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Worth a listen https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22129696/

Oh, that's much later than i thought. And yeah, it slows down because it requires more energy, which is how we got into this mess!

I believe ethereum have been threatening to do do this six months from now for about 4 years. Since almost all of the NFT stuff is done on Ethereum, if it's more than a fad (hmm), and Ethereum do manage to complete the changeover (and I've seen some people argue that that it is an...

I think that one is the one that requires all the server farms yeah, each bitcoin requires more power to mine than the last. Fairly sure that's 99% of the power, that's why the proof of stake coins only require 1% or whatever of the power, just enough to keep the blockchain updated. At this...

Give me that job

Someone should still meh my above post for being too over the top though.

But anyway, the EU, a great bunch of lads, right? Those free market international trade agreements are what's good for us, right? RIGHT?

What you could have said was: Anyway, i've read enough academic writing in areas i'm familiar with (i.e. not brain science) and have known enough academics in my time to know that (not all) ---->>>>> some <<<<<---- (not all) people overuse verbose and jargony language when it is...

I don't know. It's a bit like academic writing: sometimes things are difficult because they are complex and other times things are kept difficult as a defense mechanism. I'm certainly not informed enough about the CAP.

You could probably make the argument that the EU process is completely opaque and incomprehensible by design, so people are less likely to criticize it and it can be defended with large walls of words. I don't know. It's a bit like academic writing: sometimes things are difficult because they...

quite the thread attacking the Common Agricultural Policy here

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/cabinet-approves-climate-bill-which-commits-state-to-net-zero-carbon-by-2050-1.4517917 ok 2050 is not 2040 but this is something, right? RIGHT?? plz, someone... give me this

https://www.limerickpost.ie/2017/05/28/parking-heart-crooms-development-problems/ turns out they've been crying out for parking for years. Listen, i'm willing to admit that Croom should be allowed fix its problems the Croom way and if that means Croom just becomes a massive parking lot then...

We could knock them down and replace them with more parking space?

Oh joy https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/climate-crisis-2020-set-to-be-one-of-hottest-years-on-record-1.4425471

Taoiseach warns Ireland must act now on climate change before point of no recovery 🧐

https://www.thejournal.ie/fingal-county-council-portrane-coastal-erosion-residents-fears-5194481-Sep2020/?

Informative to Lili, I hadn't really thought of it like that.

Jacobin came out strong against it as well https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/its-okay-to-have-children/

Would I be right in assuming that long before rising waters submerge us, Ireland is going to start having a gradually worse storm/hurricane season from August -> October as a result of a warmer Atlantic. Now that will be expensive.