Posts by Kumara Republic
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Sacha,
My objection to that is mainly value-for-money.
If only there were drive-through chippies. Or kebabs, etc.Nice idea, but made-to-order and drive thru generally don't mix. Unless the drive-thru was incredibly long.
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Well, my previous MP was Paula Bennett. My dealings with her office were unproductive.
A charitable description of Paula Bennett is that she's Jenny Shipley with better PR. She gets away with using her working-class background to basically set half the working class against the other half.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
If this is the commentary from the Ruling Right, methinks the slope is slippery already.
I hate to invoke Godwin, but nothing else can sum it up more effectively.
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Hard News: Bringing an order Auckland…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Spotted somewhere in Parnell.
And that vehicle is…
A GTF-00A, It rides the Roads of Nationals Significunts to the bounteous nether regions of Aotearoa with a rapidity only exceeded by the growth of the National debt.
The GTF-00A,
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Hard News: Bringing an order Auckland…, in reply to Luke Williamson,
Come on Russell, you already know the answer to that – repeat after me – lower rates, user pays, privatisation, business friendly.
The usual suspects will support user pays with a passion. That is, until a budding entrepreneur sets up a toll booth on Remuera Rd or the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Then they’ll find some way to spin it as a ‘socialist tax grab’.
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I'm not the only one to suspect that Future Auckland's biggest effect would be to do a Ross Perot on C&R.
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If there's only one thing I find more irritating than serial victim blamers who think shock treatment and hard knocks can fix anything, it's serial Pollyanna types who think smiles and positivity porn fix anything. Before she died of brittle bone disease, Stella Young perfectly deconstructed that 'inspiration porn' nonsense.
All the same, the equivalent of a wheelchair ramp for 'invisible' conditions like ASD aren't immediately obvious. From my experiences, I've concluded an apprenticeship-style training scheme (think DevAcademy or Specialisterne) would be the closest match, but it's up against the prevailing survivorship-biased NAIRU orthodoxy.
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I wonder whether we could have a separate thread for people to give advice about alternatives? Russell?
Can't come soon enough. An apprenticeship approach offers mentorship, networking opportunities and immersiveness that self-teaching doesn't.
The longer I remain in a dead-end rut, the more I develop a bitter and cynical view that the future could be one of techno-feudalism where only the neurotypical able-bodied with post-grad degrees have gainful jobs, if the prevailing winner-takes-all orthodoxy remains in place.
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Bad academia employs Dr Goodyear-smith.
Yes, makes me sick to my stomach.
It also employs David Round and Greg Clydesdale.
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Polity: Canada voted, in reply to Craig Young,
British Columbia all solidly voted Liberal
Not surprisingly, within BC there's a noticeable urban-rural split. The rural areas might as well be part of Alberta.
