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• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  Exactly. A couple of examples....
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  What I find surprising both from the Russians and commentators here is the utter lack of surprise in the Russian invasion and lack of comment here CNN have been reporting on troops massing near the Ukraine border since almost exactly...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  As for the Ukranian tanks and their lack of operational visibility in Western press reports, I figure the Ukranians are well aware that a few hundred modern tanks pushed forward are going to engage with Russian attack helicopters and Russia's...
• Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
  I give you the Vespa 150 TAP anti-tank scooter....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The only online citations I can find for the Angry Brigade being responsible are in the metadata of a photo on Scran.ac.uk and Stuart Christie's memoir - and given no less an authority than Her Majesty's Judiciary said he wasn't...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The reason that neither PIRA nor UVF carried out any other attacks in Scotland, is that it contained a lot of support and infrastructure That's partly why I asked; the IRA is not known to have carried out any attacks...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Why are [..] TickTock starting to rise despite the fact that they have no new technologies compared to their established peers? Because TikTok's established peer - precursor, really - was acquired and shut down by Twitter about a year prior...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  PIRA bombed in in the early 1970s, trying to kill the lone piper at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo I thought who was responsible for that one was unknown? PIRA had a longstanding objection to attacks in Scotland, so if it...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Thanks for that; I missed it on first read-through....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The potato famine period that started in the mid-1840s covered most of Europe, it wasn't just a case of "the Redcoats a'stealin' all of our potatoes oh" but the Oirish do like to blame someone other than themselves for all...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  cooked first in the skillet (same word?) Frying pan, at least in my dialect....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Paws4thot's point is that right-Pondian English doesn't differentiate between parts of the plant; see Tesco's opinion on what 'coriander' means....
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Irish_state https://www.her.ie/news/maternity-expert-says-every-pregnancy-is-affected-by-the-8th-amendment-404854 Google has far more patience than I, Greg, and there's reams of stuff about abortion and the 8th - it's almost like it had to be explained to a whole country, or something....
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  Actually your reply strongly suggests that neither of us actually know/knew what the then law in S Ireland actually said or was interpreted, or how a court would view it. Greg, we're on the internet. It's not hard to find...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  The then Irish constitution actually allowed Savita to have had an abortion No Greg, it didn't. Pro-lifers have argued the 8th allowed for abortion, in that so-familiar "deserving cases are allowed and if they weren't allowed clearly they aren't deserving"...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  The Magdalene Laundries scandal dented & made small cracks in the Black Crows dominance of Ireland, but it was the death of one woman that finally did it, & did their rule in. You keep saying this. Why? Because I...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Sorry to say, it is - Amazon owns Goodreads....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Just wondering why this fundamental stuff (nuts, bolts, screws, etc.) hasn't been updated to/with 21st century tech. The facetious answer is because you're often screwing them into 20th (and sometimes 19th) century tech. (Also everything Moz says about 3D printers,...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Republic of Ireland: 3 year war of independence a century ago, a full democracy* today (cf the USA, a flawed democracy) ...skipping blithely over that whole Civil War bit. Soldiers tying tortured prisoners to land mines, anyone? If you grant...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Because what we want is police having millions of hours of bodycam footage to feed to machine-learning algorithms trained to recognise "criminality" (defined however the designer/owner/law enforcement system defines it)....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Name another country where "the revolution" hasn't degenerated into tyranny within less than a generation. Erm - Great Britain actually, culminating in 1688-89. Oops. Yes, because that revolution's tyranny was established in the country it was actually fought in. (The...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  gestures at the entire ignored first half that mentions Haiti Is this some sort of 'fnord' situation where you can't even see the word?...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  The important thing to remember is that we were the first to get rid of it - something that seems to have been lost in the noise. It's amazing how many people forget Haiti exists. I wonder why*? *No I...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  The victim is plainly showing an ID card to the police - who knock him down & leave him bleeding from the ear - never a good sign. Even during the Miner's Strike, I don't think it would have got...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  I will quote Wikipedia on the Irish Greens: "It has served in the Irish government once, from 2007 to 2011 as junior partner in a coalition with Fianna Fáil. The party suffered a wipeout in the February 2011 election, losing...
• Commented on Cough Cough
  Yes Greg, we're well aware colonialism is a go-to solution for when Britain has a population it finds awkward....
• Commented on Cough Cough
  Moz @416: Evidence please. I was referring to the extensive technology transfer (to use the polite term) program undertaken by the PRC government in cooperation with their industries, a program also executed by, among others, France and Israel. I am...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  "Ambulatory acacia" is a hell of an evolutionary niche. :-)...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Yes, Fine Gael and Fine Fail still exist a century after Irish independence -- having outlived their original objective of Irish independence handily Which is likely more "horrible warning" than "source of hope" to the SNP - they were two...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Or you could read one of the many, many articles explicitly explaining the reasoning - consistent since the ban came in in 1997 - for it, instead of getting all conspiratorial. (TL;DR: different conceptions about food hygiene and animal treatment,...