TheCraftyCulchie

@_abochie Fabregas

Without mentioning Aubameyang, name one player that has played for Arsenal, Chelsea and FC Barcelona.

@glam_queenn 1, 2, 3, 5

Be honest! What type of body do men prefer most?

@Cathal_Dennehy How good is Richardson, is he a potential European gold medalist?

On another note, Ireland should have serious 4x1 relay potential for the years ahead with Aigboboh, Israel Olatunde, Bori Akinola and Benjamin Richardson.

An Irish 200m record of 20.27 for 20-year-old Sean Aigboboh - a student at the University of Houston - with a perfect 2.0m/s tailwind. It means the men's 100m and 200m records, along with the women's 100m, 200m & 400m records, now belong to Tallaght AC.

@Muinchille The craft analogy breaks at the key point, machines boosted craftsmen, they didn’t compete with them. This time the tool can do the craft. That means fewer people may be needed overall, even if the top end becomes more productive.

@CulchieThe I was thinking about it. Drop the social delusions and "knowledge based work" is just another craft. What happened in the crafts when work was replaced by machinery? Initially, fewer craftsmen, but then it bounced back, and you got more highly skilled men with better tools.

This was not the case. When McWilliams (and I) graduated, more than 40% of Irish school leavers went to college. The 14% number is from Britain, where it had been that percentage since WWI.

@Muinchille I think you’re underestimating the shift once work can be reduced to patterns and decisions, it becomes automatable. The “human factor” isn’t gone, but it’s being compressed into a smaller slice of most jobs.

@CulchieThe All jobs are now knowledge based or based on dealing with the public (also knowledge based but a different type of knowledge), the human factory automata of the 19th and 20th centuries are nearly all gone. We're already in different waters.

@CryptoPaddyEire @john_mcguirk Well i am from there and mom is used by pretty much everyone in this area, mum would be considered odd.

@CulchieThe @john_mcguirk Lived there years and my wife is from there.

When you are so terminally online and warped by the American social media style of argument that you even use Mom instead of Mum on your posters.

@Muinchille I don't think anyone has a clue how this will work out, far too many variables to even have a guess. Being conservative in the short term ( within 2 to 10 years) 5 of every 10 knowledge based jobs will be replaced. The implications of this are obviously significant.

@CulchieThe Software isn't hardware. Information isn't knowledge. Capitalism and socialism are both (thank God) now defunct solutions to dead problems. This is all going to work out a lot more medieval* than you'd expect. * not to be confused with early modern.

@CryptoPaddyEire @john_mcguirk You dont live in the south west so

@CulchieThe @john_mcguirk Living here all my life , decades in and in multiple counties and never heard anyone say mom

@Muinchille ... myself and software. Had I done the same last year (which I did multiple times) that same application would have required consultants, an external contractor (3 staff) plus 3 internal resources. Today the total cost excl. future licenses was my labour. Last year €70k.

@Muinchille I agree with most of that. My point is what should the education system look like to meet very different requirements (capitalist). On an aside, AI is still relatively stupid. Still in the last month I developed an App in 3 weeks with out any additional resources other than .....

@karldeeter Everyone knows this was a vanity insanity by Simon Harris. The design is the problem, they wanted a showpiece not a functioning children's hospital. Interesting that the media aren't going after him for this!

I have a need for just one person to be fired... just one... I don't think that's too much to ask. Somewhere there must be at least one accountable person who can get fired for having done such a sackable job.

@karldeeter .. Both have risen sharply since 2023, with spikes tied to obvious global events. What's interesting given the figures is one group will get special protection over the other. Also important to note that research suggests Muslims are far less likely to report hate crimes.

@karldeeter Anti semitism exists in every country. Official figures in England & Wales shows religious hate crime remains at record levels.Anti-Muslim: 4,500 incidents/year 18% involve violence. Antisemitic: 3,000–3,700 incidents/year.5% involve violence..

If there isn't an anti-semetism problem in the UK then why would they need a special police unit to protect jewfish people?

@TheDagda___ @john_mcguirk 😀

@CulchieThe @john_mcguirk Anyway, it was nice talking to you. I must head off and pick up my dole!

Percentages are misleading, episode 546: The total amount of Brazilian beef imported is 172 tonnes. Irish annual beef consumption: 90,000 tonnes. Percentage of beef in market that is Brazilian, AFTER increase: 0.191%.

@TheDagda___ @john_mcguirk Ireland’s system ends up very similar in scale to those countries. Hence absolutely comparable. Comparing us with anyone else would be pointless really

@TheDagda___ @john_mcguirk (or heavily subsidised) social welfare systems,state pensions public infrastructure. That requires similar levels of tax revenue per head. Ireland looks unusual because of multinational driven corporation tax. But if you focus on: income tax, VAT,PRSI/social contributions..

@TheDagda___ @john_mcguirk I agree our services are terrible in comparison to other comparable European countries. However tax take per person is in line ( actually slightly below in real terms given corporate tax take) with all comparable countries. The issue isn't tax it is how it is consistently wasted.

Yes, it is extreme, especially when our public services and infrastructure are so poor. That is exactly why absolute numbers matter. Percentages let people hide inside comparisons. Hard cash per person gives them nowhere to hide. If the State is taking €23k–€24k per head and people still cannot get housing, hospitals, roads, policing or basic competence, then the issue is not whether Ireland is “roughly in line” with Europe. The question is: where the hell is the money going?