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@BenGrahamUK What's the alternative, live in a homogeneous wasteland with your money?

The High Speed 2 “bat tunnel” is one of the clearest examples of how Britain is tying itself in knots. A structure built to comply with environmental legislation has cost over £100 million. It was designed to protect a colony of around 300 rare Bechstein’s bats living in ancient woodland. That’s roughly £333,000 per bat. We are not failing to build because we lack engineers or ambition, we are failing because we’ve made infrastructure hostage to bureaucracy. No serious country can grow like this.

@maccraith3 @realLangerDan @Rus_Emb_Ireland Keep bending over for the orcs, hoping they'll give it to you, loser. Can see you must be a troll account or ya fit the low life title looking at your 30 year comment.

@Koolkat6000 @realLangerDan @Rus_Emb_Ireland Getting all brave now 30 years later, 😆

🚨Another Cargo Ship full of Alumina is on its way from Aughinish Alumina to St Petersburg, Russia to deliver vital alumina to the Russian war effort. Cargo ship KETHI is currently west of Donegal and is expected to arrive in Mordor on 10 April next. This shames Ireland.

@maccraith3 @realLangerDan @Rus_Emb_Ireland Don't know what's worse, that you're stupid enough to mistake boat coordinates or that you're a low life cretin. The orcs? Seriously? Don't be a little bitch.

@realLangerDan Hi @Rus_Emb_Ireland , this guy is giving out your coordinates etc, just a heads up 👍

@Nave521 @commiepommie @TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews What's it like being blind.

@Koolkat6000 @commiepommie @TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews Whats it like having negative iq?

I stepped on a broken manhole in China… I reported this Danger In Chengdu - Take a look at what the local government did. Follow to see more of the REAL China. @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews

@hugoagarza @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews Taking me too literally, they may have something more urgent to fix.

@Koolkat6000 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews What do you mean wasting their time? That's literally their job. It was gonna get done either now or in the future using the same amount of time

@commiepommie @TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews Watch the video that is not the case here.

I've seen a child get their foot stuck in a gap between a manhole and the concrete, they literally couldn't free their foot while e-bikes were whizzing by. Asking locals is exactly what we do (the original poster talks to them too). Pointing out a real, visible hazard isn't 'overly cautious', dismissing it as ridiculous is overly complacent. Kids ankles and small feet fit into gaps that adults don't even notice. Better to be aware than have a child trapped or hit."

@TLTM32 @commiepommie @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews It's better to fix it sooner rather than later but it's not an emergency. That's hyperbole.

@TLTM32 @commiepommie @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews That is not an emergency

@commiepommie @TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews 🤣 Please ask a local. Seriously the child angle is ridiculous. An old person yes. I think you folks from down under don't realize what you sound like. Overly cautious.

@Koolkat6000 @TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews I'm the West, it's not an emergency until something is. Then it's after the fact. This could cause serious injury to a child or elderly person. So yes, it's an emergency repair situation and was treated as such.

@TLTM32 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews It's not an emergency though.

@Koolkat6000 @AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews Its a serious trip hazard as well, I've seen people break ankles tripping over broken paving slabs and manhole covers

@AndreLongginou @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews Get stuck in it?! It wobbled. A child's too light too. I get there's a resource but Jesus. Terrible thing to say, but you can take the Aussie out of Australia but....

@Koolkat6000 @CCTV @XinhuaChinese @ChinaDaily @AmbXieFeng @SCMPNews If a child got their foot caught in it and broke their leg, that’s an emergency. They have the resources and give citizens the hotline to call 24 hours a day 7 days a week, their crews make repairs all over the city, the city population is over 20 million…

@ziriakus @Heccles94 That's just stupid.

I spent 18 years working with billionaires in the superyacht industry. Let me tell you what “capitalise profits” actually looks like in practice. One client decides to build a yacht. That single decision puts thousands of shipyard workers on payroll for 3-4 years — welders, electricians, naval architects, woodworkers, engineers. It activates a supply chain of hundreds of specialized vendors, most of them small businesses. Once she launches, she employs a full-time crew and feeds an ecosystem of marinas, fuel suppliers, maintenance yards, and provisioning companies for the next 30 years. That’s one person’s capital deployment. One decision. A quarter of a billion euros in economic output over the vessel’s lifetime. Now multiply that by every business they start, every building they develop, every fund they anchor. The coordination of capital at that scale doesn’t happen by committee. It happens because someone with skin in the game makes a bet and backs it with their own money. You can build things, design things, and sell things without billionaires. But you can’t do it at the scale that lifts entire industries without someone willing to concentrate capital and deploy it with conviction.

Billionaires do not create jobs. Stop saying it. Without billionaires, we would still build things, design things, teach things, sell things, buy things. Billionaires capitalise profits. That's it.

@LisaLACarr @IrishTimesOpEd I see the real one here

@LisaLACarr @IrishTimesOpEd Thanks

Maria Steen: The ‘gender pay gap’ is made-up, pointless and ignores the reality of women like me irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@Trumpsawanka @IrishTimesOpEd I don't like the lady but there's merit to the argument. We should look at per hour wages for full time employees.

@IrishTimesOpEd Anecdotes are not data. Of course some women earn more. Similarly I know poor a poor black kid who became partner in a NYC law firm.

@SpaceInMiBrain @MattJarvisCAFC @NASA @NASAArtemis Have people not been to the beach. Prudes.

NASA actually cut the feed when Glover took his shirt off. They reminded him the feed was still live to the public and he said he was fine with it. Hmm.. being in space isn't enough of a flex? And we'd seen him working out a few minutes before. The flight controllers looked bemused and amused.

Not what I was expecting when I turned on the @NASA @NASAArtemis live stream 😂 #Artemis #Artemisll

@danobrien20 Our stats tell a different story. There is no justification for what you propose.

A huge share of employees in Ireland fall into the top personal (income) tax band, levied at over 50% all in. This means that the government takes more of any pay increase and additional non-salary income than the individual does. This regime, in place for 18 years, is a brutal disincentive to work and explains why Ireland's personal tax system is ranked 37th out of 38 in the developed world.

@IrishTimes "Flagged concerns over risks" now that's a phrase

McEntee forced to cancel trip to Lebanon after Defence Forces flagged concern over risks irishtimes.com/world/middle-e…

@catsen Closest is Project Hail Mary. And then more sci-fi is Arrival.

Just re-watched Interstellar. I have been reborn. Any other space movies even half as good as this?