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So how corrupt do you think Auckland Council Senior officials are?
A. A little bit corupt
B. Mildly corupt
C. Fuck’n corupt!!
If you chose ‘C’. You would be on the money!
Read this. The CFO and now the sacked. I mean the recently resigned CEO and others refused to hand over financial information to the Governing Body appointed committee for Finance and shit!!
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/back-on-the-razor-gang?s=03
My reckon – a Pick’n’Mix of the above.
19th century care for workers safety. Why did we Brit immigrants and descendants come here just to get back into the shit that we came from? Don’t leave sensible safety guards to when the owners get round to it. (And that goes for conditions in rented houses – when landlords get round to it. Square people don’t fit round holes!)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486105/bakery-fined-after-worker-loses-four-fingers-in-machine-with-no-safety-guard
…In the first, the machine had no safety guard because it had broken 18 months earlier.
The woman who lost her four fingers had seven operations on her hand and is still off work. The other victim’s fingertip could not be re-attached and treatment is ongoing.
In the second incident, the guillotine was accessible and there was no inspection or maintenance undertaken.
In both cases the victims were inadequately trained, WorkSafe said.
Area investigation manager Danielle Henry said both incidents were entirely avoidable.
“To harm a second worker is nothing short of reprehensible when Bakeworks was already on notice of the harm that deficient machine guarding can cause.
Active inspection – really doing the jobs of safety inspector – follow up, threaten prosecution and safety to a worker who is reporting real avoidance, but watching out for maliciousness. Make it a stress on getting safety rather than blame. But a good inspector knows what the culture in a workplace is. People are or can be devious. Not the authoritarian finger shaking and fining. Too late for the victims, even if they have been partly responsible. The power of society, need and pressures to perform can cause risks to be taken or ignored.
In USA a 6 year old boy shot his teacher stuff Mar.10/23. It was his mother’s gun. She said she was not responsible as it was legally purchased. ‘was secured on a high closet shelf, and had a lock on it.’ This sort of thing can happen when there is a proliferation of weapons available legally. People can not ensure that they and their weapons can always be kept away from violent eruptions of emotion. It is gun limiting legislation that will limit events like this. Using knives would go up in gun absence however. But not quite as quick and requiring more skill or face to face situations.
Better would be learning how to control emotions to suit the present needs; seeing it as like body lightning, and finding a way to calm it or earth it either safely, or so as to lessen it and the damage caused by it. Just think – rage is energy, feel it and rush to the nearest public pedal machine (future?) where people fuel their street lights etc with their own muscular contractions and brainwaves. If you think that is crazy, well set it up alongside all the other things being done now with big expensive machines that will put us in debt beyond their breakdown, and the fall of the international currency system, and our grandchildren’s servitude if we have such little people still. Think ahead jerks and jerkesses.
Three items from recent ABC. – see –
Keepcalmcarryon March 16, 2023 at 5:44 pm
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/03/16/nz-gdp-tanks-as-global-banks-start-imploding/
There’s a real good basic rundown on what’s happened and why and possibilities on where it goes now on the Aussie ABC:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-16/global-banking-crisis-deepens-fall-of-silicon-valley-bank/102105284
Then these other headings from the right hand column.
* Premiers trade barbs across borders over who should host AUKUS nuclear waste
* Calls for Qld government to release full child safety investigation after mother left daughters to die in hot car
* ‘Incredibly tragic’: Woman accused of causing high-speed fatal crash had allegedly taken cocktail of drugs
Taking a lot of drugs so that you end up killing someone driving a car at high speed is incredibly tragic while the woman who left children in a hot car warrants an investigation. There may have been some awful reasons but the mother did fail her duty of care, sort of like the governments of Australia and New Zealand in dealing with the vulnerable.
Taking drugs may be forced on you but usually have not been – now that needs investigation. But someone is making money from those drugs and money is so handy to keep close. Maybe not too much investigation – probably she really is distraught about driving and killing. Thought – is a murder a car weapon, or are we all mixed up?
NZ English in the Oxford is increasingly showing Maori words being used.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2303/S00111/words-from-the-land-of-the-long-white-cloud-new-zealand-english-additions-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary.htm
To learn more about New Zealand English in the OED, visit the New Zealand page of the OED World English Hub. There you can read the blog post, ‘Introduction to New Zealand English’ by Dr Elizabeth Gordon, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury. You can also read this blog post by Dr Matthew Moreland, the OED’s Senior Consultant Phonetics Editor, on describing the pronunciation of Māori-origin words in New Zealand English.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/stories/2018882079/chatgpt-a-recipe-for-culinary-disaster
Alison Holst will never be replaced – though we have Nicola Galloway in Nelson and she is pretty good. /What would a machine know in its guts anyway? KKryton in Red Dwarf could be an exception; quite exceptional mechanoid all round.