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Farmer growing 70% of Irish broccoli says solar farms threaten food security Plan for 140MW solar farm on 338 acres in Kildare is sited on ‘some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in Ireland’

A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.

For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.

Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

The fuel blockades are reason number 1 million we need to move away from fossil fuels and export focused agriculture

Not a ship that was attacked by Iran.

An Iranian ship that was attacked by the USA. During their completely illegitimate and unnecessary war of aggression.

This is why the Americans need to pay reparations. So we can repair the damage caused by their criminal behaviour.

Fun fact: plastic recycling basically doesn't exist.

Only about 9% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, and only 1% more than once.

www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1...

Been rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-9) and it's interesting from a 2026 perspective to watch a show where the premise is just "let's go find everyone making AI and assassinate them"

Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.

Rivian's E-Bike Spinoff Will Make Autonomous Delivery Bots For Bike Lanes Also, the micromobility company that spun out of Rivian last year, struck a deal with DoorDash to develop self-driving vehicles.

Sigh. Rivian's micromobility arm will produce e-bikes -- as well as autonomous bots that cyclists have to maneuver around.

Bike lanes are for people. Seems obvious, but cities may need new laws to ensure it's clear.

'More censorship': Row in Dáil as TD asks why gardaí spoke to professor over Regina Doherty blog Blogger and academic Catherine Kelly claims she was cautioned by gardaí about her social media posts and online articles which referenced Regina Doherty.

A country where the state security apparatus stops you at the airport and asks for your social media handle to check if you have criticised a member of the current regime? Terrible isn’t it? Unprecedented…

jrnl.ie/3482139

When I hear 'riding 50 miles into the wilderness' I think 'fun day out on my bicycle and maybe a picnic' maybe that sort of distance is more of a big deal if the riding you're referring to is by horseback, but in that case I'm pretty sure the horse is doing most of the work. Not scary.

Godspeed you

three suggested replies from google gemini. they are "Haha, thanks!" "Haha!" and "Hahaha."

google gemini suggested emails are saving me hours of work per week and now I'm finally productive enough to put the gun all the way in my mouth instead of chickening out at the lips

Pakistan was the case study of the knock on effect of the EU writing blank cheques for LNG imports in the dark days of 2022.

Completely ripped market access out the hands of less able (economically speaking) market actors.

Well, well, well. Look how quickly the substitution effect can rage.

Then they looked at differences between genders. Girls and boys of equal roaming range had roughly equal spatial math skills. But girls have smaller roaming range in most countries.
In Norway & Singapore, girls score higher than boys. Boys & girls both enjoy mobility autonomy in those countries

Every so often I remember the Irish immigration system is so dysfunctional that the Brazilian community here had to set up a WhatsApp group to help find each other after the DoJ kept returning their passports to the wrong people #speirghorm

Sure if we pissed off the Americans it might complicate our access to American military tech but like China did, Europe needs to establish technological independence from the US and we need to do it ASAP even if it hurts in the short term.

Instead you have European nations sending aircraft carriers that the Americans don't need or appreciate, and showing the Chinese that the west is always united when it comes to aggression and evil? Pulling us further into another cold war that could turn hot and nuclear any day now.

Would it not have made sense for European leaders to distance themselves from this war? Make Trump feel a little isolated and weak, more cognisant of his need for allies and less likely to escalate further? Assert European strategic independence and maybe position ourselves as peace brokers?

To be clear I don't think the US simply deciding to stop attacking is likely or straightforward. However I also don't see a quick end to this war through the annihilation of Iran as likely (except maybe by nuclear weapons). So I don't think the UK should be helping to expand the scope of violence

I have no idea what might happen if the Americans were to suddenly stop. They are apparently not looking to negotiate so I'm not confident they'd stop attacking unless there was a complete withdrawal of American forces and influence from the Middle East which I don't see happening.

The US has started bombing Iranian water desalinisation plants. Iran is no retaliating. Without water the Middle East is unliveable. The US will want to stop this fast before the Gulf states start pushing for peace and kicking the Americans out. Nuclear weapons may very well be seen as a quick fix.

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

Finishing it asap means at a minimum America withdrawing entirely from the region.
Even if they put half a million or more troops on the ground in Iran and topple the regime you're still setting the scene for a decades long insurgency which can easily target oil infrastructure in the Gulf

And this is why a shift from fossil fuel engines to electric vehicles isn’t a solution and we need more mode-shift to public transport, cycling and micro-mobility. Plus, EVs are heavier, so their tyres create more microplastics for us to breathe.

But no. The soulless, brainless ghouls who pull the strings on supposed liberal western democracy are unable to do anything but cheer when it comes to murdering brown people.

This seems like the perfect opportunity for the Democrats/Congress in general to say 'hey, rules and laws and checks on executive power still exist' or for the likes of Carney and Starmer to acknowledge the whole thing as a bad idea.

Not at all surprising that the ruling class in the west have no qualms about murdering Iranians. Deeply insane that no one in charge is concerned about how utterly lawless this all is given all the hand wringing about upending the international 'rules based order' over Greenland.

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Less than 2 months ago EU leaders were insisting on strategic independence from an increasingly aggressive US demanding territorial expansion in Greenland. Now, they're tripping over their heels to join that US in an illegal war of aggression and regime change. What weak cowards with short memories.

i think i could do an Aw Come On Man "this is the last thing i needed today" kind of shrug that generates enough sympathy, while still not overshadowing my classically likeable Everyman appeal, to stave off a grizzly bear attack