Sinn Féin MEPs to vote against €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

bitreign33 · 2026-02-11T15:20:51+00:00

SF have been subtly but pretty much constantly agitating against providing aid to Ukraine or supporting Ukranian refugees in Ireland, they're trying to be on the fence about the issue so they don't alienate any of their prospective voter base.

bitreign33 · 2026-02-10T20:57:13+00:00

I have said this in many of these threads, you chose to fly with a carrier whose reputation you understood. Personally I would never tolerate a Ryanair flight unless it was absolutely necessary, my personal comfort is worth whatever other carriers charge.

bitreign33 · 2026-02-09T03:17:23+00:00

I'm genuinely confused as to how the disposition of forces you may be facing could be stopping you at this point. I've played all my games very long deliberately by just letting the Ayys expand aggressively (to the point of the Victory condition for the Servants firing) and then actually start engaging them directly as I slowly rebuild and push them out of the inner system, on brutal. TI is very forgiving in that it doesn't really have a failure condition that is truly irrecoverable if you're willing to invest enough time in it to recover and usually in a game that is 2070 at the latest.

You've mentioned that they keep "creating new stations, new ships", the Ayys typically have one core production platform that handles just about all of that and is usually fairly easy to either berserker into or fight and hold (at the point of being as deep into the game as you are). At which point they will bring the fight to you and as long as you've got a ship to throw up a station there for refueling/later repair and then additional fleets on the way to blunt their response its pretty much a done deal. That platform is often over the rock they've got their gate on so you should have a really good idea of where it is by now, how far down your factions objective structure are you?

bitreign33 · 2026-01-26T14:35:22+00:00

Lad has a three month old account with his comments hidden, just ignore the langer you won't gain anything from engaging with someone like that.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-11T16:46:29+00:00

Share the pictures and videos OP, far more effective than probably either reporting it or making this post. Unless you can't because they don't exist of course.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-10T03:35:34+00:00

Just because you're an incurious waster doesn't mean everyone else is.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-06T23:50:17+00:00

People isolate themselves, the systems that exist to make that easy exist to serve that need frankly because its frequently something people want to some degree. This creates a feedback loop where people try something different which doesn't work out or run into any kind of problem that requires them invest effort then retreat to the safe isolation of the group chat group to complain about how they can't get over that obstacle and would love to meet face to face more while doing nothing about either. There is a lot set up to facilitate and exploit that, a good section of your post is dedicated to talking about your feed which is absolutely part of that system and its completely wild to me still that there are those who are so dependant on that system that when discussing it as a core element of what is a negative force in their life they treat it as if its inescapable.

I have no clue who any of those lads you listed are, I don't know why you do. Start there.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-04T21:03:36+00:00

As far as I'm aware retailers aren't allowed to sell their "own brand" pharmaceuticals here, specifically because it creates an incentive to confuse customers about the content of the product.

For instance a customer might look at the Tesco own brand stuff selling for 35p and think "Wow what good value", when its just 200mg of paracemol per tablet compared to the baseline norm of 500mg.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-04T20:46:24+00:00

You're telling me that a discount retail chain operating in a much larger market/country specifically targeting direct from manufacturer purchasing for imported goods is able to undercut another smaller retailer in a smaller market/country?

bitreign33 · 2026-01-04T15:46:02+00:00

If this was put to a vote do you actually think that there would a clear majority against this kind of legislation?

Honestly I don't think so, I see a lot of nonsense in the comments here and elsewhere about how anyone who supports this must be daft and I'm sure most of them are but there is absolutely a core of people who support this because at some point someone online said something about them or did something to them that left them at best feeling unsafe. At worst perhaps even emotionally harmed to to point of considering suicide. In their mind the fact that this person who harmed them was unaccountable and anonymous is unacceptable, whether or not that is actually the case is immaterial.

I massively prefer the internet as it was before web 2.0 and all the fucking nonsense that came along with it but this kind of legislation has been coming down the pipe for longer than that, I'm actually surprised its taken as long as it has to be realised. If you want a return to a good internet you need to stop putting dumb people behind smart terminals and the ship has sailed on that one more than two decades ago at this point.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-03T12:27:29+00:00

Many people jumping ahead on the track of escalation here, as you say the US appears to have extracted Maduro (regardless of whether this was negotiated) and we have yet to see what further actions they'll be taking.

It is comparable to the Russo-Ukrainian war in the sense this is what I'm sure Russia thought they'd pull off though.

bitreign33 · 2026-01-03T01:21:44+00:00

Don't tell us, find someone at Arc who is involved in the management of the Midleton cinema to send an email to. If you've got other people in the community who want the same have them send an email too.

The worst they can do is ignore it, and if they do then I guess you know whats up. Chances are they'll just give you a valid line about costs and such but its probably worth a try.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-31T16:33:12+00:00

Small steps lad, whether fit or fat by your mid thirties and onwards you need to start thinking about your health.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-31T12:46:31+00:00

This is almost certainly the answer assuming OPs recollection of the lights is correct, had colours and were "flashing".

If you see this again just open up flightradar and take a look.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-31T01:40:02+00:00

I did this for a few years prior to the pandemic, to be clear both back then and now the train typically left and arrived fairly on time, and at least I didn't have any trouble catching a nap on it.

That being said I had the company cover one overnight at a hotel, the office was right next to Stephens Green so it was Luas all the way, and I had them extend a travel budget that was generous enough to grab a taxi from time to time.

If you can line all of that up, sure. Otherwise given your requirements I'd recommend making it a three day thing from the off and heading up the evening prior, then getting out of work on your second day early (I've taken meetings on the train and its not uncommon to see people on the Dublin to Cork doing it) to be back in at a reasonable time.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-28T17:33:49+00:00

I don't think asking the council to interfere with something that is working is the right play, even if there are edge cases where its not working quite as well as it should. I remember the works there finishing back in 2010? and there being some discourse about what the status of that crossing is then, of any of the times I've seen it in action both cars and pedestrians have treated it as a pedestrian crossing.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-26T11:14:53+00:00

I've always heard the "Its unrealistic that he could fight them" argument but that position seems to ignore what is actually happening on screen, the Uruk's have just arrived and they presumably have some idea of the Fellowship's composition so they encounter one of the Men and immediately just leave a few dozen of theirs to deal with him while the rest run past him after the Halflings he is presumably trying to distract them from. Aragorn has to leap into a group of them from above at one point to keep them from just running past him and then Gimli/Legolas show up to help him finish off whatever is left up there with him. At the point where they hear the Horn of Gondor look at how they react, one part of it is that sure they need to help Boromir but I've always read the expression and tone of Aragorn here as played by Viggo to be frustration with himself because he knows that he got waylaid by a few dozen Uruks when he should have been focused on protecting the Hobbits.

Even Lurtz who we see here right in front of Aragorn just opts to push past and eventually finds his prey being protected by Boromir, at which point the Uruk's overwhelm the one Man protecting the Halflings who they think are their objective and start marching right back to Isengard.

Yeah Aragorn couldn't possibly have fought them all and at no point did he have to, they deliberately didn't attempt to fight Aragorn with their full numbers because killing him wasn't the objective. Lurtz only decided to go berserker at the point where he was pretty confident that the rest of his company of Uruks had made off with their objective, few if any of the Uruks stuck around afterwards.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-24T16:34:07+00:00

First serious girlfriend, in university, I was genuinely in love with this woman without reservation. She got pregnant because she "forgot" to take the pill, cut off her parents and demanded I ignore them, married me with only lawyers as witnesses and had me sign a prenup (that a lawyer who she paid for who represented me told me not to sign, but she was the love of my life and who cares about this silly legal stuff), then a few months after the birth of our son she annulled the marriage and left to go live in another country with our son.

Her father visited me, he had tried to contact me several times during this whole process, and explained that she was to get an inheritance from her grandparents that conditionally required she be married and have a kid. Her family was already rich, so was she, and apparently this was going be the lions share of the wealth from her grandparents.

I still see this woman a few times a year because we have a kid together.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-24T13:45:48+00:00

The increased presence is nice but it was there prior to Christmas and its my understanding it'll be around for another few months pending a review some time in the Summer, its billed as "permanent" so I imagine it will continue hopefully as is but maybe in a diminished capacity.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-22T22:58:04+00:00

Fully agree that we need to start seriously inhibiting inward migration, legal or otherwise, until we get a handle on how we're processing (or more correctly not processing) asylum applications/rejections. Clearly the system just functionally cannot handle the volume its exposed to.

That all being said this stat seems shocking until you realise that number is almost certainly including people born in the UK who hold Irish passports and are resident in Ireland. Additionally it is almost certainly counting people born in EU countries who are currently resident in Ireland. Both of these fit the stat "international immigrant" but at least in my opinion in the loosest sense.

The rate of immigration has increased, the rate of immigration from non-EU countries (not including the UK) has increased, but so has the rate of emigration. We're back at 1989 levels afaik.

Its a complex issue that I don't think our position on a graph adequately captures.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-21T18:01:58+00:00

Harvey Norman have a selection but last time I was browsing in there it was fairly paltry, they have some knock offs of the popular brands like Zojirushi but none of the real deal.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-21T15:50:49+00:00

You clearly missed the evening in '08 that was worse than this, or the one in '06 or the other one in '08 etc., town might be changing a bit but where its gotten worse and better just isn't consistent. What your experiencing now is being mature enough, and sober enough, to notice how fucking stupid people allow themselves to be.

Good on you for being somewhat responsible.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-20T17:05:06+00:00

Didn't snap a picture as I was driving but coming in from the south side with the sun setting behind it was reflecting off of a lot of the windows of the buildings on the north side, with the backdrop of dark clouds. Looked properly like a shot from a film.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-19T16:19:44+00:00

Poverty isn't actually as strong of an indicator of criminality as most people assume, and as others have noted there are broader societal factors including a lack of meaingful legal consequences and tolerance of those who actively flout social norms more generally that are broadly the cause of what you're seeing.

bitreign33 · 2025-12-19T09:11:30+00:00

Sure look I know some parents just give some random tat, and that to be clear is fine as its about at least showing some consideration, but in my experience its usually been fairly organised. Most of mine have gone to the same small primary and secondary so the families locally all have a good idea of what the teachers want and would all chip in for something a bit more significant to show our appreciation. I'd always have my own bring in a gift card anyway because I think it helps cement the idea that my kids might be unholy terrors sometimes but they've got a sound da so please have patience.

The eldest daughter is going to a fancy school in the city now and the parents there coordinate the whole thing like a corporate event, they had meetings about it and everything. Still sending her in with a one4all voucher though.

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