The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd December 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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  1. National campaigned on less government spending but as the days tick along we will see that was one big fat lie with plenty of money for landlords, new government positions and bureaucracies a much larger cabinet, two deputies just to start with. Nicotine Willis will be spinning like a top soon. Luxon said his new government would be able to hit the ground running that is not what we are seeing.

  3. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503713/501-deportee-sentenced-for-attack-on-wellington-juggling-icon-who-later-died-in-loafers-lodge-fire
    If misdeeds could be dealt with faster by our ‘justice’ ‘system’, faster being a short word for more expeditiously, the person injured may have had a happier time and a longer life. Are we drawing closer to Mordor or perhaps it’s Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast-like? That name seems to fit the mucky life the wealth-accretors have fashioned for us.

    • https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503827/canterbury-crate-day-punters-anger-activists-over-breaking-endangered-birds-eggs
      And further you lovers of action and machines – you could not contain yourselves in your 4WD which are so essential for your images, from running down endangered birds. What does the real natural world matter provide you have your coarse, crude toys making loud bangs and slams, really manly. Or you like tossing your bikes and yourselves into the air showing your skill and bravery. ACC will pay for your recovery from injuries, or someone; you expect and demand it.

      They should all be sent on dangerous missions clearing land mines left over from attacks on people and areas that it pleased the PTB to lay, to menace, maim and kill. It’s the same evil spirit as running over animal breeding grounds. And in your spare time you love to watch horror movies, spy movies, zombie movies. Then possibly go back to work administering things – probably Health and Safety. Or running Kiwirail’s ferry service on a loose shoestring which breaks in Cook Strait. No wonder people are wishing to change genders; males want to intrude onto female territory withheld unfairly, or to divorce themselves from The Green Hulk connection; females look to assume some male privileges of brash or amoral forays or
      offensives.

  5. You’ve heard it mentioned no doubt. RadioNZ tells all.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/502479/bird-of-the-century-what-you-need-to-know-about-puteketeke
    …How many are left?
    In the 1980s, the pūteketeke population dropped to 200.
    In 2012, there was just one breeding pair in Wānaka.
    The pūteketeke is extinct in the North Island and there are now an estimated 1000 birds in the South Island…
    The combined population across Aotearoa and Australia is believed to be less than 3000.

  6. I’m venturing on a 600 page trade paperback story by Sebastian Faulks. Called Human Traces. The blurb states it to be his most ambitious novel – at the time. It’s about two young men aged sixteen, Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter who end up as psychiatrists – from the squalor of a Victorian lunatic asylum to Pars, to Sierra Madre in California, to unexplored Africa. The story starts in 1876…They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.

    As I have been wondering about that very point I might find some answers that help my understanding. I’m going in. I may be some time. Today’s direction seems on a continuing irrational bent and we seem to be rooted in past thinking which appears to be rooted. All those who think they can’t manage to read and learn anything more, are still sucking up the STEM stuff and I suggest we need more as humans before we are out-scammed by our own devices. PD James book Devices and Desires comes to mind.

  7. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/503825/pretty-over-it-repeated-sh2-closures-disrupt-food-supply-transport

    Interesting. What alternative transport when roads down? Hovercrafts as previous were heavy users of fuel so not effective – have suppliers got round this with other fuels that are viable?
    Why are hovercrafts not used anymore?
    First, the fuel costs were prohibitive. The vehicle’s four Rolls-Royce engines consumed 1,200 gallons of fuel per hour. That was fine during the 1950s and 1960s, when fuel was very cheap, but the costs became more burdensome. The Neoprene skirt that encircled the craft created another problem.24 Apr 2013
    FYI: Why Aren’t Hovercraft More Useful? – Popular Science
    popsci.com https://www.popsci.com › technology › article › why-are..

    What then?
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lockheed-hybridairship-idUKKCN0T62DU20151117/
    ..The airship, filled mostly with helium, can carry 20 tons of cargo, but can easily be scaled to roughly the size of a football field with 500 tons of capacity. It has a fuel capacity of 5,000 gallon with a range of 1,400 nautical miles, and can cruise at a speed of 60 knots…

    The airship’s four hovercraft-like landing pads allow it to set down on flat land without being required to be moored on large towers like traditional airships.
    The airships can revolutionize the way oil and mining companies haul equipment to remote areas, such as the Arctic, without roads or infrastructure, enabling affordable delivery of heavy cargo and personnel.
    Lockheed kicked off sales for the 20-ton variety of the hybrid airship earlier this year and is on track to deliver operational airships by as early as 2018.

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