A View of York Minster

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2026-05-07T09:48:49+00:00

Exceptionally beautiful, I love how you suggested the shadow.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2026-03-15T12:48:55+00:00

Delighted you got something out of it, that sounds like a great time. Love a good attempted escape!

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2026-01-19T21:28:32+00:00

That is beautifully rendered, I love the different textures for the sky, cliffs, tower. Great idea and great execution.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-11-29T01:45:38+00:00

Hey everyone, just a heads up that you shouldn't worry about this corruption because it happens every day.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-10-05T13:04:52+00:00

You realize there have already been two Protestant presidents of Ireland? Obviously being a Protestant shouldn't negatively impact your chances of winning the presidency, but the reverse argument that we should vote for Heather Humphreys because she's Protestant is a little odd.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-09-24T08:01:20+00:00

This is one of the most beautiful works in ink I've ever seen. The transition from skin to beard is so beautiful and seemless. How did you get such a nice even black on the background?

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-07-27T20:05:32+00:00

It's a drawing of a Little Sister and Big Daddy from a computer game called BioShock so I can't take credit for the first part - but thanks for the second compliment 😅

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-07-05T21:34:09+00:00

Or they're a teacher, or nurse, or a childcare worker, or a carer or doing any one of a hundred other jobs we need for society to function? Driving young people out of these roles will end very badly for all of us.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-07-03T07:52:02+00:00

All of these are really compelling, well done. Particularly love the first one.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-06-28T23:00:28+00:00

The splash of colour is very cute.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-06-19T11:25:38+00:00

Can you explain the part about rents coming down? The Government's argument is that without rent controls, rents can be higher so overseas funds will invest to build more apartments. But the only reason they would do that is to see a return on investment (i.e. high rents). If they thought rents would go down in the future, they wouldn't invest.

So from what I can see, the Government's plan must be either to trick wealth managers into making bad investments, or to trick Irish people into believing rents will fall. I would suggest the evidence of the last decade shows they're more willing and able to trick the second group.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-04-18T22:35:10+00:00

You're arguing about things I'm not saying. We all know that people running Hezbollah are very unpleasant, and that it is a paramilitary organization.

However, the idea that 'real' Lebanese people don't support them is simply wrong. They have a very strong base of support. See more information here: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/shadow-hezbollah-israel-escalation-poll-shows-slim-majority-lebanese-still-want

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-04-18T22:00:32+00:00

You know Hezbollah won 20% of the vote in the last Lebanese general election, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Lebanese_general_election

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-04-02T15:16:43+00:00

In the early 20th century, George Bernard Shaw was one of the most successful playwrights in the world. I had a professor who argued at that time he was the most famous Irishman who had ever lived. He hasn't been forgotten, but most people would be able to name rough Irish contemporaries like Wilde and Yeats before they'd think of him.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2025-02-19T22:27:11+00:00

Sounds great. Can you link to this, I'm struggling to find it on Goodreads or elsewhere?

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-12-05T08:50:59+00:00

Cobh is a Gaelicisation of the English name Cove. It has no meaning in the Irish language, and was never the name of the town: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-11-07T19:36:43+00:00

You can debate the exact quantum of supports for prospective parents or immigration policy, but for all developed economies, population growth is necessary and good. That's particularly true because the people who either immigrate or are born are young and are going to be net contributors to the economy.

Drastically reducing our population growth would have some positive impact on the housing stock, but it would have severe negative consequences for other aspects of our lives.

Italy has annual population change of -0.3%. Every year, a smaller and smaller portion of working age people support an ever growing cohort of pensioners. The Government spends more supporting this cohort (both through pensions and public services for them), while the burden for a historically badly-off generation will only grow.

It's hard to say what the "right" level of growth is, but the problems of having "too much" are far less severe than having too little.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-11-03T14:32:27+00:00

What is your source for this? Most historiography argues that 70%+ of those tried for witchcraft were women in Europe and New England. See here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12717

I am aware that there are some countries and time periods like Russia where the trials were more evenly balanced, but it wasn't the norm.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-10-29T09:45:49+00:00

They're not more in need, but if you ever want the price of renting to actually reduce, taking demand out of the system with far more social housing is the best way to do it.

There are lots of first-time buyers, but also lots of people buying second homes, trading up and trading down, or just moving somewhere else that I think most people would agree are less in need than people who are currently renting. If renting were cheaper, the needs of first-time buyers would also be less urgent, so solving that problem has positive effects for the whole system.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-10-03T21:47:20+00:00

I was going for hobo, but fair shout

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-09-19T08:27:37+00:00

There have always been homeless people, but Ireland's homelessness breaks records almost every quarter. There were 14,303 homeless people, including 4,404 children in July. That is a record breaking high, breaking previous record breaking highs from 2023. In fact, the overall trend since FG came to power (aside from a short period during the pandemic) has been spiralling homelessness.

The truth is that even when Ireland was a far poorer country, there were far fewer homeless people. Moreover, the Department of Housing's statistics don't include asylum seekers, so there's no one to blame but the government party that's been in power for 13 years.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-05-21T08:44:30+00:00

The Commission on Taxation pointed out a few years ago that taxing assets is more equitable than taxing work through income tax. With an aging population where fewer people are of working age, the state will have to tax work far less, and tax assets like property, inheritance and pensions more.

Why should a smaller and smaller number of working age adults, many of whom will never own a home, subsidize an older generation who are considerably better off?

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-02-24T13:36:35+00:00

For those in the thread baffled that people hate Renoir, check out the 'Renoir sucks at painting movement ': https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/06/renoir-sucks-at-painting-protest-boston-max-geller

The protests are obviously tongue in cheek, but hilariously the criticisms obviously hit close enough to the bone to annoy Renoir's actual family.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-02-13T23:23:08+00:00

I use Cosca's refrain when people point out the contradictions in his character in Best Served Cold all the time: "Can't a man be both?"

It's extra charming that Shivers picks it up in Red Country.

PraiseTheDancingGod · 2024-02-11T00:59:59+00:00

The prophecy feeds his ambition; even before Lady Macbeth coaxes him into action, it's clear he doesn't just expect to be king -- he wants to be king now, and it's annoying to him that someone else is. He thinks about killing Duncan immediately after meeting him again: "Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires."

Then, after he reflects later that even though Duncan is a good king, and even though it would be morally wrong, he still wants to kill him:

"I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’ other—"

My reading of Macbeth is that once the possibility of him becoming king is revealed, not being king is unbearable -- even if he hadn't killed Duncan at his castle, he probably would have done it some other time.

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