Posts by Farmer Green
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to ,
I am heartened to hear murmurs coming from educationalists, . . . . .
Perhaps the acquisition of literacy and numeracy could be considered as a "resource" in teaching how 1s and 0s work.
Just a thought.
Without wishing to appear disheartening , I am sure that thinking "educationalists" have been murmuring for several decades, but they seem to have had no effect in halting the decline . . . . the "education" system is not run by educationalists. -
Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to ,
I blame not the housing shortage, but house price inflation, on greedy people. They are competing to borrow huge amounts of money from foreign banks. They are importing debt. And then they work stupid hours to service it, at the expense of spending time with their children, in the hope of making money from capital gain
You only used the word "stupid" once. Stupid is . . . .
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Bart Janssen,
we've failed to educate residents to fill those roles.
I think that NZ, like many "Western " nations, has quite deliberately dumbed-down the schooling system. The lowering of standards so that everyone can have a degree , and a debt to go with it, seems to have been the policy.
If the purpose was a docile , dull , distracted , and deluded populace, the better to rob the people of anything and everything, and ultimately to render common folk expendable . . . . well, nice work so far. -
4.30 a.m. Time to hit the track . . . the day awaits.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to mark taslov,
Essential educational material for kids , IMHO. It's a shame the schools don't use it.
Easy to understand why that won't happen though :- -
This is the same stage that the discussion reached four years ago in the Fact and Fantasy thread.
https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-fact-and-fantasy/?p=276517#post276517
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Sacha,
I don't think so ; which type of aquifer are you referring to? I didn't use the term.
Edit : I see what the Greens are saying about shallow aquifers, which is groundwater. Where I farm there is no risk to the main water sources which are artesian - sealed underground tanks under considerable pressure, and not subject to infiltration.
The groundwater which the Greens are talking about is not confined and finds its way into streams and rivers, swimmable or not. This is the water that should have been of concern , but the clean streams outcry got all the attention.So the real cleanup , in respect of nitrate has yet to begin, and the economic consequences nationally are massive.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Rather the opposite : that the campaign to fence some waterways was largely window dressing to placate the urbanites. The nitrate was already present through percolation down through the soil profile , before the water even reached the stream. Some honest scientists pointed this out at the outset of the furore . Phosphorus remains largely an erosion problem in the hill country because phosphorus binds to the soil.
But I am suggesting that "swimmable" is not a scientific term and should not have ever entered the debate. That fact seems to have been realised now, and the focus should be on appropriate soil use, stocking rates , nitrogen fertiliser , and bought in feed .
Actually I can recall having exactly this conversation with Gary Taylor and Guy Salmon several years ago. There simply has to be less nitrogen going in the top of the soil profile for there to be less coming out the bottom. -
Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to mark taslov,
What is in your 2040 link?
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to mark taslov,
Some enlightenment there :-
""This is a problem we've had to deal with for many years... it's not marijuana that's the problem, it's really P, "