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Interesting
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2307/S00028/researchers-test-cool-roofs-in-climate-hot-spots.htm
Led by Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, the trial involves painting an affordable, non-toxic solution on roofs that reflects some of the sun’s hottest rays, reducing the temperature inside.
The trial will take place in Niue, Mexico, India and Burkina Faso, countries that are particularly vulnerable to heat-related health impacts.
This could be important. I have already read how people in one hot country have to sleep at night on their flat roofs. It was not so good however because of the stored heat in the mud brick or whatever they use. However a trial where they painted the area with white paint has made such a difference that it has solved the problem – for now anyway.
Uh oh. This could be a great mixup – it will fire people up and make them despise gummint more than now, to the point of hating it, when there are repeat misdemeanours being faulted.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2307/S00161/polling-shows-majority-of-kiwis-unaware-of-current-or-proposed-media-regulation.htm
“Polling conducted by Curia Market Research has shown that only 23% of Kiwis are aware of our current laws addressing harmful content online, and only 25% of Kiwis are aware of the DIA’s proposals for a new internet and media “super regulator”.
“With so few Kiwis aware of the current regulations and the far-reaching proposals, we fear Kiwis are blindly stumbling into losing our free press and free internet without even realising it…
“With the same polling showing that 75% of Kiwis see free speech as a dominant Kiwi value, with only 6% disagreeing, New Zealanders need to learn just what these proposed reforms would mean for them. We suspect that the better Kiwis understand what is happening to our free internet and press, the more they will take a stand to oppose them.”
Something about the right balance between wages and price of goods that we need to be aware of.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2307/S00035/the-real-philanthropists.htm
The article is well worth a read in its own right within the context of capitalism’s development and revising forms since the 1930s. But what struck me, in the context of the role and power of the super-rich, was a brief discussion on philanthropy.
In the context of increasing employer power over and exploitation of workers, a distinction is drawn between “standard exploitation” and “actual appropriation” (“theft” is another word used to describe it).
The latter is where people are paid less than they need to exist; when they work for less pay than they can live on. When, for example, people go hungry so that others can eat more cheaply or conveniently.
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