It’s also another example of putting ideology over practicality. Even before they got in, we already had a drag on our healthcare system because of the lifelong effects of our unusually high rate of child respiratory infections and rheumatic fever.
The downstream effects of these new policies are not going to be pretty.
This would be amazing for anyone heading out to the bays or Wellington Airport, no intersections or lights to worry about, and it would make life so much easier for the CBD as well, not having so much through traffic in the CBD.
A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed “thief” at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt “racially discriminated” against and embarrassed during the “horrible” birthday incident....
They can’t “put it right” vis a vis that woman, and they have no intention of actually putting it right for others by ending the weird face misrecognition trial.
The animal psychologist that convinced me put it like this: how would you like it if there was a door into your house you couldn’t lock and violent people could randomly come in, day or night.
Even the ones that are chip controlled, cats themselves don’t know and will engage in catdoor guarding behaviour.
If your cat is young and likes the odd fight it’s probably okay though.
It’s not different from nature. Neither are predation, parasites and diseases.
Stationary single point food sources would be rare but if there was one, resource guarding and physical competition would be normal as well, as would behaviours such as marking territory with urine.
Data from the US (where they have predators like coyotes) always give cats in the wild a 2-5 year lifespan.
I think the figures are better here, but cats in their natural state still have much harder lives than most pet cats.
Personally, if I have a pet my aim is to give it a long happy life, but I know mileage varies and everyone draws the line wherever they feel comfortable. I’ve mostly been lucky enough to have windows I can leave open for cats during the day.
I don’t know much about them. I get the impression they’re big in Australia, probably because of snakes etc.
To be honest even though it’s better for bird life, I’ve never kept a cat inside all day. My last cat was super old for a really long time though, and didn’t get up to anything much on her own except dozing in the sun or peeing under a particular tree.
I don’t know if it’s allowed here, but i matched with some cousins on ancestry. We figured out that their cousin Robert Little must be my grandfather. They say they don’t have much contact with Bob and were unable to give me a phone number for him. Google searches for him have come up empty....
I was fretting before about this govt just undoing stuff without any policy direction of their own, but now we’re beginning to see the policy directions I take that back.
Ah so that’s what happened to the cheap St Georges Bay Rd hostels (City Garden and Lantana Lodge) ! They must have all been converted into de facto SRO housing by MSD and that’s why they no longer operate as travel accommodation.
Some of those rooms were tiny and the place was a labyrinth, and it was dodgy before it had a captive population - must have been a complete hellhole as an always-at-capacity social housing facility.
And yes does sound like another arson. Really lucky nobody lost their lives in this one.
Overseas SROs are often linked with fires, partly because they tend to be old hotels/motels with old wiring and have owners who don’t care much about safety, and I think partly because they attract crime.
Various cities have had to pass ordinances about them for this reason.
Residents of Auckland's City Gardens Apartments ordered to evacuate over fire safety (www.rnz.co.nz)
I work with fire alarm systems for a living, so it’s fascinating to see a building get so bad it is shut down entirely by the fire brigade....
'Reckless': Govt slashing over 1000 roles across Ministry of Education, Oranga Tamariki | Newshub (www.youtube.com)
Who could have seen this coming!
Government investigates 4km tunnel under Wellington (www.rnz.co.nz)
This would be amazing for anyone heading out to the bays or Wellington Airport, no intersections or lights to worry about, and it would make life so much easier for the CBD as well, not having so much through traffic in the CBD.
Supermarket facial recognition trial: Rotorua mother’s ‘discrimination’ ordeal (www.rnz.co.nz)
A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed “thief” at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt “racially discriminated” against and embarrassed during the “horrible” birthday incident....
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 11/4/2024
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Looking for my grandfather
I don’t know if it’s allowed here, but i matched with some cousins on ancestry. We figured out that their cousin Robert Little must be my grandfather. They say they don’t have much contact with Bob and were unable to give me a phone number for him. Google searches for him have come up empty....
Sick children shouldn't be at school (www.rnz.co.nz)
Common sense, really.
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 10/4/2024
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Attendance action plan includes daily data, traffic light system (www.rnz.co.nz)
Seymour pointed to New Zealand’s attendance rates having fallen from 69.5 percent in term 2015, to 39.9 percent in term two 2022....
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Resident who escaped backpackers blaze says the accommodation was his only option after being homeless (www.rnz.co.nz)
By the comments made by the person being interviewed, it sounds like this was also a case of arson?...