Posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2018, at 16:01:06
In reply to Re: The Witch King of Angmar, posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2018, at 15:27:44
There was a NZ team that was tested positive. Their defence was that they were all taking a particular suppliment purchased over the internet (for 'joint health' or something respectable sounding) on their coaches reccommendation.
I don't remember what happened. Probably nothing. Because everybody plead ignorance about the situation.
But that situation would never have arisen in Australia. Firstly, the coaches would not have reccommended that the athletes take anything that might potentially be contamminated (anything that wasn't reccommended by the Australian Sports Commission, for example). Secondly, the athletes would have been told to not take anything that might potentially be contamminated.
Idiocy is just our mask for sociopathy. I'm reallly starting to see why it is in certain peoples interest to keep as many other people as possible brain damaged / alcohol fetal effects if not full on syndrome / pre-term oxygen deprived... And so on...
I found some stuff about how... Williams Syndrome was thought to be epidemic, here. Now... What is considered within 'normal' range is very liberal, indeed. It would be socially inappropriate (worthy of being murdered in your sleep) to point out how... Uh.... Quite a lot of people (often in rather important positions)... Don't appear to be entirely all there in their cognive functioning...
There is stuff about being able to function fairly well on surprisingly little brain. Depending on where things were at to start with, I guess. If you were at the higher functioning end of the spectrum you can lose really rather a lot of your functioning before anybody (who didn't know you) would know... The Ethics people, here... It's becoming obvious such that nobody can deny but there's been a degenerative thing going on with the people in charge of it for quite a while, now. I'm talking over a period of years and years and years. I know precisely what the thinking would have been : Give them to the Arts, it will take years and years and years and years and years for any of them to even notice something is going on and then social norms will prevent any of them for saying / doing anything about that for years and years and years and years and years and years more still.
I was just contacted to say my application wasn't complete (they want disability information). My application says that I have a disability, you see. So now they will likely harrass me, periodically for information about it and will likely discriminate against me in virtue of that. There's no undoing. I think they can note on my file that I've requested I not be the target of 'special treatment' but that doesn't mean I'm not going to get it.
Sigh.
I think it means that (if I get an interview) I won't get a 'special' interview. Which is to say I won't get a Maaori political person with the power to 'definite no' me (it seems less racist when Maaori are the ones who get to 'definite no' their own people). And why not let them be the head of equity with the power to 'definite no' anyone seen as a threat to their own people, too. Or just people they percieve to be easy targets.
I can't forgive them for what they did to me, already, last time. Failing me for writing substandard essays because they didn't know what I was talking about because they appointed people with very little brain. That is the situation there. I hope I can fly under the radar...
I think I need to look to trying to publish in some Ethics journals, or something... I've started looking around. There are some *good* ones. Yeah.
I strongly suspect the DOI is just for ease of access. At the end of the day a good piece in something good is the way to go... I'm sure there are many people willing to produce something easy for something bad because of the impact factor or whatever... I think the New Zealand Medical Journal has student pages for precisely this end... I'm pretty certain they would not publish anything from me.. There's a hierarchy thing and I would only be allowed to publish something sufficiently bad that made 'superiors' appear sufficiently good. And that gets mighty hard when you read what 'superiors' actually have to say, a lot of the time.
I need to remember the higher up you go... The better I tend to find the people. And the more they seem to like me. And value me for the things I value in myself. It's the lowest level people who are always the hardest to deal / cope with. Largely because they don't know it when they see it so there's no showing them. I'm sorry they don't have good leaders who enforce good things so their lives are better (for their legitimate ends) but they are only interested in keeping me as their slave so there's nothing much I can do around here...
It is sad... When I first came back here I did try and make friends... But over the years I haven't managed to find people... Sufficiently like me. I really thought I would find more people like me... I didn't realise how rare I was... In these parts... People are better at keeping their heads down.
It's the same reason, isn't it, as to why ward rounds need to be done at 5am or 5.30am. The specialist rounds. Because the only people there, doing the rounds at that time, are the people who are (more likely to be) there for the right reasons. Everyones asleep so the people doing it can hear themselves think and maybe even have a mature conversation about the situation. If you go at another time then you'll get stuck yak yak yakking to the patient and the patients family and friends and relations and the day time staff and... You need to get it done before the world starts to wake up. Like swim training. Or Weightlifting etc.
That just makes living really hard. BEcause ghettos are all about party party party in the ghetto. Whether it is abuot the ghetto being unruly or whether it is about people intentionally doing it in order to drive up property prices everywehre else... And the like... But you need to be able to get to reliable sleep early in order to get yourself up and functional that time of the morning.
I am concerned about accommodation.
There is accommodation. But people always see that I'm a not unattractive female and there's simply no way that some guy isn't going to be sniffing around (making things unbearable for other people)... That's basically the thing. Why it is that I get locked out. People assume I'm the front for some guy fresh out of jail, or similar. Or that there will be a stream of them... And so on... Because of the considerable pressure that Work and Income and the like put on people that actually makes it the case that they would be right about 99 per cent of the time. I mean... In my own life... That's what happened to a lady I actually lived with. X bodyfriend decided to murder her one day because she didn't want to see him anymore. I guess it is like (at some point) when you are male you are expected to have wife and kids otherwise people think you might be unruly in your nest (so locked out of certain neighbourhoods too). I guess because kids need to sleep a lot... So peaceful. That's the idea...
Anyway...
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