Matisyahu's Blog

"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

  • Good news to start a new week.

    I like to keep up to date to see what is happening with AdGuard and whether a particular issue has been fixed – the one I’ve wrote about has been the issue of AdGuard and websites that use Cloudflare verification. I’ve download and installed the latest version (Version 5.1.81) and everything is now working as…

  • The cost of Republican Party/Trump tariffs.

    There is a great video that has been uploaded by Gamers Nexus that goes into detail regarding the impact of tariffs on the technology industry: It is worth watching it from start to finish because it goes into details of the costings regarding bringing a product to market and the impact of tariffs. As I’ve…

  • The big day is almost near.

    Busy week and almost Monday, the big day for my A1C blood test, hopefully I’ll get an answer back quickly to see whether all the hard work has paid off. On Thursday I went for a 14.5km walk then on Friday a 8km walk then on Saturday another 8km walk. The walk on Friday was…

  • Watching and waiting for the fall out of US trade and foreign policy.

    I’ve been watching the news regarding Trump’s tariff announcement and once again I ask – how the hell did the US get to the situation where so much power is concentrated in the hands of one man? both parties have allowed more and more power to consolidate in the hands of one person and then…

  • A nice walk tonight.

    Finished work at 8pm tonight, watched a few YouTube videos and then went for an 8km walk – I went for an 11.6km one last night, I was pretty sore so I needed some time to recover but I still feel the need to get out of the house and get some exercise. It’s always…

  • There is a reason why that department exists.

    Well, it appears that the right wing in the United States are bending over backwards to defend getting rid of the department of educate by claiming that the functions of that functions would be divided amounts amount other departments for example the civil rights division would become part of the DOJ, student loans being taken…

  • One more day to go.

    One more day to go and then it is the weekend – it has been a busy week with the Queensland storms that took place which resulted in many of my coworkers unable to come into work or work from home due to power outages so those of us in the New Zealand office had…

  • Heading into the office tomorrow.

    I’m heading into the office tomorrow – assuming that Metlink don’t do something foolish like replace trains with buses, I’ll be heading in and enjoying the free coffee that is available with the added benefit being that I gets me out of the house or otherwise I’ll end up feeling as though I’m becoming a…

  • 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…