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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Would help if I attached the link... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Dr Lucy TelBar@lucytelbar.bsky.social |
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PhD. Mostly researching housing, health, and winter illnesses. But easily distracted.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Would help if I attached the link... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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This sounds like a good way to end up with bad housing. Surely even the Minister knows you can only ever (at best) have two out three of cheap, good, and fast? He's opting for cheap and fast. That automatically means it won't be good.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Very happy to see Alex Casey has addressed this issue more fully than possible in the limited characters available here.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-0...
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I don't know what's more trivial: some woman fretting over her sons seeing women in g-string bikinis at the local swimming pools, or me bothering to comment on it (while my eyes roll to the back of my head).
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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As someone who half-listened to the Disney version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" while my niece watched it and I scrolled social media, here's where you've misunderstood the relevant ̶m̶i̶l̶i̶e̶u̶ context (1/65)
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Pretty sure I got stung by one of those in Vanuatu. OK, OK, it might have actually only been half that size, but it was still freaking enormous.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Looking at Starmer's cabinet appointments and thinking how useful it must be to be able to appoint people who aren't MPs. I don't think I want an upper house, but some other mechanism could be good?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I can see there's a bit of broken off and deteriorated rubber around the end, which suggests there was once a tube attached, so the pillow makes sense. Maybe I'll just keep it as a squeezy stress ball 🤣
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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So it is! So, given I've never seen a pillow near it in the years it's sat on my desk, I can dispose of it?!
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Does anyone know what this is?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I'm still surprised they don't, particularly in the corporate/ public sectors, where many employees have generous sick leave provisions. I've just been off work for what would have been 9.5 days if there hadn't been a public holiday at the end. Mr BarTel had similar last year. That's $$$ lost time.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Thought thus was going to be a story about Covid strains...
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Sometimes we send emails for life reasons, not work reasons 🙂
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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If Tamaki stopping a drag storytime has given him a "head on [a] platter", that would make Tamaki Herodias - the villain in the story of John the Baptist- and drag storytime a prophet of God in at least six different faiths.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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NB IIRC slander falls under civil law, it's not a criminal offence, so police aren't interested.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Unfortunately they'll just use it for their matyrdom propaganda - "Look how we are being persecuted for our faith!'
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Well that sent me off on a path that turned up this delight from 1966: www.jstor.org/stable/588774. I particularly enjoy Douglas's thesis that "demand for oysters and champagne not basic bread and butter triggers social conventions which hold population down". And the last paragraph is 👩🍳💋
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Wow, that is looow, even for them.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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It is this one: healthcareessentials.com.au/downloads/it... and sure enough, the company does need to be fired into the sun.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Oh that's that sensible other kind. I'm sure we used to have one of those buy not sure what happened to it. Now we have this one with the on-off button on the top.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Is it possible to change the batteries on this type of thermometer? If so, how? If not, why not?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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The irony though: almost certain I caught it at closing night of Transmission Beta 🤪
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Well, it was a mighty fine run, but I am Novid no more 😪
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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All those housing character purists should only be allowed to travel in conveyances originally made in or before the year their home was originally built. They're allowed to restore them, but the body must remain the same.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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It's funny you say that, because I'm sure a public health mosquito expert once told me that (human-biting) mosquitos are entirely replaceable in the food chain, and could be eliminated without ill effect.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Policy written by memberberries.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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"Dismantled" doesn't work for "crippled" either. "Dismantled with guilt" (or "with anxiety")? "emotionally dismantled"? Those are about the only contexts in which I can imagine using "crippled", and "dismantled" is not it. Paralysed, cramped, or crushed, possibly.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Can someone explain to me why "stupid" is on the right hand list? I've googled it, but I don't see a compelling reason. Also I don't think I've ever seen "dumb" used as "bad". Bad is a bad replacement. There are "daft"-type alternatives . Or, sometimes, speechless ("struck dumb"). But not "bad".
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Always worth looking at testing criteria of course, but if you know vaccination rates have dropped a bunch, and that the R0 of 15 - 17 needs 93 - 94% coverage for herd immunity, then insufficient vaccination does seem like a reasonable starting hypothesis.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I completely get that some people love documentaries, and I'm sure this is great work. But I would far rather read the content, because that's how I best process information (particularly an hour's documentary content). Is there any transcript available?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Damn, I missed that earlier, would have co-signed with vengeance!
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I can't DM you :( - DM me?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Unfortunately, in Aotearoa, a lot of the renovation of old homes IS necessary. Not everything in all renovations, of course, but basic stuff like improving solar gain, insulation, replacing rot - there's unfortunately a shedload of upgrades to our housing stock still needed.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Setting it to a minimum of 16C when you're not home (or in bed, if you don't use your heat pump for bedroom heating) is a reasonable compromise for better indoor moisture and mould management.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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In other news: supposed "last word" advice to not leave your heatpump on 24/7 is NOT the last word. If you absolutely can't afford to, sure. But if you're trying to manage indoor moisture and mould - as most NZers are - you're better to not let indoor temperatures cycle up and down so much.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Then for the MPs who do move to Wellington, they can apply to WINZ to have their housing need assessed in same way other applicants do - and then a similar scenario: build ~60 new units of appropriate sizes, but have the MPs and their families live in whatever stock most needs upgrade.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Re: MP housing. I would like to see a new, well-spec'd ~60+ (non-WLG electorate MPs + however many list MPs live outside WLG) unit studio apartment block built somewhere in central WLG. Then add it to the Kāinga Ora stock, and make the MPs live in whatever nearby KO studios most need upgrade.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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NB you must have registered to vote at some point when living there - it's not enough to just be a citizen.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Entertainingly, my husband says telling them you're Catholic has the same effect.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Wondering if there's a version of this story out there somewhere that's headlined "Coastal whānau hopes battle to protect urupā won"?
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Yep, that would fall under "Hanlon's razor" as mentioned in a later post :)
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Looking at the screenshot of the email in the original post over at the dead bird, it's clearly talking about vaccinations - but the fonts are mismatched, so potentially mischievous. Or just Hanlon's razor.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Glad to find my BS detector is intact (I mean the email content, not the person who posted it, which I trust was in good faith)
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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GPs are busy people. It would be very easy for some mischief-maker to produce something on TWO email letterhead, and send it from an email address approximating something that might look like a TWO account, to a bunch of GP email addresses they'd found on some website(s) somewhere.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Lol, yes 🤦
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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The only relevant point in there is the assessment that some developers may be having to sell for more than it cost them to build. If that acts as a dampener on further construction, it's not so great for continuing to improve the supply/demand ratio.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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I don't know for sure, but I fully expect it to be available at a charge - like the flu vaccine.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Also - it's daft even from a cost-benefit point of view. Even if you use the lower Transport $200k value of a life year, the death of one 4-year-old comes in at about $15.6m, from about 78 life-years lost. And then there are DALYs as well. I thought ACT liked to think they were rational?
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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Because he thinks a pound of cure is worth less than an ounce of prevention? I'm sure knowing that their childcare centre has gone under will entirely offset the grief and cares of parents whose children have been died or injured.
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Dr Lucy TelBar
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OMG this is horrific. Existing regulations don't do enough to ensure adequate space, staffing levels, or staff welfare (which impacts child welfare). Taking them away will only make things worse.
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