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Re: what's novel

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:19:49

In reply to Re: keeping people, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:02:22

What's novel is age.

This idea of education as being tied to age.

This idea of being... Can I remember...

Freshman.
Sophomore.
Junior
Senior.

Freshman is 18 years old? First Year out of High School.

But it's confounded by transfer students. But transfer students apply for entrance as Sophomores or Juniors on the basis of credit from 3 year Community Colleges -- right??

Can you apply as a First Year Freshman when you aren't straight out of High School?

If you have a Degree from a country like NZ who refuses to acknowledge it's own Degrees after 5 years (or who refuses to acknowledge Degrees have been completed when requirements have been met) then does the applicant have to apply as a transfer applicant?

I guess we see...

What they choose to do...

One thing they said that I did not know. That I did not think of. That gives me good ideas... That was itself a good idea.

War veterans.

War veterans are considered a group for diversity inclusion.

You have young men (and young women) who chose (instead of going off to College) to serve their country because they believed that was a good thing for them to do for various reasons. Later in life... Honorably discharged for various reasons. Now maybe wanting to enter College as Freshmen.

Why not?

I guess they decide.

I was thinking it's super weird creepy and borderline inappropriate my going to College in the US in a system whereby the First Years are part of a dorm sharing cohort... You see these B grade American College Movies and there's always 'creepy guy' of the 40 year old attending frat parties trying to get with the 18 year old girls... I'm female so the 'creep' factor is reduced and I'm not there to meet girls or guys... But still...

But that's a way of having a cohort of older people. Insofar as there is room-sharing that is required to go on as part of the normal or usual or standard thing (without `special accommodations' -- so people can sort out their shared housing options etc for later years which, I understand, would be a good thing to do...

I guess they decide.

They are allowed. Because they are private (not public). And because as a private place that doesn't rely on a succession of public (government) hand-outs they actually lead the way in equity and so on... Actually... Genuinely... Because they actually have a handle on investment... And growing investment... Because they actually have better ability than anyone else to consider costs-benefits..

I wonder how much it may depend on match. In terms of their ability to get a cohort. Something like or approximating one. That depends on other applicants. Etc.

I don't know.

I have more faith in them using their reasoning and evidnece and discretion than anything else I've seen...

Sigh.

What to write in the essay...

 

Re: what's novel

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:27:18

In reply to Re: what's novel, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:19:49

Hmm... I wonder what happens in the US with respect to College Education.
I mean the Military has Doctors and Lawyers and Engineers...
There are Military Colleges... West Point...

But I thought there were Military people actually in ordinary or regular Colleges as well... But perhaps that was keeping the cohort age-appropriate...

People apply to Medical School later, though... I remember seeing a case on the news of this 40 year old Avocado Farmer or something like that who made money growing avocado's and who sold the farm and got into Med in Ohio or somewhere and then matched to Plastics somewhere in California (much to the obvious jealousy and disgust of other people in his cohort of graduating studnets)...

But that's diversity of age of graduate entrants to Medicine... I don't know his story on meeting the pre-medical requirements...

I remember reading something about Harvard offering Organic Chemistry Pre-Medical Requirement as a Summer School option... Some adult student writing abuot doing that... So, again...

I guess I apply and we will see.

I guess we will see how many applicants there are, this year.

THey normally get 1,500 or something for the 8 year programme.

Really? That's what NZ normally gets for Medicine, I think..

Seriously...

The Ivy League Institutions in the USA only get around the same number of applicants as NZ Universities do?

I guess people don't apply to the Ivy League without the GPA and test scores that they are advised to have to apply with...

So... This year...

I wonder how many applicants they will have from around the world...

I wonder...

Blip...

Closer and closer...

 

Re: I wrote to them.

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:39:26

In reply to Re: what's novel, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:27:18

I wrote to the people who administer the Step Examinations.
I asked them very nicely if they might consider allowing me to (pay for and take) the Step Examinations without having been enrolled in a Medical School for the reason that NZ Medical Schools were refusing to process my application to Medical Schools likely because they were concerned that my Step Scores would exceed those of their chosen candidates (the children of doctors and senior officials).

I said I thought I could probably do better than the NZ students who were enrolled in Med School because I had time to study for the examination but they would have to spend a lot of time learning not to pat Maaori kids on the head because it was culturally inappropriate (nobody actually likes being patted on the head -- do they??).

I wrote in my thesis about this idea of a hierarchy... And in the Step 1 exam book that was how it was laid out. Your score in Step 1 was supposed to determine what specialities you could apply to match to. So you needed really high score for dermatology and lower scores for obgyn or pediatrics.

There was some stuff published about how people choose derm only because they have the scores for it so think they should... Then years later regret not having pursued what they were passionate about (e.g., internal). And about people matching to peds not because they love children but because they feel forced because they didn't get the scores they wanted for what they actually were passionate about.

Also.. Concern that people at the top schools were too focused on studying for highest possible examination scores so they weren't getting to have a good college experience learning things like physical exams in small group contexts or the history of discovery of vitamins or learning so many of the great things that could be learned in their wonderful curriculum...

So anyway... Short of it is that it is now pass-fail.

They have... Sigh................. Breathe iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin... Pause. Breathe out... Let's take a step back. Let's stop micro-managing for a minute and let's take a step back and observe...

Let's observe...

Let's try and get people to take a breath and reeeeeeeeeeeelax... ANd instead of speaking from what they believe they *should* do (with respect to playing a game and beating the system and aiming high and settling for what you get)... What do people *actually and genuinely want*. Also: *why*.

To try and genuinely maximise a good fit. A good match. For mutual development. Good investment good return.

What speciality or location or whatever... Tell us 4 or 5 things that you want (and why so we get a handle on what you value and whether you are a coherant individual with a genuine plan or whether you are computer generated nonsense spouter with no plan)...

And let's see what we can do..

________________

I think...

I hope..

I hope I get something.

I hope I get my first choice.

I hope I get something.

I really really really really hope I get my first choice.

Or my second choice (4 years at my first choice).

But I'll put in other applications for other choices...

But my first choice.. It a really great choice.

ANd there are so many 'requirements' that it would be totally easy for them to flunk me out at any point if I"m not keeping with the programme. Really... So it's not really such a very very very very ver high risk for them.

Which is (I guess) why they are (maybe) going to consdier processing me for the opportunity.

Perhaps.

 

Re: I wrote to them.

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:09:46

In reply to Re: I wrote to them., posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 22:39:26

And I guess the fit is important with respect to being feeling (and being) free or not, as well.

NZ doesn't listen to me, at all.

Not in the most basic of basic of basic...

Years and years and years I had to fight because 'I need to live independently' was not allowed.

The government needs to give a fat chunk of money to 'other people' to 'look after' me, you see.

There are those people who see other people as opportunities for them to exploit. Micro-mismanage. Steal their stuff. I need to support a building manager and also a building owner. I don't think the building owner actually owns the building. I think he is just another building manager. I think there is two layers of property management going on. I suspect the building is actually owned by the University. They are trying to get as low-quality tenants as possible. They are trying to get tenants who over-crowd and engage in unlawful activities so they can rent out rooms that won't meet legislation requirements of healthy housing. They will want to collect rent for rooms that aren't meeting legal requirements. We have next to no legal requirements but new laws are rolling out... They are going to increase my rent until I"m forced to leave and they will then rent to people who are forced into prositution or drug sales or other criminal activitities to pay rent on rooms that don't meet the legal standards of habitability. It's our plan for developing backwards. Two property managers want to be fat... Earn their living renting substandard accommodation to force people into prositution (that's why the kids downstairs) and crime...

And a University who owns a great deal of cheap slum accommodation that isn't fit for purpose.

It is what the University's are consdiering, in the US. The studnet accommodation. The shared facilities... The shared rooms...

I undersetand the reasons for it in teh US... But the idea gets perverted as people think they can make many many bucks keeping studnets in slummy slum slums.

Presently most of our hotels / motels are empty. We have quarantine facilitys... But mostly tourism isn't happening... Many homeless were housed in them over the lockdown. We could see that we DO have housing. What we don't have is a humane way of distributing the housing that we do in fact have. People want to get $2,000 or $1,600 rent for a one bedroom apartment that could be a habitable house for someone... I pay $405 for a 1 bedroom apartment in Auckland but they are going to put it up, now, to $455. The only supplied heater takes the chill out of 1 internal concrete wall only. There is no other source of heat. There is no ventillation / extraction in the bathroom or the kitchen. A noise and light maker in the kitchen only that is unflued. It is a very old concrete building that gets down to 6 degrees... 13, 14 indoors during the winter months... It has signs of mold and moisture emerging from under 1 year old new paint from bathroom and kitchen because it won't dry out and I'm not leaving the windows open (too cold) to make a wind tunnel to dry it out...

WIndows are regularly broken downstairs. We are at the end of the road in Auckland notorious for prositution and where teh gay nightclubs etc etc are. I's exactly where you would put a home for teenagers if yo uwanted to put them somewhere as a vulnerable target for those kinds of intentions. People can knock on their windows at night and beg and call to be let in (and they do). They can also break their windows (and they do). QUite oten there is security guard posted downstairs to try and.. What?? Protect the tenants fro teh unwanted intentions / attentions of... Whom, exactly?

Minimum wage security guard hired by whom -- to tell everybody else in teh building that nothing is wrong. There's nothing wrong. There's nothing going on.

New Zealand.

I wouldn't recommend it.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:14:02

In reply to Re: I wrote to them., posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:09:46

School for 'vulnerable teenage boys'. Presently 6 members of staff are up on charges of sexual abuse and sodomy of boys as young as 7.

Welcome to NZ.

Want to pay us thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to house your kid in a boarding house and give them a NZ qualification that NZ won't even acknowledge?

I really wouldn't recommend it.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:27:09

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:14:02

And so I'm fairly sure that were I live there's security cameras trained on my door so the odious landlords (and who knows whom else) can get their jollies watching me or livestreaming me for whatever odious purposes they have. Likely cameras inside my house as well. Because -- well because why wouldn't you if you thought you can get away with it?

But then you get sick or injured and other people decide whether to help you or whether to take advantage.

And other people know what kind of a person you are. Whether you would help or whether you would take advantage.

And so what do you think will happen?

People don't think.

Or they think that whether they help or harm doesn't make any difference so may as well take people for everything they can for the short amount of time they have...

Odious people.

Locked out of the developed world.

Keeping slaves and children to abuse. Keeping adults and children to abuse. Keeping them 'mentally disordered' and 'physically disordered'. Sedated on psychiatric medication or cannibus or whatever to keep populations compliant and stupidly doing the stupid things...

NOt developing.

The roads falling apart.
The bridges about to fall down.
The trains about to de-rail.
The buildings sprouting mould from under cheap paintwork.

The superficial things wash off in the rain...

And you see what's underlying. What's lurking.

The reality of the situation.

Tiem to get out.

We know this because it's a time when they market / advertise as when people are being sent back.

It's an exchange.

They say it's the 'brain drain' but it's the opposite.

People coming back because they weren't... They were contributing overseas to... What???

Trying again with the re-distribution...

____________________________-

THe programme in Australia...

The problem was lack of freedom.

When you have people who are internally motivated.
Self-motivated from within.

What you need to do is give them a rein.

It's like horses..

Some of them you have to be on them all the time.. Kicking kicking kicking. Lazy buggers.

Our managers treat everyone like that.

You get a horse that's internally driven...

You can steer... Steer strongly...

But (insofar as there is a shared goal)...

Is there??

The jumpers like to jump clear.
The racers like to come first.

Shared goal.

Production of good outputs.
Beautiful.
Intelligent.
Creative.
Or a little bit of progress towards something worthwhile.
Development of a bit of a technique.
Good work... NOthing to see here. Good to know. We can move along... In better directions...

Australia doesn't have a concept / conception of academic freedom. Giving the people with the capacity enough rein to do the job.

They don't want the job to be done.

NO manufacturing of the primary stuff they are hauling from the ground.
Sell it to foreign for dollars.
Not able to process it for in-house use or to produce high quality refined for international market.
Not producing weightlifting barbells when that's valued. Still on about Sweden. Sweden can't supply the world. Why can't Australia provide for it's people. NO steel? Can't manufacture within Olympic Specifications? Can't??

NZ has steel apparently. Recently. I didn't realise.. Construction. It isn't alimunum beams and struts. It's steel.

THat's the level of devo we are talking.

That is the level of devo. Generally.

Quality. Quality steel and quality concrete. To specifications. Engineering. Doing what you are supposed to do because you don't want the buildings to fall down and mass murder thousands of people.

ffs.

We are not there, yet.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:40:57

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:27:09

You could just spend your life arguing with idiots about garbage...

Apparently there's someone at the moment saying that mammograms can't distinguish between cancerous density and fibrous density so people should get a density reading from the mammogram and get an MRI if they have fibrous patches. This is 'cutting edge helping Medicine develop' advise.

mmm kay... Except that MRI also won't distinguish those things and MRI's are expensive. Know what Pathoma says is the ONLY thing that will distinguish those things? Biopsy sample. Look at the cells under the microscope and see if they are rapidly dividing or not. Or you could keep an eye on a fibrous patch and see if it rapidly grows or not.

They are trying to racialise colon screening. Apparently Maori get earlier onset so having the same age for screening is inherintly racist.

There was a wonderful article writen by a NZ Med school graduate who matched to and was practicing bowel... Surgery?? In the US. He said that the issue was known family history. If someone has a relative with bowel cancer they need to be screened 10 years earlier than when their relatives was discovered. This way we can do away with the 'race' aspect and make it 'family history aspect'. More Maori have in fact relatives who have died of bowel cancer at an early age. Important to screen tehm earlier. But some European etc families do too and important to screen them earlier as well. It's about doing things f*ck*ng properly and it doesn't have to be a squabble about race. We don't need to racialise it.

The issue is that we don't have enough people to do the bowel screening.

We refuse to pay people to do the screens.

He was saying when you book a screen you time budget removal of 3 polyps. You remove the 3 worst and send them to lab. Maybe you got the cancer removing the 3 worst. Maybe you removed benign. It's a way of screening really keeping mortality down.

But of course our 'screening' isn't that kind of biopsy (and 3 worst tumor removal) 'screening'. Our 'screening' is that an unregistered and untrained person 'has a bit of a look'

Yeppers.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:49:52

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:27:09

telling nz to 'be kind' is like telling minnesota to 'be nice'.

minnesota needed to be wrangled into shipping face masks out west so they were affordable for the producers of the food they like to eat when they had preference to ship them overseas to the highest bidder.

(the highest bidder being the corrupted officials of foreign countries).

yeppers.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:50:12

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:49:52

i am cross with the mayo clinic 'chain'

 

Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k

Posted by sigismund on September 20, 2020, at 1:55:47

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 23:27:09

I have not read all your posts.

I recall reading that post war one-third of the Australian economy was from manufacturing. Now it's around 5%. The balance has since been made up by mining, often coal. This was from the reforms of the time and gave us cheap goods. And it explains the impasse we are in, because they cannot really acknowledge the problem of climate change (and therefore energy policy) without going back on that.

 

Re: Dillworth » sigismund

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2020, at 15:31:14

In reply to Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 20, 2020, at 1:55:47

A lot of posts. Sorry.

I should hear about first round offers in December.

Then next round applications due January.

And it goes on...

Hopefully I'll be moving to the US for August of 2021.

Hopefully things will work out for me...

Land of the pilgrams, apparently. So... We will see...

There's nothing for me here, that's for sure.

We don't have 'Universities' we don't have 'Research' we don't have 'Medicine' we don't have a 'Health System' and it goes on... All the shiny facades... There's nothing / no-one home.

The thing I can't forgive is that *we don't even want to develop those things*. So, there's nothing to be done.

NZ has steel now. That's new for us, I think. We were importing it from Australia before. Which was very expensive.



 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2020, at 19:08:25

In reply to Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 20, 2020, at 1:55:47

I don't really understand why Australia isn't able to lead the world when it comes to harnessing solar energy.

Especially with regards to things like running coolers for houses.

Or using the solar engergy during the day to treat (de-salinate, even) water.

The vast amounts of desert...

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2020, at 19:18:04

In reply to Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 20, 2020, at 1:55:47

I'm sorry about all the posts.

I'm just spinning...

I have to get out of NZ. The message is loud. Clear. Univocal. I have to get out of NZ. There is nothing for me here. Nothing.

I am only wasting my time on anything to do with here.

It's only wasting my time reading the NZ news.
It's only wasting my time researching anything to do with NZ.
Even the court cases...
The long (long long long) list of this senior official and that senior official. The head of here there and everywhere...
The CE of University of AUckland.
'' UNiversity of Otago
'' University of Waikato
'' Tertiary Education Commission
'' Universities NZ
'' Vice Chancellors Committee
'' New Zealand Qualifications Authority
'' So many other subsidiaries and subcontractors and so on and so forth thereof who all earn 1/2 a million dollars per year to obscure the fact they have no actual function

'' Minister of Education.
'' New Zealand Government.

There's no Universities here. No education system. No merit based external examination. No objective merit based grading.

There's no freedom to choose what you study.

It's centralised. It's always teh case that people are forcing people to do this that or the next thing from whatever limited range of options they pre-approve for them.

There's nothing here.

_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________

I can only understand the present situation as a blip..

--- blip.

For the purposes of getting me out??

Doesn't seem likely...

There are likely lots of people like me.

Something is shifting. Has shifted. That's for sure.

Usually... There is an element of seeing what the masses are doing and setting out in the reverse direction.

Because the masses are unsustainable. The infrastructure cannot support swarms of locusts.

People are returning to NZ. People set out from NZ from overseas and they are returning on masse... They say they were successful overseas -- but if they were tehy wouldn't be returning. Why are they returning? Because they think things will be better here, I guess. Because we aren't as locked down. Because it looks like we were able to avoid Covid by the strength of isolation. Quanrantine Island.

But I've seen inside the infrastructure. Popped the hood.
It's luck of geograhpical location rather than good management.
There will be the threat of our hospitals being swamped into the indefinate future...
The constant threat of it...
And you look, then, on what we are doing to prepare.
What are we doing to prepare?
We are mostly engaging in denial.
Patting ourselves on the back for something that is not of our making.
Refusing to look at the things we could do to get ready...

____________________________________
____________________________________

I will stop looking at the news etc.

I will focus on my essays... Blip. Focus on the essays.

The novelty of a New Zealander seeking political asylum as a refugee in the US might appeal... Especially once I say something about refual to process refual to process refusal to process refusal to process...

GPA and examination information is worthless...

Because they can't keep accurate transcripts. They can't examine. They won't examine. They won't keep accurate transcripts.

How is the US supposed to process asylum seekers?

I guess it has to be on hte basis of essays. Tell your story. They can look into aspects...

ONe thing for sure: There's nothing for me, here.

 

Re: Dillworth » sigismund

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2020, at 20:58:22

In reply to Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 20, 2020, at 1:55:47

i would be surprised if it mostly was coal.

i suspect 'coal' is a front for other things they are getting from the ground. uranium, or whatever. diamonds. gold. whatever else. things they don't want people knowing about, so much. being refined (overseas) into things they would rather not think about. a short-term get-rich-quick sort of a scheme. get it out and get it sold before anybody thinks too much about it.

used to be a thing for New Zealanders. go off to Australia for a few years. Work in the mines. send the money back home. Driving heavy trucks into and out of the mines all day. Nice new trucks. Powerful trucks. Carrying heavey loads. Long routes into and out of the mines all day. Really good pay for drivers who were reliable on those roads.

Then see about getting the family out. Or whatever...

Don't know about now.

____________________________________________

New Zealand just went the 'low low low how low can we go lower than low we found a new low' route to 'growth'.

Whereby anything that wasn't obviously about as low as we could go was chased out of town.

We only want to hire the Doctors who nobody else will hire. So we can treat them badly with low pay and bad working conditions.

We only want the studnets who are 'lucky' we picked them to join our new low. Because the demonstrated ability to plagarise when we told them to and lie about their lab findings when we told them to. Hand in work we wrote for them late for examination so they get pity sign off from overseas years and years and years late so they might get picked to join us on our new low.

Wrongful death after wrongful death after wrongful death. Sorry. That's just how we roll... Always rolling lower and lower and lower than low.

 

Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k

Posted by sigismund on September 22, 2020, at 3:19:34

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2020, at 19:08:25

> I don't really understand why Australia isn't able to lead the world when it comes to harnessing solar energy.
>
> Especially with regards to things like running coolers for houses.
>
> Or using the solar engergy during the day to treat (de-salinate, even) water.
>
> The vast amounts of desert...

Ross Garnaut, the eminent economist wrote a report saying this. I guess there's too much resistance to changing from coal. The shock jocks and Murdoch media don't help. Maybe the lower price of renewables and the next climate related event will have an effect?


 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:05:18

In reply to Re: Dillworth » alexandra_k, posted by sigismund on September 22, 2020, at 3:19:34

> I guess there's too much resistance to changing from coal.

I guess so. I guess change costs money. That's why government is supposed to alter the taxation to give subsidies and handouts to incentivise the change. To help distribute the costs of change or something. Increase the tax on 'dirty industry'. Helping them see the 'true costs'.

I found jeans today.

I've been bitching and moaning for a while that I couldn't find any jeans in NZ at any price.

I found some 'PJ Jeans' a while back in Christchurch from a 'road works' shop... Where tradies go for clothes. Where prisoners go when they get out. Things like good socks for people to wear in their work boots... I found a good pair of moleskins in, uh, army green, I suppose. A little too small unfortunately. I also found a pair of jeans that were 100 per cent denim. A little too big unfortunately. I'm an 11 is the problem. Not a 10. Not a 12. An 11. And often times they don't make an 11.

Anyway... I managed to get another couple of pairs of the jeans. Made in china. Whatever.

But I actually found some 501s. Originals they call them. Button fly. Straight leg. Blue. Red tap. 5 pocket. Pre-shrunk, I guess. Cotton made in china. Huh. Probably better that way? I hope they pay their workers???

Not cheap. $170. I think... From memory... That's how much they cost when I was in High School. That is how much they cost when I was in College, for sure. $130 sometimes... But the 'classic' ones were typically $170 full price. And... There they were. Huh.

I really want some of these:

https://www.onitsukatiger.com/us/en-us/mexico-66/p/ANA_DL408-0490.html?

Hmm...

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:17:18

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:05:18

Sigh. Aw. I'm a sucker for 'street cred'. I never grew up from College, clearly.

I brought a belt today. Which was significant. I've never owned a belt. I have wanted one for a very very very long time. My friend x had one in College and I really liked it... It was a red fabric one and she could set it to exactly where she wanted it because it had some grab mechanism... But I couldn't find one... So I sort of boycotted them in disgust... But I've wanted an 'ordinary' black leather one for a while... I needed one so my couple pairs of over-sized jeans would stay properly up.

And they do, now. It's remarkable. They've gone from being very un-styl-ie too baggy in not cool ways to actually being... Pretty great. Which is why I brought them. If only they sit up properly about my waist, which they do now. So they hang better in the leg. Pretty good. Not my favorite style, exactly, but pretty good. Slightly 'wedgie' -- which is actually a 'style' now, would you believe. Slightly 'Dad's pants' -- which is also a style now, would you believe. I actually think there is something 'all the things that could go wrong when you are trying to find cool jeans' about the names of the present styles. Then they make it look like they are trying to sell those as distict looks. Irony. Something like that... Anyway.. They actually look alright. IMHO. With a belt. Hmmm.

My sister gave me a bunch of clothes -- which is great. Clothes I actually feel pretty alright in. Which is great. But not clothes that I would have chosen for myself... So slightly strange. Yeah. I don't know. I forgot how good I feel when I'm wearing clothes that I really really like. Regardless of how anybody else feels about them. Clothes that I really really like. That were really really chosen by me. Because I really really like them. Just how comfortable and... Myself. How comfortable and myself I feel.

Jeans are genuinely tricky. Especially for girls. Because girls weight fluctuates throughout the month. How much water you carry etc. And the trouble with cotton jeans is they are very stiff when they are washed and they wear into a more relaxed fit. And so the jeans vary and the weight varies... And then some girls are curvy -- and I'm a bit curvy. So then you have to get the jeans over your hips as the widest part of you... But denim isn't naturally elastic so then they will be a bit saggy / baggy... So to get jeans fitting women's body-shape at any time of the month is tricky in the first place and then fit varies at different times of the month... Which is why girls need so very very very very many pairs of jeans. IMHO. And it no excuse for lycra. Noppers. Not for jeans. Jeans are not yoga pants. Noppers.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:22:36

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:17:18

https://www.hypedc.com/nz/chuck-taylor-all-star-70-hi-sunflower?gclid=CjwKCAjwh7H7BRBBEiwAPXjadpfaHFwlT5jGIaDYF8SMrN9wiVrRb_koO4DmRQhzd001EtVikzVV4BoCBFQQAvD_BwE&ef_id=CjwKCAjwh7H7BRBBEiwAPXjadpfaHFwlT5jGIaDYF8SMrN9wiVrRb_koO4DmRQhzd001EtVikzVV4BoCBFQQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!6457!3!464274043426!!!g!58828873728!

I'll probably just get some of those... I like the mustard yellow that is currently really popular.

I wanted a stethescope in egg yolk yellow... Or Covid yellow... Sort of road warning yellow -- but the latter is perhaps a little more orange... But LIttman wasn't quite there, yet.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 23:17:53

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:17:18

https://www.huffer.co.nz/about-us

'huffer' means 'glue sniffer'. oh, yes, it does.

irony.

founded the first year i started college. some of their clothing is styled on the college branding that you get in the US.

the thing about socialising being everything and donating $10 to mental health with some purchases.

apparently 'irony' has been a thing over the last few years. in fashion.

i get it. i think. i do.

we don't pay our artists. so... partly it is 'taking the piss'. the people who do go 'ooooooooooooow wooooooooooow you are so talented and amazing'... about seeing what sorts of crap and weirdness we can get them to do...

just how fugly a thing we can get them to wear thinking they are cool. etc.

not to say they don't have some cool things... but to say that you need to fight a bit of a fight to not be taken the piss out of... and there's a fine line... i don't know...

 

Re: Crops

Posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2020, at 2:41:19

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 23:17:53

I mean...

There are water-intensive crops. Crops like strawberries and rice and cotton. I think cotton is water intensive.

And so countries that have lots of natural rainfall... It makes sense that those countries could grow water intensive crops without too much of an issue...

But when you hear of rivers drying up... Because farmers are growing rice or almonds... Or strawberries... That's silly.

Australia grows rice. I don't know why. They have no business growing rice. They have no business growing strawberries. Strawberries do well in the swampy waikato because there's lots of water laying about... Australia shouldn't be growing water-intensive crops that they can import. It makes no sense.

It's unfathomable that the taxation system allows local growth of such things to be short-term profitable.

 

Re: Crops

Posted by sigismund on September 26, 2020, at 0:01:02

In reply to Re: Crops, posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2020, at 2:41:19

They created a market for water trading. If I were on the Darling River 800km to the west with a licence to pump (what little there is) I could sell my allowance. Then these could be traded to and by third parties.

Cotton makes less sense than rice which can be dryland rice.

 

Re: Dillworth

Posted by sigismund on September 26, 2020, at 0:02:24

In reply to Re: Dillworth, posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2020, at 22:05:18

> I guess change costs money.

yes, and more than that, we are so tribal and mindless.

 

Re: Crops

Posted by alexandra_k on September 26, 2020, at 17:42:26

In reply to Re: Crops, posted by sigismund on September 26, 2020, at 0:01:02

> They created a market for water trading. If I were on the Darling River 800km to the west with a licence to pump (what little there is) I could sell my allowance. Then these could be traded to and by third parties.

Well, that doesn't seem fair / shouldn't be allowed. There should be something to limit that / re-distribute the surplus more fairly.

I remember in Canberra there were two golf courses and one was saying they would probably have to close. The older of them was getting water for free from Lake Burley Griffith. They arranged that before water was so scare. The other had to pay market rates to water the greens. It was running the latter out of business.

It just doesn't seem fair.

> Cotton makes less sense than rice which can be dryland rice.

I did not know there was such a thing as 'dryland rice'. I thought it needed to be in paddies the way strawberries like to have their feet wet.

Yes, people are tribal.

I think the US does well to harness some of that for good. By doing it in arbitrary ways. Dividing people into roughly equal groups on arbitrary grounds to bring out the bonding / comrarderie within by giving them an opponent. Competition. Arbitrary things. E.g., different Universities within a league or whatever. Then different schools within the University or whatever. Give them a color. Give them something to rally about (sports or whatever). To bring out the best in the tribal aspect.

I think NZ is a case study in tribalism gone wrong. I hate to say it, but... We did okay with the Super12 rugby -- getting that to grow out of regionals. But otherwise... Otherwise no. I think we do so badly at it because we don't get it. In some important sense. It becomes about the big guy annihilating everyone / everything else. It becomes a tyrrany. Oppressive. Driving everything else to extinction. Most particularly it goes wrong because people think the aim of the game is to run themselves up the local hierarchy.

For example, the Head of Universities New Zealand thinking that his job was to compete with the local Trade Schools to grubbity grub grub grub up all the studnets (with their student fees). He honestly seemed to think that his job was to persuade all the kids who had the capacity to be really wonderful electritions and plumbers and builders and carpenters and motorcycle and car and truck mechanics and... To persuade all of them that they'd rather get a Degree in marketing or advertising or... And he forgot... That his role... Was quality assurance... So that New Zealand would actually have these institutions that were actually recognised internationally as 'Universities' (instead of community colleges). And he mistakenly thought that flunking people out of Degrees (after grubbity grub grub grubbing up all the money) would improve their standing on the world stage (when really it just lets the International commuity know that good people cannot do business with us becuase bad tyrants have taken control of here).

Yeppers.

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I think I might be realising... That if I wanted to be a lawyer (which I don't) I likely would want to be a supreme court judge. Yeah. It's about trying to divine what the intention of the founding fathers was / should have been. Something like that. Yeah. That's right. To ensure that the American Dream... The ideology that resulted in the US becoming the 'freedom, equality, and justice for all' nation that immigrants would flock to *because they believed it to be the best*... To try and keep things on track / in check for that... And the power to impeach the government... I need to learn more... But, yeah, an important function of law. And of course their paperwork needs to be impecable. Considering ALL THE RELEVANT THINGS. And so on. Yeah.

I think Trump is allowed to appoint a judge while he is in power. That's what it means to be in power. To have the power to do that. There might be a convention that you don't do things like that in an election year -- but is there a rule to that effect? Is he circumventing usual process to get things through in a rush? Seems not. Seems they basically maintain something of a list of who is up should something happen to presently seated ones. So the replacement has been there... Not quite waiting for someone to curl up and die... But, uh, waiting for someone to curl up and die. In fact. Huh. Yeah. Toxicology, anyone?? Just in case... Jeepers...

______________

So, in NZ our highest level is parliamentary intent. The statutes. Sometimes they say clearly in the statute that parliament intends this or that. E.g., parliament intends this statute to apply to trade schools also so there is no question. Other times you might need to engage in a bit of history or whatever if there is documentation on what the government was looking at when it drafted the law. But parliamentary intent is supreme.

Of course it wouldn't be reasonable to think that parliament signed up to ratify this, that, or the other international thing while intending to fail or refuse to do the things required of it. In this way we can scaffold 'meeting our international obligations' as something that parliament intended to do when it signed up.

So when it signs up for anti-corruption and so on...

We are the last to ratify most things. We say 'it's because we know we can't meet it. Other countries sign up and don't meet it. We knew we couldn't (aka we wouldn't) meet it so we refused to sign up'. But all it means in practice is that we aren't where the other countries are at, yet. We plan to drag things out to take 10 years to get to the point of signing up without meeting.

ASB and BNZ (New Zealand banks -- the large ones, I think) are being investigated (or were found guilty of) money laundering. Internationally. Because we don't prosecute corruption locally.

It needs to be done under 'judicial review of administrative action' I think... I think that is the mechanism. One of the remedies is removal from office.

I've asked for the head of Universities NZ to be removed from office. His statutory function is to uphold the quality of NZ Tertiary education. THey have a whistle-blower complaints document. I did everything I needed to do to lay a complaint. They refused to investigate. So: Of with his head. He refuses to do his statutory function: Off with his head. It's the only language many of our highest paid government CE's understand.

A lot of academics at Waikato complained about racism at the University. The head of the University commissioned (how much did he pay and to whom?) a report to be written. Apparently evey single particular instance of racism that was brought before them was dismissed as unestablished or something like that. But I don't think they know the difference between someone refusing to investigate (and proclaiming rubbish rubbish pooh pooh) and someone actually investigating and finding insufficient evidence of wrong-doing. I mean... I genuinely don't htink the guy has the cognitive capacity to hear the difference. He thinks he's clever in apprehending that there is no difference... He doesn't realise that he's morally and cognitively deficient for playing stupid when it comes to something that is obvious to everybody else.

He needs to be removed.

He refused to investigate the complaints.

He said the outcome of the investigation was that there is systematic racism in the western university system (but no particular complaint was upheld).

In other words he's trying to drive a wedge between Maaori and 'university'. I suppose it's because he wants a 'wananga' (apparently Maaori for University??) that is not a 'university' in western contexts. I don't think Waikato gets international monies from western international students. I think it traffics in asian internationals only...

There's something wrong with him. Universities NZ guy as well. There's a smugness in their demenour... I wonder how much of a 'ring' there is, really, with these people at the top of Universities in NZ and the whole trafficking in teenagers for weird bondage sexual preferences of these senior people in NZ...

Something about AUT...

It is tiresome that the international community has to police NZ.

But at least there does seem to be good international recognition now that that's what they need to do, in fact. Most of our senior people cannot be trusted. Drunk with their own power when really they need to be deposed.

The issue is that you could spend your life interacting with them... Or you could get out.

It's a no brainer.

I guess that's why they keep slaves. Nobody would volutnarily choose to play with them.

 

Re: Crops

Posted by alexandra_k on September 26, 2020, at 17:57:14

In reply to Re: Crops, posted by alexandra_k on September 26, 2020, at 17:42:26

And I suppose it is that they didn't have mothers. So this is the way they cry for help. This is their pathology. They are genuinely throwing tantrums waiting for a little help, a little attention, from people powerful enough to come along and require them to do their actual jobs, perform their actual function.

I guess what happens is that people go to University and many of them chose to apply overseas. Usually it's because they become interested in something that isn't done here. People overseas are working on whatever and people here are not. People here are not working on anything particularly inspiring or motivating or whatever. Undergraduates here typically don't have much exposure to what the senior academics are working on, anyway. You get to reading about things overseas and you realise that if you want to keep learning then you have to go.

But other people don't. They aren't intellectually or academically curious like that. Rather, their attention is focused on their local hierarchy and they want to get up to the top of that as quickly as possible. So they get through their Degrees and take the next highest one and their aim is to get to the end of University in New Zealand as quickly as possible so they can get a job earning money with the qualification as move their way up the employment hierarchy as quickly as possible...

And these hierarchically inclined people who are after money don't really understand the people who take summer courses in excess to requirements 'for fun'. They think these people who are intellectually curious etc etc are stupid.

And now they've grubbed their way up to the top they make hiring decisions and they often seem to intentionally hire the poorest-paid most un-inspired most un-motivated academics they can find... I suppose to motivate this world-view whereby all the studnets at University are working to grub their way up the hierarchy in the minimum time only. That's what it's about. Because there's nothing to be academicaly curious or motivated *about* at the University.

And then you can start removing the journals from the shelves at the library to start limiting studnets exposure to things where they might get ideas in their heads.. And you can remove the books from the shelves... And you can encourage them to watch youtube and tv only and not to read... And you can try and remove the products of civilisation and culture... Remove the works of art... Remove the theatre performances by people with talent... Just remove it all get rid of it...

So everybody wants to be VC.

Sure.

Of course.

Everybody wants to be head of the local hierarchy of mindless zombie children doing whatever you say whenever you say because you say because whether you enrol them and what you enrol them in and what grades you give them and all of that is entirely at your discretion.

Oh wonderful tyrant.

Nobody would voluntarily sign up for that.

 

Re: Crops

Posted by alexandra_k on September 26, 2020, at 17:57:57

In reply to Re: Crops, posted by alexandra_k on September 26, 2020, at 17:57:14

Of course they go 'there wasn't anybody else and we were doing the best we could'.

Of course it's far to much in the way of advanced thinking to advertise positions internationally.

Of course.


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