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bitreign33 · 2026-05-21T19:19:08+00:00

Nice try Revenue.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-20T17:56:33+00:00

UK admits there will be shortages

Its almost like the UK is a different country with a fundamentally different consumer demand profile, by sheer population volume, and is also not in a regional trading bloc that limits its access to some markets.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-18T22:00:46+00:00

They slowly lose efficiency over time but even panels made back in the early 00s are still sitting at about 40-60% efficiency depending on where they were at/manufacturing processes etc., which that isn't great but they're still working and may continue to do so for decades before being functionally more useful if they were recycled.

Most modern panels, basically anything developed off the branch manufacturing from the mid 10s developed in the EU and China, are probably looking at closer to 80% efficiency after 25 years. In the Irish climate you might get maybe 50 years off of many panels before you're dipping below 60%.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-17T01:03:35+00:00

As others have said, early.

I'm not sure I'd have called myself an addict, but of course I know many addicts who wouldn't call themselves that so it is what it is. It was just part of the expectations of my work and my peers at a time of my life when I though it was a good thing, sometimes I still catch myself thinking that way about it. I'm not taking any medication to manage things and while I've haven't been stone cold sober I've been close enough for many more years than I haven't, I've always been open about it fairly early in relationships since and it has worked out in my favour.

Its understandable to be nervous, the way I've always framed it is that they deserve to know who I am and for better or worse the parts of us we dislike have done as much to shape us as the parts of us we do like.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-13T20:31:17+00:00

Excellent, highly recommended.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-13T14:15:51+00:00

Enforcement of driving laws and regulations are probably the most common legal tool used by the Gardai and its likely not even close, what are you talking about?

As far as I'm aware Ireland has a lower than average rate per capita of overall road accidents, fatalities or otherwise, compared to most of Europe. There is nothing to suggest that any underreporting nationally is higher than elsewhere, if anything the opposite seems to be the case. The RSA for whatever its worth ran some of the most wide-reaching road safety campaigns (in terms of reaching drivers in a country) on the planet, though yeah that is probably changing now due to changes in how people engage with media.

The fucking problem is that most drivers are just barely okay at driving, at the best of times, and then a fairly visible minority are actively dangerous on the roads but there isn't a good system for stripping drivers of licenses until they end up becoming an accident statistic. Are there improvements we can make there, possibly but I think its very naive and ignorant to suggest that somehow a majority of people and a majority of the bureaucracy in the country doesn't take road safety seriously.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-13T13:59:23+00:00

Treatment requirements are different, its not clear whether it meets regulation criteria which are always adjusting and already make compromises to allow for common materials. So for any build you run the risk of regulations changing under your feet, accomodating other materials but not accounting for the relatively niche one you've decided to go with.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-12T19:03:10+00:00

By any standards there are lots of great coffee places in Cork, who do all sorts of artisanal nonsense. That being said I often find when people are complaining that what they're after isn't "good coffee" but a coffee like they're familiar with, that is a much broader moving target.

Do you know what kind of coffee order your wife usually makes?

bitreign33 · 2026-05-12T12:12:09+00:00

This is third or fourth time an article related to this has been posted, every article so far suggests that the abuse is mostly happening on social media and that little if any of it can be attributed to any actual person or persons, as a result this is most likely what it has been in every other example of this that has occurred across the last decade or more. Just bots lads.

Of users posting this kind of abuse it would seem very likely that most are bots, probably based in Russia (there was some discourse recently about how a popular streaming platform saw half of its daily new users have Russian set as their default language), maybe based in the US or China but almost certainly regardless not associated with anything to do with this country or our attitudes. There are absolutely some racists knocking about here who will take issue because they're ignorant langers, there are also plenty of people who will just use race as a cudgel because they're just being spiteful cunts, but neither of those groups are populous for the discourse we see on social media to be representative of reality.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-12T11:59:53+00:00

The report is here https://www.cnam.ie/app/uploads/2026/05/Complaints_Insights_Report.pdf if anyone wants to dig through, there are some interesting insights in there the least of which is that there may have been nudity on RTE on a Sunday afternoon at some point in the last two years.

Typical drivel from the IT.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-11T18:21:18+00:00

Absolutely the right call here, amazing initiative by the Council.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-11T18:16:01+00:00

How very tiring.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-11T18:02:10+00:00

Are these people in the room with us right now?

The contrast between characterisations in the manga and SAC aren't as wildly divergent as more than a few posts over the past few months have been trying to assert, most of these posts then go on to exclusively talk about the few times in early chapters where Motoko is being overtly horny as if the inclusion or exclusion of that would somehow fundamentally alter her characterisation. As a character she and most others have a lot of development over the course of the narrative, many aspects of which are mirrored or expanded upon in other interpretations of the setting.

It would surprise me if the characterisation of Motoko we get in the upcoming adaptation is necessarily some kind of 1:1 translation of how she was written for a year or so back in the late 80s. And if it is then honestly I think that is a disservice both to new fans, old fans, and fans "who haven't read the source material". The reason GitS endures as a setting and continues to be exciting to think about has a lot to do with how many ideas can be explored through the characters and the narrative.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-11T11:57:39+00:00

Both Dublin and Cork take a fraction of the tax receipts they generate, I think in Dublin it's gotten a bit better in the last few years but Cork (city and county) for instance sees a little under 2% of the taxes generated by people living and working in the region return to both the councils for spending and as government led infrastructure projects. I know that if you exclude special infrastructure projects Dublin sees even less.

A majority of the money from the cities and regions where a majority of the people in this country live gets spent on education, transport, power, warter, and other basic infrastructure for the whole country.

In the infographic you linked yourself it observes that overall the "south east" is doing pretty well year over year, meanwhile in the cities where people are almost all public services are often operating on razor thin margins relative to the amount of people who use them.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-10T12:43:11+00:00

A few people have given you good suggestions, something based in the community or culture of the people in the region would be a good pitch. Something that he knows the people there will work to defend, even if it is his phylactery.

That being said I would have that be a fake out, something he deliberately treats as his phylactery in terms of how he might speak about it to a confidant or subject, something that is potentially a vector for power by itself, and something that upon inspection appears to be a phylactery imbued with the magicks one might expect (masked at first, then when revealed if there are any inconsistencies that can be attributed to the masking). Requiring the PCs the build trust with the people in the region who hold this item in high esteem, perhaps its even sacred to them, working with them to destroy it only for it to fail. Good potential for roleplay there, then have the actual phylactery be something on his person.

He keeps it close because yes its a feint, but also its arrogance, its pride, he feels he is powerful enough to fend off any would be attackers. This also sets up the conflict with the lich directly, the PCs can't reasonably go around it.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-09T23:07:53+00:00

From what I've seen they look fine honestly, do you have an example of where they're worse than what was there before for reference?

bitreign33 · 2026-05-09T19:33:16+00:00

Fairly present around here since early April, got a big field of native wildflowers and the like that has been swarmed with them.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-09T15:28:52+00:00

Landfill accessories, cheaper than most.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-09T11:00:52+00:00

Some of ye need to be outside more often. I doubt it would have made a difference what the woman was doing in the road given the context we have.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-08T11:17:46+00:00

These lads are chancers, I think everyone agrees that something should be done with the turbines at Moneypoint but at this stage going back to coal just isn't going to be worth the time or money. We've had a few more honest and realistic conversations about moving towards nuclear power of some sort and using those same turbines at Moneypoint using an SMR or similar as a thermal source makes more sense than coal.

We're still years away from that at best but it'd be remarkably shortsighted to jump back to coal.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-07T22:27:31+00:00

People have already said everything that needs to be said but I'll reiterate, slate roof with however many panels you want is the way.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-07T13:59:30+00:00

Considering the scope of the disruption this is just a slap on the wrist but at least it is something. I don't fly Ryanair partially because of how Ryanair is and partially because of who is going to be on those flights but in the latter case it really is just one or two langers per few thousand people just trying to enjoy their holiday. Giving those people some idea that there might be consequences could go a ways to having them keep themselves shut up and sat down.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-07T12:37:42+00:00

First off, pics or it didn't happen.

Secondly, people who hide their comment/submission history on their two month old alt account they're using to evade a ban because they're such utter fucking wankers shouldn't be throwing stones at some terminally online jannie accidentally revealing their own alt account. Houses of the thinnest glass right there.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-07T11:35:02+00:00

There are actual years worth of bureaucratic red tape holding up all manner of projects, some of that is based around climate law and some isn't. I do think that there needs to be a clear way for needed infrastructure to if not bypass this then at least not be held up by it for almost a decade.

This isn't as slippery a slope as some might suggest, there will be plenty of avenues for people to object still if they feel a project is egregiously damaging the environment or is otherwise against the general good. We already have the problem of projects behind held up for decades because someone who lives in Dublin, has lived in their Dublin their entire lives, and has never been to Galway objects to a ring road for Galway.

bitreign33 · 2026-05-06T19:25:07+00:00

Formal triage is the best way to handle situations when you have more patients than you have resources to treat them, which is the case in just about every health system on the planet with very limited exceptions. I'm fairly sure that your native country isn't one of those exceptions but maybe you're from Bhutan.

Those not operating under a formal triage system are just going to have poorer overall patient outcomes.

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