RedRobyn

RedRobyn, 15 days ago

@iangriffin
There was a house away up behind my viewing spot with lights on and curtains open.
I thought it wouldn't matter too much as it was directly north.

RedRobyn, 26 days ago

@evan "still have" implies I originally had. In a quandary as to how to answer for body parts never part of me?

RedRobyn, 29 days ago

@robyn
I suspect you should get a hanky ready. Photo of roots?

@plants

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@CStamp
In Aotearoa we have a small conservative Christian community where babies go to childcare at 2 weeks old so the mother's can return to labour in traditional roles like cooking, laundry and sewing the community's "traditional" clothing. The babes are even breastfed- the women are summonsed by radio and allowed a half hour break to dash to the creche and feed and change their infant.
@KitsuneSeele @StillIRise1963

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@StillIRise1963
I don't think it's possible to have a general feeling, it's incredibly context dependent. For women who have no contact with the community it runs the gamut from "I guess they seem to be happy" through smugness or pity to burning rage on behalf. For Leavers there's a degree of anger - they took an Employment Court case to get themselves declared "employees" rather than "volunteers" Those testifying against them included women still in the community.
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@CStamp @KitsuneSeele

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@StillIRise1963
But it's a multi generation high demand, high cost cult. Women who have been brought up in it later say they didn't have the language to really think about how they felt, so patronising as it sounds I don't think we can give much weight to the women who say they are happy with it. I have also heard a trustee in the Leavers' trust say that the women who are on the record as saying they are happy have a different place in the hierarchy.
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@CStamp @KitsuneSeele

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@strypey
They focus grouped swing voters.

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@strypey
Absolutely agree. I was disgusted, but not surprised when I heard about it. I s'pose after the Douglas/Prebble antics lurching the fiscal policy towards an ideology that hadn't really been campaigned on Labour might have decided they need to listen to the people. But focus grouping a bunch of people who sign up to do it for grocery vouchers then get chosen by a market research co. isn't how you that

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@strypey
To be fair my Intel isn't as detailed as my speculation here. But yes one can definitely manage outcomes by careful selection of participants. It's why we changed the rules on jury challenges after the Crewe murder trials, where the prosecution had unlimited challenges and used them to rid the jury of educated people. Thf type of people might have the skill set to question the police evidence

RedRobyn, 1 month ago

@strypey
Len Lye? Also kinetic sculpture
@mr_sterile

RedRobyn, 2 months ago

@dave
Or they might just be someone most people don't feel safe talking to about their experiences. I don't discuss my private medical information with people who express cooker beliefs

RedRobyn, 3 months ago

@craftygardennz @sarahhbickerton @Rjdlandscapes
My experience with the 30 differs, but they really are the worst of the air-cooled leafs for overheating. (Same battery chemistry and architecture as the 24, but with an unnecessarily greedy BMS that asks for a faster charge rate than is good for it)

Do not under any circumstance buy a 30 kWh leaf for roadies in the South, especially not now there are so many rebate converts stressing thf charging infrastructure

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@strypey
I don’t recall the political fallout being particularly catastrophic after the raids.
On the one hand what is Trotter on?
On the other I cbf reading him to find out. He failed my personal integrity standards decades ago. I was disappointed to recently find out that left wing men who counted him as colleague at the time were aware of his personal lapses, but still rated his political views as having worth

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@dave
It's not the strangers staring. It's the friends and friends of friends making it clear, usually without words, that they think I am neurotic, but will politely tolerate it. I'm getting slightly more confident bluntly bringing it up. That's easier in public spaces because they can tell themselves it's other people I think are germy and recklessly don't give a shit. But in private homes it's clearly them I don't trust to let me know if they get sick. Wearying.
@v_for_verbosity

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@dave
Much easier said than done situationally. This includes all my family and much of my social network. I am not sure seeing only my dog for the foreseeable future would be good for me. I only know one other person who masks everywhere I see her. And she's deaf so she can only communicate with me unmasked.

I was speaking to a public health academic the other day. They are feeling social pressure about taking obvious precautions. At work.

@v_for_verbosity

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@dave
Reminder that this guy was a public health academic when he was doing these interviews. Also known for the retracted paper on miscarriage and vaccines

https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/09/06/not-lockdowns-controversial-epidemiologist-calls-for-end-to-irrational-covid-19-elimination-strategy/
@v_for_verbosity

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@dave
I understand that his epidemiology work precovid could be summarised “sugar bad, exercise good“ and I’ve listened to enough “maintenance phase” to know tat some people with those beliefs also have attitudes to obesity that border on eugenic. Not saying he’s one of the, have no information regarding that. But Plan B would have had harsher consequences on some of us.

@v_for_verbosity

RedRobyn, 4 months ago

@lisafox

Surely there is a threshold below which it’s pointless to collect a damage based RUC? Back of envelope calculation shows the 40t 8 axle behemoth causing 50 million times the damage of a 100 kg bicycle + rider combination.

I’d be unhappy to say the least to pay the admin and registration fees required to collect the fractions of a cent per1000km that are proportional to the RUCs trucks pay

@Rjdlandscapes @sarahhbickerton

RedRobyn, 6 months ago

@strypey
Ah, I would have thought it muted it just for me and everyone else can still see it.
Obviously I have been spending too much time on antisocial media

RedRobyn, 6 months ago

@strypey
Yeah, there's the two separate issues of a name that people immediately recognise for the function and exactly how the function works.
Whilst I would like to be able to show that I do not condone the words or sentiment in a post, and wanting a tool to stop people using highly boosted threads to amplify the reach of vileness; making reply posts vanish from all visibility might be a step too far. Dunno. I'm not a free speech absolutist, just pondering

RedRobyn, 6 months ago

@Tattooed_mummy tempted to steal this, unless you very much object

RedRobyn, 6 months ago

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
In Aotearoa/New Zealand we even have wild birds that are harmed by people feeding them. Particularly the parrots.

RedRobyn, 6 months ago

@seachanger
I can’t think of a way to explain why I think it’s right for me to mask without the implication that I therefore think it would be helpful if others did too. It doesn’t matter that I don’t say it. It hangs there like an accusation that I think they don’t give a damn. Which is not at all what I think or want to say (thoug the complicated part where I understand how hard it is to go against our new norm isn’t exactly flattering to non-mask wearers either)

RedRobyn, 7 months ago

@dave must be getting close to uni exam time

RedRobyn, 7 months ago

@strypey
Those bottom lines def a problem for them keeping swing voters, coupled with the fear tactics. I'm afraid I have a pearl clutching suspicion that a bunch of the left vote couldn't stomach voting green or TPM because of te Tiriti so just didn't vote.
But the most important left Labour have lost is in themselves. Robertson and Hopkins used to attend demos demanding free education. Now they preside over tertiary funding cuts. Ardern was the president of a socialist youth union. And now?