The Daily Blog Open Mic – 3rd October 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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  2. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529872/chief-executive-will-keep-school-property-costs-under-control-stanford
    Who told the government that they can start cancelling schools and the costs that go with them? When did this cockroach lot creep in under the door from every point of entry to harass good basic Kiwis and take away the modern practices of an educated and skilled culture, and the jobs that people expected to move within and earn their adult living with their own households and dwelling and family during their working lives???????????????????????

  3. What area is this about? Do you know or can guess?

    subs@nzgeographic.co.nz or call +64 9 913 9211 or 0800 782-436 within
    New Zealand Geographic
    The Weekender
    nz-geo-logos
    OCTOBER 4, 2024
    By James Frankham Publisher

    …When the pasture slipped off the hills it was replanted in pine. But this is some of the softest, steepest land in the world. Every few decades, when the pine is harvested, it’s like pushing on a wound. Clocking that cycle, as well as poor official oversight and increasingly severe storms driven by the climate crisis, many locals were not surprised when Cyclone Gabrielle tore strips off bare hillsides in February last year, pulling swathes of pine plantation down with it.

    Afterwards, former National minister Hekia Parata, herself Ngāti Porou, led a ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti. Her report calls the use of land here an “environmental disaster, hiding in plain sight”….

    Background maps –
    https://toitutairawhitilocalities.co.nz/localities/ – Toitu Tairawhiti

    Maori (Marae) Maps (look for NI East Coast Gisborne) https://maorimaps.com/en/marae-map

    Geology –
    April 2019 https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/highly-erodible-land
    …*Some classes of soil erosion risk (earthflow and gullying) are found only in the North Island, reflecting the different geological and geomorphological characteristics of the different islands.
    *Of all regions, Gisborne had the highest proportion of its area classified as highly erodible land at risk of erosion (16 percent, 1377km²). Gisborne also has the greatest area in New Zealand with severe earthflow risk (235km²) and gully risk (162km²).

    *(And note further area) Manawatu-Wanganui had the largest area of highly erodible land at risk of erosion (2545km², 18 percent of total highly erodible land in New Zealand), and had the greatest area in the country with high landslide risk (non- delivery to stream) (617km²).

    (Interesting! 2021 https://ourlandandwater.nz/news/a-more-accurate-picture-of-where-surface-erosion-is-likely/)

  6. Youtube standing against ad blockers. And at same time three or more adverts go on before any postings of music, info whatever.
    There always has to be a ratshitted up cost for everything under the greedy regime of okay is never enough.

  8. Here’s sensible stuff so don’t rear up about gummint interfering with your right to be a twerp.
    These are natural germs and bacteria and not what you expect when doing smething supposed to be healthy like gardening. But compost is good for the garden just watch out for yourself and your lungs.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529878/legionnaires-disease-health-officials-sound-warning-on-potting-mix-compost-after-108-cases

    Reid said gardeners should wear gloves and a well-fitting face mask. An N95 or respirator was best.
    “Every year we have a number of people that get really ill, you know, from a lovely healthy pastime like gardening and end up in hospital or worse.”

    Symptoms include a dry cough, high fever, chills, shortness of breath, muscle aches, headaches, and diarrhoea.

    Health NZ’s advice to gardeners this spring:

    Work with potting mix or compost in a well-ventilated outdoor area
    Wear a well-fitting face mask. An N95 or respirator is best
    Wear gloves when handling potting mix or compost
    Open potting mix or compost bags carefully using scissors and open them away from your face
    Reduce dust by dampening down the potting mix or compost before using it
    Wash your hands thoroughly after handling potting mix or compost and before touching your face or removing your mask.

    Spa pools and hot water cylinders also have to be set at right temperatures etc.

    Nelson about 2020
    Gardeners are being warned to protect themselves against Legionnaire’s disease after five people were hospitalised with the disease in November alone.
    Of the five cases:
    four were in the Tasman district and one in Marlborough
    one patient was in their fifties, three in their seventies and one in their eighties
    four were men and one a woman
    in four cases the species of bacteria was Legionella longbeachae, and in one case Legionella pneumophila
    all patients had recently purchased and used potting mix, compost or both
    average length of hospital admission 11 days
    range of stay in hospital 5 to 21 days

    10 cases in total have been confirmed in 2020 to date, compared to eight in 2019. There have been 71 cases in the region since 2010.
    Dr Stephen Bridgman, Clinical Director of Public Health and a Medical Officer of Health for Nelson Marlborough Health, says that Legionnaires’ disease is a serious, but preventable illness….
    https://www.nmdhb.govt.nz/news-and-notices/five-people-hospitalised-with-legionnaires-disease-this-month/

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