Haven't seen any posts for a while.  I hope he hasn't imploded.

There's no shortage of comment going on regarding the government's announcement yesterday.

So, does the program go far enough, is it too restrictive (or generous) and how successful will the plan's strategies prove to be?

Personally I see the vehicle scrapping initiative as a move in the right direction but I'm puzzled as to why the government continues to sit on its hands in regard to incentivising domestic PV installation. Distributed generation is a further incentive towards EV uptake while also reinforcing NZ's grid generation capacity and reducing transmission loading losses.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...your-genes

Might be my genes. Might be the fat capsules of nsaids I swallow every day. Might be my stay at home stay well habits. Might be I HAVE had it but been unaware, because some of those other weird symptoms might just have been signals I ignored - like these ones...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...eard-about

Who knows? This bug is just weird.

A T─ükaka couple facing charges relating to the final day of the protest occupation of Wellington's Parliament grounds are fighting to keep their names secret.

The couple appeared in the Nelson District Court on Monday. The 29-year-old man faces charges of intentional damage and doing a dangerous act with intent, while the 29-year-old woman is charged with doing a dangerous act with intent and rioting.

Apparently racially motivated & said to be a hate crime by a white supremacist.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61452958

[b]"An 18-year-old white man has shot dead 10 people in a black neighbourhood of New York state in what authorities are calling a racially motivated attack.[/b]
The man, named as Payton Gendron in court papers, was arrested after a stand-off at the scene - a supermarket in the city of Buffalo.
He began firing in the store's car park before entering and continuing his rampage, streaming the attack online.



"We are investigating this incident as both a hate crime and a case of racially-motivated violent extremism," said Stephen Belongia, from the FBI's Buffalo office, adding there was evidence of "racial animosity."

CBS news reported that the attacker shouted racial slurs during the shooting and suggested that he had a racial slur written on his weapon. He also apparently posted a manifesto online which included racist language and ideas.
The suspect is believed to have driven for some 200 miles to reach the predominantly black area of the city."


How many more of these attacks are needed before America changes its gun laws...

 Trade Mes Feedback Dispute policy is bullshit, Cut off at 30days since auction closes, after that it is tough luck good bye,
not interested in your feedback dispute, Yet we have 45 days to place feedback?, It should be 30 days from feedback placed,

Feedback I received from seller is total lies defamatory, Nasty etc, going against feedback policy,
yet trade me wiped their hands of it, as it was placed over 30 days since auction closed, yet auction was in dispute with trade me trying to get it resolved,
seller ripped me off lied, contradicted their self in E-Mails many times etc.the evidence is all there in E-Mail communication,
now innocent traders are stuck with untruthful defamatory & nasty bullshit,

who else has struck this?, it is so so wrong on Trade Mes part no protection from rogue traders anymore,

Trade Me are literally rewarding these people by doing nothing, so they will do it again and again,
and penalizing the innocent parties who get stuck with bullshit defamatory Feed backs,

I had no idea that this backward, American right wing Christian nonsense was being taught here. This is really nasty & scary stuff which has somehow arrived here.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/educati...ate-change

"A curriculum that teaches creationism as fact, denies human involvement in climate change and depicts women as inferior to men has grown in popularity.

Quote:Bogus Ashley Bloomfield vaccine letter goes viral among US far right and QAnon followers

The faked letter, which has spread across Facebook, Twitter and Telegram, peddles the falsehood that unvaccinated New Zealanders face a $15,000 fine or jail time. 
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/11-05-202...-followers

Russia-Ukraine war: Photo sparks rumours of Russian President Vladimir Putin's replacement
This is the headline and there is a small photo on the link so when you click on it you would expect to see a larger photo, but no photo at all, there is a video but most of it is of troops marching and nothing of Putin's so called replacement.

The Herald does this sort of thing with a lot of its articles, show a small photo and when you go to read the article their is no bigger photo to see .... is this journalism clickbait?

I'm looking for sleek_lizzy if she is over here. Anyone know? arthurdent asking...