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samueljohnson

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Scientist, MBA, ex IT professional, Irish & European
Lived 30+ years on 4 continents, now back in Ireland.

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thelinuxEXP, to random
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After talking about it with my Patreon supporters, and here on Mastodon, I decided to stop publishing to Odysee. I wrote a short blog post about the reasons, and the options people have to keep watching outside of YouTube if they want to:

https://thelinuxexp.com/Im-leaving-odysee/

It's not a decision everyone will agree with, but it's the one I'm comfortable with.

samueljohnson,
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@thelinuxEXP Well done.

bobjmsn, to random
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This is the email address to complain about ID being introduced . Be awful if everybody used it.

samueljohnson,
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@harriettmb @bobjmsn @kravietz Vote suppression surely, rather than gerrymandering (as practiced historically in NI). Borrowed from the GOP, and hopefully going to reap some payback later.

beerladiespod, to random

IT'S TODAY!

Time for our 3rd-annual special! As always, we are so excited about this year's songs - the good, the bad and the bonkers - and we have been studying the entries, and pairing with appropriate beers...

shows.acast.com/beerladies/episodes/eurovision-2023

samueljohnson,
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@beerladiespod For sale in Dublin? Where?!

samueljohnson,
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@beerladiespod @craftgeeksa synaesthesia

Cloudguy, to random

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    samueljohnson,
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    @Cloudguy Login isn't working for me atm.

    postfilm, to random
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    Who would have thought that a farcical feudal ceremony backed by a fascistic flag-shagging government would lead to the oppression of free speech?
    When you lament the totalitarianism of China or Russia, recall the demise of civil liberties in the UK today.

    samueljohnson,
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    @peter_lord @debenore @postfilm I am not British and am largely indifferent to the desire of many British to live in a heritage theme park riddled with anachronisms like leasehold property tenure, unelected bishops in the legislature, sectarian laws on the statute books, royal exemptions from taxes, hereditary legislators, titles of nobility and all the rest of the feudal nonsense they imagine is "world beating".

    samueljohnson,
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    @peter_lord @debenore @postfilm It is useful, as in Ireland, Germany and others, to have a person with specific responsibilities such as signing legislation into law (or referring to a supreme court for consideration as to constitutionality). In the UK the crown is a rubber stamp which is obliged to prorogue parliament, sign legislation etc, and has only fictional authority.

    samueljohnson,
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    @debenore @postfilm Ireland, Germany and many others manage perfectly well with an elected head of state. No need whatever for feudal anachronisms.

    samueljohnson,
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    @peter_lord @debenore @postfilm It was all imposed by force on my country (Ireland) and eventually removed by force from most of it - - a gerrymandered legacy colony imposed at gunpoint remains and awaits the dustbin of history, like monarchy. Performative loyalty to the crown remains a hallmark of settler colonialism abroad and amnesia and ignorance in Britain.

    yacc143, to random
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    Funny how the Brits cannot understand that a common currency is important to a single market: Just was doing my travel reimbursements, and being holier than the pope, I did take the exact costs that were charged to my card for the train tickets in the UK.

    4 days difference, and 6 cent difference. €14.25 versus €14.19.
    0.4% in € price difference.

    One might argue that this is irrelevant, but with margins in many industries being way below 5%, these currency fluctuations are major.

    samueljohnson,
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    @yacc143 You're not wrong. Don't forget that it has happened quite often that the likes of BP have made more money from treasury operations than from their core business operations, and, ofc, others have blown up. People sitting on lots of cash like to find ways to juice their returns regardless of the underlying fundamentals (and reward themselves accordingly, leaving the subsequent fallout to successors & govts + taxpayers).

    A few, like the Bank of North Dakota, have different values.

    bullivant, to random

    Bobby Sands (Robert Gerard Sands - Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) was born on 9th March 1954 in Dunmurry, County Antrim. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. He died as a result of the hunger strike on 5th May 1981.

    samueljohnson,
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    @devxvda @bullivant They have an abiding animosity toward the British (the "Little Satan", whose power and influence they still have an entirely outdated notion of) and a willingness to regard the enemy of an enemy as a friend. It's little more than a snook.

    Cloudguy, to random

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    @Cloudguy @ian_mclaughlin Imo it's quite likely to happen after the next election when Labour fails to secure an overall majority, leaving Belarus as the remaining exponent of FPTP in Europe. The Tories are now as doomed as the old Liberals were.

    samueljohnson,
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    @Cloudguy Entirely untrue. The party stands for PR. It's why I voted for them.

    ottocrat, to random

    Argh, again on the royalists’ so-called ‘gotcha’ is slapped down: “who wants an elected President B Johnson?” In a parliamentary system, the symbolic Head of State has no political power and there’s no bloody reason to make them elected ffs! Follow the example of Germany or Canada and have them appointed by consensus! Don’t make me go on Twitter and @ @iandunt 😩

    samueljohnson,
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    @ottocrat We manage reasonably well in Ireland.

    Met an unbearably up-himself posh Brit married to a foreign diplomat posted in Ireland who, having met him, made condescending remarks about the President ('s stature --principally). Utterly ignorant of his background: sociologist, human rights activist, academic, writer, linguist, poet, politician, minister, senator etc. Better than a hereditary booby I ventured. He wasn't amused nor did he agree.

    The forelock tugging instinct runs deep.

    ottocrat, to random

    Uncovered another lovely Brexit dividend today when I learned that my UK marriage certificate won’t be recognised by my employer (the EU) unless I pay £200 to a notary to “apostille” it. 🤬

    samueljohnson,
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    @ottocrat This malarkey is an actual case of a potentially useful application of blockchain technology.

    But...only one document? That's getting off lightly. I needed many once.

    You can end up like the student tourist in Iceland. $25 for a sandwich? Damn, that's cheap. (me, years ago, after a few days)

    Cloudguy, to random

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    samueljohnson,
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    @guitarmoog Got an old PC or laptop? Stick Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition) on it then this and give it a go.

    YlvaJohansson, to random

    Corruption is a threat to our security, with 60% of organised crime groups using corruption.

    Now the @EU_Commission is proposing a comprehensive set of corruption crimes to bring the fight where it hurts the corrupt the most.

    Details 👇
    https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_2516

    🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/YlvaJohansson/status/1653718959860903936

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    samueljohnson,
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    @YlvaJohansson @EU_Commission 👏Ireland has been dragging its feet on anti-corruption legislation. This will hopefully help address that, right across the EU.

    davidallengreen, to random
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    BLOGPOST

    Coronation notes from a non-militant republican

    Working out the constitutional significance of yesterday's ceremony

    https://lawandlore.substack.com/p/coronation-notes-from-a-non-militant

    samueljohnson,
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    @davidallengreen In fact the monarchy will be removed and forgotten by degrees long after the post boxes have been painted green. (In Ireland's case it's happened long ago and an elected president serves the constitutional purpose ascribed to the crown). The heritage theme park may last longer in England but the idea of it doing so in perpetuity is English exceptionalism (not so different from attitudes to the church in Ireland in living memory).

    hughsheehy, to random

    There isn't even a word for this backwards attitude. Social luddism? Head-up-your-assness?

    samueljohnson,
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    @hughsheehy https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/04/27/britain-is-dead/

    Cloudguy, to random

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    samueljohnson,
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    @Cloudguy @sjvn 100%. There's really no comparison. You may enjoy this from Nick Segway to Today's Sponsor

    https://youtu.be/TuPO-eAMy4I

    mwichary, to random
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    Flying out to London tonight for a bit. If you’re a mutual living there and would like to hang out, please DM!

    samueljohnson,
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    @mwichary Abandoned London (and Brexitopia). One of the things I never got around to was a visit to the London Type Museum. Partly as I was away a lot, latterly as it's mostly closed. They might open it for you if you ask nicely (good luck).

    http://www.typearchive.org/

    samueljohnson, to random
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    Britain is Dead.

    https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/04/27/britain-is-dead/

    🔥

    samueljohnson, to random
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    Some years ago demutualisation of credit unions and other mutual financial entities was popular in the UK, with shareholders effectively paid a bribe to go public, freezing up assets for management to speculate with and reward themselves extravagantly.

    Why has nobody thought of demutualising the crown, or most of it?

    samueljohnson, to random
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    https://theconversation.com/ai-is-helping-astronomers-make-new-discoveries-and-learn-about-the-universe-faster-than-ever-before-204351

    Astronomy and AI.

    How AI is enabling astronomical acceleration in productivity in science based on large data sets, not just astronomy.

    samueljohnson, to random
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    A Twitter thread, w apologies; we'll be hearing more demands for cake from the EU from British exceptionalists on the Remain side

    https://bird.makeup/users/nialloconghaile/statuses/1655137775144910855

    The reaction here to advice that EU doesn't trust the UK and will not simply comply is telling: obdurate denial then blocking. To which one can only say, yeah, that'll work.

    It did before, didn't it

    https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/11/09/swallow-the-lot-and-swallow-it-now-britain-is-and-was-deluded-about-its-negotiating-power-with-the-eu/

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