The Daily Blog Open Mic – 9th October 2024
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.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/530205/hurricane-milton-threatens-florida-as-category-5-storm-thousands-flee
Tough – but don’t flee here.
Unless you happened to be Peter Thiel and then you’ll be welcomed with open arms.
Another story on the RNZ site is, https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/530252/tui-brings-back-yeah-right-campaign-with-billboard-making-a-dig-at-philip-polkinghorne
The investigation and subsequent court case arising from the sad passing of Pauline Hanna was a serious matter, and not an appropriate Tui billboard subject. The Tui advert is both tall poppy and pot kettle, denigrating drug use, while happily spruiking their own drug, that’s the most harmful substance consumed in this country. As if no respectable Tui drinker has ever tried an illicit substance or indulged a lady of the night, being holier than thou prudes pure as the driven snow – yeah right.
Your comment displays clearly our problems of being unsure at any time just what is, what we are and believe in. No wonder there are many people mentally stressed. We all in this modern world live in a szichosphrenic state. I hope I have spelt that correctly but if we just can stay close to the trend line we will be doing well, even with slight aberrations.
A lawsuit in the US has found that IT ‘bodyshop’ Cognizant systematically discriminated against Americans and indeed any non-Indians in hiring, replacing workers in companies it acquired with Indian imports.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-supplying-thousands-of-tech-workers-to-silicon-valley-discriminated-against-non-indians-jury-finds/
Cognizant is driving to expand its operations here, with the same strategy of buying trusted service providers and gutting the workforce that made them trusted.
They will be doing that with politicians soon. Talking to local woman Indian cafe owner with two small children trying to make her very good cafe spark but there are concerns about business levels in Nelson. Another has just been bought up by multiple outlet owner from another city and has non-Indian manager but as I stood talking to him about food and business an Indian man kept coming up to us as if he was checking on him.
The supermarkets are being bought up and some staffed almost completely by Indians. While I like them, and I think the Sikhs are good it is very destabilising to have large numbers of immigrants enter for work. And foreigners should not be able to buy land and housing. Perhaps leases for limits of say 20 years. What a muck the politicians and Treasury have made of our country – they have divorced themselves from the main band of citizens and another chunk is going sov/cit etc.
Oh dear what’s wrong now – well we were getting health services right at last. But on the other hand we were used to the lower cost. And have to put our hands in deeper pockets while still remaining shallow thinkers. Cheapskates that is NZ politicians and the upper class in our society.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530277/one-page-out-of-454-sheds-light-on-health-new-zealand-money-woes