I’m in NZ, of there is a naive blackberry, I’ve never heard of it. But we have a lot of blackberry in this country, it all sucks.

We visited the kindy during a normal day; we wanted to see how the teachers interacted with the kids and what facilities the kids had available.

We settled on a local Steiner kindy; the staff are all qualified in both ECE and Steiner education. Great people, quite home like; the kids get to help out in the kitchen if they want, rolling the bread buns to be baked or preparing the lunch. Or they just run around and play, dig holes or make up games and stories.

I would advise visiting whilst there is a normal session on.

We did try an ‘in home care’ place before the kindy and we were not happy with it; we lasted around 6 months there. I think it is a bit hit and miss, you could get an awesome one or a mediocre one. I don’t think there are many actual bad ones.

They are spreading seeds… That is the point of the berries.

Nothing eats the plant.

Even goats, which famously will eat blackberry, will eat anything else first.

Blackberry is evil.

If it is not native to your country don’t plant it! Nothing eats it, grows extremely quickly and is very hard to get rid of.

Damn Poe’s law.

So is that like LD100 or something; I’m not technical so trusting your numbers here.

“Going for growth” by reducing our training pipeline… Great idea.

Risk/reward ratio for small town New Zealand is something I take into account when making decisions to wake a sleeping baby.

Whilst I agree.

Victim blaming is wrong…but. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

A key point in this; Two adults left the car. Why could one not stay?

I have left my sleeping infant in the car whilst ducking into the supermarket. But the car is in a car park, locked and not running. If it is really hot; you park in the shade and leave the window cracked; you walk the extra 50m to get that park. All of this is only in the event I was alone, if both parents were there one would always stay!

That is psychotic; I guess they want Fox News, because this is how you get Fox News.

Wow; what a read.

It does seem like Hart was either killed by Ormsby; or Ormsby took advantage of the fact that Heat died, disposed of the body to get access to Hart’s assets.

Sorry for the rant.

Nuanced point is not a rant!

This is pretty bad.

Germany: we need to have holocaust museums and have the school curriculum to educate on what not to do.
Japan: we paid you off, we don’t need to talk about it anymore.

All good…unfortunately, it looks like they have a good chance of getting back in.

There is a bit much.

The highlights:

• My biggest gripe; the use of urgency to ram through unpopular legislation without the usual checks and balances. Leading to all kinds of bad laws.
  • None of the “urgent” legislation met the definition for use of urgency, but it turns out there are no protections around its use, just guidelines that haven’t been breached before.
• When the new govt was formed, they came in a cancelled a bunch of stuff that the previous govt did, some was utterly moronic. It cost us a lot of money and time.
• Cancelled world leading anti-smoking legislation; which has just been made law in the UK.
• Fucked up the school lunch system for kids in need; it still isn’t fully sorted 2 years later.
• Implemented austerity to such a degree that the nascent economic recovery was reversed and we are in a real-wage recession but even though there is “growth” happening
• Fucking up the education system; basically re-writing the curriculum to hearken back to the 1950-1980’s style, that goes against a lot of the bet evidence; in this they ignored an open letter from the college of teachers calling to not put this in…the new curriculum is just filtering in to schools now.
• The fast track legislation; rammed through with urgency. This has been opined using “fast track to corruption”; basically it allows the minister to bypass the normal consenting process to allow “significant” projects to go ahead…now projects that had been previously blocked on environmental or other grounds are coming back and getting through.

There are a lot more smaller things; but basically NZ is limping along waiting for the election this year and hoping for change…that may not come because the other major party is fairly meh.

Our current PM has terrible poll numbers…it is mainly because the current crop is fucking things up all over the place, and he is rightfully taking the flack.

I was jokingly saying maybe he needs a fake assignation to bump his numbers.

I know America has to be the biggest and best…but other countries have leaders that are fuckups also.

Not much detail in the article

Kuwait has declared force majeure on ​shipments of crude oil ‌and refined products after a blockade of the ​Strait of Hormuz ​prevented some vessels from entering ⁠the Persian Gulf, ​hindering its ability to ​meet certain customer commitments, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing ​a document. State-run Kuwait ​Petroleum Corp. notified customers on ‌Friday ⁠that it was invoking a contract clause allowing it to withhold ​scheduled deliveries, ​the ⁠report said.

It added that the ​decision is not expected ​to ⁠result in a complete halt in supply. Reuters ⁠could ​not independently ​verify the report.

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Volts - Make up your mind

I try to focus on outcomes.

E.g. it takes me 28 minutes to bike too work, next month I want it to be around 25…in a few months it would need nice to be at 20 minutes.

Whilst this is true; your body does have some pretty neat tricks to maintain homeostasis; it can shift the energy budget around quite a bit to where it is needed.

Your body will down regulate some systems to try to keep your total energy balance within what is “normal” for each person.

Digestion uses quite a bit of energy; this is why sometimes you feel sleepy after eating; your brain has been down regulated to enable digestion.

Another common example is when runners get into “the zone”; this is your brain prioritising the required processes and reducing the energy of other parts, putting you into a semi trance…this is so your body can maintain an energy balance.

It is also why we sometimes feel sick if exercising hard and then eat quickly afterward; your gut is not ready for that job.

High energy process that can be “switched off” or at least significantly reduced:

• Brain processes (up to 25% of your energy budget)
• Immune system (~20% when fighting infection)
• Digestion (dependent on food 3[sugar] - 30[protein]% of food energy)

Just because you have done some exercise; doesn’t mean you have used more total energy that day…it seems counter intuitive; but your body likely shifted energy from one thing (immune system, brain) to muscles, for the time your were exercising.

In saying that exercising is so good for other things; physical and mental health are enhanced by exercise, there are so many good things about exercise, just don’t rely on it for weight loss.

As the old saying goes “you can’t out run a bad diet”; you are correct, if over the long term you eat fewer calories than your body requires, you will see an effect. But your body is a tricksy beast, it will do all it can to prevent this; it is why dieting is so hard in an age of abundant food.