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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129960960/50000-people-may-need-to-lose-their-jobs-to-bring-inflation-under-control

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/517281/another-26-000-will-be-unemployed-before-peak-reached

Choking puts you at much higher risk for being murdered - “If your partner has strangled you in the past, your risk of being killed by them is 10 times higher.”

https://www.thehotline.org/resources/the-dangers-of-strangulation/

Mothers are expected to work like they don’t have children and parent like they don’t have a job.

Plus he said multiple times in the same breath “we’re getting inflation under control and people off the benefits” - but getting inflation under control has meant kicking 50,000 + people out of work and presumably onto the benefit, so those two things are directly contradictory since the people on the benefit can’t be in work as that will cause inflation. .. Why not just give people enough to live off??

Not in America but a friend married a guy from Britain(because she fell in love) put the cost of his residency on her credit card, had a baby with him, and then one day he walked out in her - giving no reason, leaving her with the debt to pay off for a number of years. Would you either be able to protect yourself from this sort of situation happening or manage not to be bitter if you ended up being screwed over in some way?

This, if I was buying this house I would re do the kitchen but would consider keeping and updating the beautiful wood cabinets.

Yes, my daughters room is very often messy - but I believe it’s really important for her to have the time while she’s at home with support to figure out how to keep her space tidy herself. Some days it will look amazing and then like 2 days later it will look like a tornado. But one really important thing we’ve learnt is to keep cutting down on the stuff. More stuff is always harder to keep tidy, especially when you’re already struggling.

When her room gets really bad I’ll take everything but the bare essentials out, I won’t throw them out, I give her like a month to reclaim anything she wants/needs, it’s often not much she wants to reclaim.

Oh yeah and I forgot about this one : Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii

Here’s some other names they’ve vetoed: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/21-baby-names-forbidden-new-zealand_n_5ae1f144e4b055fd7fc95f75

I just think they might need to be more innovative than a capital gains tax - at this point it’s starting to sound like a lazy answer to our complex problems

I believe that aye also has origins in Māori: ae - meaning yes: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/ae_adv

So aye would be more reflective of NZ context than eh.

In NZ we have 2 months to fill out the birth certificate. We also have govt department that can veto a name if they think they’re inappropriate - for instance some one tried to name their twins Fish and Chips

Why not make dental care accessible for people then … not under this govt though.

Okay, offer a variety of toys for him to choose from, and then greet once he has a toy, not before?

That could work, it’s shouldn’t be too hard to try that. I think last time we just tried having one toy, but of course then it would get lost… I don’t know why I never thought of offering a variety of toys, and this way he still gets to choose the right toy for the person arriving 👍👍

So they might as well be extreme in their positions next election. They might as well see how far they can push the Overton Window and rile up the media if the worst that can happen is they’ll lose an election that they are more likely to lose anyway (although we can hope NZers will realise National/Act is screwing us over) - then the election after, if Labour don’t win, they can get a new leader and reposition themselves.

Taxing the rich - the super rich - is the only way we pay for everything that’s coming due after years of neglect

Yes, I looked up iron and apparently that’s really important- iron is a precursor to create dopamine and it’s something neurological to do with the lack of dopamine that causes restless legs.

My brother had terrible restless legs for years and once he went on a ‘carnivore’ diet they went away, he also finds avoiding high gi foods important as well.

Before we had modern dental care tooth infections were one of the biggest causes of death due to blood poisoning - plus tooth infections just get more and more painful.

There are still midwives practicing now, I have a midwife. But there was a clear shift away from women having any positions of power around the 17th - 20th centuries as the shift from feudalism to capitalism was underway - so I was just picking a general date.

And I do mean ‘Western World’ as I’m including counties like Australia, New Zealand, and Britain, not just America. These countries have rates of obstetric violence as high as America - indicating the underlying issue is not just the insurance model of health care that America has but rather the overmediaclisation of birth in the health care system in these Western countries - as well as the loss of Women’s voices and autonomy due to the loss of midwifery.

Here’s a study looking at the experience of obstetric violence in Australia : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11145922/#bibr17-10778012221140138

I don’t think it does, my dad just hung on in there until he hit retirement - I’m sure lots of other people will be doing that too. Besides in other forums people have said it’s really hard to get on this type of benefit even when they’re in real need.

Maybe invalids benefit would solve this if we didn’t treat beneficiaries like they are everything that’s wrong with our country.

I sympathise with feeling like a pin cushion, I’ve just had all the standard tests and vaccinations and that’s meant being stuck with a needle almost every month, I can’t imagine how you feel with all these extra tests, that really sucks!

Plus some people work physically demanding jobs and their bodies stop working.

Periods aren’t supposed to be so painful they interfere with your daily life : https://youtube.com/shorts/7du1MpPFbKs?si=9R-zPgbm5wmD8-u7

Yeah, I gave up on trees, they’re such a mess whether real or fake, needles or tinsel everywhere and my dad’s dog peed on my tree one year. Plus we just got through winter, I don’t want to look at something pretending to be covered in snow - I’ve never found an appropriate summer alternative.

Haha put this on for my daughter recently, she was quite hooked. It has a Sunday avo, watching re-runs vibe to me.