She sounds like a massive pain in the ass, and the story is written to be sympathetic to her. I don't blame the employees for getting annoyed, but putting something like this in writing is just dumb.

What's so important about a PhD that justifies this level of access, anyway? How does it benefit NZ?

That does answer a question I had about this, namely how long the module takes to complete. 1.5 hours doesn't seem worth making so much noise about.

I'd love to see one of these companies end up paying out a hefty discrimination case over this, it's likely the only way they will learn for good.

How do you know that? You're launching an entire rocket to kill one satellite, that can't be cheap.

Starlink launches forty-ish Starlink sats every other week, Russia could deplete it's entire arsenal of missiles and, if they're lucky, cause a hole in their coverage.

Watching the reaction these people have when they don't even get the civil response they feel owed can be pretty funny.

They've got absolutely no legal basis for those fines, and anyone who pays is a mug.

Serves them right, charging for a basic biological need is a scumbag move.

Cool, thanks for contributing.

This varies hugely between trades though, and the sedentary lifestyle of some office workers isn't great either.

Skilled and qualified tradies aren't typically thrashing their bodies the way a site labourer will.

Downvoting doesn't work when there's more of them than there are of us, and they all upvote each other.

Yup, I don't think there is any single party that is willing to take bold steps to fix the underlying issues this country faces, the biggest of which is the insane cost of housing.

We should be building state houses by the thousand, breaking the stranglehold Fletcher building has on the economy, and putting in medium and high density housing along every public transport corridor.

Meanwhile, National are beating the drum about roads, some of which we need, to be fair, Act are being Libertarian shitheads as usual, Winnie is shitstirring as usual, and the three headed clusterfuck won't stop trying to divide the country along racial lines.

And while this is going on, we're discharging raw effluent into our waterways, as usual.