frightful_hobgoblin

25min podcast on it here, for those of you who prefer audio form. The Irish Times is a bourgeois source. https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-the-news/explainer-could-sinn-feins-new-housing-plan-work/

Laois mad

as soon as I read his post I assumed yours was actually posted entirely to set up that joke.

I take this as a compliment that my pun was that laser-accurate.

It is not Black & White

made by Demis Hassabis who is now a prominent A.I. researcher

The unnecessary nationalism lol

What your Trump-supporting journalist says –

Behind the scenes is China’s reluctance to forgive debt...

In the past under such circumstances, big government lenders such as the U.S., Japan and France would work out deals to forgive some debt, with each lender disclosing clearly what they were owed and on what terms so no one would feel cheated. But China didn’t play by those rules.

The actual facts –

• China, the largest government creditor to emerging economies, said it will forgive 23 interest-free loans to 17 African countries and redirect $10 billion of its International Monetary Fund reserves to nations on the continent.

• New sovereign debt negotiations and zero-interest loan write-offs involving Chinese creditors totalled $19 billion in 2021, the report said, although that dropped to $9 billion in 2022 and to $1.7 billion in 2023 through April, a total drop of over 90%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAZARA_Railway

Eerr...

What's this about? Are you trying to imply that neutral states cannot recoginse other states? Switzerland recognises the existence of many states.

If planes are landing then it's a matter of resources to do the inspections.

No it isn't. Getting a Gard or two to look at a plane isn't the limiting factor. If they have the manpower to arrest and incarcerate civilians who try to inspect the planes (like Tarek & Ken, or Mick & Clare), then they have the manpower to inspect the planes.

you don't say

Under the Air Navigation Foreign Military Aircraft Order 1952, foreign military aircraft (this has historically included Soviet planes) can fly through Irish airspace and use the airports, but only under strict regulations and with clearance from the minister of foreign affairs. This is subject to conditions including that the aircraft is unarmed and doesn't carry weapons.

So if it's carrying weapons, that's a violation of the law. But the government have been to spineless to actually inspect planes to confirm there are no weapons.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/