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The ludicrous failure of the networks connecting us to enable our forthright discussion is illustrated by your account on Spotify simply disappearing, and the reason for that failure revealed by the incapacity of NZ's Labor Party to support it's arguments that there's a pay gap between men and women by defining what a woman is.  Labor supporters don't care about such definition, because they know what they mean, having absorbed their world view from the government funded media.  

I have worked as a logger, fisherman, and all manner of dangerous and difficult work.  In none of those fields are women generally competent to perform the necessary work.  There are some few that have the necessary intestinal fortitude to undertake the necessary effort, and the best backhoe operator I have worked with was a woman.  However, running heavy equipment isn't particularly physically hard labor, and I have never met a woman competent to such work.  They can work grueling hours, and do work that involves physical labor, like kitchen, cleaning, and similar fields that do not involve lifting and moving heavy weights (over 25 kilos) regularly, but in the trades and fields, women are few and rare.  

There are definitely roles for women and men in society, and some of both that undertake roles of either, but there is no doubt the factual data regarding work shows that the hardness of the labor men do justifies the higher rate of pay for that work.  

I am a fan of 'The Dark Crystal'.  I didn't find the overall philosophical message particularly compelling, but the story around it was.  There are scenes from 'The Dark Crystal' that remain memorable to me all these decades after seeing it. 

I suspect that had Apple reversed the video, showing the real items emerging whole from the press, people would have liked it and, even though iPad didn't make anything, would  have suggested using the iPad made things seem real. 

I am glad you provide multiple different platforms on which your content can be viewed, because 3speak failed for me.

Thanks!