Posts by Dan Salmon
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Does the p endorsement offer any protection to our teenage daughters choosing between ubers and reputable cab companies?
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Hard News: Paths where we actually ride, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I understand it's landfill related. Whether it's something that is continuously leaching or ancient toxic sludge trapped in the mud, i don't know. It would certainly be good to know, and to have some clarity on both the Meola area and Coxes Bay - where insanely we are still unable to swim. Sewerage, or ancient factory poisons/heavy metals trapped in the mud? Whoever you ask tells a different story...
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to llew40,
Same, my daughter passed out with heat at the front of 1975 and was treated really well.
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It’s not just at festivals and i don’t think it’s the music. I reckon it’s tribal booze culture in a society that no longer tolerates reflection, and where the moral compass is spinning freely on its axis, celebrating material success from the entitled driver’s seat of a twin exhaust 3 litre audi, farting its ugly way through the gentrifying inner suburbs.
(what the fuck is an examined life?)
The Rock’s recent National Crate Day, meant booze companies got free advertising from bozo DJs, and we get young, dumb and full of cum dickheads wandering around the burbs, harrassing women and smashing bottles on the road.
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Helen Clark talks about opening NZ doors to the tampa refugees as one of her greatest moments as PM. It was an important thing to do, but also symbolic. In the grand scheme of things, even if New Zealand isn't able to take many people, a strong humanitarian gesture can and should have a domino effect.
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Sadly, I don't think New Zealanders are really worried about Climate Change:
"Just over half (53%) agree that there is a scientific consensus on climate change."
http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2015/05/15/nz-climate-attitudes-survey-expert-reaction/
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I'd read about the how to beat your children manual and vaguely supported the idea of banning it, but you've reminded me why that's a bad idea. The only downside is that we've had to pay for that book - consequently supporting the authors. I guess it would be wrong to suggest the library steals morally reprehensible books.
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Marine reserves make so much sense on so many levels (not least of which is scientific), the tI wonder how much of the resistance to them is prejudice. "The greenies want them, so they must be bad."
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And only now talking to my mother did i get the Rawshark - Rorschach pun. Assume it's intentional...
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yeah, good decision, and good argument by Julian Myles.
The last sentence of the Herald story surprised me: "The High Court showdown comes two weeks after the publication of Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics book"
Really? Has it only been two weeks?