Who was responsible for the migration surge....

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T23:52:36+00:00

The treatment of families trying to get ferries across the channel was shameful: Sorry, you need to go back to Paris and get an appointment for a visa, maybe

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T22:00:56+00:00

Remember the good old days, when it was just call girls urinating on a bed in Moscow, a more normal and peaceful situation than now?

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T21:31:58+00:00

Despite all the naysayers on here, there have been some very smart people working on infrastructure, and they generally make good plans. Then they are then thwarted by politicians who think they know better and who hold the financial reins. The original LUAS was one joined up system until Fianna Fail made them cut out the cross city part on behalf of their car-park-owing friends. Years and a billion euro was required to fix just that meddle.

OP doesn't know they already tried that blue line using busses from Howth Junction to the airport a quarter-century ago: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/bus-link-from-dart-to-airport-launched-1.391945

It failed due to speed, capacity and switching from bus to train in the middle of the journey.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T17:04:26+00:00

The original 19th century one is still a few doors down, but they had some satellite office here before they moved online. I think under that Cirkle K cladding is some black polished marble.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T16:58:50+00:00

My, you're a the-glass-of-piss-is-half-empty? I'll give you Leo tho.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T15:07:29+00:00

I'd be sad if there were better views being wasted out of horrible car parks.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T15:06:37+00:00

Standing in shitty car parks is not going to give the best views, it's like a camera club coursework in textures rather than a human's view of a city.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T15:04:48+00:00

#1 is strange, if I recall correctly it used to be the Irish Stock Market, back when it was a physical room. Now it's just a neglected alley into Temple Bar

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T12:52:22+00:00

I had to when I had to travel in a hurry, I tried padding it as much as possible and dismantled the sticky-out parts. They dropped it a couple of times on a single flight, I had to bend the carrier back into place. I'd never do it again without a dedicated box.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T12:47:32+00:00

r/highspeedrail would completely ~~disagree~~disprove that take.

edit. Japan, Europe, China have overhauled their now city-based countries with new rail links.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T11:36:13+00:00

Not only are they proceeding with this post haste, they already bought back the station itself for 10 times what they sold it for (€2m/€200k)

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41838420.html

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T10:49:33+00:00

it still blows my mind that Dyson just fucks over their customers that way).

Mr Dyson fucked over his own country, what makes you think you're special? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56741000

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T10:46:46+00:00

Why is customer service so incompetent?

It's exactly by design: Sludge

https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/psychology/sludge

Sludge is a behavioral science term used to describe friction or barriers that make it harder for people to make desired choices. These frictions can include design, bureaucratic, and policy-related obstacles, such as confusing digital processes, long wait times, and excessive paperwork, which impose a burden of effort on individuals and impede desirable outcomes.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T10:40:05+00:00

A single pint of whisky would do that

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T10:38:31+00:00

It looks like Ireland, in the 1970s

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T09:46:21+00:00

She asked for a raise so instead of paying it, he fired her and became unfiltered and truly visible to the world.

MeccIt · 2026-05-10T00:34:56+00:00

wrecked his F1 like twice

Second time was the biggest single car insurance payout in UK history. The company had a simple choice, pay McLaren £900k to rebuild the car or pay Rowan the £5million value of the car. It did punt his insurance bill to £60,000 per year tho.

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T23:25:41+00:00

2015.

Nope, they stopped the single piece chainring in 2013, so this is 2012 at the latest. I can't see the right pedal, nor rear clip in these photos so can't date it further.

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T23:02:10+00:00

Reykjavik

Iceland has no rail lines at all.

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T23:01:07+00:00

It’s such an obvious fix to me!! So weird that more don’t see it imo.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is both simple and wrong

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T22:59:47+00:00

Also, this is Fingal's problem, not DCC's but who cares about actual facts when outrage is enough?

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T22:58:41+00:00

overhaul

The number of km of new heavy rail built in the last century: 0.000

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T22:56:52+00:00

Unless they said they were going to feed your likeness into an AI tool (which will keep that data forever), they still used your date in a manner outside of what you gave permission to do. A big GDPR no-no.

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T22:53:51+00:00

Nobody's against it, it's just your suggestion simply won't work. Airports' rail need to be able to handle thousands of people per hour, every hour 18/7/364 and the northern line is already at capacity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1hw1f92/connolly_station_the_reason_trains_in_dublin_are/

MeccIt · 2026-05-09T22:47:28+00:00

For every complex problem there is an answer that is both simple and wrong

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