This is really cool. Thanks!

It gets worse:

TL;DR: Swarbrick seemed to have the strongest and most well thought-out responses. Q did alright but had much less speaking time. McAnulty was about as mum as you would be in his position 2 days before this election. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke held her own; and only one old white guy interrupted her, at least that I noticed.

Jones was pretty quiet in general. Seymour was good at politics and you can tell he's been fencing with Swarbrick. Nicola Willis evoked the most full-room laughs when she attempting to plainly state "facts" (at least here in this room).

I'll just put it forward for the downvotes: What would a Green / Act party look like if National / Labour continue their downward trend? You next, over the next 10 years?

The YouTube video is published by Free Speech Union New Zealand and their website is https://fsu.nz/

From: https://fsu.nz/documents/cases/cath-simpson-hpdt-decision-2026-09-10.pdf

I can’t fucking believe Jacinda changed the law for late term abortion. The babies could live outside the womb but no if the mother wants that life killed she can have it killed….it’s pure evil

Original post:

My name is Roxy and I am a woman…

Simpson's reply:

Nah you’re not. You never can be. You are an arrogant prick intent on inserting yourself into woman only places. That btw was an intentional turn of phrase. No fuck off and leave the womanhood alone.

On Pride Week Aotearoa

Ban this parade of hyper-sexualised, perversion from our streets

The statement to which Simpson responded:

LGBTQ pride founder arrested for pedophilia [sic]

Simpson's response:

We are not surprised. We’re disgusted. Every single person who thinks “we should be kind” hang your heads in shame…. We all tried to warn you, but you blythly [sic] followed these monsters and gave them access to our children…you disgust me

The tribunal found that her posts brought the nursing profession into disrepute.

Now is a good time to thank you all for making this community what it is. I feel like I’m in dopamine rehab from giving up all those other platforms. Lemmy is just cool enough to keep me from going back to the other “algorithm” platforms. I am happier and healthier as a result.

Cheers

Cars ruin everything

drugs, alcohol and speed.

That sounds like a party!

Reminds me of the 2015 film "The 5th Eye"

From imdb:

A priest, a teacher and a farmer breach the security of a NZ spy base in Waihopai and deflate a satellite dish dome to draw attention to NZ co-operation with illegal US wars. The extent and implications of mass government surveillance.

See the trailer at NZ On Screen.

Yeah, it's all fallen out of patent and generics are available. Dr. John David Sinclair did a lot of research in the 80s and devised "The Sinclair Method". I've seen it work to disrupt decades of entrenched behaviour. It might not be the silver bullet but it's definitely a stepping stone in the right direction.

The winning point from my perspective is that the person is usually instructed to take the pill and continue to drink normally, which almost anyone is willing to try. Continued drinking is actually how the pill works, it dulls to "reward" which means that the drinking behaviour isn't reinforced. Over time, the brain rewires itself to forget that "alcohol = good". The drinking behaviour must continue to achieve the rewiring. Then over time, the person just stops caring about alcohol so much.

There's a TEDx talk if you want to hear someone talking about their personal experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts

It's only fair to mention that I took the bite out of the pizza. It didn't come that way.

I am mostly just surprised at how few mushrooms there are.

From Schedule 5 of the legislation:

• 3 ng/ml is the "high-risk blood concentration level" for THC.
• 1 ng/ml is the "tolerance blood concentration level" for THC.

What is the difference?

Medsafe says:

Schedule 5 has two blood concentration levels for each listed qualifying drug: tolerance and high-risk.

Exceeding the lower level (tolerance) is an infringement and could result in a fine or licence demerit points.

Exceeding the higher level (high-risk) could result in a criminal charge and the driver may be disqualified from driving or sentenced to prison.

To get an idea of what other countries are doing see https://www.ncids.org/2021/marijuana-impairment-faq/

How long can THC be detected in the blood after ingestion of marijuana?

“Low THC levels of a few nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) in blood can result from relatively recent use (e.g., smoking within 1 – 3 hours) when some slight or even moderate impairment is likely to be present, or it can result from chronic use where no recent ingestion has occurred and no impairment is present.” - Compton at p. 7.

Don't get me wrong. I don't want to be on the road with a bunch of stoned people but it seems pretty bleak to me. A medical user could definitely hit 1ng/ml without being impaired.

There is another RNZ story on this from 11 Oct.

I really like:

Okay kids, we're going to take a nap and then when we wake up we're going to clean the house!

They nap for ages...