karlstanley.bsky.social
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In Ireland where I live, the number of cars on the road has tripled since 1990. There has been a notable decline in kids playing outdoors and unsupervised play in that period. A big factor is that it’s dangerous to kick a ball on your street now - this wasn’t the case when I was a kid in the 80s.
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Fuck off with this shite, Dublin says AI is for saps.
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Great article Eoin, really important that this quiet cancellation of schemes that have huge local support gets reported on.
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Fewer parkings
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It’s because of cars. Kids can’t walk around on their own any more because of cars.
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Literal jaw drop at RTE headline yesterday welcoming the fact that Eavan Boland came up in English Paper 2. Lads is there not something more *newsworthy* to report on?
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My assumption is there is no malice here, but there are also no internal champions in the exec who will drive these things forward. There are so many examples of this, such as bike bunkers. Piloted 10 years ago and .... www.dublininquirer.com/councillors-...
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Ah here don't leave us hanging
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I was temp co-opted to DCC for the Clontarf LEA in early 2023 and was one of the 6 local cllrs who allocated a portion of their discretionary funding for a Marino traffic scheme. Literally unanimous support for it, yet the exec just quietly put the money back in the general TAG pool and did nothing.
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I will be pursuing this as there is nothing I enjoy more than beating my skull against the implacable bureaucracy of Dublin City Council. May have to convene a meeting with some local peeps - this is just not good enough.
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And to call the collection of bright yellow nurburgring-style bollards at the bottom of Haverty Rd a "neighbourhood scheme" is ridiculous.
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Infuriating. I was a Clontarf cllr (temp co-option) in 2023 and I willingly gave up discretionary funding for the area specifically so it could be used to seed a neighbourhood traffic scheme for Marino. Every other cllr in the LEA did the same. And it just got put back into the general TAG budget?
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NARRATOR: The Dems are not smart
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It is mind boggling to me that a City Council would relocate outside its city.
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We had a phallocentric discourse by accident
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10,000 points you get to be governor of a remote colony, reorganise the economy at gunpoint and create a huge famine that you blame on the laziness and stupidity of the colonised
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I would also say it's odds-on he's next FF leader after Martin steps down (which he'll probably do after Harris takes the Taoiseach role, provided govt lasts that long) and this is all part of his "not being afraid to take the tough decisions" vomit inducing shtick they all do.
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He's a barrister by profession, from Foxrock I think, brother to Miriam O'Callaghan, has been a TD since 2016. Previously a lawyer and city councillor. I used to live in South Dublin and I vividly remember not giving him a preference in the 2007 GE.
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Oh I’ve had this recommended before but am yet to watch it. Thanks for the reminder!
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Ukraine had the option to do the funniest thing ever by drone delivering a happy meal beside every bomber they exploded.
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They raised €30mn in investor capital, which is just as well because hiring 50-100 people is expensive and the 170k deliveries they claim to have made over a 4 year period wouldn't even begin to cover those wages. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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I love this, could finally be the common cause that brings Dubliners together :)
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They want performative cruelty and they want Mexico to pay for it.
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They don't land for this reason - too easy to drive over or otherwise damage a drone on the ground. AFAIK they fly at about 70m altitude in transit and descend to about 15m for delivery. The payload is dropped down by a cable, which I am guessing detaches if anyone pulls on it too hard.
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LOL I hadn't thought of the drone payload as a loot box, but yep that's exactly what it is :)
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Here are some examples - neither pro or anti, but at least presenting a multifaceted view of what's happening.
www.dublininquirer.com/flying-drone...
www.dublininquirer.com/amid-plans-f...
www.dublininquirer.com/councillors-...
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Would be good to discuss fair use of the commons (the sky in this case). I'd also like media coverage that takes in the views of all stakeholders, not just the guy trying to promote his business. The only media outlet I have seen actually engaging with this topic seriously is @dublininquirer.com
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Good job on using a suitably serious photo for this story instead of the usual people-at-beach or kids-eating-ice-cream pics we get alongside alarming climate news.
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A good point! Nobody asked for consent for those either, though expectations were already set that roads are noisy places. This is why people live in housing estates away from the main roads. Maybe limiting flight routes to along existing roads would solve for privacy and noise concerns?
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Ambulances use sirens and break traffic lights and pizza vans don't, since ambulance journeys are life-and-death and pizzas aren't. In the same way, drone delivery imposes costs on people along the flight path and we need to assess if the ends (lattes) justify the means (noisy aerial surveillance)
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The two (externalised costs like noise or privacy issues v benefit like quick delivery) should be assessed together. Manna started out talking about delivering medicines as that is not controversial. But inconveniencing your neighbours to take urgent delivery of non-urgent things is antisocial.
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"She has a CEO plan for the machine" 10 / 10 no notes
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Great letter! I see that the media have also been uncritically republishing a press release from that drone delivery business as if it was news.
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A lotta yall still dont get it
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The people who stand to profit from this service say that "most people" don't have an issue with it? It would be naive to take that claim at face value, especially when there is plenty of evidence (per article I linked) that a cohort of people _do_ have a problem with it.
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Anyone ordering a book by drone needs to to give their head a wobble. There is no emergency situation where someone needs a book in minutes. Why would you subject everyone around you to that level of noise and disruption for something that can be easily obtained by other means?
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www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
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Bloody cyclists
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If you want to know why I drip with disgust about these companies it’s because I love technology and I hate them for what they’ve done to the computer. It has never been perfect, but four or five companies decided that it had to be this bad, and they should be treated like war criminals for it.
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Only a matter of time before they invent a drone that can go airplane into your mouth by the spoonful. The ultimate in just-in-time delivery.