The Daily Blog Open Mic – 22nd September 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, 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.
TDB is getting more and more click baity by the day. Very centric these days, imo
The Daily Blog get biased critics coming trying to tear everything down from time to time largely because there normal huants just aren’t as popular
Maybe time to suck it up and actually apply for funding from NZ on Air?
That doesn’t sound like a Daily Blog problem. That sounds like a you problem.
Maybe, Sam
I liked being able to comment on TDB in near real time, on issues of the day. It’s gotten quite “delayed” in that respect. There seems to be a comment dump just before 6pm, then nothing until the following day, with another dump during the day. I’m still waiting to see a rant a wrote 24 hours ago, for example. Some rants are instant, others not, but I’ve never been censored on this blog yet. Is that a thing now on TDB? I hope not. That would be sad.
Does TDB need to do a contribution drive Martyn? You could probably do with some assistance in the moderator department about now?
Martyn is only one person, working with others trying to keep afloat in a torrent of effluent that floats around the ether. He or someone anyway, reads the input, moderates, it takes time. He also does other things so he might be concentrating on setting up for his broadcast interest on Tuesday and Thursday I think. He also needs time to think, to keep abreast of what is happening in cuckoo land. If you want real time input, I think The Standard has that once you have gone through protocols. I think commenters need to have a file for their input as it takes a while to show up.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475263/mpi-announces-plan-to-cull-cows-infected-with-m-bovis-on-mid-canterbury-farm
We can’t keep control of these giant farms effectively. Could we force owners to live in the midst of their farms so they can keep a health watch on them, and charge like wounded bulls if they involve us in disease through malpractice and overstocking? This idea of city farmers sitting back and creaming in money is abhorrent; treating the animals like enslaved workers isn’t fair to the animals.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/more-than-20-million-farm-animals-die-on-way-to-abattoir-in-us-every-year
This is a bit funny. People are encouraged to fool themselves about their finances stretch themselves to the limit to buy a house for instance, then the industry does a questionnaire to see how well they have done in hoaxing everyone, then makes judgments about how foolish the people have been. Criticises them for swallowing the propaganda, How devious.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/475248/concern-for-households-over-misplaced-financial-confidence-report
Elton and Ray Cooper in a soviet restaurant from 1979. Perhaps music can be a diplomatic
weapon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oeosR6IPc
Can NZ drop all 100% targets. We don’t want to be divided into straight lines, we don’t want straight bananas, or to be reported or spied on for every spontaneous gesture. (Seinfeld had an amusing episode about breaking social norms as he appeared to pick his nose, and his denials that he was rubbing it didn’t stop the outrage. Well what could be worse.) Let us be human with a bit of give and take. And manage our environment like the nature lovers we are – so green, blessed under blue sunny skies, and sparkling clean rivers blah blah!
This Pest Free by 2050 sounds a bit like a chant, and it doesn’t make sense. Each bit of nature affects other bits, even pests.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2209/S00032/nzs-pest-poison-programme-is-pointless-
and-cruel.htm
An European scientist is calling on New Zealand to stop its poisoning of pests under Pest Free 2050 policy as it is impossible to achieve and is causing extreme cruelty to animals.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475278/radiology-chief-takes-tougher-stance-on-ownership-changes
Private interests usurping our national systems in radiology.
In Wellington ithe public hospital is basic in the basement, but it worked all right for me. It does look fairly unloved. I feel we can’t rely on the government not to foul up in this situation throughout NZ.
One I noticed.
2002 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/southern-cross-computer-disaster-costs-17m/CTCZHNEZTGVM7HHYHX2EPL2GGU/
Someone must be up for this. ‘Southern Cross computer disaster costs $17m’