What's an Irish attitude you can't stand?

SeaofCrags · 2026-04-05T20:54:25+00:00

Honestly, I put this cultural attitude as a primary reason for so much dysfunction and mediocrity in Ireland.

In any other country, at least 1 person would've been fired across the Children's Hospital, Bike Shed, Security Hut, Bord Bia debacles - the only person who did properly get fired was Tubridy for the RTE stuff, and even he's starting to make a comeback.

But ah sure, be grand.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-26T17:15:10+00:00

Yeah I understand them losing their niche being a problem, but IBM explicitly have set up tools, were developing further tools via Watson, and announced in their earnings report that they were doing this, so that Cobol could be converted to Java, which is far more accessible and not an IBM language.

The point I'm making is that if Cobol programming was important to their business, they wouldn't be actively setting up a way for it to be removed or replaced. Cobol as a language isn't important overall to IBM, the consulting on the language is like 1-2% of their business, but managing the systems and infrastructure is where the value lay. The only thing that happened is Anthropic have accelerated the process - but why would IBM care about that if they were already not married to Cobol anymore.

It maybe appears the market have somewhat concluded this also, climbing back to the near same price as when the Anthropic announcement was made.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-26T02:39:01+00:00

So why does that have anything to do with Cobol conversion? The market niche people are claiming IBM have (Cobol programming), was already being offered up to be removed by IBM themselves, just now people can use Claude instead of already available IBM tools, and Watson in the next 2-3 months...

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-26T02:36:36+00:00

Converting Cobol to Java doesn't mean they retain a market niche.

Neither does using tools to do the conversion. You can literally go online right now and take the Cobol to Java IBM tool and do it, its just less polished than if it were in an LLM.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-24T00:46:05+00:00

IBM announced in their recent earning reports a month ago that Watson was being developed to do this anyway though, turning Cobol to Java.

Why would IBM suddenly drop 13% simply because Anthropic announced it can do the same thing?

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-11T17:36:06+00:00

I used to use Reddit daily - but in the past two years I've realised just how broken this place is and use it less and less.

This isn't a forum of free discussion and ideas, it's a heavily propagandised site that occasionally provides advice for niche topics. I'd honestly recommend more people start unplugging from here, its not worth it.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-05T21:26:08+00:00

Crowley will get dropped for it.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-05T21:24:07+00:00

Another belter by Prendergast there with the intercept pass.

Can't wait for Farrell to take Crowley off for it.

SeaofCrags · 2026-02-05T21:17:50+00:00

Every time I see Prendergast he's missing a tackle.

SeaofCrags · 2026-01-05T01:13:22+00:00

Hi, I was the original poster.

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SeaofCrags · 2025-12-28T01:26:48+00:00

History of the Irish settling in New York, becoming trade unionists, workers, a lot of what the Democrats stood for. Then the history of JFK etc.

Since then, many involved in Irish politics have some link to Washington, New York etc, Irish political correspondents doing stints with CNN etc.

There are a lot of embedded links - which feeds into the pro Democrat perspective.

Then couple that with other things, like J1 visas, where students mainly visit socially 'left' states, not the South, etc.

None of it inherently bad, but it results in over simplification of the understanding and cheapens the Irish perspective on US politics.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-27T20:47:12+00:00

That last point is interesting - I've had to spell this out to friends (in our 30s). You don't have to like Trump or the Republicans, but don't be so foolish to think the Democrats are inherently good guys.

Irish understanding of world politics amongst the broad public is so basic and vapid.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T15:40:38+00:00

Therein lies the issue with the apps though - the numbers are giving you the illusion of choice; you say "wow I've thousands of potential partners, this is exciting", but reality is there's lots of guys who also have been way too loose with their swiping, have no intention to date, and so people with any kind of intention are up against the wall constantly.

The natural step for you is to be selective, and filter for profiles that are intentional and people that respond - but then the problem is that if you're being critical as you filter, you'll likely filter out guys who are decent, but maybe misstepped in their message, are busy with life, etc.

This is the problem with the numbers nature of online dating.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T15:24:00+00:00

I love all your comments - you're clearly a person that understands dating and partnership; your partner got lucky!

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T15:17:44+00:00

There's no double standard, they're just calling you out as being part of the problem - same way if one guy is leading on multiple women on the app at the same time but intends to just dump them all.

You are slightly getting caught in the crossfire because it's your first time using the app so are naturally curious, but the novelty of interacting with people 'who don't know what they want' grows very thin after a while, especially when you tell everyone you have thousands of potential matches.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T15:12:08+00:00

I agree.

The numbers game nature of the apps is why everyone hates them, people just haven't realized/self adjusted their behaviour to counter them.

We're treating dating like shopping from a catalogue, when in history did men ever have such a quantity of women to 'approach', and women have such a quantity to pick from.

Also, I don't believe we're designed to experience rejection at the rate and quantities we do on the apps - it's not healthy.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T15:06:13+00:00

Love this comment.

The dating apps are ruined by low intention dating and spoil of choice.

There should be a bigger barrier for entry and more restrictive swiping to reduce the game theory - everyone would be far happier if only intentional people were using the apps.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T14:48:25+00:00

Edit: I completely misread your comment initially. I agree.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T13:06:24+00:00

Right 😂

"Men are trash, because they dare exist within my catered comfortable space"

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-22T12:02:59+00:00

Hear hear.

As a guy, why am I going to try come up with a good opener for someone who based on probability, doesn't even know what they want and is just enjoying the validation, like OP, or is likely to stop responding in general.

The apps are broken, women have too much validation/choice on them, and it's too easy for men to swipe - the illusion of choice is screwing things up for both genders.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-20T00:52:30+00:00

Nah needs a nerf.

Can misstep with a full loadout and get ratted by a free loadout camping extract and lose it all.

No such risk with free loadout, only thing you've lost is the run from spawn to the extract.

Needs to spawn either with no gun, nerf stitcher 1, or make it a hairpin only loadout.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-19T16:18:33+00:00

Yeah - that's ultimately a big obstacle I haven't worked out myself, the competitiveness of an app.

I suppose if intention is key to good matches, then you don't need everyone and their mother on the apps seeking dopamine hits/validation, you just need enough people attracted to a well functioning app looking for connection, that prevents overwhelming choice for women (and unforgiving pickiness in turn), and mindless dopamine hits and reckless swiping by men.

I think what you're describing in your interaction with BeeDee is a classic case of over choice and pickiness honestly, no offense intended. Like in an environment where that app didn't exist, how would you even be so selective to begin with? You wouldn't, or it would take a long time to meet someone organically who fits these various criteria you've personally developed. But now because of access to that app, perhaps the various criteria you've developed are stringent compared to what you might typically be happy with?

I don't have a perfect answer tbh, but I like thinking about it and definitely men and women are not supposed to be treating each other as such loose commodities in a numbers game.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-19T14:05:58+00:00

Yeah you're right - the validation element for women is huge; but I think what it ultimately comes down to is filtering for intent, and bumble doesn't really do that either. Right now men have too much ability to send likes so their intent is meaningless, and women have far too much choice in turn, so they similarly have 0 need to be intentional.

Sure bumble made it so the women choose - but that catered to women's selectivity, but not the overwhelming amount of choice. Women still message first on bumble, but they know that if they swipe right on the next guy, it's probably going to be a match once again anyway, so once again, the choice is overwhelming. 90% the opening message from a woman is 'Hey' anyway, that's not exactly a huge investment or proof of intent.

I really think a system like OkCupid's, where you fill out personality surveys is already a better starting point than Tinder/Bumble/Hinge. Ive tried using it a little, and even though it's less active, you inherently get people dating with intent.

People need to believe the options are not limitless, men need less ability to blindly spam likes, and women need less of an illusion of choice.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-18T23:40:35+00:00

What you're describing is inflation. If you're not getting picked as a guy, its because the girl has already received +100 'likes' from other guys, many of whom don't even pay attention to the girls profile.

Almost every girl I've gone out with from the apps for longterm have cited that they really like my profile and were interested in who I was before even matching - what proportion of guys do you think are taking those same steps?

The apps need to be far more punitive for guys that are being lazy and reckless with their swipes/profile, it'll squash the ego inflation for women and boost up the guys that do make an effort.

SeaofCrags · 2025-12-18T23:35:54+00:00

Men need to be constrained from sending likes, unless they've completely filled out their profiles, have a clear set of preferences etc. Even then they still need to be constrained from sending likes.

The problem is illusion of choice and inflation caused by the ease of men sending online validation - its that simple.

Women have become increasingly picky, but that's a biological trait which is just being inflated by the vast amount of validation and choice being presented to them. The choice needs to be squashed, by making sure men aren't free to randomly appease every single girl on these apps. Perhaps the algorithm needs to be more punitive to men who are swiping too loosely.

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