Brendan Halpin

@bthalpin
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Sociologist in Limerick

Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes

Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python

Linux on the desktop since about 1997

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Lo and behold

It has been pointed out that lots of the people involved in the US's Jan 6th insurrection were affluent non-professional business owners, in real estate, car sales etc. Wealthy but not typically college educated.

I see a big parallel with the Irish fuel protests: agri-contractors and road-hauliers.

#mastodaoine

@dancingtreefrog 100% but one exception (not clear why): I tell you "not to do something", not "to not do something"

"If you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear ?
- I'm fearing your definition of wrong. "

#StarWars #Andor #Senate #OperationLikeTheWind #Meme ...

@ownohmanny And yet there are people who will react to this as the world turned upside down
I saw my first martin of the year this morning, at Annacotty weir. Probably a house martin, though in a location where sand martins are common.
If anybody in rural Ireland will be OK no matter what happens the price of diesel, it's the guys with a couple of million euro tied up in these huge machines.

découverte étonnante de la mission artémis 2 :

(le montage est pas de moi, ça fait 10 ans qu'il circule sur le net et me fait mourir de rire)

Civil disobedience is an important political tool. But it doesn't mean that you're not breaking the law, simply that you are breaking the law to make a point.

So a nice softly-softly way of dealing with the tractor/truck protest would be to start issuing tickets for every road traffic offence. Like parking on a motorway or in a junction.

#mastodaoine

I was okay with the millions of Irish starved to death, but I draw the line at 1,004 enslaved Africans!

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