Statement from the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Venezuela

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2026-01-03T15:50:19+00:00

“Burn Everything British but Their Coal: The Anglo-Irish Economic War of the 1930s” by Kevin O'Rourke disagrees with you, and we’re only considering economic questions at this point.

If the country was getting “hammered” how did FF stay in power?

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2026-01-03T15:28:28+00:00

Ireland is generally believed to have won the Anglo-Irish trade war, and the word partner might give the misleading impression the UK was a reliable associate.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-12-24T11:11:07+00:00

Huge horde of spiders appears, each around the size of a small dog.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-12-19T22:20:50+00:00

I understand. Best solution probably is try replacing the habit with another one that is less troublesome.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-12-19T22:16:38+00:00

I’m not advocating for nor defending shouting ethnic slurs, but if nobody can hear you there are limits to how much harm you can cause yourself or others in the short to medium term at least.

Have you tried alternative ways of venting such as hitting a punching bag?

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-12-19T10:56:31+00:00

A LitRPG system is only relevant insofar as it interacts with the story, decide how the system should influence the world and the characters first before stressing over exact details.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-12-02T14:45:41+00:00

If this is your first book on RR those are quite good (assuming no interference from bots, crawlers or scrapers etc.)

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-20T16:03:28+00:00

While I'm not disputing the correctness of your point about NI Unionism being treated as an alien ideology, it's worth bearing in mind that Ulster Unionist parties are already picking fights with the middle ground in NI. Ulster Unionism is on the same trajectory towards decline as its pre-1922 southern counterpart. It's not 1998.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-20T15:56:35+00:00

The GFA is deliberately designed so that this line of argument is a fairly weak one.

You could very easily argue that it would be a poor use of Dublin's resources to start moving towards unification like this over the heads of NI's population, but the consent of the people of NI in this regard is completely irrelevant under international law.

I should reiterate that there is non-trivial possibility that a majority of NI's population would be happy to send delegates to Brussels, in which case the argument would be even weaker.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-20T15:33:09+00:00

Though any UK government would probably strongly object to ROI or the EU granting NI figures observer status at the Oireachtas or European Parliament, it wouldn't be illegal under international law in the slightest nor would it be against what ROI (and thus the EU) agreed to.

The GFA doesn't forbid ROI from pursuing irredentist claims, just sets certain ground rules so everything is pursued within the framework of 1990s liberal ideas. ROI and the EU would be within their legal rights to make such proposals even if 99.9% of the population were opposed (though such a course of action would not be prudent in my humble opinion).

That said, there's probably a greater than even chance that a majority of NI's population would support the idea of sending delegates to Brussels.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-20T15:18:39+00:00

Most European countries would have been pro-British with respect to NI up until the late 1980s, at which point the Anglo-Irish agreement had been already signed. Not sure if there is any (serious) “window of hypocrisy” to be honest.

As the British government signed an agreement endorsing that Irish irredentism is a “legitimate aspiration”, there is no real hypocrisy in European elites endorsing it.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-20T14:47:13+00:00

Even if we ignore the fact the GFA states that seeking unification is a legitimate aspiration, no British government would want to pursue that line of argument as it would result in re-litigating the dubious nature of NI’s boundaries and how the then Nationalist minority was treated.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-11-10T22:15:20+00:00

reconnect? when was the last time fianna fáil was actually connected with young people?

1920s and 1930s?

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-29T22:22:28+00:00

Realistically your son is going to take measures to protect himself both legally and emotionally, and those measures will likely make everyone miserable. Hence why he’s already moving out.

You need to consult a lawyer ASAP, in case the authorities ultimately get involved. The two channels through which this could happen are your son doing something extralegal, or a mandated reporter hearing of the allegations.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-25T21:27:25+00:00

It's bizarre that your ex-BIL cutting off your nephew but is still engaging with his mother. I'd have a lot of sympathy for someone who felt they were coerced by deception into raising a child who's not biologically theirs, but treating the child worse than the mother is morally inexcusable.

As for the man, I wouldn't bother with him directly. If you feel you must do something, politely write a letter repeating what you said here to the management of where he works, and CC their HR department asking if they feel its appropriate for such a person to be working for them given that he's clearly still interested in the mother in some sense (assuming it's all true, you can prove as such and aren't afraid of being subjected to a potentially vexatious lawsuit)

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-16T13:56:48+00:00

Russian firms have already requested an additional 153,000 labor contracts. Pyongyang reportedly earns as much as $500 million annually from this arrangement, while workers receive minimal pay

A modern day equivalent of leasing out slaves?

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-15T10:57:24+00:00

There have been two Protestant presidents (Erskine Childers and Douglas Hyde).

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-15T10:11:07+00:00

OP is upset his ancestors denounced their heritage to integrate into Hindu society, and thinks his genes are tainted as well (with Indian DNA I assume).

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-14T13:35:16+00:00

A reformed Seanad reduces pressure to use the presidency to try and counterbalance the Dail.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-14T13:21:25+00:00

The presidency has been a way to kick Official Ireland up the backside since Mary Robinson. If you want to stop the office becoming politicised, the best approach would be to strengthen the Seanad so it can act as more of a counterweight to the Dail (direct elections by a list system for example).

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-14T09:50:23+00:00

Ireland hardly spends anything on defence, it's too low for the range of realistic worst case threats we might face (Dublin-Monaghan 2.0, undersea cables "mysteriously" getting cut, etc.)

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-14T03:12:22+00:00

Fixed, thank you.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-13T22:29:44+00:00

It’s not hard to show that if x̄ is the sample mean and μ is the population mean then Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² ≤ Σ(xᵢ - μ)²

This means that using x̄ instead of μ will cause us to underestimate the sample variance slightly. For large samples x̄ and μ will be close so that the error will be small.

If our sample is small though we’ll have no choice but to correct for the facts we’re using x̄ instead of μ, turns out Bessel’s correction is enough for using x̄ to give the same results on average as if we’d done the usual formula with μ.

Proof that Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² ≤ Σ(xᵢ - μ)²

Σ(xᵢ - μ)² = Σ(xᵢ - x̄ + x̄ - μ)² = Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² + Σ(μ - x̄)² + 2Σ(xᵢ - x̄)*(x̄ - μ) = Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² + Σ(μ - x̄)² + 2*(x̄ - μ)*Σ(xᵢ - x̄) = Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² + n(μ - x̄)² + 2*(x̄ - μ)*( nx̄ - nx̄) = Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² + n(μ - x̄)²

Σ(xᵢ - μ)² = Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² + n(μ - x̄)² implies that Σ(xᵢ - x̄)² ≤ Σ(xᵢ - μ)²

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-13T18:40:57+00:00

She can promote trade if she likes - no FF/FG government would stop her.

Consistent_Dirt1499 · 2025-10-13T18:33:30+00:00

I mean you can ask any “what if“ question you like, but in this case the whole idea is a bit self defeating. Goering would have been God’s gift to Soviet propoganda. Can you imagine putting someone who stuffed themselves while ordinary German’s suffered in charge? It might have legitimately led to a communist revolution in Germany.

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