commitment to the spread of good Christian values and the faith in general, Wenceslas was cowardly murdered by his jealous brother, Boleslav the Cruel.
Life ain’t easy, ever. But can we achieve a leader and phalanx that will work for us and enable us to be united in these new testing times?
This could well be the song running through the heads of all the sons and daughters of all those labouring Labour officials and politicians, and the interns and students present or past of the arcane political and economic non-philosophy that the rest of us labour under.
Joe Walsh belts it out with the words –
Life’s Been Good to me So Far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUrzBxKX048
… Lucky I’m sane after all I’ve been through
(Everybody say, “I’m cool, ” “He’s cool”)
I can’t complain but sometimes I still do
Life’s been good to me so far
… I go to parties sometimes until four
It’s hard to leave when you can’t find the door
It’s tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody’s so different, I haven’t changed
They probably mostly don’t stay till four because there is also a balancing, concurrent indulgence meter so it’s not too easy to find fault with the fellers or abfabs!!
My picks – seem important.
Need tasers applied to government to get them to jump and do – exercise to tighten their aps or bums?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/485758/it-s-just-not-sustainable-contractors-can-t-clean-up-cyclone-for-free
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/472619/nz-children-face-a-perfect-storm-of-dangerous-diseases-as-immunisation-rates-fall
And Crohns disease I understand is very unpleasant. Can we work out a system by which people overall receiving expensive medicines to keep going and stop pain, can commit themselves to doing something for society? That they cqan manage, and even be funded for, that helps others who need help or information?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468328/woman-denied-funding-for-crohn-s-disease-drug-hopeful-pharmac-review-will-mean-real-change
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/485091/flood-damaged-cars-what-you-need-to-know
Last but not least.
…National’s criticism has not been reserved for consultant spending alone, with repeated references to a growth of 14,000 public servants the party has promised to trim back on – at least somewhat.
However, the Public Service Association (PSA) union’s national secretary Kerry Davies says New Zealand’s public service is the same size as Australia’s but costs a lower percentage of GDP than Australia or the UK. The public service is also the same proportion of the broader public sector as it was in 2017, she says, and has kept pace with total growth in the New Zealand workforce.
Equivalence – but what do WE consider necessary and helpful for us personally and nation?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics/audio/2018881119/do-public-service-consultancy-criticisms-stack-up
Hey Team!
How do you reckon lil ‘ole NuZull that punches above its weight would cope if a hot war eventuates?
3rd on tonight’s news agenda is the shocking expose that somebody has created unPC Pineapple Chunks, and it appears to be high on the agenda of consumer rights advocates.
It comes hard on the back of Ritchie Hardcore being cancelled.
Something must be done!!
Oh, and meanwhile, the Silicon Valley Bank has just collapsed. Thankfully a couple of my mates (NuZull refugees) have escaped ruin by the skin of their teeth and the nipples on their tits.
Others (so far) not so lucky.
Technology will continue to provide a lifestyle for the Billionaire elite that makes them DemiGods as Capitalism mutates into mere parasitic survival plutocracy on a burning planet.
This from the post about AI etc. We are too dependent on AIs but that may become out of date when being dependent is the only way. Well I do my bit to change the algorithm? – I always go through the checkout at the supermarket and talk to the person there. When they stop employing persons I don’t know what I’ll do then. Go to farmers markets would be on.
Newsletter from Australia’s Mulloon Institute about water wetlands filling aquifers soaking the land and leaky weirs not climate change and so on.
Chairman’s Message
…While governments, corporations and organisations focus on the need to reduce emissions with target reductions nominated across various timelines, bureaucratic red tape continues to hinder vital landscape regeneration works that could have a potentially greater positive impact on our climate and extreme temperatures.
These works will restore ecosystems and enable the Earth’s water cycle to once again naturally regulate the temperatures on this planet. We truly need a national approach to fix this!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-11/mulloon-creek-rehydration-initiative-faces-planning-hurdles/102063778
The not-for-profit Mulloon Institute was named by the United Nations in 2015 as one of five global demonstrators of sustainable, productive and profitable farming.
But its flagship research initiative has stalled because of planning laws.
Spot the difference: irritation – irrigation!
Some common types of irrigation systems include:
Surface irrigation. Water is distributed over and across land by gravity, no mechanical pump involved.
Localized irrigation. …
Drip irrigation. …
Sprinkler irrigation. …
Center pivot irrigation. …
Lateral move irrigation. …
Sub-irrigation. …
Manual irrigation.
Irrigation vs. Rain-Fed Agriculture – Other Uses of Water – CDC cdc.gov
https://www.cdc.gov › other › agricultural › t
I think that taking a drop of The Office USA version every week would be a sort of vaccination of corporate management. There must be some verity in it as people find it amusing. Of course I don’t – I’ve already been vaccinated.
Toby’s Health And Safety Meeting – The Office US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh7V1UheA6E
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