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@BTriagain Interesting! I knew Dublin had three, but who was the second one from Cork (other than Gerald Goldberg)?

@RitzyFraud Dublin actually elected 3 and Cork had 2.

The Jewish population of New York is over 1,000,000 & New York has only ever had 3 Jewish mayors Antisemitic much? The Jewish population of all of Ireland is roughly 2,600... Dublin has had 2 Jewish mayors Real antisemites... The Irish are apparently very bad at antisemitism

@BTriagain Cork and Belfast have also had a Jewish mayor. Though worth noting that NYC has had 21 mayors since 1900, while Dublin has had 94. And, more significantly, Dublin's Lord Mayor isn't elected directly by voters.

Sorry... Dublin elected 3 Jewish mayors. One died before he could take office.

@ItsAndyRyan @unvarnishedvoid Only restaurants and cafes that serve alcohol are required to provide free water (and only since 2010, and not in Northern Ireland). It's also legally unclear whether they can charge for "service". moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/tap-wa…

@unvarnishedvoid Restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, and nightclub in the UK are required by law to provide free tap water. Expected tips in Italian restaurants are generally around a couple of dollars. The difference in the US more than pays for the "free water".

Americans are more right about Europe then Europe is about America sir their are articles and guides written about how you dont always get free water

@commieqazi @mehdirhasan According to Wikipedia (which describes Israel’s actions as genocide), the Nova festival massacre killed 344 Israeli civilians, 34 security personnel and ~20 Palestinian perpetrators (and this excludes hostages who were later killed, or survivors who later committed suicide).

@mehdirhasan You propagated Israeli lies less than a day after Oct 7, you're an imperial shill and a spineless coward Mehdi

Yes I’m well known for endorsing everything Piers Morgan says! You got me! 🤦🏽‍♂️ (The insanely brazen levels of demonstrable dishonesty on this site never cease to shock me.)

@Almost_Sure (PS looks like using / SOLIDUS for division, which I accidentally did at the end, actually looks better than using ∕ DIVISION SLASH)

@Almost_Sure Unicoded up: A sequence X₀,X₁,X₂,…,Xᵢ,… of Γ(aᵢ) RVs has independent increments X₁−X₀,X₂−X₁,… iff it has independent ratios X₀∕X₁,X₁∕X₂,… in which case aᵢ₊₁≥aᵢ, Xᵢ₊₁−Xᵢ ~ Γ(aᵢ₊₁−aᵢ) and Xᵢ/Xᵢ₊₁ ~ Β(aᵢ,aᵢ₊₁).

Probability fact: A sequence X_0,X_1,X_2,…,X_i,… of Gamma(a_i) rv’s has independent increments X_1-X_0,X_2-X_1,… if and only if it has independent ratios X_0/X_1,X_1/X_2,… in which case a_{i+1}>=a_i and, X_{i+1}-X_i~Gamma(a_{+1}-a_i) X_i/X_{i+1}~Beta(a_i,a_{i+1})

@oldenoughtosay Fun fact: the UK tax year is 12 (not 11) days off 25th March (the old New Year) because the Treasury demanded it not "lose" the Julian leap day in 1800. They were too embarrassed to ask for another day in 1900.

@LadyCorriedown Not that it's any of our business, but their age gap is around half the age gap between Boris and Carrie Johnson or Donald and Melania Trump.

Enjoying a day off with my husband. Have a good day all!

@rpg7twit @robinhouston This is probably a reference to the typo in the ICAO pronunciation guide, which gives the IPA pronunciation for golf as ɡʌlf.

@robinhouston No.

Didn't G in the phonetic alphabet used to be Gulf instead of Golf?

@LaymansLinguist @ItsAndyRyan @LaurieFleming I expect it's just the stress. Inquiry has a similar stress/vowel difference and in that case inquire has a long i.

@ItsAndyRyan @LaurieFleming Okay well to be fair, Americans use that <eye> vowel in "vital" which is the first morpheme in the "vitamin" portmanteau so it's a pretty reasonable leap. As far as I know, that is not the case with urine/urinal.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You will NEVER guess how they say "urinal" because it is objectively wrong and bad. Every accent is valid and right, except when Brits say "urinal." That one is factually incorrect.

@oldenoughtosay The reviews on Goodreads are exquisite

@maxim_k @OALD24 Worth adding that the ICC can still investigate non party states if it gets a referral from the UN Security Council, but Russia and China prevented Syria being referred.

I have a serious question: Is there an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Bashar al-Assad? 👀

@nigroeneveld @SecretGinger05 @OALD24 But Israel's (and similarly Russia's) crimes were in countries that did ratify the statute, which is why the ICC has jurisdiction.

@SecretGinger05 @OALD24 Same applies to Israel. Or Iran, whose leaders should also be indicted.

@RnaudBertrand @MagicPeaceLove But you didn't say "lynch mob" (which is accurate), you said "lynch" (which in the everyday sense of the word isn't). A pity, as it detracts from an important post and gives people an excuse to ignore it.

@MagicPeaceLove How do you call a mob of 30-40 people getting together to beat up someone? 👇

Absolutely perfect illustration of what we enable with the way the media and the Western political class framed what happened in Amsterdam. There was a football match between Israel and France yesterday and this 👇 happened at the beginning of the match: a horde of Israeli supporters openly lynched some French supporters in the stands. Macron himself was in attendance at the match to show his commitment to "fighting antisemitism" after Amsterdam... He made no public comment that I know of on these French supporters getting lynched in front of his eyes. And the police made no reported arrests. Had the reverse been the case, had this been some Israeli supporters getting lynched by a horde of French supporters, you can absolutely bet 100% that he (and all the French media) would have made a huge deal out of it. You cannot overstate the absurdism of it: because we've so gaslighted ourselves around "antisemitism" and so distorted the meaning of it, Western countries would literally rather let our their own citizens get lynched on their own soil - in front of the president's eyes (!) - than face accusations being "antisemitic" in their own definition of the term.

@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng @AntithesisHQ The term bug for an engineering fault long predates this: that's why Hopper notes the irony of the bug being caused by an "actual" bug (in fact, a moth). See #History" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engi… for example.

Where does the term "debugging" come from? Turns out, it had to do with an actual bug! Here's the story behind it from today's @Pragmatic_Eng deepdive on the evolution of debugging, and the innovative time-traveling debugger from @AntithesisHQ

@FlorenceHRScott (PS I'm sure you knew this!)

@FlorenceHRScott As an aside there was also sorta a regnant queen during The Anarchy in the 12th century, but she was titled domina rather than regina (though a few charters did refer to her as regina).

England didn't have a regnant queen until the 16th century. Queens consort are the fundamental blueprint of European queenship. If you don't like the queen it's not because she's not a 'proper queen', it's because that's an inbuilt risk of an unelected hereditary monarchy

No joke this or something close to it means “bassoon” in like every language except English

@MBulteau @Komaniecki_R Not even a numeric one (eg 1-1-5 instead of do-do-sol)?

@RitzyFraud @Komaniecki_R we do not

Me: Alright this melody is in G major, so to sight-sing it G will be “do.” Fixed “Do”-cels: THAT’S “SOL” YOU IDIOT