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The Octonaut
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I’m all for shitting on tankies but I’m unsure what part of an all-male divine birthright theocracy they’re supposed to support?
Ireland isn’t in Schengen.
The UN is specifically not a protester with a gun.
The moment the UN uses proactive force, it just becomes NATO.
Yes this is just a strongly worded letter. You might think that’s useless. Not sure what you expect them to do differently though?
You can just say you don’t know what the UN is, it’s ok.
I have terrible news for you if you think using a homophobic slur is as bad as anything the previous popes and cardinals have been doing.
Our other trade partner also went batshit about 10 years ago and made it a lot more difficult to trade with them.
Life’s lonely as a relatively norma neutrall northern-hemisphere anglophone state.
Why should the EU provide protection to Taiwan? If it’s just to have a tech manufacturing industry on a small island precariously adjacent to an imperialist police state with authoritarian tendencies, Ireland’s happy to help.
Look, I get it, but people are allowed to have complex relationships with their language and history. I don’t know the specifics of this guy and I’m not exactly defending him (or his complaints, which seem petty), but nobody owes anything to a language because if their blood.
I’m Irish, and the oppression and near-loss of our language is a real pity, but I can’t deny either that we have have 150 years of real, actual Irish people speaking, writing, creating, singing, dreaming in English. Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, O’Brien, Heaney, Lynott, Sinead O’Connor, Samantha Mumba… they’re not less Irish for having created or performed in English.
It can be hard for Irish, native-English speaking people (i.e. to a statistical approxination, literally everyone) to understand the amount of effort and resources that are poured into funding Irish-language art that the majority of our modern nation cannot read or understand, in a language that they associate mostly with an abusive and failing school system and patriotic guilt, while English-language art in general struggles with the odd and cold assumption from our society that the ready market for English-language Irish art and culture abroad will pay for anything with actual reach. If you have a weird niche idea, you’d better make it even more niche by sticking a cúpla focail in it - now a tiny fraction can enjoy it, but at least you get paid.
The same applies every time I am frustrated with the state of our healthcare system in a waiting room and pass a tall stack of pointless support resources and documentation in the Irish language, the cost of which could have paid for at least one dose of medicine.
We have very little going for us resource-wise in Ireland, but by christ we can write in the global language at least, whether it be for job opportunities or art. If someone sticks a knife in me I shouldn’t be called a traitor for keeping the knife.
Though Meta and Google have withdrawn of their own accord, a spokesperson for Mardi Gras said the companies would not now meet the festival’s criteria for partners.
That’s not what happened.
It would explain the Nazi salute
Not every country has ungodly reserves of fossil fuels providing essentially free money. “Richer” is a bit silly - by raw GDP per capita, Norway has been one of if not the richest country in the world since the establishment of State Oil. Combined with not being a dirt poor monarchy ready to sell its resource extraction rights to Britain/America when the resources were found, Norway is nearly unique.
Absolutely it is better than not subsidising EV cars. No doubt. My issue is with the original comment painting this as something “barely any effort” implying that any country could do this. This was a unique situation and I’m glad that Norwegians chose to make themselves feel better about being an educated western petrostate bane on the planet by buying themselves EVs instead of feeding it to a king, ceo, sultan or emir.
Care to point out what hate and misinformation is relevant to this? If other countries didn’t buy their oil, they could not have achieved this. Norway is a small petrostate with a side gig in poaching EU fish. No amount of Irish salmon would have covered the cost of this. If you don’t understand that a country smaller by population than the city of Barcelona exporting the fourth largest amount of natural gas in the world taints this achievement to some degree, you are entitled to your opinion, but it’s not misinformation.
Yes, sorry, I hadn’t thought of apartments. In my defense where I live, having an apartment and having a car rarely overlap, people use public transport.
You don’t need to install an EV outlet to charge at home. EV outlets are convenient but they are just dumb cables. All the interesting technology for charging is in the car itself. You can get plug-in-adapters for charging a car that go into an ordinary socket and they work just as well as the wall mounted direct type.
Am I missing something? While dedicated, wall-mount-style chargers are convenient, car “chargers” are literally just a power adapter. The ones that plug into a socket (outlet?) are functionally the same. They just supply electricity, all the interestingly technology is in the car itself.
Someone mentioned renting apartments which is fair enough, I live in a country where of you’re in an apartment you use public transport so it didn’t factor.
Why are you telling me about America?
Who can’t charge at home? Who is getting an EV before electricity in their house?
To be absolutely clear, Norway has achieved this by selling oil to other countries. This wasn’t a heroic sacrifice or noble vanguard effort.
The Dalai Lama(s) are worshipped as reincarnations Avalokiteśvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
If “god” means “something you can pray to, to directly make changes to reality”, then they are definitely a god. The issue here is the conceptual trappings of Christianity’s deity as a creator and omnipotent being.
The section on Tibetan Buddhism in the Wikipedia Avalokiteśvara article leads quite happily with calling them a deity and follows by noting the link to the Dalai Lama(s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokiteśvara?wprov=sfla1