Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
9mo ago
If the person is qualified then I would presume they can apply for those jobs just like any other.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
and occupant safety features (seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, etc.)?
Besides thicker clothing and a better helmet wouldn't motorbikes be the same as bikes under this standard?
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
Slavery never caught on in the British isles because they had population in excess;
I learned something new looking this up, that Scotland still had slaves in the coal mines until 1799, but my understanding is that England (and by extension Ireland and Wales) didn’t use slaves domestically simply because it hadn’t been accepted under common law since the 12th century.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
I think the contradictions only arise if you ignore the good things Nietzsche says about slave morality (I’ll have to go digging for quotes but basically it made man "interesting", added depth to his soul and made him more cunning).
Nietzsche spends a lot of time praising master morality because it is the side which needs to be rehabilitated, but the Nietzchean project isn’t about going back to the Vikings. The higher type of aristocratic development he is aiming for is only possible in the man of mixed slave/master heritage, and it’s as much about creative ability and aesthetic sense as anything else – Shakespeare, Goethe and Da Vinci are mentioned as higher men alongside the military geniuses.
in terms of ease of use, lethality, and safety
It might sound odd but there's a difference between wanting to disfigure someone and actually trying to kill them. Irish traveller gypsies have these kinds of fights fairly often and they do actually shake ends after a few months/years of sending each other to hospital (here's an example of an ongoing 4 year long feud which might be ending). Killing someone on the other hand puts your whole family in danger for however long it takes for the other side to get real revenge (and obviously it can go on longer if the revenge cycles goes on).
Also I'm not really familiar with the UK legal system but I'd imagine it's like Ireland where murder is really the only guaranteed way to get decades in jail. You can do a lot of damage to someone and get a slap on the wrist compared to what your sentence would be in America.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
Good luck! Is the drinking social or just because you enjoy a beer?
Tollund_Man4
2d ago
Maybe I need to read more Roman history but all of the times this happened the general's army was already strong enough to contest everyone else in open war (even a less successful rebel general like Sertorius still controlled and defended Spain against Rome).
Even if they do become personally loyal to Trump, ICE isn't a real military force and it is still dwarfed by the regular military.
Tollund_Man4
24d ago
This is supposedly video footage: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1933316226190639569?t=K-BD155FrVyh7lsXC74wEA&s=19
I don't know how dangerous it really is but it feels pretty safe. Drink driving and aggressive driving in general is worse in France than back in Ireland so bus drivers are trustworthy in comparison.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
His big projects are World Peace and Kickstarter TV. World Peace 2 is coming out soon too. Some other clips I have saved:
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
@Tollund_Man4 are Irish and live in Ireland
I left for France two years ago. But to add to your point I don't work in tech and have never even been to the United States.
I have done this test before, is it still accurate after 3-4 tries in as many years insofar as training for the test is concerned?
The encirclements are at the scale of clusters of towns, you would need to zoom in enough at least to see where the roads are.
Try Suriyak maps, Deepstate maps, or just keep an eye on WeebUnion videos. If I remember right all three include fortifications on their maps too.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
A million casualties doesn't necessarily mean a million individual people, some portion of that figure would be people who have been wounded multiple times.
The O'Rahilly. A biography of Michael Joseph O'Rahilly, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. He tried to stop it from happening and ironically ended up being the only rebel leader to be killed in action (as opposed to being executed). W.B Yeats wrote a poem about him. I had barely heard about him before and it's unclear whether this is whether he was relatively unimportant or because he ended up on the wrong side of history for opposing a rebellion which has since become glorified (though by now the revisionists have had their say).
The book was written by his son Aodogán O’Rahilly and he makes the latter case. I haven't gotten to the action yet but the family anecdotes and descriptions of life in the late 19th/early 20th centuries are interesting. It's a bit of a mystery as to why O'Rahilly became a radical Irish nationalist. Unlike most of the other Irish revolutionaries I have read about he had no family history of Irish nationalism, they had even removed the O' from their surnames, he had no experience in war and he wasn't a young man with nothing to lose either. He was part of the rising Catholic middle class, enjoying an income of £900 per year and he was married to an even wealthier American heiress. The most you see are hints here and there in his personal letters before he quickly becomes devoted to the cause.
I haven't gotten to the action yet but that should be interesting. The whole Irish Volunteer movement was subversions within subversions. On the one hand you had moderate parliamentary nationalists like John Redmond successfully convincing 90% of the Volunteers to go and fight in WW1 (Ireland had no draft) and achieve self-government by showing loyalty to the crown, on the other you had the secret oath-bound organisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood doing their best to take control of the organisation and turn it into a force for insurrection. All that was for certain was that a 180,000 strong nationalist paramilitary organisation was being built to counter an equally large loyalist paramilitary organisation and O'Rahilly was helping to build it.
On the day that he drove across the country alone to join the battle he tried to stop, speaking to the people who had just wrested control of the Volunteers and relegated him to the sidelines of history, he is quoted as saying - "Well, I've helped to wind up the clock -- I might as well hear it strike!"
Automation had already been going on for 30 years by the time I was working there, the workers just get moved to another part of the process where relying on fine motor skills is cheaper than designing and building a new machine. A few technician jobs are created too as they need manual maintenance multiple times per day.
This can't go on forever but it doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. Checking the local news they're still announcing new expansions and jobs (although that was before these recent tariffs).
AI might cause some disruption on the lower levels of the quality control side as a lot of that just involves looking through a microscope and identifying faults.
Have any of you guys tried it?
I've been using nicotine pouches for about 3 years.
Did it make you feel noticably different?
When you have a low tolerance you get a head rush and supposedly it helps you focus. I don't know if it really helps with the kind of deep focus you'd want for studying but it certainly keeps you awake and at my kitchen job it does get you into the headspace to manage the 20 things you're paying attention to at once. Practically I should only be using it for these reasons but it feels nice so I've ended up taking it constantly.
Long term downsides: a pouch feels relaxing but they are heightening your baseline level of anxiety in the meantime, a pouch will give you energy but lower your baseline level of motivation.
Was it easy to quit?
Yes, and then no. For the first year I could go off it for a month without noticing anything, once I started tapering off to 4mg pouches from the 11s I had eventually ramped up to I got a taste of the classic nicotine withdrawal symptoms. One of the things a friend reported to me was that you feel amazing while quitting, I also experienced this while tapering off but it was back and forth between that and the bad symptoms.
I do plan to quit because I'd rather take the 20 or so euro a week and go to a nice restaurant instead, once these 4mg cans run out I'll try and find something weaker and failing that just stop altogether.
Any suggestions regarding dosage?
Don't go past 6mg and avoid the temptation to increase the strength as your tolerance goes up. Right now it's getting hard to find even 6s in my local shops, one place told me the weakest they had was 17mg.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
North vs South Korea. Armenia vs AZ. North vs South Cyprus. Israel vs Syria and Lebanon. India vs Pakistan. Etc, etc.
The United Kingdom vs Argentina, France vs Algeria, Vietnam vs France and then America..
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
If you rule out something like that, what kind of international opinion-giving would be allowed, if any?
Whatever is already allowed after you rule out foreign politicians campaigning for political parties during an election. Referenda should be treated basically like elections as far as norms around foreign interference are concerned, you're trying to sway voters at that point not just addressing the government.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
Sausages and bacon.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
This isn't direct evidence but the IRA were definitely aware of the propaganda potential of reprisals from government forces. From the Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army - Notes on Guerrilla Warfare 1956 version:
The strategy of guerrilla warfare is to build up resistance centres throughout the occupied area and confine the enemy to the larger towns by restricting his movements and communications. In time the resistance centres are knitted together into one liberated area. After that the job is to drive him out of his supposedly safe base: and thus out of the country.
The essence of all strategy is to bring, by the use of surprise and mobility-or a combination of both-the greatest possible strength to bear at a chosen time and place. It must be ensured that the enemy does not-or is not able to-assemble Mi* strength at that point. This holds true also of guerrilla warfare. But it involves clever manoeuvre and here the skill of the commander, the organisation of his forces and his mobility, play an important role.
The guerrilla attempts to do three things:(1) Drain the enemy's manpower and resources.
(2) Lead the resistance of the people to enemy occupation.
(3) Break down the enemy's administration.He achieves the first by the very fact of his existence and his constant harassment of the enemy. He remembers that his own task is not to hold ground but to ensure that in time the enemy will not hold any either.
He achieves the second by remembering that the people will bear the brunt of the enemy's reprisal tactics and by inspiring them with aims of the movement. In this way they will be made tenacious and strong for in the long run it is the people who can stop the enemy: by their backing of the national movement.
And he achieves three when the enemy imposes martial law and thus recognises he can no longer rule that area in the old way. In effect he is recognising that the people no longer want him.
*Typo in the original PDF document.
Tollund_Man4
5mo ago
The composition is fairly different, though.
For anyone interested Ireland's first experience with mass migration was with Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians and Nigerians (in order of size).
Tollund_Man4
6mo ago
I listen to innerFrench and it has helped me a lot! It's not boring from a language learning perspective (I checked it out again today and enjoyed it), but the actual subject matter isn't that interesting beyond that. I was thinking something along the lines of a history or French politics podcast, something which would even be interesting in English.
Tollund_Man4
8mo ago
If stopping people arriving on boats is at the edge of the Overton window then removing people whose parents came on boats is well outside it. If you can rule out the first solution by saying it wouldn’t have solved the problem anyway then you don’t even need to refute the second, most people won’t dare discuss the implications you’ve drawn out in public so the public battle is already won for the pro-immigration side.
Well the problem would be unelected bureaucrats running everything in the first place, if this is already the case then the main difference between it happening openly or behind the scenes is how likely you are to get a revolt.
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