animatewithdermot.bsky.social
Animator & Designer. Irish, living in windswept Roscommon/Mayo.
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Those who know, know.
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The Irish government wants to jump on this AI insanity. Saying we need a nuclear power plant to run it.
Dear god, make it end.
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They have big brains. Check out the red line, haha.
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Bonaparte
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Yikes. Consider my gob smacked!
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I've watched too many vids from the UKR/RU war. It's drones all the way. All the big weapons systems are great craic if we want to re-litigate WW2, otherwise they're just targets for some spotty teen with a joystick. Seriously, watch the war vloggers. It might cop some people on.
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That state was also brought into existence NOT by a conventional standing army, but an unconventional paramilitary one. There were no standing battles against the UK, it was a guerilla war. Taliban just outlasted the US in a similar vein, all the expensive US toys notwithstanding.
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He's another member of the 101st Fighting Keyboard Brigade.
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"SOME PEOPLE SAY"
This is what wikipedia would flag very quickly as "weasel words". Shame the vaunted Irish Times can't rise to that level of quality control.
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"You must tolerate the intolerant" is the most noxious tripe imaginable. It tells us something about the class backgrounds, material conditions and ideology of the person saying it.
I've had friends had GUNS POINTED AT THEM at a peaceful protest in OR, maybe my friend should have been nicer?
FFS
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An Iron Age human centipede.
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Same with asbestos removal. It's too expensive for individuals, so it ends up removed illegally, or buried or (in one horrific story I heard) mixed up in concrete and used to build walls.
Govt. needs to subsidise all of this work. We know they have the money (bike sheds, flip flops, etc etc etc etc)
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Well that's one way to get the young voter cohort out to vote in 2029.
Operation 'Destroy the British Labour Party from within' moves to Stage 4.
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The Irish Labour party (before it imploded) was a coalition of middle class (Irish Times / Dublin 4 posh pricks) and working class union types like my dad.
If a third party starts putting together a base like that, BLP better watch out. If they had sense, that is.
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Or the idea of staying at home.
The arrogance of these technocrats is something else.
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It's some serious 'Death of the Author' stuff.
The bros should watch 'American History X' to have a better idea of the royal road to ruin they're dancing down.
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Here, have some medicine!
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Problem is if you allow even ONE sequel into your list, it's a slippery slope. Before you know it you're watching 'Alien Vs. Frankenstein, The Musical'.
JUST SAY NO TO SEQUELS.
Apart from Dune 2 and 3. 😁
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'Falling Down' definitely a much better example. I saw it in Dublin, last cinema movie I watched in Ireland before moving to LA in 1993.
Looking back, maybe should have taken that as a more of a warning.
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Yeah, Matrix is silly. And Keanu Reeves is half Hawaiian. Born in Lebanon, dad is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, and Portuguese descent. Matrix was hugely popular in African-American communities, the studio was blind-sided by that. But the reason why should have been obvious.
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All we heard from them during that time was how "serious" and "adult" and "professional" they were. During the GE campaign, if she'd said "I don't know how to grow the economy, but I'll ask some private equity spivs what ideas they might have", that would have gone down like a cup of cold sick.
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She had what, FOUR to FIVE YEARS as shadow chancellor? What was she doing during that period? Making a plan for what to do once in power was HER LITERAL GODDAM JOB!
These people, as incompetent as they are venal.
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Don't forget to pay your licence fee! Someone has to pay the costs of all that Donnybrook slime!
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They didn't just tell the left to FO, they actively purged them. Now, as they see the consequences of that, and faragism threatening to push lab into 3rd or 4th place, they blame their victims. It really is something to see.
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I just want the AI to open the fucking pod bay doors
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Good luck with this. ADUs (additional dwelling units) were built all over the place in Portland OR when I lived there (2008-22), as housing and rent prices rose. They did exactly NOTHING to solve the crisis there, only ending up as yuppie pods and AirBNBs.
Change the money or change nothing.
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Co-operate they say? Like this, they mean?????
For LIKING A GREEN PARTY TWEET?
These people have a brass neck.
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We're near a few. They are BLEAK. Walked into one nearby (since half flattened by Eowyn). Soulless and gloomy.
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"Focus groups looked at our pics of Streeting, Reeves and Starmer and puked up in their mouths."
"Do we have anyone else who doesn't make them puke in their mouths"?
"NO! Have you seen the front bench?"
"Dammit. Ehm. Just use a gerbil."
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Every time I've found a writer or analyst who hates all the right things, it was fun to read them. Then, after a few years, I'd find out not what they dislike but what they want. And what they want was always some form or bigotry. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
The enemy of your enemy is your enemy.
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The article was about snarl words (General Semantics / Hayakawa). The URL contained 'grammar-nazi' (it was a clearly satirical self-joke by the owner). Posted the link, and some FB Boomer-brain went apeshit, called ME a grammar nazi, policing his language, etc., just went into a 100% ragegasm.
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Soon Elon will unroll a Neuralink booth to help you stay focused!
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It was one of the first internet platforms that made me feel not just old, but old and tired.
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Digging in the poll data is strange stuff. 22% churn from LibDem to Reform, for example. There's bound to be a lot more weird stuff like that.
If the next 4 years is LabDrones chiding leftwingers who they drove out to vote for them, instead of dealing with material fundamentals, they're fooked.
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"You asked me to 'do something'. I AM DOING SOMETHING.
I'm working on my backswing!"
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Yup, that stood out to me too.
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I think "collapsing Imperial Core" describes it better, but if "island nation" works for Keirnoch Powell, so be it.
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I had someone call me a bastard based on the URL of the article I posted, which had NOTHING to do with the content of the article.
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And power cuts are the least of our worries. WHEN (WHEN) there's a heatwave, one electrical arc and the fires will rip. I saw enough of them when in Oregon and California, I guess they'll follow me here too. "Oh, nobody could have known", they'll bleat.
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Near my home is a half fallen sitka plantation, with power lines still a few feet from standing trees. On a drive into Mayo recently, I had a good look at multiple power lines going through still standing plantations, no attempt to cut clearance.
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The troglodyte who found out how to start a fire.
GET HIM
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Up to 6 likes already!
Coincidentally, that's how many MPs they'll have after the next GE.
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I have in-laws in Chicago. No plans to return trans-atlantic from Ireland any time soon, but if we do need to travel, it's direct to Canada, and land crossing to the basement.
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10 PRINT "GO AWAY ELON"
20 GOTO 10
>RUN
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Ditto! The scariest vampire to this day!
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Jesus, that face would have scared Ed Gein.
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We're a James Joyce house here!