"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Politics
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Working through getting ACC sorted out – long story short, on my time off injured my work was still paying me and I assumed that what was happening was that ACC was paying my employer and then my employer was paying me (I have never been on ACC before so this was the first time…
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I have to prefix this by stating that I have a laundry list of issues with Labour at the last election (I voted Greens for my party vote and Chris Hipkins for my local MP (we have MMP in New Zealand)) but holy heck the train wreck that is unfolding with this current coalition government…
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Over the last month or so I’ve been getting my life back on track with the first big focus being getting myself healthy after a bit of health scare. My focus has been on counting carbs and calories with an emphasis on having a low carb diet and eating more protein (from a variety of…
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There has been a lot reporting on the big technology companies being challenged by regulators regarding how they integrate products together, the business model regarding requiring software sold through an app store having to use the app store payment system for in-app functionality such as subscriptions etc. Arstechnica has written an interesting article regarding the…
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Just watching this video over on YouTube and David Frum raised some interesting points particularly regarding the way in which the economy has changed resulting in a large number of people being ‘left behind’. The problem is that when you have underfunded education then combine that with desperation bought about by a failing to non-existent…
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I bought some take away on Saturday night and it didn’t sit well in my stomach – I tried to soldier on the next day at work but I had to take the rest of the day off. I made sure I drank lots of water to ensure I didn’t get dehydrated but after having…
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Well, I’ve finally made my domain name the handle for my BlueSky account. Regarding the BlueSky platform, it is growing at an amazing pace when compared to the first wave of people who experimented with Mastodon but decided to stay on X/Twitter because there isn’t the community there. It appears in the case of BlueSky…
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A new season of Silo has appeared on Apple TV, season 2, watch the first episode of the season and it gives a bit of historical context as the main character moves from one of the other silos as she has memory flashbacks of when she was growing up. Looking forward to more episodes as…
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I really do want Safari to be successful, a counter weight to Google hegemony but I was holding out hope that maybe Safari 18.1 and 18.2 would address the lack luster support for MV3, improving their existing native content blocking API to allow a more feature rich experience for extension developers. It appears that as…
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