Today is the 30th of December. Memes are now toml'd
New Zealand supply chains are expected to be less disrupted but far more expensive next year, an expert says.
The industry has been hit by numerous disruptions over the past two years due to the pandemic, now the problem has shifted to an inventory crisis.
Experts and industry professionals warn that while disruptions may be declining, 2023 will see significant price escalations.
Such is shipping and a looming energy crisis.
The ministry does not keep records of how many hens have been transitioned out of battery cages into colony cages, but the federation’s executive director, Michael Brooks, says as of December 2022, 10% were in conventional cages (and would be gone by 1 January), 33% in colonies, 29% in barns and 34% free range. In December 2012, 86% were in battery cages.
The ministry worked with industry to ensure compliance with the incoming ban, said Gray Harrison, the ministry’s animal welfare manager. “As part of that our animal welfare inspectors inspected 26 chicken farms over the past 12 months to ensure they would meet the 1 January 2023 transition deadline,” he said.
A whole ~2 farms inspected per month.
There were thousands of stories published by RNZ in 2022. You may have missed some of the most significant.
Here are some of our picks from the In Depth team in 2022.
A balanced list overall. Hancock's Air quality discussion would be my pick from the list. Shame we did not hear more about implementing engineering controls to improve matters vs continuing the spiel that masks make a difference.
Meanwhile, the "mandate protest" that "shocked a nation" is completely absent from a list of "significant" stories.
By the same point in 2021, the vacancy rate was at 7%, with 508.74 unfilled full time equivalent positions.
This was despite the budget for 7262.48 roles in that 2021/2022 financial year.
Professor Robin Gauld, the director of the University of Otago's Centre for Health Systems, said the significant vacancy rates were worrying.
Drop the mandates, follow actual science and bring back resilient staff to help bring the work load down. Simple as.
This year, taxpayers paid public servants for over 167,000 days that they weren’t even at work, excluding the four weeks that they are legally entitled to and public holidays. This equates to more than 457 years.
We struggle to believe that public servants are working so much harder than the non-government workers who pay their salaries that they need all this additional time off.”
The "worst offenders" and the entities that declined to provide a response should not surprise.
Political commentators and journalists have nominated their politicians of the year, and it’s telling that the three main nominees are all from the political right: Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis, and David Seymour. The brickbats, in contrast, are almost universally for Labour Government Ministers – especially Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, deputy Grant Robertson, Nanaia Mahuta, Willie Jackson, and Andrew Little.
Whether this indicates that the media and commentariat have turned against Labour is an interesting point. But it certainly does reflect that it’s been an awful political year for the incumbents, and an encouraging turning point for the Opposition.
Excellent round up by Dr. Edwards.
Stuff lavishing Robertson with praise is hilarious but completely expected.
Queensland will introduce more severe punishments for violent offenders in the wake of the stabbing death of North Lakes mother Emma Lovell.
The new measures target young offenders in particular, with sentencing to take into account an accused's previous criminal activity and bail history.
New penalties have been announced despite repeated warnings from advocates that there are no "overnight solutions" to curb youth crime, along with calls for a focus on preventive measures.
Rather then making things better for young people, and there-by making them less likely to offend in the first place, we just throw more money at the problem and nothing gets fixed. Just another day in politics.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who last year assured the nation that inflation was only a fleeting bogeyman, recently took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to sell the Biden snake oil of a U.S. economy that we are supposed to believe is “resilient,” “strong,” “healthy,” and “robust” thanks to this administration’s endless inflationary spending, because of which she claims “the U.S. will be in a uniquely strong position to capitalize on the future.”
Funny, but just a few days before her overflowingly optimistic op-ed, Yellen was telling CBS’s 60 Minutes “there’s a risk of a recession,” then craftily adding that “it certainly isn’t, in my view, something that is necessary to bring inflation down”—a suggestion that the aggressive but less-than-Volckeresque higher interest rate policy of the Federal Reserve she once chaired will be to blame for the downturn that likely has already begun.
Only a matter of time before the USD pops.
Platforms remove content at the “explicit direction” of US federal agencies, the Twitter CEO has claimed
All social media platforms work with the US government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday. Documents released by Musk following his purchase of Twitter showed that the platform colluded with the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other government agencies to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and Covid-19.
Pretty sure Australian and New Zealand based alphabet agencies know who to call when needed too.
It is certainly interesting to see what disappears in "Western Nations" with "Free Speech".
Ghanaians are seemingly fed up with alarmist new year predictions especially prophecies about the incoming new year.
Ghanaian government has issued a stun warning to religious leaders against making alarming New Year predictions that can cause anxiety, fear or death.
The Ghana police spokesperson Grace Ansah-Akrofi in a statement on Tuesday said those found culpable would be arrested. He recalled that police has banned what it describes misleading New Year prophecies that can cause jitters.
One way to keep the peace.
Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea deal next week in the FTX Ponzi scheme case.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s case was assigned to Bill Clinton-appointed District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
TGP reported that after allowing SBF to return home to his parents’ house before Christmas that the judge who set him free next recused herself from the case because of her husband’s conflicts.
This is good news for Sam Bankman-Fried. Judge Kaplan is part of the Deep State Democrat gang.
He's gonna walk.
I had always thought a primary job of the press was to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, I and so many others found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts.
Twitter became an essential alternative. It was a place where those with public health expertise and perspectives at odds with official policy could air their views—and where curious citizens could find such information. This often included other countries’ responses to Covid that differed dramatically from our own.
But it quickly became clear that Twitter also seemed to promote content that reinforced the establishment narrative, and to suppress views and even scientific evidence that ran to the contrary.
From 2021:
White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged in 2012 that controversial “gain-of-function” research carried the “remote” possibility of triggering a pandemic, but argued the benefits would “outweigh the risks,” according to remarks newly unearthed as worldwide COVID-19 deaths near 3.6 million.
Last month, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Fauci during a Senate hearing over the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) role in funding gain-of-function (GOF) research — which involves intentionally strengthening viruses to better study their potential effects — at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Such research could have given birth to COVID-19.
Just another day in the megadustrial complex.
They conclude that vaccinating women during the last 2/3 of pregnancy is a no-no with regard to decreases in protective immunity induced by the flu shot and that based on their results (and the precautionary principle) that maybe it’s a good idea to stop injecting pregnant women (with shit they don’t need).
Maybe, also based on these observations, we should do the same with the experimental COVID-19 injectable products. The modified mRNA products are gene therapies and in no way, shape or form, should pregnant women be being injected with these products. No. Way.
Have we not learned anything from the past? DDT? Thalidomide? Ring a bell?
This.
John Campbell, who has been a nurse and taught nurses for 27 years, has had a gradual journey from full blue pill to red pill.
As of yesterday, he’s now officially on our side as far as the COVID vaccine only (the other vaccines will take more time).
He couldn’t announce his transition on his YouTube channel because they would cancel his channel.
Quite a journey for Dr. Campbell, he followed the data to get where he is now.
One week in 2007, two friends (Dean and Bill) independently told me they were amazed at Google's spelling correction. Type in a search like [speling] and Google instantly comes back with Showing results for: spelling. I thought Dean and Bill, being highly accomplished engineers and mathematicians, would have good intuitions about how this process works. But they didn't, and come to think of it, why should they know about something so far outside their speciality?
I figured they, and others, could benefit from an explanation. The full details of an industrial-strength spell corrector are quite complex. But I figured that in the course of a transcontinental plane ride I could write and explain a toy spelling corrector that achieves 80 or 90% accuracy at a processing speed of at least 10 words per second in about half a page of code.
Noice. Spell checking is one of those under-appreciated modern creature comforts that everyone takes for granted nowadays. (Just like how typeset letters "magically" appear on your screen.)
Also check out the rest of his web-page.
- 68000 emulation is finally fully cycle accurate, last missing part, interrupt level change detection timing, is now cycle accurate.
- Custom chipset interrupt timing is now cycle accurate.
- CIA emulation is now fully cycle accurate. Timers were accurate previously but now also interrupt timing, TOD counting, CPU/E-clock sync, and more, including undocumented side-effects are cycle accurate.
What a time to be alive and a win for preservation.
The amateur programming scene in Europe was thriving during the late 80s and early 90s. Coders from all over the continent would show off their skills by creating demos – a series of (usually) non-interactive special effects that drove their chosen hardware to the limit. Although there were demos created for all sorts of personal computers and gaming systems, the hacker community that sprang up around the Amiga was by far the largest and most enthusiastic. Hundreds packed into copy parties, demo expos, and conventions dedicated to the powerful Amiga, and it was in this environment that one of the most ambitious software teams ever to tackle the Genesis was born. That company was Zyrinx.
The people that brought you "Hardwired" on the Amiga and "Red Zone", "Sub-Terrania" on the Mega Drive.
These are the most wholesome fan suggestions of All Time
"wholesome" she says.
Commentary on what it means to be a female vs male streamer on yonder internet. Most of it should not surprise.
Linking for the sake of curiosity. I guess this kind of content has a particular audience.
Final Comments:
Animals with Cameras 2 (2021)
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and his team return for a second series, equipping more wild creatures with their own on-board cameras. Using discreet and lightweight devices, Animals with Cameras reveals ground-breaking new behaviour in creatures large and small. Dive into the mysterious lives of sharks, orca and turtles. Uncover the curious world of Tasmanian devils and kangaroos. And take to the air, with a fleet of flying foxes and a squadron of gannets. The footage not only helps Gordon and his team of experts understand these animals better, it promotes their conservation too.
Yes.