I don’t get out much, but from what I have heard from repentant National voters of my acquaintance, the problem is they wanted the leopards to slowly and quietly eat other people’s faces behind the scenes.
Instead the leopards are enthusiastically ripping off faces in public, and it’s shaming them. Particularly the meals in schools for some reason.
This government doing it’s best to ruin the country and our reputation overseas. Having said that I have witnessed too many acts of corruption to every buy that we were somehow more honest than other countries.
We could end up with white elephant projects or worse, something super destructive from an overseas mining company that we can’t get rid of without opening us up to Investor State Disputes.
It’s a return to Muldoonism but the global stakes are much higher these days, we can’t afford to play banana republic.
A useful wake up call for National supporters is to reflect on will they still be comfortable with this legislation when a Labour/Green government is in power and, say, Marama Davidson is the one who chooses which organizations to invite and picks the projects to rush through.
I’m not a legal expert but as far as I know if the police are arresting you they can compel this in New Zealand. There is no difference in unlock methods. People get charges for not complying.
If you get arrested in NZ they can search your phone and impeding them is impeding a search. As far as I know the courts haven’t intepreted the right to not self incriminate as extending to passwords, so the difference in the article is immaterial.
If you have the Mona Lisa in your house then letting the police into your house incriminates you, but the whole point of the search is for them to be able to find it.
I think the right to remain silent was meant to protect us from being tortured, not as a shield to hide things?
Analysis: Burning less coal to make electricity helped New Zealand achieve its biggest official annual drop in planet-heating gases since records started in 1990....
To people interested in the environment the phrase “Indonesian coal” tells us two things really quickly.
Firstly, that it comes from an industry that’s deforesting, killing orangutans etc. The Indonesian mining sector is open cast, meaning they tear up the rainforest to get at the coal. Obviously you can’t remediate that, not that they try hard, and it pollutes, causes flooding, and destroys livelihoods as well.
Secondly, Indonesia’s coal is sub-bituminous. That’s a crappy low grade kind of coal that releases way more greenhouse gasses than high grade coal.
Edit: Shane Jones might well be trying to use racist overtones like you and @Dave said, I’m just saying calling it “Indonesian coal” isn’t inherently race whistling.
As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that's the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.
I can’t imagine how, unless you only had 20 of them or something?
Back when I was a TA, I had an average of 120 students per semester and we didn’t necessarily grade our own students’ work (it was usually divided by topic).
So if I’m grading 120 assignments - or worse, 480 pieces of exam assessment- and only 25% of them are from students I regularly interact with, I don’t think my subconscious has any idea 99% of the time.
Even with smaller classes… you’re just seeing too many people with similar thoughts and styles over the course of a year for any of it to imprint on your mind that deeply. Occasionally it’s going to be obvious, but I still think removing a level of bias through anonymizing is best practice.
The display was obviously misleading/ahistorical and it was a known problem, so paying to just put a new copy of a flawed display up again would be a problematic use of taxpayer funding.
People had been writing letters of complaint, petitions, trying to liaise with Te Papa for literally years about this problem with no action taken. There were also peaceful protests about it outside, pretty sure some of them got arrested in 2021 for gluing themselves to steps.
Side note, they didn’t break in. They did it in public during opening hours. They were charged with wilful damage not b&e.
Which made me wonder at the time… How on earth do you get away with bringing in all your gear and abseiling inside a public building with an angle grinder???
You’d think though in a building with as many rare/valuable artifacts as Te Papa… I mean, abseiling?? Then again I’m pretty sure one of the universities had people with clipboards load a ton of computers onto a truck and drive away, a few years ago.
In both cases, wouldn’t suprise me if there was an insider.
Heh in the context of this conversation I thought you were casually admitting to being a burglar for a second then… why do you turn up at buildings, is it a work thing?
I thought it’s just that they have smaller bodies?
Yeah viral vertigo was kind of horrendous. If you’ve ever been knocked out by a blow to the head, at one point it felt like that only for hours not seconds. Glad it’s gone!
Cool, I’ll put that show on my list. Forbrydelsen isn’t going to last forever.
I miscounted my caterpillars btw, there’s at least 7!
But the germs aren’t smaller, I mean if a kid gets attacked by a bear…
The crystals thing is sweet as, BPPV, it’s when crystals land on these balance-sensing hairs in your inner ear and give you vertigo, but there’s this short maneuver exercise you do that dislodges them and shifts them somewhere else. I’ve had it a few times in my life and always shifted them no problem.
Some people get recurring BPPV and apparently you need a physio to help with some other manouver if they’re in a hard to reach place.
But with a virus its when the actual part of your ear with the hairs in it gets inflamed and messes them up, can be for weeks, an unlucky few never recover properly. The manouvers don’t touch it. Then the third cause is this thing called a vestibular migraine some people just get.
I hope they remove your stress too! I think there’s an adjustment period but hopefully it will be fast. People underestimate the amount of social isolation that comes with hearing loss.
Maybe it was the brain tumour, that poor person! The crystals usually get dislodged in just a few iterations (sometimes 1), it’s not like building up muscles. As far as I know.
Poll: Labour could return to power if election held today (www.1news.co.nz)
Lol
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Fast-track bill could affect NZ's reputation - Transparency International (www.rnz.co.nz)
This government doing it’s best to ruin the country and our reputation overseas. Having said that I have witnessed too many acts of corruption to every buy that we were somehow more honest than other countries.
Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
Are there any legal experts that want to weigh in on this....
Hospitals asked to make more than $80m in savings by July, RNZ understands (www.rnz.co.nz)
Is NZ bringing in 'Indonesian coal every month to keep the lights on'? (www.rnz.co.nz)
Analysis: Burning less coal to make electricity helped New Zealand achieve its biggest official annual drop in planet-heating gases since records started in 1990....
Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order (phys.org)
As graders go on grading, their comments become more frustrated and their good-will becomes much sloppier. At least that's the hypothesis to explain this. Researchers found the reverse effect on graders who sorted in reverse-alphabetical order.
Treaty of Waitangi: Call for input from 'variety of voices' for revamped exhibition at Te Papa (www.rnz.co.nz)
Now is time to change Te Papa’s Treaty of Waitangi display, the museum’s co-leaders say....
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....
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