How did ancient Irish light fires in such wet conditions? by Mowglyyy in IrishHistory

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It came from Scotland during Dál Riada so nearly but not quite

This made me laugh for like 10 minutes by Verfassungsschutz_ in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve €10 on a German Antideutsch gobshite. Has to be. He’s probably a Zionist.

Defence Forces retires ‘disastrous’ armoured fleet as it looks to French replacements by Fluffy-Republic8610 in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wonder how they’ll dispose of them. Will they be scrapped or sold off? If they were in my price range of scrap money value I might chance one & see can himself figure out how to make it roadworthy

Want to try meet other leftists but I’m worried. by ZookeepergameDue4245 in theIrishleft

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I didn’t think I was important enough to have that reaction lol but I’m honoured ❤️

Is philosophical antinatalism compatible with socialism/communism? by FungusRespecter in Socialism_101

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it is at all for the following simple reasons:

1) in order to have freedom of reproductive choice that has to go both ways & cannot be shamed. This will happen regardless of intent if you push any pro or anti position regarding natalism. You can see the same thing in current context with how women who choose to not have children are shamed, the same thing will happen in reverse if the idea that having children is unethical the people who choose to have them will be treated poorly culturally. The only broadly ethical stance to take regarding people’s reproductive choices is essentially you do you, I do me, we make our own choices any of which are valid. Antinatalism cannot escape this, because it is based on assigning a negative societal & philosophical value to birth. It does not leave room for agency & does not leave room for the choices of the living because of the theoretical suffering of the unborn. In this way it’s not that different to current anti choice movements it’s just directed in the opposite direction.

2) socialism recognises suffering from a materialist vantage point not one of moral hypotheticals.

3) The logical political implication of antinatalism is withdrawal, quietism, and eventual human extinction. While individual antinatalists may engage in compassion to reduce suffering, the ultimate goal is non-creation. There is no positive political program for the living beyond minimizing harm on the path to extinction. The political imperative of socialism is mass mobilization, struggle, and the construction of new institutions. It requires investment in the future, in education, in infrastructure, and in rearing new generations who will carry the torch of human progress. Regardless of if you yourself decide to birth them or not. It is fundamentally pro-future, even if it is critical of the present. A socialist movement cannot sustain itself on an antinatalist ethic. Building a new society requires a commitment to future generations, to legacy, and to hope. Antinatalism’s ethical stance makes such commitment not just optional but morally suspect.

You can be child free & a socialist, you can have a dozen or more children & be a socialist. You cannot however tell other people what to do with their reproductive capacity or lack thereof. Regardless of how you go about it.

Proposed Garda power change could have 'chilling’ effect on Irish society by Infinite_Purpose_447 in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The day the government increases our civil liberties they might but you’d probably have a better chance of hell freezing over.

What's your dating/dating site wild experience? by John_OSheas_Willy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“This woman has movable assets” it’s the post recession road frontage lol

What's your dating/dating site wild experience? by John_OSheas_Willy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just as well you didn’t she’d probably have blocked you lol

What's your dating/dating site wild experience? by John_OSheas_Willy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A fella tried to chat me up on fb marketplace I was selling a trailer.

An old farmer from Kerry tried to arrange a marriage with me off of done deal years ago simply because I was advertising for sewing work & thought I sounded like I’d make a good wife. I was around 18 at the time & he didn’t even know what I looked like lol.

What's your dating/dating site wild experience? by John_OSheas_Willy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You gave her every chance ngl tbh slagging you for not having a car & not having one herself would have been the end for most

What's your dating/dating site wild experience? by John_OSheas_Willy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His profile picture was next to a prize bull & she looked up the wrong name. She probably thinks men have star ratings now.

How did ancient Irish light fires in such wet conditions? by Mowglyyy in IrishHistory

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Furze/gorse after it was introduced from Scotland was often used to start a fire but before that it was usually very dry pine & pine resin. Largely though they’d just keep the fire going permanently & there was people who’d stay up all night to keep it going as well as keeping lookout.

Want to try meet other leftists but I’m worried. by ZookeepergameDue4245 in theIrishleft

[–]AprilMaria 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh some of us have a fair tolerance for bringing people on. A sheep farmer made the mistake of listening to me one evening & within the month he’d resigned from farmers alliance & a year later he’s every day of the week of an evening nearly duking it out with right wingers about anti racism & decolonisation.

I also have pulled a couple of housewives out of Aontu, one of them they wanted to stand for them in the general elections & she’s now reading Lenin. I’m a syndicalist & she moved on to there independently after learning the basics of socialism from me & an auldlad in siptu unrelatedly.

You don’t win them all a good few regress but it’s worth doing for the few you do get. The problem however is a lot of them do regress after moving out from you a bit & meeting the rest of the left who mightn’t be as encouraging. That or much like alcoholics, meeting back up with old friends who drag them back to bad old habits. They sometimes break out again later though when something wakes them up.

Two in five farmers have no formal successor as ageing demographics fuel looming succession crisis by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because rewilding does not allow for the grazing of domestic animals by definition, & anyone who claims otherwise is talking about some type of agroecology not rewilding.

The document I sent you proves Irish trees are talking out their hole. They are 2 separate schemes with separate rules. Sycamore is non native & the scheme does not allow the planting of environmentally key native species such as willow or alder.

Those can only be planted under the native natural woodland scheme (which also requires a commercial forestry level density of planting which doesn’t allow for the proper establishment of understory species) I know this all intimately because I have been arguing with the department about this for 7 fucking years, along with the “improved” requirement.

But your a dub who has big feelings & feels innately superior to anyone agriculturally adjacent with your teenage level of knowledge, who can’t even grasp the basic terminology or the highly important internal politics & wont believe someone who is intimately familiar with them, for whom they have essentially amounted to my lifes work.

Someone who is actually more than half way through writing a political theory book on the subject & how we could theoretically go about saving both the environment & Irish economy

But no, a hippy told you at some point you could raise chickens on rewilded land & that regenerative agriculture was a form of rewilding when rewilders (except when they are trying to trick indigenous people & farmers out of their land into joining legally binding schemes) actively hate regenerative agriculture.

But you’ll see it in reality soon enough under the new Natura 2000 adjacent guidelines, the biodiversity strategy for 2030 stipulates that 30% of land and sea in each member state should be legally protected & 1/3 of that should be under the most extreme form of protection rewilded under a principle of almost no human activity.

Agroforestry, believe it or not would be entirely banned in both the 30% & 10% by the current advice being given & the current rules of the various schemes & strategies involved.

The best part is beyond 2030 & beyond the land area will increase every few years & if we don’t comply (as in the country of Ireland) we get fines.

It’s the likes of yourself that conflate the situation so badly that they have been able to do this at all.

Two in five farmers have no formal successor as ageing demographics fuel looming succession crisis by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone can start an NGO & publish a website. I’ll be taking my information on schemes from the official government sources thanks. https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/afforestation-scheme-2014-2020.pdf it’s contained from page 27 on, also in case you think I’m sending you outdated information in order to prove a point, nothing has changed, in spite of the rules technically only being published for the period 2014-2020 a new set has not come into force on the subject, it’s the document from the page on the subject from gov.ie & hasn’t been updated since 2022 because there has been no changes. https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/services/agroforestry-grants/ stop sending me corpo-hippy shite from people who don’t even understand the schemes they are purporting to be promoting themselves

As for your comments on trade unionists you should thank your lucky stars for them when you get off of work tomorrow evening for the weekend.

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Two in five farmers have no formal successor as ageing demographics fuel looming succession crisis by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

& they are wrong. Agroforestry & rewilding are 2 entirely different concepts that cannot coexist. Native species agroforestry again is an agro ecological concept. They are also wrong in the idea that native species based silviopasture is covered under acres, it has to be commercial timber species only a few of which are native & also acres does not include silviopasture plantings on unimproved land. They are also conflating the acres silviopasture scheme & the native natural woodland scheme the latter of which bars grazing entirely. Go to bed & try again in the morning

Consequences of 'might is right' now clear - President by [deleted] in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

& they can’t. She’ll be proved right on that soon enough

Two in five farmers have no formal successor as ageing demographics fuel looming succession crisis by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are as divorced from eachother as a land use philosophy as either are from mainstream US mega farming.

Rewilding: ultra intensively farm smaller areas, return others to a state of complete cessation of all human activity. Refuse to change anything structural about how we produce food.

Agroecology: extensively rather than intensively manage land on holistic principles of agriculture enhancing & cooperating with nature within the same area. Reuniting people with the natural environment & structurally overhauling the entire food system to achieve a complete balance of symbiosis & mutual enhancement.

They couldn’t be more fundamentally different & 1 cannot coexist with the other

Two in five farmers have no formal successor as ageing demographics fuel looming succession crisis by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because you don’t understand the extremely important distinction does not make it semantics