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Agreed. There is a noticeable increase in quality with the Google AI search Gemini responses. Exact same questions that I asked months ago, now get way higher quality replies. The AI summaries are a useful tool and also help the end user more precisely phrase search queries.
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Thanks, the sooner the betterš
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Hi Feljin, do you know when Lincoln Place will change to a pedestrian-only area as part of the wider Dublin City Centre Transport Plan? Thanks.
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He's probably right. Bond holders are always prioritized. But it will be at the expense of inflation. And given the cavalier attitude to government debt in the US, inflation is going to be high in the years to come.
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Coal is slightly down, but oil and gas consumption are up. In 2024, global fossil fuel consumption grew 1.5% and energy demand grew 2.4%. When one considers fossil fuel consumption for all purposes, in absolute global terms, we are still moving in the wrong direction.
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Good news in percentage terms. But in absolute terms, in terms of total energy consumption, fossil fuel usage is still growing.
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Pity we have to wait this long for the Ringsend to College Green Active Travel Scheme. It's such a long stretch of City Centre road, I think Pearse Street would be easier to tackle in smaller segments, and there are some parts with quick win potential where bollards as an interim measure would help
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Agreed that this change boosts bus priority and slightly helps pedestrians ... But the lack of any new segregated bike lane, on this segment of Pearse Street, as part of this change is disappointing. Pearse Street is very dangerous for cyclists. Pearse Street needs a segregated bike lane.
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Shocking indeed but bond markets are being rational given the cavalier attitudes to debt, tax cuts without matching revenue, tariff induced inflation and an ageing population. Inflation, currency debasement and money printing here we come.
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Very little has changed with this small interim scheme. The permanent scheme keeps getting delayed, hopefully it will start in 2025.
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80% affected, not 80% dead.
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The lack of transparency in prescription pricing is shocking. Big pharmacy chains should be mandated to publish their prescription price list online.
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Agreed. In addition, apartments should be mandated to be constructed with solar balcony's.
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Not clear from the article if any streets are being turned into pedestrian streets? It's a pity that cars will not be banned from all of Duke Street. Good to see that bicycle stands will be added, they are badly needed, would be good if DCC states how many.
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Most C02 emission contributors (airlines, agriculture, transport) continue to trend in the wrong direction. The majority are not willing to change their lifestyle (stop flying, eating meat and driving fossil fuel cars), more extensive carbon taxes are needed.
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The correlation between the realization of horror that climate change will inflict and action is sadly low. People are rarely willing to change their lifestyle (ditch cars, adopt a vegan diet, stop flying, advocate for carbon taxes etc) even when the penny drops.
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Great. Hopefully, Pearse Street, from Sandwich Street to Lombart street will have 2 way segregated bike lanes. Also, hopefully, DCC accelerates plans to make Lincoln Place car-free + starts making more areas of the city car-free + accelerates bike lanes such as Trinity to Ballsbridge.
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AI's capabilities are real. But agreed that widespread productivity gains from AI have not occurred yet, but sector specific gains have absolutely occurred, and the models are continuously and rapidly improving. Sure there are challenges but AI is a viable, evolving & amazing multi-purpose product.
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AI is not all garbage nor hype. The capabilities of AI in areas such as image generation, video generation, coding, translation, tutoring, medical image reading, reasoning and many more areas keep growing. In just the last week new models and capabilities have grown again.
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Insightful and concerning article. Car tire particles are not just producing microplastics at scale, tires also poisoning rivers, animals and people with chemicals. Fossil fuel damage by cars is well known, tire particles pollution deserves more attention.
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Perhaps an unusual seasonal variation. But the methane trend is crystal clear. Methane, C02, SST, LST, Ice extent are all rapidly speeding in the wrong direction.
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One can look at these worsening stats two ways. One can still think this is a blimp and focus on long term averages. Or one can think that fast acceleration is occurring. I think it's the latter.
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The difference between AI needs in banking versus other areas is banking needs more precision rather than creativity. AI needs to get good at process automation, via learning from humans, to make a real dent in banking employment. It's not there yet.
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We need lots of flood walls. We need proactive pre-problem builds, not after it's too late. But does the foresight exist?
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What I find most puzzling is the lack of outright alarm about the clear acceleration in temperatures. I mean, we are in the neutral phase (no El NiƱo nor La NiƱa) and should therefore be experiencing 'normal' temps, and if this level of acceleration is the new normal, we are totally screwed.
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"A major source of plastic in the air is driving". Tackling microplastics requires a massive reduction in car use including EVs. We need massive incentives to stop people using cars. I wish I could say it will happen.
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Ask the question another way and you get a different result. For example, if you ask do you support higher taxes to tackle climate change, 82% say no. www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...
i.e. Very easy to say you "support" something, but the support dwindles when details are presented.
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We are able to *detect* more leaks. But, even when presented with the data the vast majority of polluters ignore the data. www.newscientist.com/article/2456...
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There is an automated account that posts Guardian articles here - bsky.app/profile/guar... . It would be nice to see the Guardian have an official account here. (Would like to see The Economist here too).