Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Russell Brown,
mortgagee sales
Yes, plenty of those in Houston.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Danielle,
Texas is teeming with flying cockroaches
No wonder they all have guns
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Matthew Poole,
their pet National Party poli-puppets
Awesome example in interview with delusional Housing minister Nick Smith on RadioNZ this morning (34mins, listening options)
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to James Bremner,
Those pro-sprawl lines have been around in nutbar neolib circles for some time, including the Act 'productivity commission' whose plans the current govt is pushing. Here's one post that might be useful.
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Notes & Queries: Paul, in reply to Russell Brown,
I believe admiring David's storytelling and being uncomfortable about it are not mutually exclusive..
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Notes & Queries: Paul, in reply to Lilith __,
Paul's disability doesn't define him, but it has shaped much of his life. It's what Paul and those who know him have to work with.
Society's expectations include people speaking on behalf of disabled people as being OK, so I can understand Dylan's reaction.
Perhaps David can shed light on how he asked Paul about telling us chunks of his life?
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to BenWilson,
Big difference between buying your home and land-banking the rural-urban fringe.
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I agree with this informed take from Local Board member Julie Fairey about Council's communication failures (cross-posted on the old thread).
My sense is that the large level of interest, and the misleading approach taken by some, just was not anticipated by the team working on the draft, who are mostly planners and thus indulge in a fair bit of planner talk and thinking in the way they operate every day.
I suspect they thought that the main audience for this first round would be planners and developers, and so much of the early comms was focused on that market, and assumed a certain knowledge of planner talk.
That inadvertently created a vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum. What filled it wasn’t always the best quality or even vaguely accurate.
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I agree with elected Local Board member Julie Fairey's informed take on Council's communication failures.
My sense is that the large level of interest, and the misleading approach taken by some, just was not anticipated by the team working on the draft, who are mostly planners and thus indulge in a fair bit of planner talk and thinking in the way they operate every day.
I suspect they thought that the main audience for this first round would be planners and developers, and so much of the early comms was focused on that market, and assumed a certain knowledge of planner talk.
That inadvertently created a vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum. What filled it wasn’t always the best quality or even vaguely accurate.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Enter Audioculture, in reply to Simon Grigg,
marvellous