brendan-curran.bsky.social
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And yet everyone thinks they had a better strategy for Kamala than to let him do that
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Real lawyers realise that the written words are just an aide memoire and a teaching aide for the norms that society has agreed for itself. Some of our least ambiguous laws are an unwritten inheritance from Normans times.
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I thought Rwanda was an exemplar of the rule of law anyway.
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The Sisyphean spider climbs up the water spout
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Oh hello author! I work in renewables (and other) permitting and there’s definitely a perception that Chinese successes are the result of limits on public participation. I will read with interest.
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It’s just China right? None of the other governments of any kind are moving particularly fast
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The one that grabbed my attention in the Guardian today was that the cost of PFAS remediation was going to be $42tn…based on the assumption that the current methods will never improve.
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He’s been found liable, so isn’t that President-grade?
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As a lawyer, I think about this a lot. Why do some legal questions have clear answers and others need caveats when both are written with the same precision? It’s because the writing is an expression of law as much deeper socially construct that achieves clarity through persuasion and precedent.
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Except those of us who are literally children, but I hear ya
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Sorry, didn’t mean to be confrontational. My point was more that the population of Germany is spread out through dozens of medium size cities, making high speed rail especially useful whereas Washington and Oregon are concentrated in a much smaller area.
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Now do pop density
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Some data has to be kept in the EU to comply with GDPR. Ireland is a mild climate where it is cheaper and more energy efficient to cool data centres. It is a politically stable business friendly jurisdiction. our benefit? It keeps tech executives based here to supervise their most important asset.
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Need those red lights to pulse to get the full vibe
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Is that like three syllables or four?
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You want people to DIE for this dream of yours?!
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It’s the Parnell Monument.
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Pick any year before 1870 and think about unlikely it would have seemed that we get this far.