The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.
That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.
That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.
People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
A dramatised view of Roy Keane’s exit from the 2002 World Cup.
Keane tore into Mick McCarthy - slamming his management, questioning his competence and even taking aim at his character.
Raw, brutal and completely unfiltered.
Explosive stuff 🤯
@Viktor03000 This is very irresponsible to script a scenario like this. Discouraging organ donors. . Brain stem testing is not done like this in a corridor by an intern and then argued over. Scenes scripted like this has probably cost a lot of people to die waiting for donors
This is Greater Israel Project that you don't. And The "greater Israel" project requires one thing: endless enemies
That is the reason there is no peace in middle east
"Speed wins."
"You have to be willing to commit to being fast. You can't have long bureaucratic processes. You can't have a risk-averse posture."
@pmarca explains the OODA loop — and why the fastest operator controls the narrative in business, media, and politics:
"There's a framework called the OODA loop, originally developed for fighter pilots and later for broader military strategy."
"It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. It's basically the decision-making cycle."
"If speed is the thing that matters, then the person who gets through that cycle the fastest is the one who's going to win."
"If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy — think about what happens… You operate and make a decision within an hour. The other guy is still inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision. He's only halfway through his process and now has to start over. You've changed the parameters of what's going on."
"This is also a big explanation for what's happened in traditional media."
"The New York Times has its own OODA loop, and it's like 24 hours to go through its process."
"Core developers are bad actors with malicious intent."
Sat down with Luke Dashjr to unpack the internal war over Bitcoin Core v30.
From plummeting node counts to the shadow of the MIT/Epstein era, this is the most sobering look at the protocol's future you'll see this year.
Full interview with the @Ocean_Mining CTO, @LukeDashjr, is live now.
@BTC_commons Forces to finally say something. He’s a very fake person. He funds core devs. Invests in spam companies and basically doesn’t like when people disagree with him.