Interesting; I was in hospital last year, opioid pain relief doesn’t work for me. They tried a few times at increasing dosages and it just does nothing.
Paracetamol works well, they tried ketamine and I told them to stop because it made me feel terrible.
Pretty sure it is…
It’s not wrong, in the current political climate. A Lab/ACT or Nat/Grn coalition is extremely unlikely.
What fee currently have is very FPTP like.
Without parties that will work both sides; MMP seems to devolve into FPTP. TPM did in the past, but also refuse to work with ACT (for good reason); but it limits options for progress.
Because the Greens are very much the same as ACT. Both are idealistically driven; both have welded themselves to the major party on their right/left side; both will ignore evidence to push their agenda.
One major problem I see in NZ politics is that we don’t have a party that will sit on the cross bench and support good ideas; independent of the source of the idea. We seem to have drifted back toward FPTP, but with extra steps.
TPM was good at being on the cross bench but seems to have taken a bit of a step back in this regard, lately.
Edit: I don’t think the current government has had many good ideas at all. But that doesn’t change the need for a cross bench party.
Reading the ladder, this seems more like step 6 than 5. Maybe more like 5.5; but
The Commissioner gives the policy institutional backbone – ensuring continuity across electoral cycles and demanding Government engages seriously with Citizens’ recommendations.
The key for me here is “across electoral cycles”. The left-right swings are a real problem here in NZ; long term systemic issues are not getting solved effectively.
It is obviously not, citizens forcing the government to do their bidding. But this is a major step in the right direction, if this party gets into power next year and manages to implement this policy.
Very effective.
The RAM section with the hand woven memory modules is so awesome. 1kb of RAM; tiny iron rings with fine copper wires threaded through them.
In the compsci building at uni, there is a museum of sorts in the hall to the labs. At the beginning of the storage section, there is a 20Mb storage device. It is the size of a washing machine, I have no idea how much it weighs, but it has to be in the 100’s of kg range.
Sitting on top are much more modern devices, 5.25"/3.5"/2.5" drives; I haven’t been back for a decade to know if they kept going as tech improved.
Ah yes appeal to authority. There is a reason this is a well understood fallacy; assuming something is true (or false) because the speaker says it is flawed.
I have multi-sensory aphantasia. No pictures/sounds/tastes/touch/smell. My inner voice is soundless but constant.
I discovered aphantasia at 40; it is not a lack or detriment merely a difference. I talked with my Mum about it, she is has aphantasia and didn’t realise and she is 66.
Aphantasia doesn’t hold you back or make life harder; especially since you can go decades without realising that you have it.
You may have other stuff, ASD or ADHD etc…but aphantaisa isn’t in the same realm.
The existential dread of not knowing; gnaws at my psyche in uncomfortable ways that I cannot adequately put into words.
There are places in the world that don’t have the death penalty…just sayin
I’m doing my part
Most of the time, probably not. The problem occurs when there is a breach of the standard.
In that situation NZFS should have all of the decision making power, MPI should be required to step back and let evidence guide the decisions.
Just came here to say this.
The suggested videos are terrible.
This has the same vibe as
I think the main problem here is that the NAFS is part of MPI. As stated in the article:
[NZFS] should not be within the same organisation that is charged with promoting New Zealand’s primary producing export market. It doesn’t make any sense to be nested in there.
They could have a synergistic relationship; but if there is a breach…MPI will err on the side of more exports, where NZFS should err on the side of safety and food system integrity.
I only use Reddit when it comes up in a search result. Otherwise it is Lemmy all the way
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Cantonese food is the best in my opinion. Not the westernised shit, the traditional greatness.