Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
9d 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
20d ago
so I'd like to remove e.g. scratch-off cards at convenience stores
When I worked in a convenience store the people who would hang around the till buying and scratching cards until they were out of money were a big annoyance, the more inconsiderate ones would let a queue build up behind them while they did it.
That's the law but if you know a guy or have the knowledge yourself you can upgrade basically any bike with a motor which goes much faster. People working for Deliveroo and similar apps will know this type of guy.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
This is supposedly video footage: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1933316226190639569?t=K-BD155FrVyh7lsXC74wEA&s=19
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
Tollund_Man4
2mo 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.
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
Define large. Bordeaux and it's surrounding towns (more like suburbs but the French are strict about keeping them separate) has some roads like that. They work pretty well but for reasons of space it's mostly mixed cycle and bus lanes, cycle lanes next to cars, cycle lanes on wide footpaths and mixed pedestrian/cycling areas.
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
3mo ago
(I mean, the show has a scene with a white boy mugging a black boy for his lunch money, come on!).
I don't disagree with the rest of your point and I haven't lived in England but if it's anything like Ireland I wouldn't underestimate the rough parts of the white working class, black kids being robbed by white kids (and not just travellers) was something I saw at school.
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!"
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
Tollund_Man4
6mo ago
This is a classic scam for Irish traveller gypsies to pull. You do a shoddy repair job then guilt or intimidate the owner into paying up before moving on to the next town.
It's well known in Ireland, I've seen news articles about this same thing happening in France and Australia and Youtube has some recent American tv news clips linking them with violent crimes and some direct recordings of travellers arguing with police etc so it looks like they've started causing trouble in the US now.
Tollund_Man4
3mo 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.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
All else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage.
What about the guy who is being flanked and cut off from supplies and retreat? He's just an amateur but I regularly keep up with Weeb Union's daily map updates on Youtube and in the winter of 2024-25 for example it was just encirclement after encirclement.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
It might be too late but cold showers can dampen the immune response which causes DOMS.
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
You'll have to go further back to find out who started it. Obama campaigned against Brexit in person.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
Thanks for this!
June 2024: Surprise! Macron triggers snap elections in effort to overturn political gridlock and break his dependence on Le Pen. Perhaps the ongoing Le Pen trial will at last get rid of this troublesome opposition party?
I don't think the trial was the main motivation here, I think the idea was more that the National Rally's shocking victory in the European Parliament elections held just 3 weeks before would motivate people to put their differences aside and vote against Le Pen.
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.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
I'm thinking about getting a motorbike. As far as safety goes how much of the danger is due to the nature of mode of transport itself and how much is due to people being reckless?
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
I don't know about cars but if pharmaceuticals and medical devices (I used to work at a place in Ireland making drug eluding stents) are of similar complexity then no you don't need to have much brains to be a line worker even if the final product is complex.
You perform one or two sets of movements 800 times a day and need to remember if you saw anything strange in a batch from an hour ago. There's a hierarchy of inspectors, technicians, quality control workers and engineers who worry about the complicated stuff.
Tollund_Man4
6mo ago
They all have Irish or British passports so the old school method of booking a holiday and never coming back probably still works.
Some of them just hop across the wall on the US-Mexico border, and there are scattered news stories of Irish people smuggling rings 1, 2.
Some of them have been in America for generations and have become very rich through life insurance scams.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
Does anyone have recommendations on a cheap smart watch for fitness and sleep tracking?
I found an example. The battle over Velyka Novosilka: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NzHZ-afKmbo?si=QgQ8PNVy6hAO9FFN
Once the Russians achieve an effective encirclement (as in cut off the roads, open fields can still be crossed at great risk) the tables are turned and the Ukrainians are now the ones taking on fortified positions trying to break the siege and resupply their men.
I have no idea how many men are committed in each stage so the Ukrainians could well still be trading favourably, but it looks like reason to doubt any straightforward assumptions.
If we're still talking about Greek society the free man was someone who valued liberty over life and had the valour to actually claim it. Granting a slave freedom merely for organising a revolt would be a lower standard than what was expected of free citizens when they are called to defend their own freedom against an invader.
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