Posts by Brent Jackson
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Nicely put.
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That's a nice sentiment. It's a shame that PA is no longer the discussion forum it once was, but I am glad that I was (am?) part of it.
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With STV you can vote for both if you want to be sure.
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Fake News
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Disinformation
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Data Breach - been hearing about these all year.
Treasury "Hack" - a fine example -
I think the real benefit of this will be that youth will be introduced to voting while still at school, so will be much more likely to get on the electoral roll, and hopefully then more likely to vote.
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I refuse to see any show at the Arena in Auckland now because bad experiences there vastly outweigh the good.
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to Simon Armstrong,
The money paragraph for me in Danyl's article (sans asides) :
It’s the consequence of being a species with a nervous system designed by natural selection, which incentivises behaviour that once maximised our evolutionary fitness by rewarding it with brief bursts of pleasure; but a species that now exercises enough control over our environment that we can endlessly, repeatedly stimulate the dopaminergic pathways in our brains by eating foods loaded with sugar and fat, buying consumer products, watching TV, masturbating to porn, and taking drugs. And, as every addict knows, the highs are always followed by the lows. Repeated over-stimulation of the mesolimbic reward system leads to anhedonia: an inability to feel pleasure, the classic symptom of clinical depression. The logical end points of rationalism, liberalism and consumer capitalism, are incompatible with human nature and human happiness.
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Reeferendum - such a great pun