Posts by Brent Jackson
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Legal Beagle: Political opinion and the…,
Nicely put.
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Hard News: Family Matters: a post about 2020,
That's a nice sentiment. It's a shame that PA is no longer the discussion forum it once was, but I am glad that I was (am?) part of it.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
With STV you can vote for both if you want to be sure.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
Fake News
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
Disinformation
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
Data Breach - been hearing about these all year.
Treasury "Hack" - a fine example -
Legal Beagle: The climate strike and the…,
I think the real benefit of this will be that youth will be introduced to voting while still at school, so will be much more likely to get on the electoral roll, and hopefully then more likely to vote.
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Hard News: Music: Three Festivals,
I refuse to see any show at the Arena in Auckland now because bad experiences there vastly outweigh the good.
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to
The money paragraph for me in Danyl's article (sans asides) :
It’s the consequence of being a species with a nervous system designed by natural selection, which incentivises behaviour that once maximised our evolutionary fitness by rewarding it with brief bursts of pleasure; but a species that now exercises enough control over our environment that we can endlessly, repeatedly stimulate the dopaminergic pathways in our brains by eating foods loaded with sugar and fat, buying consumer products, watching TV, masturbating to porn, and taking drugs. And, as every addict knows, the highs are always followed by the lows. Repeated over-stimulation of the mesolimbic reward system leads to anhedonia: an inability to feel pleasure, the classic symptom of clinical depression. The logical end points of rationalism, liberalism and consumer capitalism, are incompatible with human nature and human happiness.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
Reeferendum - such a great pun