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"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Politics

  • The consequences of narrow self interest.

    Well, it is FAFO season once again or as it is sometimes called: “I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. I see many videos being uploading of town hall meetings with Republican representatives from the senate and congress with unhappy constituents – questioning…

  • Two days to go till the weekend.

    One show I’ve really gotten into is Severance – I love a show that is a slow burn, gradually revealing what is happening rather than there being a rush to some sort of conclusion. There are a few new seasons coming this year so hopefully with the pandemic out of the way that we’ll see…

  • Thank goodness I work from home.

    On Tuesday I went for a 14km power walk, I was sore all over, I could barely move by the time I got home – I rested on the sofa but I was still sore so I decided to go to bed and sleep it off. After having a good night sleep I felt so…

  • Getting things sorted.

    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…

  • A cabinet shuffle isn’t going to fix the problem.

    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…

  • Getting life back in order.

    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…

  • Software bundling and suites: An unpopular take.

    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…

  • Beware of those offering simplistic solutions to complicated problems.

    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…

  • Enjoying the weekend so far.

    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…

  • Things are going well.

    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…