Some more discussions on UBI & Shapiro with some good counter points.

I really like the idea of it being an 'Opt-in' program and if you do go in then you lose your welfare payments. In theory this should reduce enrolment in those welfare programs even from those who earn more than the $1,000.00 UBI because that payment doesn't required any red tape whereas the red tape involved with welfare can be enormous so people may willingly take a paycut just to avoid the drama.

I'm still not sold on it but have to say of all the Dem candidates Yang seems far and away the most reasonable person they have.

Oh dear, maybe he can share a cell with Kimdotcom ?

@canefan said in NZ Gun Laws:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12214918

Clearly Mr Tipple is in the firearms business, not the PR business

I saw in an interview with Simon Dallow that it is common for them to sell out of that model gun so nothing really unusual there. Won't stop the media trying to generate some outrage clicks though.

Really highlights how resentment can take people to incredibly dark places. Taking it out on innocent children is bloody disturbing.

Visiting the cocaine museum in Bolivia (I think? long time ago.)... i seem to recall reading that cocaine was beloved by all (Freud lost his nose from loving it so much, the Pope was a big fan)...
until the US of A realised it had such huge economic potential that their neighbours to the south might become genuine rivals... and therefore campaigned for it to become illegal.
No idea if I'm remembering that correctly, or if it was correct in the first place.
But if so... legalisation is never going to happen... the US can't allow it. (other than in the controlled quantities used as the base for every single painkiller medication ... another fact my vague memory claims I learnt)

But yeah, while I sympathise with the cop in Narcos losing his shit with the two users in Bogota airport bathroom... due to all the pain/misery caused by the current production/ trafficking.... that's all down to it being illegal. Legalise it, tax it (but not too much please).

This might be the most fair and balanced opinion piece the Trump-hating Washington Post has published about 45.

No, the North Korea summit was not a loss for Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/28/no-north-korea-summit-was-not-loss-trump/

They got this one right for a change

https://www.wired.com/story/germany-facebook-antitrust-ruling/

@antipodean yeah I know. I misinterpreted written words. Was going to clear with him but liked it instead. He paid for the very thing I was promoting which was a signal that he is all over this issue

@canefan everyone loves a dentist with an eye for detail.

@antipodean said in Indigenous people of the Chatham islands:

a fluffybunny

Reckon they both are

...and it's just come through that at least 1 of the guys just been arrested for planning a massacre in Melbourne was previously a preacher at the Islamic recruitment stand next across from where Sisto was murdered. No doubt they'll be there as they are every Saturday preaching "Islam or death" with full support of the newly re-elected Labor Premier.

Straya/NZ tour announced. Feb next year
https://jordanbpeterson.com/events/

Oh yeah, and that google thing is really bad.

It is a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.

q@no-quarter said in March for Men Australia:

@Rancid-Schnitzel I agree. I was watching a Nigel Latta programme on the human mind last night and they talked about the three stages of love - lust, passionate love, then attachment. The first two operate on dopamine, and I wonder if the way our society today is more geared towards temporary happiness over long term meaning, once the first two are over people just get bored and pull the pin seeking that dopamine hit again.

The kids always lose in that situation, even if the parents are amicable to each other. Sad to see it becoming more commonplace.

I think that hits the nail on the head. The explanation I keep hearing is that the husband feels left out or resents playing second fiddle. What do you farking expect? Your wife is feeding and taking care of a tiny human who requires 24 hour monitoring for the first few years. Doesn't help when wife is back at work within a year. If you put your own needs first in that situation then you shouldn't have kids in the first place.

That isn't of course to say that some women don't make ridiculous demands on their husbands when they're working full time and they're at home.

About sums it up:

WTF was with the guy in the white shirt? Opens the drivers door, stands back and doesn't even react when the driver scarpers. Just wanders off.

@salacious-crumb said in Toronto - 9 killed, 16 injured but..:

He’s in Canada, so he’ll probably get a 10-year stretch in a mental health facility, get prescribed meds, demonstrate some good behaviour, and get a release in three years. The guy who held a bus hostage for hours in Alberta, decapitated a man and began eating his organs is walking on the streets of Canada, dd a few years in a psycho ward, it’s all good.

With any luck he could be given a new name and volunteering at a pre school in 25 years like Karla Hamolka.

Twitter thread on why Venezuela is Socialist despite the Socislists claiming otherwise (you have to open it in twitter to read it all).