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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Armin Navabi who hails from Iran is pretty stoked about everything and says he’s getting messages that Iranian citizens are cheering Israel for attacking the Islamic Republic!

I’m seeing no indication of anything other than Iranians rallying around their flag.

Where’s the evidence that the Iranian public is rebelling o…[Read more]

Ms. Phillips’ analysis seems to chop the left into two distinct and separate camps. One reasonable and siding with Israel and the other totally antisemitic. Are there avowed liberals taking down pro-Israel posters? No doubt. And the reason is that when you have the numbers of people involved, you’ll get all sorts of attitudes.

She assumes that if…[Read more]

Sorry Enco…Yes the first video is the one you meant. I had repeated the link for it for the last video, which I have now fixed. So click ‘lost’ again 🙂

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

Engineering strategies for Religion and Spirituality in LLMs.

Image by ChatGPT and meme by me.

Netanyahu has gone to Greece – flew in this morning – he’s apparently in hiding or so I’ve read.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
the possibility that combatants can act from within each others’ territories exists and with the small size of drones it is easier.

It’s far worse than that. If I were a hostile power and I wanted to initiate a nuclear attack on the United States, I’d put a radio signal triggered nuclear warhead in a container on a c…[Read more]

Yep, and what would today be like if outside powers had not intervened to create it? Israel has been working on nukes and it now seems Iran stole them.

Iran has to respond and if they see Israel and the U.S. as joined at the hip, American bases, assets, and persons could now be at risk either directly from Iran itself or through some of their proxies who potentially have a reach as far as the American homeland.

TACO Don suddenly realizes that deporting immigrant workers is a disaster. Get ready for the “blame someone and claim victory” exit strategy. One hopes the result will be some sort of reasonable guest worker policy like many other countries have so that a person can come here, not to rape and murder, but to work, without fear of being…[Read more]

One of my client sites has a 50/50 mix of Filipinos and Europeans. What I note about the Filipinos is that they are laid back even when working hard, which is always and yet they are always smiling and joking.  I brought in some Ube Halaya for someone’s birthday recently. When I told them the name of the shop I got it in (in Dublin) they started…[Read more]

Around 2001 I had a short-term contract where I managed a project for Xerox to install several printers in a large company in Belfast, across 3 sites. My contact on their side was a Unionist who made it very clear to me that he hated people from “the South”. He did not actually say anything directly to me but we both instinctively knew which “tr…[Read more]

I think the nationalities are not the primary reason that they are being attacked. It is the fact that they are “not us”. These communities have been very insular and unchanged for centuries and are very conservative in their outlook. This has made them very tribal and any “outsider” is seen as a potential threat to destabilizing their social and…[Read more]

I know very few Irish people that really want to have Ulster “rejoin” the rest of Ireland. We are happy with the current situation so long as the peace process holds. Any attempts at reunification will probably mean a return of the paramilitaries on both sides. (As Gerry Adams said about the IRA, “They haven’t gone away, you know”) The zeitgeist…[Read more]

Ballymena has historically been known as part of Northern Ireland’s “Bible Belt”, with strong Protestant churches and Unionist figures like Ian Paisley having deep roots in the town. It is very much a Unionist stronghold, culturally and historically aligned with British political identity. The recent unrest has been largely driven by Bally…[Read more]

I know about 8 people who work for multinational companies who have turned down opportunities to work in the USA recently and opted to  stay in Ireland or go to a different country instead. 4 of them are US citizens and said they will reconsider in 3.5 years’ time. But will it be too late by then for President Newsom and VP Buttigieg to repair the damage?

If this was really about “illegal immigration” and not simply “we just don’t like swarthy people,” a simple and obvious guest worker program such as some European countries have would be on the table.

It’s not.

On to a Plan B.

Did you know that The Netherlands, about the same size as the state of Maryland, comes in as #2 behind the U.S. among…[Read more]