The Daily Blog Open Mic – 21st September 2024

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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.

All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world  and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. More households falling into ‘in-work’ poverty

    From 2007 to 2018, about 40% of children in poverty were living in working households. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) published in-work poverty rates ranging from 9%-12% for 2018 – and Pachecho said that figure would now be much higher.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350422915/more-households-falling-work-poverty

    Showing employment is not the sole solution to ending poverty. Many need to be far better paid.

    The majority of New Zealand taxpayers earn less than $60,000
    https://figure.nz/chart/UnE8CtjDJuqPUk9U

  5. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/528069/government-planning-regulations-reform-for-nzx-listed-companies-we-re-going-to-remove-those-rules
    Gummint Andrew B or someone talking about stock exchange non-rules (holds up sneaky deals) and seems to have taken up air performance of a piano concerto or something. If the stock exchange engenders music of some sort you might hear a performance here.

    (What would they play if there was music? | Abba – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0 | Cabaret – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I
    | The Arbiter Chess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQhtkv5_47Q)

  6. Hah! Reducing food waste at home | NZ Government
    Ministry for Primary Industries
    https://www.mpi.govt.nz › food-safety-home › reducin…
    26 Sept 2023 — To reduce your food waste, keep a list of food you have and their expiry dates. This will also help you with meal planning.

    This on google. You can tell that we live in a plural community – mega-rich, wealthy, okay and not yet with a broken or flooded house, renting in something hopefully warm and dry and not too far from work which you may get paid for adequately; then two classes – couch surfing or squatting, and on the street if you can’t stand sleeping next to a smelly person who yells out in the night and pinches your next day’s food money when you’re in the bog.

    But by all means keep a list of your pantry stuff with best before dates and don’t eat if it’s over 11 months. Eating stuff over a year old is possibly bad for you.

  7. Sovereign citizens – a Official Information Act request to Inland … etc …
    https://fyi.org.nz › request › 17166-sovereign-citizens
    Dear Inland Revenue Department,. How many individuals in 2020 attempted to avoid taxation by claiming they were ‘sovereign citizens’ (e.g. …

    Sovereign Citizens’ and the pseudo law movement
    In-House Lawyers Association of New Zealand
    https://ilanz.org › assets › 2024-Conference › So… PDF
    “Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” …

    and finish with –
    How sex with neanderthals changed us forever.
    I reckon that’s where came the idea about sovereign citizen.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGaISDYuUFA

    Dylan Moran – On the Brit class system 7.37m
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MTNzNMMws

  8. Marlborough Chamber of Commerce says uncertainty over the service is hurting the region’s business and tourism
    Stephen Waters says the government needs to clear up what it’s going to do
    Maritime Union say it was only luck that prevented a tragedy from occurring on the unreliable ships
    Marine consultant John Riding says the shutdown could have been “much more difficult to resolve”
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/528584/government-urged-to-intervene-in-cook-strait-ferry-woes

    Wellington tug boat Tapuhi was towing the Connemara back to Wellington by 2am, but it took nearly five hours before passengers were finally able to disembark at Pipitea Wharf.

    Maritime Union national secretary Carl Findlay said it was just luck that prevented the worst from happening, “and also probably the skill of the workers on board those vessels and their knowledge and skill and professionalism”.
    Findlay said union workers were anxious about the continuing problems on the ferries, and felt the government was ignoring their pleas to step in.

    Across the Strait, the head of Marlborough’s Chamber of Commerce said the unreliability of the ferries was impacting the region’s economic performance. Stephen Waters said businesses were having to look at other ports and means of transport which would bypass Picton and ultimately lead to higher transport costs – which would be passed onto consumers.

    He said it was time for the government to make a clear statement about how it planned to sure-up the beleaguered service after stepping back from the iReX ferry project.

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