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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 19h

Don't really get the hate, is it just any mention of AI triggering people? It's just a list of pretty standard streamer features that can be better or worse implemented. Brittolin sounds like an idiot for suggesting it's some way innovative.

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn't there a non insane version of this vis the policy of the Israeli government has made a two state solution impossible. The only solution is that Israel should annex the territories it has conquered, integrate them into Israel and give everyone in the new borders equal rights?

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also the orange in the flag does not represent "Orangeism" and the white of coming together in brotherhood suggests maybe some change from the orange side as well as the green.

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"If you don't allow all our marches, wherever we want, whenever we want, by anyone we want, we wont be respected in a United Ireland" is somewhere past a straw man and into chutzpah. Tolerating 95% of what is largely viewed as an extreme organisation is already nationalism compromising.

Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That forcing orange marches down areas they are not wanted is akin to forcing white supremacist marches through black areas in the US is akin to a universal belief among nationalism across the spectrum forever. I don't know how this a shock to you.

Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It just needs sufficient switchover to suck demand out. Our house would need an insane amount of money to move from oil or gas. But if a big percentage of homes that don't have those problems switched, then there would be less market disruption and more targeted help.

Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

70% of nationalism votes for SF. The year is 2026. The assumption anyone associated with Sinn Fein must support the IRA campaign is literally decades out of date

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IHT could have been toughed out of they'd political will. By the next election it would not have been a thing. They didn't have the spine for it.

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Usually easier when no one can veto you

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What basis do you have for that given it hasn't been resolved for 28 years and Breandán Mac Cionnaith is still about?

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You ever have an issue you feel in your chest, 10s before your rational brain engages?

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I'm not sure loyalism can really win the PR on it either. If the police forceably remove people from the streets then the visuals are the thing that will be reported on

Not sure the extent to which you can read the depth of feeling of nationalism on this one. It's very obviously about sending messages on who holds the whip hand and the loyalists doing it know it. Nationalism cannot avoid reacting, not just out of emotion but the fact it loses the prisoners dilemma.

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The complete nihilism in bringing this back. Lots of people on both sides keen to bring the Assembly down. Some sympathy with the uselessness arguement. But for the life of me can't see how how either side get something better out of it.

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I don't think it is beyond us to add friction back in, if it becomes a problem; add a small fee refundable to the cost of your meal to make a booking, and it'll should down that sort of behaviour dramatically

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There's the 100K cliff and the insanity of child benefit clawback. Just fix the disincentives and put taxes up a bit. When the Tories were in, mystified by giving me random £20 a month I wouldn't notice and cutting services to the bone

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Like as a nationalist I obviously believe that a UI is the better form of governance and partition was a disaster. But then you have to angrey_goose.gif why whyyyyyy. A lot of people seem to miss this step. It isn't so we can have 1 up over the Prods.

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100 years of even worse governance in NI, Unionists could be an army of evil clones created by Lex Luthor and it would still be right and proper for the Irish state to integrate and look after them. You realise they'd be citizens of the new state? Like locked in with us?

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More importantly: so what? Ireland is not Germany and why would an Irish state, interested in the well being and belonging of all its people, be content with a large alienated population? Attitude mystifies me. Maybe 1st gen all you can get is acquiescence. But not limit of ambitions.

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I find BoJack Horseman massively overrated. It just doubled down endlessly on misery porn until I gave up on it. The best shows make better use of light and shade. Arrested Development I could watch on loop, though.

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Like, why do you want a UI? If it's not because you believe that Ireland is better governed and will be more prosperous that way then why? No point in a single government & a permanently alienated section of the people. Doesn't mean the latter must precede the former. But the goal needs to be clear

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I never said it was a nation. But there are lots of unionists that have an identity, built over 100 years of nothing else. Ignoring it is stupid. Northern Ireland will cease to exist, yes, but you've made some new in its place. Nation building is both a hard and continuous process

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However, absolute no to Ireland Call

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As vulnerable to stirring symbols as anyone but if a referendum passes and your conception is that it's changing someone else's flag, nationalism is still losing. Work of years to make people feel belonging and comfort. Flag etc has to support that. Think northern nationalism more sensitive to this

If we have a UI at some point, then whatever it is does need to be your flag too. Think this will be an absolute wretch for those in the Republic and wonderful thing for the types of tubes that attack immigrants to latch onto. But the fact remains.

Ultimately you can't tell people that something represents them and have them buy in. You've got to ask them how they want to be represented. Every Irish person knows the intended meaning of the flag. If they want to honour it in a UI, they have to be prepared to give it up.

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's usually four of them, and a lot of singing

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At the depths of the pandemic, wouldn't markets have offered 40 or 50 year rates way less than they are now in any case?

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I assumed we'd get beat so this is a bonus. If we'd won that's 3 weeks of pure positivity and then is it really Leeds United?

Free hit for an introduction. All he had to do was not pass it into his own net. Just gets introduced to the atmosphere and the Premiership, takes the pressure off for when he gets more minutes.

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About a quarter of the points we need in 5 games from a squad that is a bit better than last season but still has a number of players from the Championship and lacks too many star individuals. If we could get to half the points in 10 games... every year in the Prem is an opportunity to improve

It can cause *immune system reset* The list of potential symptoms for it is bonkers

The r value of measles is 18!

Infrastructure is a different thing but Amazon for example has huge data centres all across Europe. I think this is probably about who owns and controls it as opposed to actually being able to use the technology

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Many of the Chinese models are open weight, freely available and quite powerful. GLM 5.3 was widely considered to be in similar class to the Opus models. Even in China stopped releasing them, the existing models would be a strong starting point to train your own frontier models.

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Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And if we win all our remaining games we will win the league.

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What is about Trump's deal making that suggests to you that this is more than the US had anyway, or could have had just by asking nicely?

Sean @smce82.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What word would you like for "the US gave Trump the authority to govern" that makes exactly the same point? In any case, Trump exposed the hollowness of mandate politics. Hand people power and it turns out they don't need some other nebulous thing to weld it.

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Or indeed a proper federal system?

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Don't disagree. But if you take those two places as historic areas with real different identities, what did a majority in England do and what did a majority in Scotland do? What would have happened if each was independent?

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England wanted Brexit. NI and Scotland didn't. What happened? England certainly has a political will that it makes known

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I don't get why England has to convince itself there is some rationale to stuff it wants to do. Parliament is sovereign. There's no written constitution. Legislation is repealed for being stupid on the regular. England absolutely dominates. A government can... just do it if it wants.

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Third, a United Ireland is irrevocable. Impossible to see a way back. Brexit, Rejoin isn't, especially in the immediate aftermath, in the same way, and that changes the politics substantially. It's STILL easier to do rejoin. Just elect a WM government that will legislate for it. NI can't do this.

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Second, the criteria is that a poll is likely to succeed which creates an obligation to call it. You might argue sustained polling is required for this, but it's not in the text and what sustained meant would be a matter for sustained debate.

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