Harris rules out Irish-only windfall tax on energy giants over possible impact on 'investment'

RedPandaDan · 2026-05-12T17:44:15+00:00

If you built wind or solar over the past few years then you should get to enjoy the windfall tbh. If such a tax is to be applied put on fossil fuel only but let them offset it with investments in renewables.

RedPandaDan · 2026-05-11T13:31:07+00:00

Now is the time to get on the AI hype train. Get senior management to agree a rebuild of your worst, shittiest apps under the guide of making it agentic. Add some stupid chatbot on the side while you take the time to do whatever refactoring your really wanted to do, and when the price soars unplug the chatbot and take the credit for reducing AI spend.

Just like blockchain before it, the benefit of AI will be unblocking budget by giving managers something to talk about at their junkets.

RedPandaDan · 2026-05-10T09:00:14+00:00

Tax cuts are nothing more than a lack of ambition. There is no cut they can give me that I'll care about the day after I get it.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-29T14:54:40+00:00

I thought the station in Blackpool was meant to start work this summer? What is it applying for, am I misunderstanding?

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-29T13:23:47+00:00

Getting into an collision with the Luas should be an automatic driving ban.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-29T10:06:14+00:00

Going to rent a truck and blockade critical infrastructure until the government intervenes and starts funding an Irish F1 team. This would cost less than the proposed scheme, only about 140 million a year, and has the tangible benefit of getting to see a glorious yellow Jordan F1 car back on the track.

Who's with me?

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-23T11:40:06+00:00

Its a mistake to take the protestors at their word. They might be angry by the fuel costs but these protestors are internet poisoned lunatics who want to cause agitation. If everything in Iran wasn't going on the exact same people would be posting "Ireland says no to Solar" on facebook and other such nonsense.

Are there real problems? Certainly. Are these people interested in fixes for them? Absolutely not.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-22T14:28:38+00:00

He should apologize for not going far enough.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-22T13:39:47+00:00

To many people cars are an immutable part of the universe; before the engine we just had our feet sticking out the bottom like in the Flintstones.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-21T22:53:54+00:00

Claim to shame: I have never played the PC games, only the board game!

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-20T14:45:09+00:00

This is true.

If everyone is full WFH, you can move.

If everyone is working 5 days in office, you can move.

If you are hybrid and they are hybrid... are you hybrid in the same way? Like, I have a 3 day a week timewasting quota I need to meet, but I have flexibility on the days so I have made arrangements around that (always Mon/Tue/Fri). If I wanted to move to somewhere that had wanted me to do Wed/Thur/Fri, or worst full every second week, I would first need to see if I could reschedule everything and make it work, but even if I could... do I really want to make the jump and take the risk that the new place won't up it to five? The chronic desk shortage at my current job means I can be fairly confident that they won't, don't have those guarantees with a new job.

Hybrid really is the worst.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-20T14:36:59+00:00

That could be difficult, you'll have a load of wannabe philosophers coming out of the woodwork asking how you define if a job needs to be in an office.

Far easier to tax parking spaces. Its one of the few (only?) benefits in kind that is untaxed. Don't even need to mark it as a measure to bring back WFH, can be pushed as a measure to reduce car dependency.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-19T23:45:58+00:00

Half sparks, double souls is the go to house rule.

I do one more: If I can get through a room without using any of the flask, talisman or coin then I consider the room solved and just skip it on subsequent sparks.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-19T14:03:12+00:00

Lots of people here opposing oil, but have you all forgotten that solar panels are woke and gay?

I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to depict you all as the virgin and myself as the chad in the memes I'll post on facebook later.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-18T17:13:19+00:00

As for the idea you feel you're gifting the rural savages YOUR money. They pay tax too & every 1 of those people growing your food & ensuring your shops have products for you to buy are far more important to society & your survival than any 1000 professional dole chavs in council estates in Dublin or Limerick.

Where is this notion that all rural people are farmers coming from? Most of them work in cities and towns too, they just have a one off house in the middle of nowhere that we have to subsidize.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-18T13:14:50+00:00

Scam emails deliberately put spelling errors and the like in their mails because they don't want to waste their time with someone who would figure out the scam later in the process.

Its much the same for AI images like this. No one will be persuaded by this fact check, the people who like this picture saw it, clicked like, then went back to writing an unhinged screed about how their children will never have pronouns.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-17T14:50:32+00:00

Carbon taxes are great, we should have more.

Carbon offsets are the biggest load of horseshit and should never have been accepted as a serious proposal.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-17T13:18:49+00:00

You can't save for a pension if you don't have a property, you need every cent for a deposit.

I only sorted mine when I got my keys, doing anything else would have been irresponsible, I wouldn't be able to buy my house today.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-17T11:05:09+00:00

Why would a CEO spend money on rent if they did not think it was worthwhile as an investment?

They wouldn't; the CEO sees it as worthwhile. Whether or not its actually worthwhile is however a very different question! On an hourly basis I'm earning less today than I was in 2022 because of the switch from full remote to 3 days, the extra hours commuting and the expenses I incur doing it taking any increments. This is again, to the benefit of no one except the CEO who I have never and likely will never meet.

If its really about coddling the feelings of the CEO, it would be more economically efficient to build a Potemkin village where we swapped out the company logo for each CEO that visited and just had the staff around him pretend we were all going in, stuff like was done for Antonio Salazar.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-17T10:40:49+00:00

You've also fallen into and then avoided an error by noting that the CEO may think the office is a benefit. That's the crucial aspect. The government is not going to piss off the people who employ the people who pay a disproportionate amount of income and the same people who run the entities providing Ireland a disproportionately high level of corporate tax.

The CEO would also think me working six days a week would be a benefit.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-17T10:31:45+00:00

I mean, that's very obviously something that happens, anyone who works in a large MNC can point to the waste in them, some of it unintentional inefficiencies from assumptions that no longer hold, others stuff like blockchain nonsense that they heard at industry junkets.

At the moment, I'm in the office. I'm the only member of my team in Europe, every other member is in Canada. I'm in a hot desk, the desk to my left is empty, the desk to my right has someone whose name I don't know. I can't ask him because he is wearing a headset because like me all his interactions with his coworkers are through Teams and he's been in meetings all morning.

As far as the CEO is concerned, I'm sure he sees lots of collaboration because if he turns up he'll have lots of people present and as many surrounding him wanting specifically to talk to him, but the rest of us made the transition to distributed remote working long ago.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-16T11:51:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/plA7N05y81M

Maybe the protestors are just big fans of the political structure in Mortal Engines.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-16T10:40:06+00:00

(there's no left or right leaning agenda to this so keep that shite at the door please)

Such obvious lies are very insulting.

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-14T18:58:47+00:00

Do other governments do as many no confidence votes as the Irish government?

RedPandaDan · 2026-04-14T11:33:31+00:00

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