Posts by B Jones
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I've enjoyed The Expanse - I like how it's less of a cookie cutter version of modern Western Earth society than Battlestar and Caprica.
My other summer viewing has been Narcos, a dramatization of the Colombian narco-wars through the eyes of a DEA agent and Pablo Escobar. Vivid stuff, plus you get to learn a bit of Spanish along the way. And the Chilean guy from Game of Thrones is in it.
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I'd be happy for a cost neutral solution that involved 100% less prime ministering, tbh.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I hope it was clear that I thought the conspiracy theory to be nonsense, and an illustration of the loose thinking that goes on when medical mysteries abound.
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They give it in 3rd trimester because that's when most antibodies are passed over, not because it's less safe at other times. The protection fades if you give it too early.
Has anyone properly considered the possibility of reverse vampires? I bet they won't release that data.
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It was called freedom walking nearly 25 years ago when I walked the Milford Track and stayed in the DoC huts. Coldest and wettest I have ever been. Flaked potatoes for dinner. Sandfly bites and wet wool and playing cards with strangers. That's tramping.
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Another conspiracy theory doing the rounds is blaming microcephaly on maternal immunistation. Which somehow is only a problem in countries experiencing a Zika outbreak. This is why we have science - so that we can tell the difference between things that confirm our beliefs and things that are true.
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Polity: Leaving only footprints, in reply to st ephen,
Walking the Tongariro Crossing with a line of literally hundreds of people stretching into the distance
I've done that. I've seen Lambton Quay with fewer people on it. It wasn't so much the numbers that bugged me (I've done a lot of busy Great Walks), it was the clueless gear. Skirts and cowboy hats. Shoulder bags. Open toed sandals on a scree slope. That's not tramping.
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Polity: Leaving only footprints, in reply to izogi,
Sadly almost the entire course programme was killed off very recently
At first I thought that must have been one hell of a bad tramping accident, then I read it properly.
I've never tried hiking overseas - the absence of large predators and small poisonous things has a lot going for it. Here, it's just the weather and the terrain to worry about.
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Perhaps he could, but it would create other problems. Perhaps another drug would drop off the affordable list. Perhaps it would incentivise more drug companies to run campaigns that their drug be funded by political fiat rather than considered policy.
I'm shaking my head a bit at the talk of Big Pharma blocking this and that, when what people are basically arguing at the same time is that the government should change its policy in such a way that would enable certain pharmaceutical companies to sell more products. It's not a consistent argument.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Alfie,
misogynistic lyrics becoming mainstream
You do recall the Beatles sang about burning a woman's apartment down because she invited the narrator home and sent him to bed in the bath rather than with her? Or Sting's "Every Move You Make"? Or Brown Sugar? Angel in the Centerfold? Dadrock is full of misogyny and you don't even notice it, it's just part of the wallpaper.
If we think the PM should front up at Waitangi and take a bit of argy bargy on the chin, then maybe we could put up with a little argy bargy on this issue too.