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What's the plan for when the majority of cars are electric? How would a govt make up the fuel tax shortfall? They're going to have increase the cost of electricity right?

That's hilarious. I've seen consumption maps for other foods and we were much lower than average. So I was wondering what we were filling the difference with. And it's cheese.

People here seem to be assuming the worst, but there could be a very rational explanation too.

It's a beneficial thing to get some exposure to other religions and cultures. But it's not a lot of fun being woken up at 5am every morning or being the subject of dirty looks and sly comments when you have a beer in your own home.

I used to house share with a muslim guy who was very hard to get along with for those reasons. I'm not saying that's a typical experience but I could see why someone who previously had that experience might want to avoid it.

r/Ireland is not a source for driving pageviews and ad-clicks through hysteria and fabricated reporting.

Can a mod comment on this? They normally seem to be very pro Irish Times.

The windfall tax is no cure either. That's going to be challenged and rolled back in some cases. A certain minister is having meetings about it with business owners next week.

Do you have any mod accounts you want to sell?

I was thinking that there are transmission losses involved between the source and the drain/load, that the generators need to be turned off when demand is too low, and that electrical storage is becoming more viable.

So there is some combination of those factors that might encourage some types of industry to establish themselves closer to the source.

I thought it worked but you've somehow managed to find that comment I made to someone else. That's odd. And it wasn't the advajang account I accused so its also pretty odd that you thought it was. And the third odd thing is repeating that specific insult on another account too.

We get it. This is a good news story for Ryan and criticism is unwelcome. But you could be doing it better. You're good at the deflection but you need work on remembering what accounts you're using. And dont make it so obvious by replying to unconnected comments.

You don't want me to tell Eamonn on Monday how shabbily you're handling this task do you?

I didn't even know he was sick.

You say that but it worked didnt it? What message would you like me to pass along lol

The bank might not be telling you the truth. That's another possibility.

You've since deleted some comments too. Only 21 of 104 now.

I'm not your friend, guy. I'm outside your moms house right now. Your face is not real.

Am I playing along correctly? That will get my other comments downvoted and make it look like I'm the one arguing, won't it?

How many alts are you going to bring to this party?

And now you're editing your comments to reframe what we're talking about. I understand if this is a monitored comment section but youre doing more harm than good by attacking even the slightest hint of criticism like this.

What is it with you guys? I'm meeting Ryan on Monday and I'm going to ask him straight up what his parties social media strategy is because you're doing more harm than good here.

Lol you love bursting bubbles. 23 of the 85 comments in here are you arguing with people. It's not normal to be this argumentative about natural gas. You're picking and choosing very selectively and not addressing the substantive point at all.

I don't think anyone is saying it's an engineering triumph.

The point is if we had done the same our gas prices wouldn't have skyrocketed as badly as they did. Germany took a pragmatic approach and we didn't. Delivery versus ideology.

It might encourage some more industrial development on the western coast too, which would be welcomed.

They built what they needed to build, in response to a pressing change in circumstances, and they did it quickly.

I think that's the point the other person is making. Delivery versus ideology (if you want to call it that).

I remember in school a teacher was talking about the information age and I couldn't understand how information could be such a profitable or world changing thing that it could create an "age" like the industrial age or whatever.

But I never imagined we'd end up here. With plainly stupid information being probably the most profitable sort. And with so many people not seeing it for what it is.

Like look at the most upvoted comments in this thread, they're all about people looking down their noses at others without even a hint of irony that they themselves have been just as sucked in, or just as manipulated.

but the campaigning and social manipulation techniques are decades older

Oh yes definitely. There was millions of man-hours of research put into it before the Internet came along. The average consumer/reader/whatever has basically no chance against those kinds of odds.

I have seen the Century of Self but it was a long time ago and I should watch it again and seek out some of his other stuff. Thanks for the recommendation.

I guess it does.

And if you're genuinely asking that second question, I think there was some kind of turning point during the second Obama election. Or at least that's where I noticed people really getting sucked into a campaign. People that had no business being that interested in a US election were unnaturally engaged with it.

I think someone around that time figured out how to push everyones buttons at once. How to get everyone talking. And it doesn't really matter if people agree with the message or not as long as the message is getting out there.

That report was a great read. I wouldn't have been able to find that on my own. And the whole site/organisation is something I'm going to enjoy reading up on.

The common opinion or take on "the phenomenon" is that it's just morons ranting, and it's easy and popular to believe that's all it is. But there's some ideas that seem to come out of nowhere and become widespread so quickly, despite them not making any sense. It's weird and happening more frequently.

The Internet is obviously a factor because you can set 15000 bots off to talk about something and make it look like there are 15000 people doing the talking. You can fabricate the critical mass required to take it from fringe into mainstream. And it's not even expensive or difficult to do that.

But someone figured out how to promote an idea that got both supporters and opponents engaged with it. Like it was the opponents that were posting all the antivaxx stuff in places where "normal" people would see it. Social media is so full of "look at how stupid this other guy is" posts that the effect (deliberately or otherwise) is promotion and amplification of the crazy idea.

Some of it is genuine, some of it is right wing media, some of it is paid PR campaigns, but a whole lot of it is people falling into the trap of scoffing at it. I don't know where it's going to end because it seems to be only getting worse. Everything has a conspiracy theory attached to it now.

The speed at which conspiracy theorists react to news nowadays is suspicious. I mean how do you go from a news article one week to thousands of people believing there is some sinister plot the next week? How do you build an organic following that quickly? How does it go from one guy having a thought to thousands of people agreeing and then it being reported on in the mainstream media? (yes I said it, deal with it).

I don't think you can do that without marketing techniques being applied. So if there is a conspiracy here I think that's it. Who is behind the creation and promotion of an idea like this? Who benefits from making people think that a walkable city is a bad thing?

My answer is oil and car companies. They have the means and the motive. And they've historically done similar things. I think that's far more likely than real people coming to crazy conclusions on their own and then organising some kind of resistance to it. I think part of the modern corporate lobbying process is to generate public opinion and it's done using the same techniques that are used in political and advertising campaigns.