Hexboare [they/them]

I meant in relation to domestic policy, though Australia is closing that gap and exceeding NZ on neoliberal brutality on a couple of fronts

But you still have odd things like no capital gains tax in New Zealand and a very low maximum income tax rate

She came forward

She didn’t even come forward, she told her friend who taped the conversations

Tripp reported their conversations to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who advised her to secretly record them, which Tripp began doing in September 1997.

Goldberg also urged Tripp to take the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and bring them to the attention of people working on the Paula Jones case. In the fall of 1997, Goldberg began speaking to reporters (including Michael Isikoff of Newsweek) about the tapes.

In the Paula Jones case, Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit that denied any physical relationship with Clinton. In January 1998, she attempted to persuade Tripp to commit perjury in the Jones case.

Instead, Tripp gave the tapes to Starr, who was investigating the Whitewater controversy and other matters. Starr was now armed with evidence of Lewinsky’s admission of a physical relationship with Clinton, and he broadened the investigation to include Lewinsky and her possible perjury in the Jones case.

NZ went super hard on neoliberalism, much worse than Australia - they’ve done some more tokenism (now ripped up by Luxon) but the outcomes are still shit

Glass-ceramic is really the way to go - ridiculously resistant to thermal shock and I dropped a pyroceram pot from about 5 feet and it just bounced off the floor

Maybe they can pick up an x-ray scanner on AliExpress while they’re at it

smol horn

But for real, balancing is a skill that needs to be practised and regular exercise to strengthen your stabilising muscles is important to stay mobile in actual old age.

Common household cleaners can be deadly if combined and should be kept away from the vents of billionaire’s bunkers

With street cars/light rail running east to west every few blocks, dedicated bike boulevards and mass investment in the subway it’s eminently doable.

Alright that’s one option, alternatively we can sell off the roads to developers so they can make a massive profit and turn NYC into megacity one

I read a great journal article on how Nixon “created” the EPA as an intentionally weak body (EPA funding and staff were all reallocated from existing federal agencies) to avoid Congress legislating one (like they did with OSHA that year), but unfortunately I can’t find it now.

Depends on the job. I had a staff member who refused to leave until she was 75 because she valued the work and it was a big part of her identity.

I would like to see more mechanisms for low intensity work a couple days a week for older workers - expertise from 40 years of experience is invaluable. Increasing CPC membership among women and standardisation the retirement age between men and women could also be useful goals.

Medical general practice and TCM training for older women would also assist in unfucking the free market healthcare reforms and is the sort of work that would be ideal, not physically demanding and not necessary to be undertaken full time.

Whether the best way to reform this is about slowly dismantling the Hukou system and replacing it with centralised standardisation or providing more autonomy to local government, I’m not sure.

Section 1. Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, is murder in the first degree. Murder which does not appear to be in the first degree is murder in the second degree. Petit treason shall be prosecuted and punished as murder. The degree of murder shall be found by the jury.

Sounds like it should have been charged as murder

One thing to remember is that Chinese life expectancy is a few years more than the US

The CPC has a lot of liberals

Australia has a luxury car tax, 33 percent for cars priced above a certain threshold

However the entire government sector is under banking control

Never saw it so looked up the script

RONIN [OC]: Yes. You saw me at the funeral.

(Beverly has a little orgasm)

CRUSHER: Who are you?

RONIN [OC]: I’m a spirit.

CRUSHER: I don’t believe in

RONIN [OC]: Ghosts? Nor did I in the beginning. I was born in sixteen forty seven, in Glasgow on Earth.

CRUSHER: You’re telling me that you’re an eight hundred year old ghost?

RONIN [OC]: I found a home with Jessel Howard. She was a pretty lass with a mane of red hair, and eyes like diamonds. I loved her very much. When she died, I stayed with her daughter, and her daughter, and on down through the years, generation after generation.

And the ending

CRUSHER: I re-read the entries in my grandmother’s journals. Whatever else he might have done, he made her very happy.

Slow blinking helps too

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According to Seymour Hersh the fake vaccination work wasn’t even to find Bin Laden, but to cover the actual CIA asset

Hersh writes that while Afridi was indeed a CIA asset, collecting information on militants, the fake vaccination campaign was invented as a cover story for a Pakistani military doctor who had been treating bin Laden for years, and who actually obtained DNA for the Americans.

(Later got locked up by Pakistan, never trust the Americans lesson #286)

if only there was some way of locking down and isolating a virus