Mate I’m English and let me tell you, you have no fecking idea how badly our previous generations have treated the Irish basically from the 12th century up to 1996.

Also feel free to ask the Welsh and Scottish for their takes as well on English suppression of their cultures.

If Ireland wants to invest in it’s cultural capital to expand it’s horizons outside of Whisky, Guinness, St. Patrick, etc. that have been co-opted and stereotyped by the Anglosphere, then good on them!

A good place to start would be checking out Kneecap.

Can’t wait for other new works that Irish artists will create from this investment.

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Poland: First time?

As a Brit:

Hahaha hahahaha…

Oh wait, you’re serious?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A classic

Send in the Swedish Peacekeepers. Highly trained, highly disciplined, are trusted enough by senior command to make engagement calls themselves due to the decentralised command structure in their military.

Every effective peacekeepers that will shoot at anyone who targets them or another group.

Reminds me of this gem.

What about Naughtimus Maximus?

So what is is then? A half-coherent thought slowly working its way from the back of your brain to the front that got beaten by your keyboard fingers?

They are banned for the same reason the use of cluster munitions are frowned upon. The problem of being left behind after deployed during war time as they continue to cause horrific civilian casualties which is a huge a big problem for a country trying to recover from war. Particularly if they were deployed inside a country to defend what was then the front line or a fortified location like the outskirts of a town or village.

However if you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having an aggressive neighbouring country where you share a large land border who has broken peace treaty promises repeatedly and is repeatedly making threats about invading, then putting landmines along your border is a VERY effective way to deter and slow down an invasion.

I wish that we weren’t in a situation where countries felt it necessary to deploy landmines for border defense but here we are.

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we’re still not remotely close of a universal wealth tax

No, but this is a step towards it.

It’s unlikely it will happen someday, especially in the current political context.

My brother in Christ, YOU and EVERYONE around you has the power to shift the political context.

And that doesn’t mean shifting it overnight. It will take actual effort from you, not just whinging online to other apathetic souls having an “all is lost” collective wank.

You’ll have to speak with friends, family, coworkers, random strangers at the bar, and anyone and everyone who’ll engage with you about wealth inequality and taxing wealth not work. That’s the bare minimum.

Next is organising in your community or at least going to meetings and marches.

Finally you have to more actively engage with political people as an activist.

I’ll be the first to admit that I only do the first one, but it sounds like you’re not even doing that.

So either start doing that with me and everyone else here, or sit down, shut up, and go back to sucking your thumb and crying in your corner of the internet.

As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get “Mach Yeet” adopted as an IEC standard technical term.

All of that perfectly marbled meat 🍖

I think this is more a comment on the particular strain of misogyny that pervades Japanese society and not being surprised that a country which has women only metro carriages out of necessity to prevent sexual harassment is also having a problem with AI generated deep fakes. Though the latter is also a problem in many other countries which have access to these image models.

Has someone not made this a thing for the terminal?

Please, he’s Pound-Stretcher Trump. Not even Poundland would stock him.

100% they’re literally diarrhoea-shitting policies up the wall and seeing which fecal stains the courts and the economy miss or don’t care about.

But can we just do it with the sticks and stones we were promised?

As an engineer: 1000% agree.

Seriously, why do I have to pay a value somewhere close to £1000 for a set of FUCKING PDFs?!?

This is ridiculous. Make money from audits, certifications, training, and conferences. You can still make absolute stacks from those. Why the fuck do I or my company need to shell out thousands just so we know what to certify against to be able to sell stuff?!

It’s a fucking racquet and they know it. But it’s either one of 3 options:

• Find someone who’s willing to send you the PDF or log in credentials for a library service that has access to these standards.

• Take the risk downloading PDFs from dodgy sites you found on the 5th page of duckduckgo.

• Bend over and spread open your wallet. Because good luck getting anything delivered to a customer without it.