Comments on: The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th July 2023

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:25:03 +0000

Laughing through our own pain. They can play this during operations when hospitals can no longer get anaesthetics. It just cuts off the normal responses of the brain and body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx4RzlopDpw
Kitboga
The Angriest Phone Scammer of 2022

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:16:47 +0000

In reply to Pat+O’Dea.

Sue the bus firm – b….s. They have a contract to provide services don’t they. They have to manage their business and provide this. My understanding is that they are not entitled to play God. Time for Auckland Council to cancel the contract and do something further for people needing transport,

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:22:35 +0000

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/493684/deep-sea-mining-threatens-tuna-fisheries-study
The seafood groups – including the Global Tuna Alliance, whose industry partners account to roughly a third of the global tuna trade – said deep-sea mining “poses a threat to the ocean and its inhabiting life”.
The announcement comes as the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the UN agency that is responsible for regulating the world’s ocean floor, meets in Jamaica, where member countries are expected to advance negotiations for mining regulations.

The letter, that included six other organisations, said they “strongly recommend a pause on deep-sea mining until there is a clear understanding of the impacts the industry may have on the marine environment, its living resources, and those dependent on them”.
“We see it as mandatory that strong, scientifically-grounded regulations are in place before any exploitation contracts are granted by the International Seabed Authority.”

The study published in Nature npj Ocean Sustainability said tuna fisheries and deep-sea mining could increasingly overlap as more tuna moves into the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean – a high interest area for deep-sea mining companies.

By: Pat+O'Dea

Pat+O'Dea — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:13:37 +0000

Newspeak

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspeak

Why are Stuff.co afraid to use the word “Lockout”

Shades of George Orwell.

In his novel 1984, George Orwell ‘Newspeak’ is used to twist all meaning out of words.

In 2023

War is no longer war but a Special Military Operation

A lockout is no longer a lockout but an Indefinite Suspension.

Orwell would have been proud. Not!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300927557/third-of-auckland-bus-services-suspended-indefinitely-as-driver-union-talks-break-down

…bus services will be “suspended indefinitely” from Friday morning after a break down in negotiations between NZ Bus and its drivers.
Auckland Transport said it had been advised that NZ Bus was suspending all bus trips it operates after it failed to reach a collective agreement with drivers…