I agree Ireland should be stopping the use of Ireland, a neutral country by its constitution, from allowing acts of war to be committed using its resources, never mind illegal acts of war. However, it’s a tired trope about government wasting money going overseas for st Patrick’s day. It makes sense to leverage the festival about Ireland, that is celebrated outside Ireland too.

I haven’t seen the west wing mentioned. It’s great drama with character arcs thatead to growth, which was unusual for episodic tv at the time. It chronicles the fictional presidents white house team dealing with politics and running the country, with ideals, pragmatism when ideals can’t work and holds politicians to a standard that we’d all benefit from.

The IT crowd has already been mentioned. It is laugh out loud funny, but being British, the absurdist humour can take a bit of getting used to. It’s not meant to depict realism, but charicatures. Don’t be afraid to pirate it as the lead writer is a massive dickhead.

Chernobyl is amazing, as others have said. Really tender exploration for the people that would have been involved at all levels. It’s harrowing at parts, inspiring at others. It makes us all seem human rather than a world of countries.

Buffy is peak for me with the knster of the week, overarching main baddie for a season and the funny quips mixed in. Others prefer angel or xfiles or fringe. However if any of the above tickle your fancy, you should try the others. Then try firefly and the movie.

I haven’t seen much reality TV here. You should check out the UK version of the traitors. It’s amazing TV. Like other reality TV, as the seasons go on, the participants have more of an idea of the course of the show and how they’ll be perceived. In ye first, they are a blank slate and you can see that the stress of deception is getting to them in a real way and the paranoia affects all.

The wire is a great cops and robbers show that bluts the lines between good guys and bad guys. All are just people doing what they can to make their way. Some that’s with crime, some that’s with stopping crime. All have dark sides and a human side.

Don’t worry, main character is a smuggler. Fine to pirate.

The margins in grocery are razor thin. It’s a volume game…usually they have your cash before they need to pay the supplier with 30 days payment pretty standard in business.

I’m not saying they won’t do all you’re suggesting. I’m saying they’ll do both. Unless we prevent them with regulations and fines.

Some countries require pricing to be visible. I would assume, just like online, they will use algorithms and ai to figure out what price point gives the most profit. Its only trouble to set up. The corporate world doesn’t look at trouble. They look at cost. If the return investment is positive, they do it. If it’s high, they do it as a priority.

Not all retail is online. Much is but not all. Groceries is one that is often better in person for that evenings meal on the way home from work. It’s led to the rise of metro style supermarkets near transport hubs.

I a shop with 10 products, yes, I’d agree. In a supermarket with thousands of products, they can predict what you’re likely to buy if you’re a regular customer and you might be the only one buying those items that day.

I don’t expect them to do it overnight. First they roll them out for the cost savings. Just like they did with barcodes rather than price labels. Then they start to look at other savings or profit centres.

After a while it becomes, why wouldn’t they do it?

They don’t currently, but they could.

Take brand x on the shelf. Sold for $5 at a profit of $1. They sell 10 per week. You buy 2 if those every week, on Wednesday at about 6pm. Why not make them $5.50 next Wednesday and see what happens. Normal price on other days as no pattern identified.

Then once that’s successful, why not have beacons detecting your phone, or even the stores app feeding your location. Then they can update just for the hours you are there.

Oh, but you’ll say you swore it said $5 when you picked it off the shelf. The worker will say they have to charge what’s there now and what it scanned as. Your choice to purchase it or go look for something else.

They’ve already started all this crap with online purchasing. It’s just moving it to retail.

I find it pretty easy. I never see any lying around that I’ve missed.

Yes, it protects the smaller countries as much as the big ones. Any trade retaliation, like cutting off Spain means all members would cut off USA.

All he’s doing is creating more states willing to drop USA softly. Denmark was shocked awake. Now Spain. Hopefully Ireland soon. France has always been moderately awake.

The USA is not a trustworthy partner. Their interests conflict with European values and European interests more and more.

Ruasia and china are worries, but Russia less so as it’s seen to be weak but disruptive. China acts reliably but sometimes against others interests. China are less collaborative but moving to be moreso. They will do what they can to fill the void.

Add all this uncertainty with another war in the middle east and we’re in for a rough few years. It looks like Iran has been preparing for a drawn out war for quite a while. The USA has not, yet started one.

Yes, but of that many people are already paying and they are still burning through billions, it’s even more of a bubble than I thought. The chance of.profitability with direct to consumer is less likely.

So clearly it will be mainly corporate and enshittified versions going forward.

I thought he doesn’t own any of them. Just leases his name.

Radiohead - in rainbows

They tried to go outside the existing studio release system before the rise of streaming. It was a pay what you want release.

Nirvana - unplugged in new York

Took a backlash to overproduced music at the time and started a still going strong tradition of publishing live albums.

Air - moon safari

Took electronic music and added a soul with otherworldly sounds and production to make chill out music that could be played in a club or on the beach or in a park with friends.

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in memphis Dusty brought back music to white people. There is a long tradition of white artists taking black music and presenting it palatably to white audiences. From elvis to P!nk. however, the UK as a more melting pot society without segregation, doesn’t see it as cultural appropriation, but just another style for anyone to sing. That tradition continues with Amy winehouse and adele today.

I’m surprised so many people were paying for it. Seems like more people want less ai not more these days.

Solar plus battery is much cheaper than nuclear. And it adds immediately. Nuclear takes years and doesn’t come online til the project is finished. Solar comes online incrementally and can be anywhere.

Impacted teeth can get infected which is painful. Being impacted does not always cause problems. Wisdom teeth that come through normally can also cause problems and get infected and need removal.

Most people need them out, but not all. Too early to tell here.

Google takeout for Google Photos. If you have the space, add it to drive for downloading as the links expire if you request it for download instead. Choose the largest file size as otherwise it’s a pain to download. Be aware the meta data is not useful. If you are going to use Immich, Immich-go can help import direct from the zip files you creat.

Not all wisdom teeth need to be removed. Thes ones are still growing. The second molars roots are still growing too, so this is likely a young teen.

In much the same way that the west did not protect Ukraine despite them voluntarily giving up their nukes. Iran likely sees that and makes it even more desirable to have nukes. Whether they are actively developing them, or that’s a pretext for an invasion that’s once again about oil is yet to be seen.

Yes, farmers markets are ideal but they are not as common as independent grocers.and don’t match every schedule as sometimes only open for a few hours a week.

It’s hard at Aldi to get the same processed crap week on week out. It kind of needs a mindset change. Go in looking for stuff to try not your usual stuff to buy. You’ll find some you like and some you don’t. They change and rotate available products all the time.

It’s also terrible for the environment for us to be time shifting all our fresh produce. We should be eating more seasonally, which doesn’t have to mean less choice.