lucytelbar.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago.
Mostly researching housing, health, and winter illnesses, but easily distracted.
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There are ways to pursue debt against a landlord, but you do have to know where they are. At least a lien means the property can't be sold - (or easily further borrow against) without the landlord paying up.
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That's a curious take on JWR. Looked to me more like her standards were higher than those around her.
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Ooooh now I get it!
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Don't all those people have two friends? Or are they their own friend as well?
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I want to know more about the Rhinoceros Party. Is it an Ionesco reference?
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The only new bit is for people "convicted in the UK of a crime which places them on the sex offenders register" - it's not the sex offender list in the country of origin.
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Passionfruit Sciatica!
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Mr Bar-Tel made this chocolate cake yesterday. We like it because a) it's yummy and not too sweet, and b) it uses 1.5 cups of feijoa pulp, which is heaps of actual feijoa:
www.angsarap.net/2014/07/01/c...
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Huh. My (raised Catholic) husband says no, they can be married, they just have to vow celibacy.
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(To be clear though, of course _all_ women should be included in such spaces.)
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I hear what you're saying - but I remember the "Women's Space" at my university which was a comfortable room in the Student Union building where women could hang out whenever, for whatever reason. It was hard-won and regularly under threat/disparaged by toxic male student politicians.
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Oh maybe my UK citizenship is still useful for something after all.
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🤣🤣🤣
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What do you say/do if you're really really not interested, not ever?
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Sure, but you know what I mean - is there not some way to say "I have zero interest in rolling the leader, but if he decides entirely of his own volition to do something else, ask me again then"?
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But are they allowed to say something like "I'm not interested now, I support the current leadership" that leaves open a run should the current leader decide to step aside?
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Yes. Don't know if anyone has asked him more recently?
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Yes, but he was quite convincing.
See thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-...
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Yeah, I was hoping that might change in time.
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Is he willing though, do you think?
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Last time I checked, I couldn't have stomached any other candidate, not even grudgingly. That's not ideal under STV. You still have to rank the dead rats just to make sure you don't get the worst of them.
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I'm not misogynistic and I do my best not to be a bigot. I am extremely glad Andrew is running because it should mean we avoid whoever all the anti-Tory folk would otherwise have voted for.
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If it's partially damaged/uninhabitable you can also expect a rent reduction.
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Wow, that's quite a trajectory!
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All to say I can see how people's views might end up in some weird political cul-de-sacs.
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All with the continuing backdrop of random power cuts due to Sendero Luminoso blowing up transmission towers; and as far as I could tell most of the population with PTSD anyway from living under a military dictatorship '68 - '80.
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I think the IMF or whoever controlled the loans basically gave him no choice. It was chaotic. Prices all over the place, even on the same day, while people tried to work out what things actually needed to cost.
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Oh, yeah. I think I missed the old man prejudice stage.
The neoliberalism I wouldn't have known the name for at the time, but yes. But of course Fujimori immediately did the same things MVL had said he'd do, but Fujimori had said he wouldn't, i.e. removing subsidies.
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Where did his politics end up?
I was in Peru for the election when he ran against Fujimori - but I was just turning 19, and staying with a family who strongly supported him (MVL), so didn't really get a broad perspective on him.
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This is a summary of it, Marnie would be the person to contact about if they're running it again: www.linkedin.com/posts/marnie...
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I did attend a really good public health workshop from Otago about the role of lobbying in democracy and it was so useful. Can share a link to it if people are interested in learning more.
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15/15.
Your school university advisor should be available to discuss non-USA options.
Do please let me know if you need support.
Kia kaha, arohanui.
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14/n ...you risk your fertility/life if something goes wrong: doctors may be legally unable to provide life-saving treatment if doing so would endanger the life of the foetus, even if you would _both_ die without that treatment. See https//www.theguar.... Stick to the States coloured 'Legal'.
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13/n.
7. If you have a uterus, I would strongly advise checking the reproductive healthcare policies of the State where you are planning to study. In many states, if you have a pregnancy, planned or unplanned, even if you _want_ to carry the pregnancy to term ...