Zutalors

Secondary school teacher, classroom missionary for climate change action (starting with the air-con). Born at 319.38 ppm.

[Alethios @Alethios3]

Sat down with Hon. Phil Goff recently to discuss housing, his time as Auckland's mayor, and the historic Chinese Free Trade Agreement he negotiated as New Zealand's Minister of Trade and Foreign Affairs.

Link in comments below.

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@Alethios3 Creepy.

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"The public sector doesn't necessarily like deadlines, but you say this has got to be done because... people are coming".

Fascinating idea from Ludo here about how some cities have managed to leverage major events to overcome bureaucratic inertia.

Full episode link below.

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@Alethios3 I'll have to watch it. I know it's a classic. I enjoyed your review. In the foreground, Christopher Plummer, one of the great Canadians.

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@Alethios3 I agree with teaching phonics, but this data just seems to show that students are getting better at phonics. Are they getting better at reading in general? Maybe, but surely reading tests are needed.

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@Alethios3 I'm all for phonics, but the data just seems to show that students are getting better at phonics, as opposed to reading in general?

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@GGrimalda I am glad that your story is being told via cinema. Well done, Gianluca.

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@Alethios3 Your children are a deep pursuit, in and of themselves, and a gift to the future.

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@TaiwanNewsEN Austerity gone mad?

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@icgee @MetroTaoyuan @seamlessbayarea Whoops. This year's Taiwan Fellow. It's still 2024. :-)

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@icgee @MetroTaoyuan @seamlessbayarea https://t.co/iiE8BUYyev Thoughts on Taipei's public transport system, from last year's Taiwan Fellow.

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@RobinMazumder Having a mayor who supports public transport is crucial.

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@humantransit Agreed. Paradigm shifts (eg away from car culture), despite being positive ones, still need to be thoughtfully shown to have benefits for each and all.

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@EricaJSandberg How do cars make a city healthier? Genuinely puzzled.

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@kevinbridges86 @NetflixUK @netflix Not on Netflix in NZ. Would be fantastic to be able to watch it down here, too.

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@Alethios3 Oh, interesting idea. Btw, what I do like are discussions about pol studs and constitutional law. Clearly. :-)

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@Alethios3 I too believe 'that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’: unfortunately, a "binding" constitution holds the living in thrall to the dead hand of past generations. Eg. The Equal Rights Amendment failed to get a super majority. And all those guns...

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@Alethios3 I don't hold with lawmaking via simple majority referenda either. "Off the top of my head on the day" voting by people in the street is no way to make, change or end laws. At least elected representatives follow a process of open debate and challenge.

[Emmanuel @EmmanuelSPV]

Bon, impossible de faire faire à l'IA un changement avant/après à partir de photos réelles style "arbres remplaçant des voitures", mais elle arrive plutôt bien à joindre des façades réelles (mais pas toujours). Bref c'est impressionnant quand ça marche mais ça marche pas souvent.

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@Alethios3 And "the right to bear arms"? That seemed a fundamental right 250 odd years ago. Today, not so much. Every generation thinks that it has all the answers. Does that make it right to hamstring the lawmaking powers of future generations?