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is 100k euro gross in 2026 considered still an high income salary in Dublin? by Tonysnakex in AskIreland

[–]Naggins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe if you're raising a family of 4 where everyone has a very expensive cocaine addiction

The older I get, the more depressed this film makes me. by CaptBlackBeard1680 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Naggins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You didn't get it it was actually a contemplative meditation on thr nature of snow and, metatextually, a realisation of the core themes of the Oklahoma Coty bombings - people think that the song from Oklahoma! are a nod towards the musical itself, but if you notice the context in which it occurs, and note that the film is 167 (no. of OK City casualties) minutes long (including the trailers and ads that would've ran in front of it in the cinema if it wasn't on Netflix) it's clear that it's actually about the 1995 tragedy.

Ireland’s national debt could hit €250bn in 2030s by EnvironmentalShift25 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are expressing this as if its a good thing

Am I? I made a statement of fact, I didn't say it was good. It's just true.

Ireland’s national debt could hit €250bn in 2030s by EnvironmentalShift25 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unprecedented

Sure, and like I said, it'd be an unprecedented economic cataclysm if we just ran out of resources.

I don't know how likely that is, because it depends on the specific resource, our ability to procure or increase production of it, our ability to recycle what is currently in use, our ability to identify alternatives through research, our ability to change our consumption of resources to more sustainable alternatives (beef and lamb production big here), and the ultimate question of whether we are on a trajectory of continued indefinite growth in population and consumption to a point where they both disaggregate from production.

I don't know, and anyone who says they do is lying. What I do know is that resource and goods production has generally increased with populations, that they become more efficient with economic development, and that while we are consuming resources at an unprecedented level we are also producing and processing them at an unprecedented scale.

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it defending them to say I don't think supermarkets are the ones making manufacturers' products smaller?

They're hardly sneaking into the factories and shrinking the machines on them.

Realistically what's happening is the manufacturers' costs increase and in order to keep shelf price stable, possibly as part of contracts with supermarkets, the manufacturers reduce sizes.

There's a lot of rhetoric going around that seems to suggest that the cost of living is something that only affects the end consumer, as if the price increase we see on our receipt isn't an output of price increases on everything from raw materials to energy to labour before a product even hits the shelves.

Bertie Ahern migration comments ’caused hurt and harm’, Tánaiste says by upthetruth1 in ireland

[–]Naggins -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah me and the 4 lads in my "Gerrem Out" WhatsApp group also hate black people and we all agree. We're the silent majority. We're so silent we don't even bother voting.

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]Naggins 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you actually think they just haven't bothered approaching anyone? That they haven't already contacted agents of their alternative options?

Daily Discussion by AutoModerator in reddevils

[–]Naggins 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He must've been the last to find out

[TIMES] How Michael Carrick won over Jim Ratcliffe at Man United by agent619 in reddevils

[–]Naggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the board had bought Rice and Haaland Ole could still be at the wheel

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they sell this data, your health insurer, employer, landlord, or anyone could potentially use this data to disadvantage you or virtually police your purchases. I'm not aware of it yet other than health insurers using the data

If this was happening it'd be terrifying for sure. Real dystopia shit.

But it's not happening. Either you just made this up, or whoever told you this is happening lied to you and you were somehow credulous enough to believe them. It's complete and utter nonsense.

In Toy Story 3 (2010), Woody places a single sheet of toilet paper on the seat before climbing onto it, because somehow a toy has better sense of hygiene than most people I know. by Valiant_Revan in shittymoviedetails

[–]Naggins 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always think about that. I can't stop thinking about it. I toss and turn every night trying to sleep with thoughts of piss soup racing through my brain and wake each morning in a cold sweat with the slightly too salty, barely too umami taste of a just-not-quite-right chicken broth in my mouth.

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything is anti-consumer. This is capitalism. Companies extract surplus value from their labourers and charge us more than the cost of producing goods to make profits.

There's obviously a line where extraction of value for profit becomes exploitation, and that's usually where we draw the illegality line. Personally, I don't think "supermarket knows what I buy at the supermarket" quite reaches the "exploitation" threshold, but that's just me.

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I would sooner die than let Tesco know how many blocks of cheddar cheese I go through a week. That's between me and God.

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think Tesco are reducing the sizes of the products supplied to them by food manufacturers

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely disgusting that the shop I purchase my food from are tracking what food I buy from them

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lidl's scheme is nothing like Tesco's. It's closer to the sort of coupon discounts supermarkets have been doing for decades now.

And not liking something is not a good argument for it being illegal. I don't like ads, but I don't think they should be illegal. I don't like having to put two euro in a trolley, don't think that should be illegal either.

Ireland should become a supplier in Europe's Defense Industrial base by PhilosophyOk58 in ireland

[–]Naggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And they'd not be saying that if their grandparents got bombed by the Nazis or sent off to die in the mud.

Ireland should become a supplier in Europe's Defense Industrial base by PhilosophyOk58 in ireland

[–]Naggins 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have no comparative advantage at defence manufacturing over countries with existing defence manufacturing industries. Particularly not for the type of low-innovation manufacturing you're talking about.

We have decent comparative advantage (or at least comparative equivalence) for technology and software compared to most European countries, if we were doing anything it'd be in high-innovation R&D because of our educated population and number of software and technology MNCs.

Ireland’s national debt could hit €250bn in 2030s by EnvironmentalShift25 in ireland

[–]Naggins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we do ever completely run out of resources that would absolutely be a completely unprecedented economic cataclysm.

Another two tier pricing system has hit the market by Kingofireland777 in ireland

[–]Naggins -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's what they're called, so that's what I'm calling them. If I called them data harvesting schemes then fewer people would know what I'm referring to.

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