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given the context I understand why some of these changes seem ridiculous to farmers, my friend used to show up (on his own) on the quad bike when we were 7 years oldInfotainment! posted:*uses extremely exploitative and illegal labour practices, including child labour and the indentured servitude of illegal immigrants. you don't know very much about farming. Yes they're the hardline conservative backbone of the country which is poo poo, but this is an important point: Displeased Moo Cow posted:Not all farmers are cunts though. I want to make that clear. The drive for profitability is. Get more grass in the paddock for less and more stock through. Blah blah blah. It's a vital yet dying industry. Unless you own a station. Milk for all, at 7 bucks a kg. Farmers in NZ get less government support than anywhere else in the world. They're left nearly completely subject to market forces, that's why the whole country has been converted to dairy and they're doing some of the more egregious poo poo like irrigating the loving Canterbury plains, break feeding (which amounts to basically starving the cows at certain times), or keeping a whole herd of cows perpetually pregnant then inducing labour. The whole thing is kinda hosed voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Infotainment! posted:That's as may be, having spent 7 years cleaning up messes made of people's lives through exploitative and illegal employment practices has given me little regard for farmers complaining about employment law. Oh its a hosed up industry, I totally agree. What assistance do you think farmers get, though? Fonterra certainly get plenty of help, whole divisions of our diplomacy service are basically marketing & sales departments for them, but the farmers themselves get gently caress all in NZ. The milk-shilling really just puts more pressure on to do more hosed up stuff.
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Jan 16, 2015 10:08
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Regarding the "ratepayers will foot the bill for this" kind of rhetoric, it's almost a kind of dog whistle strategy for that vocal minority of middle-aged, middle class white ppl (particularly aucklanders) who get out each year to protest rates rises. I have a couple on my facebook, any time there's news of a local body spending initiative they get all up in arms about how they don't want their rates going to fund it and that this is ridiculous, etc.
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Jan 18, 2015 01:49
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If you want some real loving perspective on Auckland housing at the moment: My parents bought fairly centrally in Auckland in 1995 for $225000. They sold in 2011 for $1.05m. Theu found out the same house (albeit done up) sold again a couple of months ago for $1.7m.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:32
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Anyone see Andrew Little on breakfast? Whole segment about growing economic inequality and I think the interviewer made better points than Little did. Really disappointing, he couldn't have had an easier interview to spell out some of the poo poo that is wrong... http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/huge-divergence-in-economic-equality-gap-andrew-little-video-6221047
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Jan 20, 2015 07:56
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Maybe that's why they're trying to shill whaleoil fedoras? Not kidding, possibly for a mere $80 you could have your very own! http://www.donotlink.com/da5q
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Jan 21, 2015 06:59
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Lobsterpillar posted:So the National Library is being run into the ground by the people who run it. (Background - the National Library is a government run library that provides books to school teachers for use in class. Teachers can go into the library and pick out a whole bunch of books, or can email the library and ask for a bunch of books on a particular topic, which get shipped out to them at the librarys expense.) It seems like the people who run it want to shut it down, so they're changing things so that people no longer use it, and then use that as justification that people don't use it. Many new teachers don't even know the service exists, and its in the interests of upper management to keep it that way. This is hosed up. I literally would not have been able to teach most of the units I did without the national library. People can say what they want about digital learning media, there simply isn't the same breadth of child-appropriate information available online as there is still in print. Especially not for free like the National Library is.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:14
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Meanwhile in Grey Lynn, some rich person cares enough about the heritage status of their street to burn down a new house: http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11391450
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Jan 25, 2015 05:57
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How dare someone build a house that reflects the kind of money everyone on that street has now.
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Jan 25, 2015 12:03
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http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/65463098/eleanor-cattons-problem-with-new-zealandquote:Man Booker Prize author Eleanor Catton says she is uncomfortable being seen as an ambassador for New Zealand which she says is dominated by neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, shallow and money hungry politicians who do not care about culture. John Keys, man of the people that he is, reckons she's just spouting the Green party line and that average kiwis don't think this. What a good bloke
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Jan 27, 2015 08:48
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No hua used to talk about paua guts/poo poo, basically the part of paua you don't eat is hua. Whether that's actually what he meant is something else. His intonation is weird as gently caress anyway so it's hard to tell.
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Jan 28, 2015 01:12
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Whoa hang on so he's actually ruled out his plausible deniability? I was sure he'd try to use the "no no I said hua not whore"
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Jan 29, 2015 23:49
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Sabin just resigned, so yeah its not tipped anymore
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Jan 30, 2015 00:03
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Reid Research has a new poll. National still around 50%, Labour nearly at 30, minor parties all dropping off. No big deal really.
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Feb 1, 2015 06:32
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Butt Wizard posted:*except when it comes to GM food. *also peer-reviewed medicine, and possibly also vaccines for some of them. I love the Greens, but some of their members (and MPs unfortunately) are loving dumb when it comes to this stuff.
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Feb 2, 2015 12:16
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I've met Jo de Joux. She's a very clever person. I don't think we really need a specifically New Zealand Crosby Textor though.
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Feb 5, 2015 09:11
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o.t. but if NZ manage to win the cricket world cup that'll mean John Key will get another shot at a three-way handshake with a sportsball captain
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correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the domestic violence stats go up after a sportsball game regardless of whether the team win or lose? Seems more likely to be related to alcohol than sporting wins/losses also buttwizard before you get mad again I dont even know if there's an internet joke about the word sportsball, I heard it and thought it was funny. I've spent most of the day watching India v Pakistan so Im not pretending to be aloof in any way
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Feb 15, 2015 09:49
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Feb 15, 2015 12:24
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focal ischemia posted:. this is probably the best analogy, also because ideally we'd make both jobs obsolete but they aren't assholes for pushing back against that or asking to see an alternative first
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Slavvy posted:Hahaha what? youre right we should all go work for tobacco companies or the IMF gently caress trying to be ethical I don't agree that people in the military should be expected to face court martial rather than accept deployment, but nor can you just say "well if I don't do this someone else will" because that's the kind of Ayn Rand mentality that justifies most of the gross poo poo that goes on in the world in the first place voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 09:17
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hey guyz what if there was this mine crat that was going to kill 3 people but you could stop it by pushing one person in fron tof it wud u do it???
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Feb 17, 2015 01:25
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any bets on how long it takes for a new picture of John Keys with Brendon McCullum to show up? McCullum did really well in the cricket today
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Feb 20, 2015 08:51
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pride parade is only about seeming to support queer community now, apparently (while protesting the inclusion of DOC and police, a Maori trans woman had her arm broken by police or security at the parade) voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Feb 22, 2015 00:37
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dusty posted:5'10"? A foot taller than that little tubby woman, shorter than the guard. True good looking out bro. I mean they would've been totally within their rights to break a man's arm, so really this is just equality.
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Dusty isn't so good at critical thought, news at 11... Actually in other news, unsurprisingly we are now supporting a war with troops: http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11407112&ref=NZH_FBpage
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Slavvy posted:I don't see anything unreasonable about this view and I'm slightly nonplussed at why other people in this thread disagree. Other than the reasons already posted (concern trolling, it wasn't violent, etc), its mostly because dusty forms his opinions as a knee jerk rather than actually thinking things through. He'd rather hate on "SJW"s than think about issues that people might be protesting. The protest was against the police and DOC officers, the protestors jumped the barrier and unfurled a banner in front of the police marching in the parade because of the continued mistreatment of queer people in prisons and by police. Particularly the fact that trans women are still put in male prisons. Seems to me like police and DOC officers being invited to march in a parade that celebrates the rights of queer people is a good place for a protest on these issues. Dusty disagrees because he's afraid of SJWs and has issues with women.
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Neither of these issues sound like things the Police, as terrible as they are, have anything to do with? DOC places prisoners in coordination with the police. Also the police are required by law now to notify the custodial systems manager (at DOC) if they have any concerns about a prisoner's gender and the prison they're being sent to. Still plenty of trans people in the wrong prisons. voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_uf-QRQto (also because it is new zealand my brother appears in this video briefly)
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Butt Wizard posted:Len Brown has announced construction on the CRL will begin mid-year. The cries of 1000s of taxpayers' unionists could be heard across the land
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Feb 25, 2015 00:46
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Probably more so Nats can't throw it in their face than anything. Sucks though, she's a winner
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Butt Wizard posted:She's come across as a bit of a dick in the past tbh really? In what way?
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Feb 25, 2015 09:39
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I'd probably gloat about beating Paula Bennett too
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Exclamation Marx posted:Matt McCarten was meant to be terminal a couple of years back. Maybe the cure for cancer is unionism I was thinking about this when I heard the news this morning and then I started thinking I would trade Matt McCarten for her and then I had to stop
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Feb 28, 2015 03:25
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possibly going to meet JK in a few weeks, what should I do? other than have a beer with him like the good bloke deserves
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great suggestions thanks guys lets hope the GCSB arent hacking my internet but no serious suggestions for comments I could make to him? also what a good bloke, look at him here watching the crikkers with richie mccaw like the great average blokes they both are: 
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Exclamation Marx posted:tell him he is handsome and try to hold his hand only if it can be a three-way
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw? the joke here is the new zealand media, how dare they keep forcing lydia ko and eleanor catton together for photoshoots like that just because theyre women
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