Posts by oga
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That decline into partisan media started when Reagan repealed the Fairness doctrine requiring media to present balanced news.
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I am in that FB thread and I still think that design is ridiculous. Having the bikes do a dog leg behind the angle parking forces them to slow down, negotiate the angles around the cars, risk car dooring from people parking in that narrow half park visible in the picture, or cars that have parked too deep into the angle parking, blocking the cycle path.
I haven't personally seen these changes in the area, but my suggestion would be to remove the on-street parking completely on one side of the road and put in a two-way cycle lane with little street dividers to stop cars from parking in it. If the road is wide enough, put angle parking on the other side.
But I get it, people are precious about being able to park on the street wherever. If that particular area needs a footpath, angle parking, and a bike lane all on the same side, then someone's trying to have their cake and eat it, and the only things at risk are cyclists and the paint job on the first car in the angle parking.
If it wasn't for the way people use Richmond Rd and Garnet Rd as major thoroughfares, then the idea of changing the Richmond Rd shops to mixed use like in Fort Street could be a good idea, but I can't see people going for that because of their hard-on to get wherever as fast as possible.
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Groaned when I saw the video on Stuff. Interpreter is completely obscured by the podium. What's the point of having an interpreter when nobody except those actually in the room can see them speaking?
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If they say that about vexatious parents, I wonder what they say about us vexatious disabled people? Vexatious cripples?
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I particularly enjoyed the distinction between Deaf and disabled people (as in Deaf are not disabled). Thank you, Robyn. 9 years on the Deaf Aotearoa executive was eyeopening as to how many in the disability sector disregard the UNCRPD "nothing about us without us" with impunity.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Sign of the times, in reply to Vivid,
I've frequently danced within the 2m radius of a 18k wall of sound where no others would go because it would give them the same kind of hearing loss as me. Got a bit of tinnitus after that, but I already had tinnitus since I was about two years old. I have literally sat on these walls of sound too. Here is my Tumblr avatar sitting on the speakers in a club somewhere in Auckland.
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Oh, and I can't forget Emma Agnew's tribute.
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Another thing to consider is that this narrative where hearing people see an interpreter enthusiastically communicating a performance for the deaf people in the audience and the video goes viral takes away from actual deaf sign language performers, of which there are many, including Signmark, who has visited (and performed) in NZ. There are also people like Hi-een doing amazing performances with sign that may not be musical (is there even music playing in his videos, I don't know), but watching him is music to my eyes. Watching sign is visually musical in truly talented deaf performers like Deafies in Drag and Shaheem. For more Shaheem, try this and this. Oh, and I am Deaf and have been going to this n that since the early rave days in Christchurch in the early 1990s. Greg Churchill is the first DJ I ever heard (felt), at the Worc near the square.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Sign of the times, in reply to Vivid,
I don't have a huge ASL vocabulary, but there is definitely a sign for "hoe" (sign "prostitute/whore" and mouth "hoe") in ASL. Not sure about "homies" if I had to think of a way to say that I probably would sign "brother" and mouth "homies". There is an argument that the Snoop Dogg interpreter (not learning her name, because her job is to interpret and not become the focal subject) was being interpretative, but when I can't even tell what song is being performed, she has failed at her job. Mind you, I have never ever heard one single Snoop Dogg song in my life so what would I know? (I have probably heard the beats to several Snoop Dogg songs, but that's not the song itself, which is why I need the interpreter.)
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Good friends of mine from the US tell me that the Snoop Dogg interpreter is not intelligible and is not using any kind of ASL that they recognize. The second interpreter that you feature, Gallego, is legit though. I read this great article about her recently.