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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Agree with your points, stupid people still existed, but would be shunned from important roles once others realized they were stupid. Social media and the systematic underfunding of education and science also is a factor of dumbing down the general population and overall lack of critical thinking. It’s one of the reasons so many mistrust scientist or experts and think watching youtube or tiktok videos counts as “research”.

    Can you imagine, governments made up of highly educated people that are actually experts in the fields their role is responsible for? We might actually progress as a society.







  • Like, I’d love to be able to live in a nicely insulated home where the cost won’t exceed 25% of my income.

    If this is really your issue, then you’re focusing on the wrong people.

    Clearly something has to be done when a certain percentage are falling into arrears, but making them homeless is not the right tactic. Thinking they are all just withholding rent while having the ability to pay is a big assumption, and is almost certainly incorrect. There needs to be some discretion exercised and probably taken on a case by case basis. I have no doubt there are some taking the piss, but just painting all of them with the same brush seems wrong to me.


  • Luxon really does have negative charisma doesn’t he.

    Question Time also got heated around political donations with Hipkins questioning Luxon whether Polkinghorne had donated to the ACT Party, and if so, if that had created a conflict of interest when Seymour wrote to the police on Polkinghorne’s behalf.

    Seymour then weighed in saying he could stand up and say "there’s been no such donation to me, but I’m not going to do that, and I’d urge all members of the House to think very carefully about what the implications of every member declaring every possible donation, or not, at every point of questioning.

    “If you really want to go there then we could have a very different type of politics.”

    Seymour is such a prick. Some of us do want transparency in politics so we can see who your sponsors are jackass.





  • It seems neither of us know enough about the industry to speculate, but logically speaking, if they had followed the correct MPI processes and the process itself was at fault a fine wouldn’t have been levied against them in the first place.

    Like the food safety guy said; they had a responsibility to manage any potential risks to consumers. It’s not like they are a new inexperienced business, they’ve been in the same business for over 100 years. This did happen almost four years ago, I’m fairly confident that they’ve made enough profit in that time to easily pay this fine without breaking a sweat.


  • Yeah I’m not sure, the wording isn’t so clear. But still, they knew it was carrying “metal sulphide concentrates (zinc and lead)” on it’s previous voyage. A quick google says: “Metal sulfide concentrate is a refined ore that contains high concentrations of valuable metals and has had impurities removed.”

    Is it really suitable to risk cleaning it then transporting consumable food items in it? Especially one that was carrying lead of all things? As the Food safety deputy director general said:

    “New Zealand Sugar Company knew what its responsibilities were to consumers - ensuring the safety and suitability of its products and managing any potential risk to consumers,” Arbuckle said.

    Also the fact they didn’t even detect the extent of the lead contamination until after it had already been used in production.

    Samples were taken between 15 and 24 September for testing, but Chelsea Sugar followed its normal process for distribution and sale.

    “The test result on 7 October showed high readings of lead contamination, but rather than take immediate action and stop production and distribution, they instead sought more testing which confirmed the same result,” Arbuckle said.

    "Some of this product was sold between October and early November. We were not informed of the lead contamination until 3 November, which is unacceptable.

    I’m not saying they should be made bankrupt, but it should probably have more impact than “the cost of doing business”