Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Sacha,
We undervalue wisdom.
I've had my share of menial jobs that I rather enjoyed in an odd way, and were means to an end, and furthermore I had older colleagues who also didn't seem to mind them or be overly distressed that their wisdom wasn't being valued, and enjoyed work camaraderie and being out and about and making a bit of money. Which I guess is my way of saying that Subway isn't a Dickensian hellhole, and that we shouldn't make blanket assumptions.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Che Tibby,
think of it as “redistribution”
And you think of it as "I'm getting a bigger dog".
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Che Tibby,
even collecting it from other people.
So you're the person who's been stealing our firewood.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Che Tibby,
anyone advised dr hayward
Haywood.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Sacha,
But our youth employment rates are a real crisis with enduring consequences and we’re one of the worst nations.
I wonder if we’re so bad relative to other developed nations because our job market has been flexible (read: completely tilted towards the employers) for longer, and so there aren’t older generations whose work is more secure but also dearer than the newcomers’. And so you might as well hire somebody with experience, since you can fire them at will anyway and treat them in all ways like most other nations treat school leavers and young apprentices.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Hilary Stace,
[deleted for pointlessness of whole polemic]
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Why yes! It is indeed the lovely Bernard, in upper-upper-Karori.
Why, no! It's not :-)
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Russell Brown,
Wellington is plainly messed up.
Some of the schools I’m referring to that have been closed were affected by… some rain. And possibly the odd teacher from out of town having concerns about the commute. It does beggar belief somewhat.
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don’t know if anyone outside the media was getting apolexic.
Shall we talk about some of the school closures in Wellington today?
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Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Danielle,
but it last snowed in central Auckland *before World War II started*. Yow!
I hope this doesn't imply causation.