I’m not sure if National will end up borrowing to fund tax cuts, or will they just gut public services to achieve the cuts, then need to borrow later to fund things that need to get done.
Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he’s going to keep both salaries after all....
While bad news for dairy, the study found employment and economic output would be boosted in a scenario where farmers switched to growing crops, which would also result in significant reductions in emissions and nutrient loss.
So I see this as a win-win-win.
Another interesting point
“I can’t see parents ever being happy putting lab-grown meat and milk in their kids’ lunchboxes… it’s just not gonna happen,” Federated Farmers dairy chair Richard McIntyre said.
Mr McIntyre is engaging in wishful thinking here, if the lab-grown alternative is half the cost, I’m sure parents will be only too happy to put it in the lunch boxes of the kids…some of the crap that gets put in now is amazing…
Theoretically, any feedstock that can be converted to sugar would work.
Bioreactors that take “waste” plant material and convert it to sugars have proved very difficult to perfect. There were a huge number tried when biodiesel was “the next big thing”… None became commercially viable, which is why biodiesel died…
It is a good point though, how much do you excuse the “bad” parts to get the few “good” policies that you want?
Do you stomach the Davidson’s and Uffindell’s of the party to get the ideas that you want in power? How far do you go?
If you have tied your identity to the party (similar to what is happening in USA); thus whatever the party does has to be fine because it is part of your identity.
What is much better is to divorce any part of your identity from politics. Look with unbiased eyes, look to policy and actual outcomes last time they were in power.
1987: Amiga 500, and it had the extra 1MB RAM module to plug in the side.
1997: built my first PC, Pentium 150, also had a voodoo 2 graphics accelerator and a 2.1GB quantum fireball HDD.
1997: got my first cell phone, Alcatel one touch easy.
2003: first laptop, had a pentium 3 800?
A potential new way to travel through space launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 located on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula....
Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.
There are some places in the world where it can be drilled for, eliminating some of the costs of production, but then you have to store and transport it. Hydrogen can’t be stored easily (just big metal tanks), it requires pressure vessels made of exotic composites to reduce leakage, or worse cryogenic tanks that take a constant energy supply to stay cold.
Unlike nitrogen which we store as a liquid easily at industrial scales, hydrogen would be a nightmare to liquefy and store as any kind of scale. Nitrogen is liquid at -77 C, put it into a big metal tank and you are happy. Hydrogen is liquid at 20K (-253 C), metals are (mostly) to brittle at this temperature to be safely used. So exotic composites are required again to make cryogenic storage tanks.
The energy required to liquefy hydrogen is ridiculous, taking something to 20K is difficult and energy intensive.
I could go on, but beyond very specific use-cases hydrogen is a non-starter from a cost perspective.
The major problem with lease hold, is that picking up a house and moving it to a new lease is extremely difficult and expensive or just impossible. Unless your house is a transportable by design.
So when the lease holder decides to increase the cost of the lease (usually by a lot), you are effectively trapped.
Contrast that with leasing a building for a business, if the lease holder decides to increase you lease, you can just move your business…it may be difficult and expensive but it is never impossible.
I think you missed the point. The argument wasn’t precisely new when he made it, what was new was his use of Aristatilian logic to “prove” the existence of God. The proof requires that God be singular thus the god of the Islamic world (also the Jewish). The tri-part God of the Christian religions is therefore a corruption.
The video doesn’t really do a good job of covering the importance of his argument in the history of philosophy.
As an atheist, I don’t find the argument itself very compelling. The historical context is quite interesting.
Sleight of hand in combat
I am running a Tabaxi rogue that is currently 4th level....
OECD warns NZ Govt it shouldn’t borrow to pay for tax cuts (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Who is going to listen?
MP Jamie Arbuckle to keep two jobs - and two salaries (www.rnz.co.nz)
Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he’s going to keep both salaries after all....
'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector (www.newshub.co.nz)
Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples? (thespinoff.co.nz)
Seymour confirms temporary funding for free school lunches (www.1news.co.nz)
Wow, turns out being jerks to kids is really unpopular…better backpedal as fast as possible.
When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!...
Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
Are there any legal experts that want to weigh in on this....
Solar Sail CubeSat Has Deployed from Rocket - Small Satellite Missions (blogs.nasa.gov)
New solar sail technology launches on Rocket Lab flight - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
A potential new way to travel through space launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 located on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula....
Hydrogen trucks are coming (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.
Selwyn residents fighting for homes after being told they need to leave them by 2039 (www.rnz.co.nz)
Residents of a small Selwyn community say they will keep fighting to save their homes after being told they must vacate them by 2039....
Is This The Best Argument For God's Existence? (www.youtube.com)