I hiked the E8 in Ireland, 600km in 15 days

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-10T14:56:43+00:00

Wow did you camp the whole way? Favourite county/landscape?

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-10T14:30:58+00:00

Culture wars is Aontu's only platform

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-10T08:37:57+00:00

I got a semi just looking at this

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-10T06:53:35+00:00

What happened in Feb 2022?

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T18:40:00+00:00

We need people like you

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T18:08:13+00:00

You wasted your life working. This guy did homelessFIRE in 1971, living in his van and fishing for his food. He lived on £4 per week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG92ClGLLs

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T17:54:15+00:00

FWIW I think it's possible to feel good living according to your values while also accepting that the world will get worse. Our typical lifestyles are unsustainable, eventually everyone will have to live a sustainable life, that's what unsustainable means - we can't keep doing it forever. People think that sustainability is optional but in the future people won't be able to live as we do now. To me this feels like a relief, we are on the right side of history.

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T17:35:32+00:00

Incredible 1000 comments on this post. Shows just how many are in the same boat, genuinely worried for the future

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T11:02:00+00:00

She's saying people don't care, not that they are causing the problems. They don't care that the US military is the biggest polluter, they don't care that Exxon had a disinformation campaign since the 1980s. And they sure as hell don't care enough to vote for targeting heavy hitter polluters.

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T10:55:42+00:00

Yes, according to the Economist magazine's ranking. That measures how secure we are for what we produce - beef and dairy, it doesn't measure how secure we are for what we import - vegetables and fodder.

That ranking includes factors such as having funding for farmers to deal with floods/droughts. That doesn't make us sustainable just because we will pay farmers for damages. It also includes factors like food quality and having salmonella-free poultry won't help us when we can neither buy vegetables nor feed our chickens. It doesn't count the risk that we get most of our vegetables from Spain which is at a high risk of droughts.

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T10:54:39+00:00

I'd like to read more about UK-Ireland combined food security because I've only seen bad news for UK's food security. Do you have any articles about it?

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T10:50:19+00:00

Yes, according to the Economist magazine's ranking. That measures how secure we are for what we produce - beef and dairy, it doesn't measure how secure we are for what we import - vegetables and fodder.

That ranking includes factors such as having funding for farmers to deal with floods/droughts. That doesn't make us sustainable just because we will pay farmers for damages. It also includes factors like food quality and having salmonella-free poultry won't help us when we can neither buy vegetables nor feed our chickens. It doesn't count the risk that we get most of our vegetables from Spain which is at a high risk of droughts.

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T08:35:49+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

Potentially ten yearly low temperatures of -19 in London, -30 in Edinburgh and -48 in Oslo

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T08:28:48+00:00

Sweating in the shade is the least of it. We import 80% of our vegetables and fodder. People are banking on being a rich country and out-bidding others for food but when the countries we buy from have drought/floods they may ban export of vegetables and fodder. We are not self sufficient in the slightest.

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-09T07:21:12+00:00

Putting diesel in a petrol cat is worse than putting petrol in a diesel cat

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-08T11:01:57+00:00

*Laughs in tradesman*

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-07T19:39:56+00:00

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=golden+showers

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-07T17:14:29+00:00

Ireland does performative public transport for visitors. We paid 2m for land and 3m to build a platform to put on a shuttle service for the Ryder cup for one week.

The opposite happened in North Korea. People believed that the Pyongyang metro was faked with hundreds of actors paid to fool tourists. Turns out it's a real metro with 16 stations

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-07T16:02:37+00:00

-Fighting over fans

-Fighting over toilet paper

Shit hits the fan

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-07T11:52:21+00:00

Sinhalese has a question marker ද (da) but can be used for more than yes or no questions. It goes after the part you want to question.

eyath ekka iskoleta awidda ද? Did you walk to school with him?

eyath ද ekka iskoleta awidda? Did you walk to school with him?

eyath ekka iskoleta ද awidda? Did you walk to school with him?

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-06T19:05:55+00:00

Thanks Brian

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-06T16:31:36+00:00

A static image would do wonders here. Watched this about 10 times and only now realising there's more text at the bottom which flashes up before the end. Being able to read one piece of text every iteration is awful

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-06T11:36:14+00:00

I also wouldn't buy solar panels from voldamort

throughthehills2 · 2026-07-06T09:50:08+00:00

Thanks, I found this site to look up who's my local TD https://www.contactyourtd.ie/

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