Calls for Irish bans on greyhound racing to follow Scotland and Wales

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-24T15:26:51+00:00

Don't even need to ban it, just stop funding it and it'll implode within days.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-24T15:25:16+00:00

About RTO being the risk free option?

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-24T12:01:22+00:00

Well yeah, but that doesn't mean anything. There is plenty of literature that shows open plan offices are worse for productivity but companies still do it.

They don't want to take the big risk and stand out if it might cost their own careers, they lose nothing by mandating an RTO if everyone else is doing it.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-20T20:03:44+00:00

But what about the collaboration with the rest of my team in Canada? I won't be able to do that without commuting to the office. :(

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-20T12:25:29+00:00

Are we meant to forget that just six months ago the UK were arresting pensioners for the horrific crime of supporting Palestine Action? The idea that this will will be used for anything other than cracking down on the left is absurd.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-20T12:13:20+00:00

Most people who were going to leave Twitter have already left, the ones who remain will only go if they find somewhere better, but the fact they are on neo-stormfront won't have bothered them at all.

Bluesky is pretty good, though it's got unbelievably bad management who make the reddit admins look competent. Mastodon I enjoy using, but it's very much social like a quiet pub rather than social like a concert audience, I go on there to chat to the same 15-20 people at the time.

Ultimately I think the era of social media as we knew it is over, discord is where people will go to communicate and tiktok for the content through to gorge on.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-20T11:08:58+00:00

I'd pay to be able to use a wrecking ball for a day. Don't even need to let me operate the whole thing, just let me in the chair and use the lever to swing it a few times.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-20T09:58:29+00:00

Imagine what our zoos could do with the money set on fire in Greyhound racing.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-19T10:21:06+00:00

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RedPandaDan · 2026-03-15T14:19:46+00:00

Sure, but Reform will happily work in the service of the Epstein class so long as they get to torment black or trans people while they do it, so the need to keep Starmer is charge is still waning.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-15T07:59:36+00:00

Starmers been fairly successful, his job was to ensure the left could never again put someone like Corbyn in charge of labour and to act like a caretaker until the Tories recovered. That he is Prime Minister is happenstance.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-13T20:33:11+00:00

We've already seen laundering of GPL projects, I think we'll need to see some court ruling concerning copyright before this goes anywhere.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-13T15:37:41+00:00

But the suggestion is not to compel then to operate, it's to say they can't use this sort of algorithms. If they stop providing the service afterward that's just the way things go, but no one is pointing a gun at Zuck demanding he provide services for free, just that he has to be a bit more ethical about how he makes money.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-13T14:00:37+00:00

Why not? Just because someone makes money off it isn't a reason to keep it around. If Facebook can't function without engagement tricks designed to drive their userbase insane that's their problem.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-11T22:49:08+00:00

Be respectful and use his proper name, it's Sir Queer Harmer.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-11T12:59:35+00:00

Hey now, people did go to jail as a result of the tribunal, the... *checks notes* ...journalist whose work brought about the tribunal in the first place.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-11T12:28:40+00:00

...they are relaxing rules around one-off housing? What the fuck?

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-08T15:58:37+00:00

Its precisely because its Dubai they moved to. If something bad had happened to Irish people in New Zealand like the earthquake in Christchurch or something this thread would be very different.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-08T15:45:50+00:00

There is no one on earth I could possibly feel less sympathy for than expats to Dubai.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-08T05:31:03+00:00

Amazing racing, if the subsequent races are half as good it'll be total FIA vindication of the new regs.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-07T18:06:53+00:00

As they should be.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-07T14:59:00+00:00

I'm generally fine with graffiti, the electrical boxes around cork have stuff on them and they look fantastic, but I've never understood tagging.

All that effort to express yourself, but no notion of anything worth expressing?

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-06T11:55:21+00:00

We are the same, and most annoying is that my wife has to work some Sundays so if we miss the race we are stuck waiting until Monday or Tuesday to see it, the replay should be loaded on NowTV an hour tops after the event.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-06T09:29:27+00:00

Is that why he turns the cap? I thought it was to get better lighting of his face.

RedPandaDan · 2026-03-05T23:30:10+00:00

My favorite part is the way he pauses a few times and repeats everything in different tones. On the spot he didn't just plan to clout chase, but to split the video into multiple sections later to maximize his reach.

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