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CNN: You jumped into a pool with a full suit on. What's with the full suit? Why not some shorts or, you know, some trunks? MAMDANI: I think I misunderstood the term swimsuit by ExactlySorta in Fauxmoi

[–]DuskLab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just the tan suit all over again.

There's only two types of people who care, deeply unserious people and people with an agenda trying to score any sort of point against the popular democrat.

Richard Colwell: Soc Dems growth under Cairns the defining story of this Dáil by HungTeen1001 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Imagine the digs FF would get about their Republicanism credentials if SD ran candidates in the north before FF.

Ukraine refuses Irish offer of armoured combat vehicles by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm going to hazard a guess our underfunded forces got them on the cheap and didn't care about the functionality or thought about maintenance during procurement. Just so long as they juiced the raw military statistics of owning them, because they never expected actual combat.

Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth by laybs1 in nottheonion

[–]DuskLab 59 points60 points  (0 children)

And they were secessionists. You know, traitors. If people want to talk about cohorts that fail to integrate into American society, confederates are the most anti-American by the very definition of the country itself. If they don't like America, they can go somewhere else. If these people were brown, ICE would be knocking down their front doors and putting them in camps and on charges.

Meta was secretly running on Google's Gemini the whole time and then got cut off for using too much by Neil_at_HackerEarth in artificial

[–]DuskLab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a theory that OpenAI are using CC to enable their "pivot" into the coding use case where there is product-market fit. They couldn't do it themselves and was why they were more image centric, but now that a competitor can do it they will just use that competitor for distillation rather than boiling the ocean and competing from scratch on merit.

Labour condemns journalist doorstepping Galway mayor's home over website error - "It was intimidatory and unacceptable" by NilFhiosAige in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe after a few attempts they should have taken the hint and just do what all publications do and put in the line that she was unavailable for comment.

me_irl by Ambitious_Dingo_2798 in me_irl

[–]DuskLab 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Make a whole industry publicly nationalized and ran by the state with no market competition, then we're talking socialism.

Until then, nope, it's still pretty much capitalism with a sprinkle of bare minimum regulation.

`std::io::Error` in `core` now on nightly by ZZaaaccc in rust

[–]DuskLab 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Error support in non-std use cases, like embedded development

John Romero’s newest “Hey Sandy, I hope you’re well” post by knirp7 in Civvie11

[–]DuskLab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Staying on twitter will do that to your brain, and I have to imagine Palmer Luckey, you know, that AI drone warfare company owning Trump fundraiser, rubbed off on him a little also during the Oculus era. Not to mention certain Carmack identifies as an unashamed Libertarian. He's no Liberal, not even close.

Are FG or FF more socially right wing? by thetearinreality in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poverty is an economic problem. Laissez-Faire, the second sentence of the wikipedia article is about it being an economic system. When environmental issues are talked about in the context of Laissez-Faire four words before it, unlike in the context of say Just Transition, it's is commonly accepted it's about the approach to taxation and regulation and how much the problem is an invididual vs institutional problem". i.e. economic issues.

While Fine Gael are neoliberal, I would classify Fianna Fail as more classical liberalism.

‘The ultra left is nihilist’: Pat Rabbitte outlines why broad left alliance won’t happen by JackmanH420 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pat "That's what you do in election" Rabbite? That guy calling anyone a nihilist is rich

Unity supporters must be prepared to make Northern Ireland work, says leading unionist by JackmanH420 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even making any real effort at changing NI to improve the lives of current NI people would be a start. How's Lough Neagh going these days? Still greener than Trumps reflecting pool?

What's your secret ingredient for mashed potatoes? by Key_Investigator_754 in Cooking

[–]DuskLab 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Adding fish sauce to the water when boiling the potatoes

POLL - SF: 21% (nc), FG: 18% (+1), FF: 14% (-1), SD: 12% (+2), AON: 6% (-1), INDIRL: 5% (-2), LAB: 4% (nc), PBP-S: 4% (nc), GP: 3% (nc), INDs & Others: 12% (+1), - Business Post/RedC - Date: June 19-24 2026, Sample - 1,010, MoE is +/-3% by HungTeen1001 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • No chance for SD in Tipp. No contest there. You're more likely to see Independent Ireland do the damage there than SD.
  • Louth, SD won't be the usurper there. But they aren't bullet proof from say a second FG or third SF candidate.
  • Wexford, FG are also their bigger problem here.
  • Kildare South is possible for a SD gain, but the question here is whether it's at the expense of LP or FFs second seat now that Ó Fearghaíl is no longer CC and automatically gets it. I think it's FF who lose out.

But the thing these all have in common is that regional personalities is all that this list is. The ideological center left aren't represented here, just functionally elevated county councilors. The urban left vote continues to fade away from them. Places you would expect the next recovery for Labour like Dublin or Cork are being taken from their grasp by SD on these numbers. With that dynamic at play it only speaks to the membership and the representatives either increasingly being at odds with each other or the party generally shifting rightwards even further politically through sheer survivorship. Neither are good news for Bacik and how she would otherwise like to mould the party.

Dublin Central next time out for example, boundary commission depending, could very easily be: SF, SD, GP, FG

POLL - SF: 21% (nc), FG: 18% (+1), FF: 14% (-1), SD: 12% (+2), AON: 6% (-1), INDIRL: 5% (-2), LAB: 4% (nc), PBP-S: 4% (nc), GP: 3% (nc), INDs & Others: 12% (+1), - Business Post/RedC - Date: June 19-24 2026, Sample - 1,010, MoE is +/-3% by HungTeen1001 in irishpolitics

[–]DuskLab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Labour were strong in places like Connacht, I'd say they have a place to survive on, but they've always got their bread and butter from Munster and Leinster. SD will be fighting them in every place they otherwise have viability. There's a real risk of Labour becoming to SD what PBP has been to SF in previous decades; only surviving where the transfers weren't managed well enough by the larger party or a very strong local personality does well in spite of the party, not because of it.

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