May 13, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Measurement, Epistemology, Politics

By NZB3

Here is a question I found interesting from an unknown person wanting a connection between measurement, epistemology, and political groups to be elaborated upon. This association seems to explain the different points of view that Conservatives, Libertarians, Progressives, and Woke Leftists have about reality itself. And, it maps right on to the basic textbook learning […]

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June 25, 2023

Vodafone Rebrand

By NZB3

Q: What do you think of this. Am I missing something: Vodafone to block child pornography sites? Or is it a warm up for hate speech? A: It’s copying Countdown’s branding. Remember how Countdown supermarkets brought in Kiri Hannifin came in to re-brand them as the Social Justice supermarket chain? Gone the assuring white male […]

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June 24, 2023

Judith’s Return

By NZB3

You want healthy cynicism at the meta-level about New Zealand politics from an Anarchist not afraid to go out on a limb with bold, testable, predictions? You’ve come to the right place! Judith Collins, previous leader of the National Party, defeated at the 2020 election by Jacinda Ardern’s incumbent Labour 6.0, is coming back. Nobody […]

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June 13, 2023

Are We Running Out Of Things To Call Racist?

By NZB3

Are We Running Out Of Things To Call Racist? Nah. I think we already did run out and have been getting more creative for years now. Aggression became Micro-Aggression. Watched the first Angry Birds Movie again and it reminded me that ‘Hate Crime’ once occupied the space long since taken over by ‘Hate Speech’ and […]

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May 5, 2023

They’re All Grifters Aren’t They?

By NZB3

The post from Peter Cresswell’s blog Don’t feed the grifters (March 2023) accurately identifies a species of Tourist Grifter that New Zealand receives from time to time. Posie Parker put in a little effort visiting Auckland and walked away with publicity and extra donations that money can’t buy after the stationary riot in Albert Park. […]

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April 26, 2023

The Affordable Prime Minister?

By NZB3

Reporter: “Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, can I first ask you…” PM: “I’ll just stop you there and ask you to stop dead-naming me. My new name for this General Election will be Our Most Respected and Beloved and Affordable Leader.” Reporter: “I didn’t know you could..” PM: “And Three Waters is now to be referred […]

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April 15, 2023

Social Desirability Bias

By NZB3

How to explain ‘Woke Capital’ or ‘The Wokeforce’ as I also like to call it? Why are famous brands sidling up to Woke ‘Current Thing’ values to sell more doodads? For example, Jack Daniels and Bud beer in the States are re-branding to be more Drag Queen friendly. It seems so self-destructive that my mate […]

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April 12, 2023

Reality Check Rata

By NZB3

Reality Check Radio is upon us and it’s not half bad. I’m actually a little taken aback. I couldn’t find non-Statists or non-mainstream thinkers to join in with. Especially during the COVID Panic the majority have simply obeyed. Yet now, out of the blue from my point of view, there are dozens of shows on […]

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April 9, 2023

Social Crisis takes priority over Temporal Crisis

By NZB3

In current years the Social Crisis takes priority over any temporal crisis. We’re working some stuff out. Eventually the blow-back from this negligence will create a series of Temporal Crises we will be unable to ignore. Whatever we have worked out about our interior structure will be set in stone for the next 4 generations; […]

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April 6, 2023

Dr Akhigbe

By NZB3

Interesting and rare bit of spam appeared on Anarchist History of New Zealand that I had to moderate. Instead of blocking the obvious rubbish I decided to take another approach and respond to it intelligently. But what to say about this? A small Facebook page is trying to get attention for the purported Astrological and […]

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March 11, 2023