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Sheeple</title><description>Are they succumbing to fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2412</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:12:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Peak Fascism</title><description>Just so you know: assassinating people who think differently than you is peak fascism!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2411</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:40:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Kiwi Values</title><description>From a practical perspective it has too many problems.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2410</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:32:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Problematic Ideas</title><description>Some people will read this and think, what's the problem here?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2409</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:00:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What They Got Right</title><description>I think it is important to acknowledge what they got right.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2408</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:47:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: This is War!</title><description>I think it is a surface indicator of a deeper issue.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2406</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:01:23 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Too Many Road Cones</title><description>I think it is clear, there are too many road cones!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2404</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:55:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Value Autonomy</title><description>We need to value autonomy.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2403</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:16:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More than Average</title><description>It's a worthwhile aim though: knowing more than average.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2402</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:28:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Empathy Deficit</title><description>They end up reducing the total empathy in the world.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2401</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:17:10 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Greta and the Omnicause</title><description>I'm sure she will find some other trendy issue to move on to.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2399</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:51:47 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Respect the Flag?</title><description>Find me a Maori flag and I will burn it.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2398</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 06:45:40 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Our AI Overlords</title><description>Some say the future looks bleak, but I for one welcome our AI overlords!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2397</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 04:32:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Two Current Issues</title><description>We had far too much government overreach with the previous mob.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2396</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 02:41:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What is Morality?</title><description>I still think I'm right: morality is just an opinion.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2395</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:21:03 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Get Over It!</title><description>In our divided society, people are likely to make extremely unpleasant comments about politicians.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2393</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:45 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Bubbles</title><description>A major issue we have today is delusion, at least according to my latest theory.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2392</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:17:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Newspeak</title><description>If you see these words, there is a chance you are being exposed to gaslighting.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2391</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:08:12 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Celebrating Brilliance</title><description>It's time to get back to celebrating brilliance rather than mediocrity.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2390</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:57:47 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Embarrassing Nonsense</title><description>That might get the message across that we are sick of this embarrassing nonsense.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2389</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:26:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: All About Compromise</title><description>We then need a compromise so that Russia can stop the war.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2388</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:38:19 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Things are Better</title><description>You will see things are better than what we are often lead to believe.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2387</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:31:45 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Nice Conspiracy</title><description>It's a nice conspiracy, isn't it?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2386</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:40:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: We Need Trump and Musk</title><description>I wonder if Trump and Musk might like to visit here after they have finished sorting out America!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2385</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:40:37 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Pragmatic Libertarianism</title><description>Freedom is important. Maybe it's all that really matters.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2384</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:15:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Wrong and Dangerous</title><description>Never believe that all cultures are equal. That is both wrong and dangerous.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2381</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:47:40 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Between the Extremes</title><description>Maybe we are just doomed to alternate between the extremes.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2380</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:34:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Manufactured Outrage</title><description>We might be beginning to win some battles, but the war is far from over.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2378</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:19:15 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Avoid Microsoft</title><description>If you don't really like computers much you could make things a bit better for yourself.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2377</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:05:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Unity Through Division</title><description>Sometimes hard decisions need to be made to make genuine progress.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2375</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:13:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Deranged Rants</title><description>Many of them are totally feral, unhinged, and totally irrational.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2374</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:55:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: So Unaware</title><description>You can make you own choice, but be aware.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2373</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:01:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Win for MAGA</title><description>So the US has chosen Trump, despite the massive forces against him.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2372</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:42:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Garbage</title><description>Democracy dies in darkness, especially when it is buried in garbage!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2371</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:31:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Chuck</title><description>He was arguably the most famous pilot in history.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2370</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:34:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Teach Skepticism</title><description>I am so skeptical I am even suspicious of myself!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2368</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:03:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Am I Woke?</title><description>If you gave a woke answer to a few you are probably OK.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2367</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:41:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Nice Versus True</title><description>Are nice fantasies better than hard truths? I don't think so.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2366</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:34:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: But is it Science?</title><description>Ask yourself this: is it really science?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2365</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:30:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An AI Apocalypse</title><description>I'm trying to put a positive spin on this, but it is going to be tough.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2364</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:25:18 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: I Support Religion!</title><description>I can see that the alternatives are often not good!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2363</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:04:19 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Confidence vs Competence</title><description>Forget confidence, give me competence instead!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2362</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:26:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Anti-BS Advice</title><description>You may find this post supports your efforts in telling BS from facts.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2361</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:21:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Stirring Up Trouble</title><description>Let's just get every view out there and fairly debate them.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2360</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:00:25 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Messenger</title><description>It's not the internet's fault. Don't blame the messenger for the message!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2359</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:40:14 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Advice to Police</title><description>Stop playing politics and get on with your real job.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2358</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:43:32 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Sack Them All!</title><description>Let's find all the corrupt and incompetent managers and sack them all!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2357</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:47:48 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Media vs Internet</title><description>I don't think the media will survive long unless they change their strategies.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2356</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Perfect Solutions</title><description>After all, there are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2355</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:12:04 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Global Zeitgeists</title><description>You might just have become a victim of the latest global zeitgeist.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2354</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:02:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Right Priorities</title><description>Seems like we have the right priorities. What could possibly go wrong?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2353</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:11:39 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Stop the Tribalism</title><description>They really need to stop the tribalism.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2352</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:56:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Even More Maori BS</title><description>I think I'm fully justified in calling this even more Maori BS!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2351</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:25:31 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Overton Window</title><description>Don't be too concerned if your opinions are currently unpopular.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2350</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:58:44 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Worse than Useless</title><description>I would genuinely rather pay them an unemployment benefit just to do nothing.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2349</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:56:54 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Omnicause</title><description>What do the following issues have in common...</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2348</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:17:38 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Thinking Happening</title><description>Reciting advertising slogans is not a great sign that any thinking is happening.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2346</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:18:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Right to Protest</title><description>Do they have the right to protest? Yes. Should they? Hell, no!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2345</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 03:03:43 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Wild Ride</title><description>As AI advances, it's going to be a wild ride!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2344</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 08:05:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Lie by Omission</title><description>There's a good reason for this: the media is corrupt.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2343</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 01:06:48 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Anomaly Hunting</title><description>As regular readers know, I don't always accept the consensus view.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2342</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 03:02:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Skepticism</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Peak Woke?</title><description>All it really takes is some time and exposure to contrary views. All it really takes is free speech.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2341</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 06:54:08 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Fall of Rome</title><description>I'm afraid that we really might be seeing the demise of the greatest era in history.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2340</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:04:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who's In Control?</title><description>The big conspiracies I mentioned here might or might not be true.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2339</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:35:16 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Ask a Comedian</title><description>You want genuinely innovative ideas? Just ask a comedian!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2338</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:26:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: The Law?s an Ass</title><description>If it was just an ass, I would be relatively happy!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2337</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:57:57 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: It's All About Status</title><description>Most human institutions, and most individuals, are very defined and affirmed by status.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2336</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:42:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Warbirds 2024</title><description>I have many random interests, several of them quite geeky.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2335</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:28:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Activities</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: DEI must Die!</title><description>People get to do what they are naturally best at, and we get higher standards as a result.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2333</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:05:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Free Speech Equity</title><description>Let's see how long those sort of protests would last.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2330</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 06:27:45 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Bad Look</title><description>It might be legal. It might be practical. But it's a still a bad look.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2329</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:27:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Don't Have to Like It</title><description>That is their right, but I don't have to like it!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2328</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:03:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Who's the Enemy?</title><description>It is the idea I reject, not the person.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2327</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:22:34 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Die TVNZ, Die!</title><description>I pay for them with my taxes! Die TVNZ, die!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2326</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:57:15 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Be Less Kind</title><description>Really, we need to be less kind!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2325</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:51:50 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Rescue Our Nation</title><description>We should rescue our national day, and our nation.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2324</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:27:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Just Mostly Useless</title><description>I'm not saying education is completely useless; just mostly useless!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2323</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:12:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Have We Found Aliens?</title><description>I'm not sure it has happened yet.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2322</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:37:02 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: More Maori BS</title><description>One thing we don't need is more Maori BS!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2321</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:12:49 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Left vs Right</title><description>As long as we keep away from the extremes on either side, we aren't doing too badly.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2320</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:15:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Newspeak</title><description>Look in the current affairs section of the library!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2319</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:23:23 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Cultural Relativism</title><description>There is one culture which is greatly superior to the other.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2318</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:14:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Decolonise Aotearoa?</title><description>Decolonise Aotearoa? Yeah, right!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2317</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:39:24 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: But Wait, There's More</title><description>Also note that I am not totally convinced by my own points here.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2316</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:18:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: An Outrageous Theory</title><description>I claim to be a pioneer in the new science of "simulation cosmology".</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2315</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:33:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Not Crazy Enough?</title><description>Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2314</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:38:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Science</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: A Big Ask for Some</title><description>Create a theory, test it, revise it, repeat.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2313</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:13:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Another Year Gone</title><description>Well, that's another year gone, I guess, so what's happened?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2311</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:50:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: TL;DR</title><description>Thanks to my readers and I hope you appreciate the new format.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2309</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:19:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Trust the Market</title><description>Markets have their problems, but the alternatives are much worse.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2308</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:34:51 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: State of the World</title><description>The world isn't perfect, but it is OK!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2307</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:24:51 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: What Do I Want?</title><description>Think for yourself, instead of being told what to think.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2306</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:33:32 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: No Solutions</title><description>There are no solutions, just trade-offs.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2305</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:20:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: People or Parrots?</title><description>What are they: people or parrots?</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2304</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:19:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Comments</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: All Created Equal</title><description>You can have equity or you can have freedom.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2303</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:43:46 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: To Boldly Go</title><description>We need more boldness!</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2302</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:29:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: That's a Fact</title><description>We can't prove that facts exist, but we should act like they do.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2301</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:54:56 GMT</pubDate><category>Philosophy</category></item><item><title>OJB's Blog: Pro, Max!</title><description>I usually buy myself one new major gadget each year.</description><link>http://www.ojb.co.nz/owen/XuBlog/BlogPage.html?code=2300</link><author>ojb@mac.com (OJB)</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:37:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Computers</category></item> </channel></rss> 
