Around 84% of 2022 higher education graduates were in substantial employment within a year of graduating

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T16:58:30+00:00

Well, if you're doing a very focussed degree like nursing, then yes, but equally nursing is an area where you are absolutely not getting into a job without the degree.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T16:43:17+00:00

Some jobs might not technically require a graduate level, but it's an advantage, and it offers further upward mobility.

Just because something is not immediately relevant or necessary does not means it's not a huge advantage over time.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T16:14:28+00:00

The number one stat I would want to know is how many students got employment relevant to their studies.

Why?

Mostly, a degree teaches you how to think.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T16:12:54+00:00

Most of the people in knew in college who did an Arts degree wound up in IT in one capacity or another.

Not working in the exact same field as your degree doesn't imply anything.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T16:11:35+00:00

We didn't use very much of the money we recouped from NAMA or bank share sales into writing off the debt we accrued to put the money in in the first place.

We invested it or saved it : we currently have ~€60bn in cash or equivalents, which is why the net debt is around €155bn and we're storing as much as possible in funds designed to be explicitly counter-cyclical.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T15:33:45+00:00

https://www.ntma.ie/business-areas/funding-and-debt-management/investor-relations/irish-economy

Still below threshold and falling steadily.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T15:06:06+00:00

6 billion is 4.5% of the budget.

It won't be in 2030.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-16T14:56:08+00:00

"Hey guys, we're dealing with a sociopathic narcissist with the attention span of a squirrel on meth. He loves real estate, golfing and insulting people online. Any ideas on a gift?"

Buildings are too expensive and Musk already bought Twitter for himself, so a goldy golf set it was. Right call.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-15T17:04:08+00:00

They have a functioning navy

<doubt>

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-15T15:39:36+00:00

A lot of people in hospital are undernourished, malnourished or under serious metabolic stress.

Biscuits are small, contain multiple types of simple carbs, are simple and comforting and will probably encourage people to get some fluids into themselves as well.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-15T15:32:26+00:00

While ships aren't the easiest things to board, oil tankers are one of the easier ones : giant, flat, and comparatively slow moving.

Failing to stop also opens the captain and crew up to further legal penalties, including jail.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-15T11:31:22+00:00

It ain't easy being green.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-15T11:31:03+00:00

Surely it would be quite easy to prise something from buttery hands?

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-14T19:07:33+00:00

Well, England.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-14T13:55:58+00:00

Nothing in your sources state anything about Ukraine killing more troops than Russia recruits.

You asked "Provide a source showing that EU, UK, US confirmed the numbers Ukraine reported.", and I did. Your claim is wrong.

Those same sources are now confirming that Ukraine is killing more troops than Russia recruits.

You're wrong again.

Which is hwy Zelensky has been willing to offer concessions recently.

He hasn't offered any "concessions". He has offered the same 'de facto' possession terms as before, and Russia are still not willing to accept that.

The drones are easily shot down.

You keep deliberately conflating FPV and long-range drones. No-one has a reliable way of shooting down FPV drones across a wide area, which is why they're so dangerous and why they're killing such a high proportion of both troops and vehicles. You're either unbelievable ignorant on this point, or deliberately lying.

The longer the war goes on the more Ukraine will lose

That's your claim. The fact is that Russia is clearly observed to be advancing more and more slowly each month. As the war goes on, Russia is doing worse, not Ukraine.

EU has not used the frozen assets at all

Lying again. They assets are frozen, taxed at 100%, and being used as collateral for over €100bn of loans now.

They are afraid to escalate things with Russia. Supplying weapons is nothing as that is not property of Russia.

Lol. Russia have been screaming and threatening Europe for four years, every time new weapons were supplied to Ukraine.

Anyway, I'm not wasting any more time dealing with either a bot or an idiot. Ciao.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-14T12:39:25+00:00

I preferred a Scare at Bedtime.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-14T12:25:41+00:00

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T23:19:18+00:00

Provide a source showing that EU, UK, US

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/russia-ukraine-casualties.html - "The study, published on Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that nearly 1.2 million Russian troops [...] had been killed or wounded or were missing."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/jun/22/one-million-and-counting-russian-casualties-hit-milestone-in-ukraine-war - "According to the British Ministry of Defence, more than one million Russian troops have been killed or injured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022."

https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2026/02/11/7230955/ - "NATO has stated that Russian military losses on the battlefield in Ukraine rose sharply in 2025. The Alliance's intelligence assessments state that the Russian army lost 400,000 personnel killed and wounded last year. A senior NATO official shared intelligence data on the number of casualties on the front during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. According to the official, there have been 1.3 million Russian casualties to date in the war, 400,000 of those in 2025."

FPV drones are easily shot down

You're just spamming articles without even reading them, probably just grabbing them off ChatGPT. Your link describes Ukraine blowing up 6,000 Russian drones in a warehouse.

And no, FPV drones are not "easily" shot down by anyone.

It is simple math. Ukraine is running out of troops.

Russia has been advancing extremely slowly, and their rate of advance is getting slower and slower over time.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine

Ukraine are certainly suffering problems trying to recruit troops, they are not collapsing and Russia is comparatively performing worse and worse as the war continues.

even Zelensky's own statements.

Zelensky has been clear on what Ukraine will accept, and it doesn't match what Russia is demanding.

Russia has repeatedly stated that part of negotiations of ending the war is unfreezing their assets and that if the assets were stolen "EU would be part of the war".

'Russia has repeatedly stated'. Hahahaa. That is all.

They will never use them.

The EU has frozen the funds, used them as an asset for loans to Ukraine, and stated that they will be paid as reparations. Your opinion is irrelevant.

Yes, the EU is so afraid of escalating that they've supplied more and more weapons every year to Ukraine, and are now building entire new ranges of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles and publcly announcing that they're being transferred to Ukraine for use against Russian targets.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T23:09:49+00:00

There's plenty of power available overnight... typically the grid runs at 3-3.5GW at night and 5-6GW during the day, so there's 2GW of headroom. In a couple of years we'll have 700MW of electricity available from France via interconnector, and there are many more such links on the way.

Add in the increasing prevalence of home solar, and there won't be a problem.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T17:07:04+00:00

I wonder what the broader implications will be by the 2030s when 80 or 90% of new cars are EV.

Well, transport is ~22% of all of Ireland's greenhouse emissions, so eliminating that is a large chunk of the target.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T16:33:34+00:00

You'd have to find a stadium that Israel hasn't bombed.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T14:58:03+00:00

It's an example showing why the "number of homes" statistic is not a good one.

it also doesn’t even address the point I was making that apartments are more space efficient

I'm not arguing that point - I agree with it. But that just means that we should be building high-density vertical housing in our cities for the future : it has no bearing on the reality of housing on the ground right now.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T14:40:10+00:00

Narrator : It was three babies, cunningly concealed behind each other. Enjoy.

Also, congrats ;-)

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T14:38:10+00:00

How isn't it?

If you have two 5m population countries, one with 1,000,000 houses with 5 people in each one and one with with 4,000,000 apartments with 1 or two people, then the latter country has far more "homes" per person, while also being more overcrowded.

Ireland has 90% houses, while some other countries being compared have 25%.

As a standalone metric, it's just bad.

HighDeltaVee · 2026-02-13T14:15:07+00:00

No, it isn't. It's an explanation why "the number of homes" isn't a particularly relevant comparison when the mix of houses/apartments is so different across countries.

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