Daily review 23/04/2024

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16 comments on “Daily review 23/04/2024”

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    Guitar, horns, organ, and a vocalist mentored by B.B. King = Dive Bar Soul.

    Phillip-Michael Scales – Light Up The Sky

    1. 2.1

      One is an airbrushed image of a 45 year old woman. The other is a raw image of a 58 year old woman. I know the point you’re trying to make, but surely you can compose it without commenting on someone’s appearance?

    2. 2.2

      “Please, M’Lud, a crust of bread is all I ask,” pleads the peon.

      “No, my good man. I am the King of Tough Love!”

      Replieth proud and pious Luxon the Aspirational.

      But the King is also a Just King and a Merciful one,

      And tosses the peon a pack of Marlboro Lights

      To stave off his hunger pangs.

      Thanks Anne, reading that article in The Guardian got me thinking…

      Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics [January 2012]
      Certainly every industry does not have the attributes and character of big tobacco, deeply committed to continuing to market a deadly product throughout the world.

      Imho, it's disappointing that Costello (apparently) lacks a health background. Makes you wonder if she understands why health professionals are making such a 'fuss', and who is advising our associate minister for health on the health consequences of her actions.

      Modelling showed the new measures would save thousands of lives and billions in healthcare costs, Verrall said. “The public reaction was incredibly supportive and the opposition was muted.”
      …
      “Shock would be an understatement – it was just absolute dismay,” Waa said. “They are trading off people’s lives for money – and I’m appalled by that.”

      Hmm, trading off lives for money – that indicates a different addiction.

      Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. – Einstein

      Disposable vape ban will have 'zero impact' on youth – campaigner
      [21 March 2024]
      Speaking to Breakfast this morning, Vape-Free Kids spokesperson Tammy Downer said the new rules are "a bit of a smokescreen". She said it's also "really out of touch" with what's actually happening in the market and on the ground.

      But, to be fair, "The tobacco industry in New Zealand is on its knees" – our CoC govt is likely just trying to protect as many jobs as it can.

      By late 1953, the tobacco industry faced a crisis of cataclysmic proportions. Smoking had been categorically linked to the dramatic rise of lung cancer… as well as other serious respiratory and cardiac diseases, leading to death.
      …
      If science had historically been dedicated to the making of new facts, the [tobacco] industry campaign now sought to develop specific strategies to “unmake” a scientific fact.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/

      Gosh, 1953 – a decade or more before Costello, Shane Cigareti and Nicotine Willis were born. Collective cabinet responsibility and all that.

      https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/35882/collective-cabinet-responsibility

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    I see your point Traveller, Jesus, even state of the art airbrushing doesn’t work with Costello. Because no matter what you do you can’t hide an ugly mind.

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        Another smart- alec Johnny-come-lately commenter who thinks he/she (more likely he) can 'read other people's minds' and lacks a sense of humour?

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      And you are some sorta oil painting..are you Adrian…?

      (That is the most sexist/ageist/shallow comment I have read in a while..

      It makes me sympathetic to/defending Costello..and I didn’t see that coming..)

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        It makes me sympathetic to/defending Costello…

        If Costello understands the health consequences of her actions as associate minister of health, then I could not defend her. From Anne's link @2:

        Modelling showed the new measures would save thousands of lives and billions in healthcare costs, Verrall said. “The public reaction was incredibly supportive and the opposition was muted.”
        …
        “Shock would be an understatement – it was just absolute dismay,” Waa said. “They are trading off people’s lives for money – and I’m appalled by that.”

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/new-zealand-smoking-ban-what-uk-can-learn

        Otoh, Costello could simply be ignorant of these ugly consequences – time may tell.

        The tobacco industry continues to seek corporate ”respectability”, despite being responsible for the deaths of millions of smokers worldwide every year
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1747945/pdf/v013p00445.pdf

        https://www.irishinbritain.org/news/top-5-tips-to-give-up-smoking

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          That guardian piece also highlights the amount/degree of lobbying in NZ by big tobacco..

          That should be a worry..

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        Far from it Phillip but I have a good conscience and a generous nature. A persons countenance is a reflection of their mind. If you met Costello I very much doubt that you would like her. BTW, I’m 20 years older than her, chucking an ist at everything you disagree with is getting a bit passé.

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          You are still defending that comment..?

          Right ho .!

          And just because you are old… doesn’t stop your comment being ageist..

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