Driving to the shops in their tractor to get bread and milk.

People who have a connection with their surrounding care more about those areas than if U don't have a connection.

Ppl who drive essentially don't care at all about the areas they pass thru. And it shows in how they behave in their cars.

Electric vehicles & going faster also causes a disconnect.

This is a known phenomenon. People in cars dont have a 'connection' with the areas they drive through Bcoz they dont interact with it on a human-pace level. Ppl who walk have the most connection. Ppl who bike have less connection than those that walk, but still orders of magnitude more than drivers.

lol

Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller?

I remember his character was interested in bees, but I don't remember the episode with reference to solitary bees. I'll have to try to find it.

A fiver says this will be the ring road within a month of it being built.

MORE temporary defences???

Those that objected to the original plans for defences should be forced to live in a shack at the low-tide mark. G0bshites.

The ones in the article are the same genus as the ones in my garden in Dublin, but a different species. They're both solitary bees, altho' the ones in my garden have a commone entrance to their own chambers, so U see multiple bees coming & going at the same entrance.

Very cool.

The barriers on the greenway around there are utterly ridiculous. They need to go for multiple reasons.

Two previous convictions for battery and threatening behavior. So this is the 3rd time he's been in court for this behavior. How many other offences has he committed that didn't end up in court.

I'd say he was a dangerous aggressive driver also.

Brunch, not bunch.

Have you not heard; we're an island & we can't survive without air-travel to support cheap weekend getaways for bunch in Prague.

I was waiting at a light last week. A HGV pulls up alongside me & there was a yellow sign on the left side outlining large blind-spots. So they still have blind-spots & they still pull up alsongside U putting U in that blind-spot.

Just on the south side of the E Link bridge.

The whole thing was a masterclass of poor design in public spaces.

According to some, cycle-lanes have ruined Dublin.

They're talking bollocks of course. It was the decades-long policies of promoting private cars as mass transit in urban areas that has resulted in the constant car-jams.

It's also why more people don't cycle. It's dangerous & terrifying at times.

Random moment in Dublin.

Twilight with a waxing cresent moon and venus.

This guy experienced the best view ever.

Mr Wonka never lies. Wonka Chocolate is the purest naturalist chocolate there is. It's collected by these tiny mining bees who specialise in finding the best veins of chocolate deep underground. If you look closely at the original 1971 documentary, you'll see them flying around the factory.

Female chocolate mining bee, just emerged today from underground nest. Dublin.

Prometheus tried to be smart by alluding to the Greek myth. Other than that it was filled with numerous scenes where I was 'WTF is this sh1te?!'

Lucy also tried to be smart, this time by alluding to Lucy the Australopithecus fossil. This movie was 10% (meta reference) dumbfukery, & 90% sh1te.

When the US war of aggression against Iran eventually ends, I think there's opportunity for Iran to become a powerhouse in satirical Lego comedy.

Do you mean the white cat on the right is jealous of the red panda on the left?

During times of stability our current decades-long economic policies have 'worked' (I'm ignoring housing, health, inequality for the moment). These policies simply can not work in a world of political & environmental instability.

Politicians need to be educated by experts on these matters.

A few lads with tractors managed to nearly cause national logistical collapse. Again, authorities & procedures struggled.

On top of this we have major food insecurity & energy insecurity just below the surface of just-in-time economics. On an island, this is madness.

New Orleans decended into chaos after hurricane Katrina 2005. Ireland will be exactly the same if there's a big shock here too. Lild in Tallaght was attacked with a digger during the beast from the east. That was a minor storm, but authorities were already overstretched.

When the beast from the east struck in Feb 2018 there were bread shortages. It became a national meme. Everyone chuckled. However what it really showed was how vulnerable this country is to any supply-chain shocks.

Food security misinformation/illusion is big in Ireland.

We need to rapidly move away from export agriculture. Better for food security AND energy security. It's also a national security issue.

No farmers, no food!

An asinine slogan. Most of the food produced here is surplus milk & beef for export & we actually need to import most of the food we eat.

Also, it's the logic of a 10-year old. No transport workers = no food. No electricity workers = no food. No earthworms = no food.

Thanks.

I han't heard of this reference, but I've seen the phenomenon in my own area of specialisation. I was trying to form questions that students couldn't use AI to find the answers to. I tested some questions in AI & it was giving me answers which could only have come from AI hallucinations.