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My grandfather with his wife who quit work when they got married to raise the two kids, in his mid to late 20s with a pretty regular job, brought a four bed house with a huge garden, in the surburbs, on a 15 year mortgage (and paid it off).

No way can someone do that now.

And the ongoing cuts to the public funding tries to show how badly the public system is as is stands, so it should all just be privatisedand 'run like a business' (and using medical insurance premiums) because it'd be 'cheaper and better'.... nope.

The government lied!? I'm shocked.. Shocked I tell you. /s

yeah, that 'bit of a cold', a lot of people seem to be in bed from at the moment.

Unless we're going the route of Blade Runner 2049, robots do the work, humans are the consumers.

Capitalists need more uneducated people buying stuff.

The wealthy are not connecting that no-one in work means no-one having spending money (because they always have money whilst they don't work).

I do exclusively digital group meetings.

The amount of times people say they're 'too sick to make the meeting because of a cold'...

If you're stuck in bed to unable to even make an audio call, that's not a cold!

Before Covid: A cold might give you a bit of a runny nose. Not disable you for days.

If anyone is going to be manipulating systems for their own gain, and releasing high level confidential and priviledged information to 'friends' for similar gain, I can't think of anyone else more likely than Trumpf.

It's like there's a troll handbook on how to show dissatisfaction from a place of entitlement. Claiming to have been a fan for years but now suddenly...
If they were genuinely a long term supporter, they wouldn't be writing crap like this.
I'm sorry idiots like this are getting under your skin.

The New York Times and a wrong way sign Headline: You Were Badly Misled About That Thing That Was Bad Which Is Why We Told You To Catch The Thing That Was Bad While Attacking The People Who Told You The Thing Was Bad. Story by Toby Ornotoby and Grant Poopflinger Photo from Unsplash

You Were Badly Misled About That Thing That Was Bad Which Is Why We Told You To Catch The Thing That Was Bad While Attacking The People Who Told You The Thing Was Bad.

I have. Regular seat. Big chute into a 90ltr. Stir the contents weekly (internal paddles). Liquids drain through the double chamber into a soakaway. Add pine wood shavings (not dust) and some enzymes after solids. Low power fan pulls air through = no smell. 6 months rest per chamber for fertliser.

I used to do a lot of hiking, so my bigger pack is a 65ltr (25 years old, but still going strong) hiking backpack with adjustable straps and proven comfort, pre-loaded as a grab bag (tent, food, first aid supplies, masks, etc. in drybags, for 🏃🏃+🐱). Also, I highly recommend you get walking poles.

Very fortunate to have found a cheap enough dream rural bit of land, towards the end of a single track gravel road, past a supportive group of neighbours.
<30mins from the nearest hospital and key retailers town.
Currently developing a workshop, food forest, and tiny homes, for a small community.

I feel like they're the kids who never grew out of the marshmallow experiment, but yet are still somehow constantly rewarded for short term gain, rinse and repeat, so don't even need to wait for the second marshmallow.

How Influencer Leftists Failed On Covid Covid was the biggest transfer of power from bosses to workers in 75 years.

I've written something about the absolute poverty of left wing analysis and discourse on the pandemic and the failure to defend the broadest expansion of the social safety net in our lives and how that helped created Musk, DOGE, etc substack.com/home/post/p-...

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

As someone who lives off-grid already: Unless you have a very big system, don't try to heat or cool rooms with solar. Ideally don't heat water either. Use a wood burner for heating the room / cooking in the winter. And try to use good insulation, natural shade, to reduce gaining heat in the summer.

A tired man Headline: Happy Immuniday! How Catching All Those Viruses And Being So Ill Means You’re Now Healthier Than You’ve Ever Been! Story by Grant Merelif and Asher Bodashus Photo from Unsplash

Happy Immuniday!
How Catching All Those Viruses And Being So Ill Means You’re Now Healthier Than You’ve Ever Been!

CDC also recommends hosing down your front step, to protect your house from the incoming fire.

It's only a mild fire, at least two blocks away so don't worry.
Also, you'll be fine because you read online your type of house is immune to all fire, even when those flames are directly against the walls.
Just checking, did you live in that house five years ago? Yeah, you're screwed.

A wildfire threatening a city Headline: CDC And WHO Issue Urgent Warning To People In Areas Of Wildfires To Wash Hands To Avoid Inhaling Toxic Wildfire Smoke Story by Simeon Oolala and Timothy Bunfight Photo: Adobe File #: 476289457

CDC And WHO Issue Urgent Warning To People In Areas Of Wildfires To Wash Hands To Avoid Inhaling Toxic Wildfire Smoke

You know what happens when you allow corporations to continue ignoring safety and cutting costs at every opportunity, while also ignoring public health and common sense? This. You get all this.

If cows are currently the intermediary for transmission, does that still make it herd immunity? Or should it be flock immunity now?

Can we all make a point if calling it 'American Flu (2025)'?

If H5N1 bird flu becomes a pandemic there will be no doubt about where it started and why. No arguing over lab leaks or wet markets, bats or bioweapon. It will be made in America by capitalism, the dairy industry and the politicians they bribed to do nothing

A model in pain. Maybe clutching their pancreas Headline: EXPERIENCE: I Thought I Had Long Covid, But After Two Years Of Pain, I Found Out That I Actually Had Symptoms Of Long Covid. Story by Lawks Featherbrew and Jersey O'Bingoll Photo from Adobe: File #: 77276489

EXPERIENCE: I Thought I Had Long Covid, But After Two Years Of Pain, I Found Out That I Actually Had Symptoms Of Long Covid.

Some people Headline: No, The Chest Infection That You Have Right Now Is Nothing To Do With The Covid Infection You Had Six Weeks Ago That Didn’t Damage Your Immune System Or Anything Like That. Story by Vinyl Jorgenson and Neville Penguin Photo from Adobe File #: 934368987

No, The Chest Infection That You Have Right Now Is Nothing To Do With The Covid Infection You Had Six Weeks Ago That Didn’t Damage Your Immune System Or Anything Like That.

Someone trying to deny that they're still sick. Headline: This Is Normal.Everything Is Normal.None Of Any Of This Has Anything To Do With Covid. Story by Gareth Goosander and Smug Haggisboard Photo: File #: 513518815

This Is Normal.
Everything Is Normal.
None Of Any Of This Has Anything To Do With Covid.

maybe he's trying to do a Top Gun style flypast and 'buzz the control tower'?

Have they never driven down SH1 into Wellington, just past the Thorndon exit? (where they also had to dig up an old cemetry).

I guess just call on 'expert witnesses' rather than directly saying NIMBY.

Some of us with auto-immune conditions, are still in a lockdown, since Omicron and mask mandates, completely removed in 2022.

Those supported lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, and the open periods between domestically at least, gave me so much hope for the future, both socially and environmentally.