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[nuke terrorist]

South Africa is actually Israel's biggest trading partner in Africa.

Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine?

Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.

www.aljazeera.com

Ireland and Israel both have huge tech sectors. So I suppose most of trade is in that area??

 

[dudley]

20 years, wow

Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco

Tom Power led an alliance that brought about the pioneering health initiative which has since been adopted by more than 70 countries – and has saved countless lives

www.theguardian.com

 

[seanc]

12ft

Quite long but with a bunch of guess-who people mentioned but not named. He spends a good long chunk in Dublin and Belfast.

 

[nuke terrorist]

The Instagram comments on "Netanyahu needs surgery" are unanimously fair and warranted.

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[pete]

Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews - bellingcat

Christopher Kinahan Sr has left a trail of Google reviews providing valuable new insights into his movements and whereabouts.

www.bellingcat.com

 

[pete]

Why Rich Shoppers Get So Angry About Hermès

This is what happens when wealthy consumers run headlong into actual scarcity.

www.theatlantic.com

Amanda Mull (@amandamull.bsky.social)

I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!)...

bsky.app

 

[Deadmanposting]

Why Rich Shoppers Get So Angry About Hermès

This is what happens when wealthy consumers run headlong into actual scarcity.

www.theatlantic.com

Amanda Mull (@amandamull.bsky.social)

I wrote about why Hermès drives rich people so buck wild that two recently filed a federal antitrust suit over not being able to get their hands on a Birkin. (Gift link, free to read!)...

bsky.app

Very similar to Rolex
More expensive second-hand because you can't buy them new

The problem isn't really a lack of bags, it's an over-abundance of people with money that need status symbols.
This is still the swash and backwash of Covid money in the economy.

(apols if Amanda gets to this in her piece - my Atlantic hack isn't working)

 

[pete]

Very similar to Rolex
More expensive second-hand because you can't buy them new

The problem isn't really a lack of bags, it's an over-abundance of people with money that need status symbols.
This is still the swash and backwash of Covid money in the economy.

(apols if Amanda gets to this in her piece - my Atlantic hack isn't working)

There’s a gift link in the Bluesky post

 

[Deadmanposting]

Good read, thank you

The thing lacking in Mull's piece is that she's conjuring up images almost of jet setters and the idle rich
It's not these people at all - it's the chief accounting officer at your company, or the solicitor that did your divorce. It is most definitely not people with yachts.
These are the people that need status symbols to show off to people at the golf club and at Chapter One.
The actual rich don't necessarily go for these items. I mean maybe a Birkin or a Rolex Daytona. But they certainly don't sue to get them. That's grubby upper middle class behaviour. The atcual rich just get the things they want.

Actual rich people practice 'stealth wealth'; like €400 no-label t-shirts and that kind of gear - signalling to their immediate peers who they are, but not to the world at large.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Good read, thank you

The thing lacking in Mull's piece is that she's conjuring up images almost of jet setters and the idle rich
It's not these people at all - it's the chief accounting officer at your company, or the solicitor that did your divorce. It is most definitely not people with yachts.
These are the people that need status symbols to show off to people at the golf club and at Chapter One.
The actual rich don't necessarily go for these items. I mean maybe a Birkin or a Rolex Daytona. But they certainly don't sue to get them. That's grubby upper middle class behaviour. The atcual rich just get the things they want.

Actual rich people practice 'stealth wealth'; like €400 no-label t-shirts and that kind of gear - signalling to their immediate peers who they are, but not to the world at large.

I remember Billy Connolly doing a routine about how the middle class will never be caught dead in a tracksuit because they fear being mistaken for working class. The truly rich will wear what they like because they are in no danger of being mistaken for working class.

 

[seanc]

Not exactly the same, but kinda, Burberry got in trouble a while ago for taking any leftover stock at the end the season and burning it.
They don't do it anymore and they now only do two seasons instead of four.

 

[magicbastarder]

I remember Billy Connolly doing a routine about how the middle class will never be caught dead in a tracksuit because they fear being mistaken for working class. The truly rich will wear what they like because they are in no danger of being mistaken for working class.

Mentioned it here before; having been to a school with some rich people. The lads whose parents were rich had ways of letting you know they were rich. It was second or third year before I found out just how rich the parents were of the chap who was *really* rich.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Mentioned it here before; having been to a school with some rich people. The lads whose parents were rich had ways of letting you know they were rich. It was second or third year before I found out just how rich the parents were of the chap who was *really* rich.

I’d come across that kind of thing in TCD when I was there. You’d suddenly get an insight into the really rich. Then Oxford was a whole other story.

 

[magicbastarder]

the lad in question recently sold his gaff for over €8m.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

the lad in question recently sold his gaff for over €8m.

yowza.

 

[magicbastarder]

Ah, don't be jealous of him. He was hoping for a million or two more, poor fucker.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Is there some concrete action that someplace like Ireland can actually take? Serious question.

 

[Deadmanposting]

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Well, that takes the cannoli

 

[magicbastarder]

worth pointing out the date on that! it's 22 years old.

 

[seanc]

I thought that was the point?