The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th February 2025

By
The Daily Blog
-
7
53

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.

- Sponsor Promotion -

7 COMMENTS

  1. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541727/fear-and-anxiety-for-mount-locals-fed-up-with-beach-parties
    Su Hodkinson lives near Bain Street closer to the Mount CBD and was a self-described “litter womble”.
    The well-known local had been collecting rubbish every morning along Maunganui Road and the nearby streets for more than 50 years.
    She told the meeting a lot of the rubbish was left by people drinking outside her home and the nearby McDonald’s and backpackers, although those areas had “really improved” lately.

    Her recycling haul from Sunday included 72 cans, five glass bottles and 11 plastic bottles, Hodkinson said.

    This is an example of a real NZAO citizen supporting society and the environment, and doing work that we pay Councils to do. There isn’t enough support for such people, for citizen involvement in their home areas, recognition. and inclusion into the council activities, working together. And part of that is because central government has forced on councils a business system; everything to be done by business who will be happy to carry it out as part of their business plan, perhaps on a once a month basis as suits them and their profitability!

    Note how residents have been asking for action from Council which has been refused multiple times. We pay rates which are rising and they are being spent first on preparing for new homes for ‘incomers’ and profiteers, also for building edifices and planning pleasant spaces to look good for tourists,.

    They no longer provide simple homes for old people, filling community needs and don’t want to waste time collecting rubbish and routine jobs, which are now not regarded as Council responsibilities. They are reducing rubbish by withdrawing bins – similar to a Greens idea of putting up tip charges for the same purpose. Ridicule for these pie-in-the-sky deranged people who are claiming the right to big salaries is a reasoned response.

    • Greaymarber. A lot of litter bins have been removed from around Wellington too. Around here, the street cleaners sweep plastic bottles into the storm water drains. The gap by the side of the grill closest to the pavement is plenty big enough. I sometimes stop and peruse the contents of the drains, but not too often in case I look slightly mad.

      WCC could make a fair bit of dosh fining litter bugs, and keep the capital as clean as Singapore at the same time, but they’re a woke Greenie mob and clueless regarding just about everything and couldn’t give a tinker’s damn about the ratepayers except insofar as we pay their ever-increasing rates. Criticising Tory the mayor is dubbed racist and misogynistic but many masochists still do it.

  4. Oh gosh AI keep away from me and all I love. Note the bit about people being at a point amenable to change. I guess that is the raison d’etre for our health system to be brought to its knees. (They thought of us, then Fawlty Towers -with John Cleese picking a pea from the floor, showing it to troublesome customer ‘ Is this a piece of your brain?’)

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541779/new-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-in-education-health-industry-aired-in-waikato-forum
    …Getting to that point required seizing the moment when people were most open to change – when an existing system had become “untenable”.
    New Zealand had an edge, Willoughby said. [Glen Willoughby, head of virtual reality company Staples, chief executive at Staples VR, and also an advisor to NASA.]

    “The great thing about … the New Zealand health sector, it has incredible datasets.
    “These are the most important assets of any AI project – the dataset, not the tool,” he told attendees.

    But when they tried to do the breast cancer screening AI trial here, they hit regulatory hurdles.
    “We were trying to do that in New Zealand. We blew one and half million dollars, we took it to New York – one of the most bureaucratic, difficult health sectors to work in, that was the place we could innovate.”
    This was despite the country’s “superpower” in AI – its small, smart and innovative population.
    This was weighed against the likes of the $360 billion investment plan for AI laid out by the European Union this week, he said.,,,

    NZAO being bled till we are white, and especially Maori and Pacific Islanders who will look very pale, and yet we are being compared to EU. They and New York are presented as examples for us to aspire to! Hells bells. Are we going to fall for this arrogant sly BS? Yes we are…with our small, (pea-sized) smart and innovative population.

Comments are closed.