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Dermot Dorgan

6 months

Risk Management > Science Risk Management > Medicine Risk Management > Philosophy Risk Management > Technology Risk Management first, then everything else.

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Dermot Dorgan

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1 month

@lukeming Luke, you are an embarrassment to the nation. You don't speak for anyone but yourself, you irredeemable sack of sh1t.

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19 days

@PaulSkallas The USA is not a nation. The people have no connection to the land. There is no such thing as 'home', only your current address.

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3 months

@PaulSkallas It was the natives who created it. It wouldn't be so pleasant were it not for them. The laptop class would dilute the culture. But Basques seem like proud people, and I don't think they'd stand for it. (Dubai will be sand again, soon enough. That's its story.)

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2 months

@IrishTimes The only time homelessness fell in Ireland was also the only time that international travel was restricted. It was no coincidence. End open border migration and the housing and homelessness crises will disappear.

Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

5 months

On the left, Irish homelessness. On the right, Irish asylum applications The green line marks the same date. When international travel is restricted, homelessness falls. When international travel resumes, homelessness rises again. This is not a coincidence. Obviously. 😑

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

I worked with a bunch of 'ZeroCovid' academics during the pandemic. They were the exact same as Jay - totally clueless about pandemic risk management, yet equally unwilling to admit it. Now I understand why they say "science progresses one funeral at a time".

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2 months

At the end of this clip, @DanaBashCNN excuses school closures and toddler masking by saying "people didn't as much because it was literally a novel virus." Maybe if @cnn had listened to scientists opposed to such nonsense at the time, she would not be so misinformed now.

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Dermot Dorgan

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24 days

@yuanyi_z Well who invaded Ireland then?! And why am I speaking a language called 'English'?? To deny that the English exist is to deny the Irish their centuries of victimhood. I won't stand for it!! 😁

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17 days

@eyeslasho The Hispanics are referred to by their culture, so it's easier for them to talk about it. Whereas the Europeans are referred to as "white", so their culture has been stripped away and replaced with the colour of sinfulness, which of course they can't celebrate.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan From one perspective it's a Ponzi scheme. From another, it's a Plantation. Either way, there are too many animals at the watering hole, and now the ecosystem is collapsing.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan "When your accommodation and utility bill is being picked up by the state you are capable of taking on lower paying work" Good point. It is economically undeniable that this lowers wages (and drives up rents) across the economy. It is societal poison.

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Dermot Dorgan

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17 days

@yuanyi_z Their point is that the Brits are claiming dominion over an island that they clearly have no right to. The parallels to Ireland are obvious. Even for a poundshop prof like yourself, that was a dumb take.

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23 days

@Niall_Boylan They have no other options. They gave SF a shot, but it turned out SF were even worse. So, we’re back to square 1.

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@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

@BallouxFrancois Mate, give it a rest. You're embarrassing yourself.

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13 days

@EoinLenihan I think modern FG see government like publishing a magazine. They each have their preferred articles that they want to get printed, and for McEntee it's hatespeech legislation. That's her 'thing' and she wants to get it published. It's a 'Hey look, I did a thing!' mindset.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@SenatorMcDowell @IrishTimes Open border migration is the cause of all of our housing problems. Solve migration and the housing and homelessness crises disappear.

Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

5 months

On the left, Irish homelessness. On the right, Irish asylum applications The green line marks the same date. When international travel is restricted, homelessness falls. When international travel resumes, homelessness rises again. This is not a coincidence. Obviously. 😑

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Dermot Dorgan

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2 months

@JamieMetzl @DrTedros Sorry, no. Tedros has been an appalling leader from the start and throughout. Tedros should have demanded transparency from the CCP in January 2020 - like Dr Gro did during SARS. If he had, we might have our answers by now. Instead, he did the opposite. The fact that he is

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2 months

@EoinLenihan It's impossible to vet people from countries that don't have a functioning civic infrastructure. They don't have the data and records that we need to make the decision. The logical response is to reject asylum claims from these countries. To do otherwise is to engage in a wild

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@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan Direct Provision is like an airlock, or a quarantine. It's a risk management structure that protects people on one side of a wall from what might be on the other. Like walls, they are essential for preserving the safety and integrity of society.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

3 months

@nntaleb They might want to slow down their growth so. There are only so many people who should do PhDs. Beyond that, it becomes a grift for all involved. The West is currently suffering from this 'fool's gold' effect.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

@Globalbiosec "I don’t think we need to panic; I think we just need to be alert" I think we need to have plans in place so that when key risk triggers are hit, we react quickly & competently. If we really knew what we were doing, we wouldn't be speculating about what we should be doing.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

"So far, the public health threat from H5N1 has been minimal because it cannot easily enter the cells of the human nose and mouth... MacIntyre describes the spiraling infections in animals as being “unprecedented” and says that urgent surveillance is needed to monitor whether

Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉

@Globalbiosec

6 months

Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways #H5N1

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Dermot Dorgan

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3 months

@PaulSkallas *Catalans! A great bunch of lads. (Also very proud 😁)

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2 months

@Niall_Boylan We need candidates and parties worth voting for. That's the main problem. This GE is a goner. It's the next one that matters.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

13 days

@paddymacc1 You miss the point: people over 60 have already picked their parties, and they’ll vote for them regardless. They read the IT. They watch RTE. There’s no getting through to them, so don’t bother.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@geoffreydgraham I think Pirsig talked about this in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In modernity, style and convenience have replaced quality. But really, nothing is more stylish or convenient than quality (in the long run).

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@PandemicRiskMan

1 month

@meghaverma_art Some people travel because they want a blank slate. They want to hang out with people they don’t know and who don’t know them. That can be a lot of fun, and maybe some people need it, but it's something you should do your 20s. It's not a reason to not get married.

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17 days

@DumbDumbMM @yuanyi_z Are you more of a visual learner?

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

5 months

On the left, Irish homelessness. On the right, Irish asylum applications The green line marks the same date. When international travel is restricted, homelessness falls. When international travel resumes, homelessness rises again. This is not a coincidence. Obviously. 😑

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@ajeya_cotra "Nature is sexist" Is this serious? Or some kind of joke?

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1 month

@Aaron_R_Rankin Accurate.

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Dermot Dorgan

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2 months

@higginsdavidw Any economist worth their salt should be able to understand the problem and the obvious solution. Most can, but are too cowardly to admit it.

Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

5 months

On the left, Irish homelessness. On the right, Irish asylum applications The green line marks the same date. When international travel is restricted, homelessness falls. When international travel resumes, homelessness rises again. This is not a coincidence. Obviously. 😑

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

7 months

@alexandrosM @elonmusk Musk took a punt and got lucky. He was a lottery winner. For every billionaire Musk, there are 1,000+ guys who failed and are miserable. It's great that we have the odd Musk, but it's better for society that we have men who want to be dentists and butchers and carpenters - and

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

8 months

@BjornLomborg Poorer countries at the top, richer countries at the bottom. It's almost as if this chart tells us more about the quality of health care in the country, and not the specific effects of Covid-19 policy-making 🤔

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan Do we have an estimate of 1) the population of Ireland c1600, and 2) the total number of planters who arrived over the following decades? Because that would help us to put the ongoing invasion - for which we do have good data - in context.

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@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@GadSaad Cruyff had some great quotes too!

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Dermot Dorgan

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19 days

@ihwylie @PaulSkallas The USA is NOT a nation. A nation is a people who share heritage, ancestry, language, and land. The Irish, English, French, Polish, Chinese, etc are nations. The Native Americans are nations. The north American settlers (ie YOU) are not.

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19 days

@PaulTreyvaud @SimonHarrisTD No doubt he takes the Covid inquiry very seriously as is 'proceeding with an abundance of caution'. Just like he and FG did in the first three months of 2020, which ultimately lead to the lockdowns.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

8 months

@nntaleb @BjornLomborg They always start with the conclusion that 'lockdown = bad', and then work backwards from there to an analysis which supports that conclusion. GBD, Johns Hopkins, etc. That's not to say lockdown = good, but it does mean their analysis will always be wrong, for some reason other.

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22 days

@ronanlyons That's simply not true Ronan. The housing crisis is now caused and sustained by excess demand. No matter how many homes you build, more people can turn up, leaving you permanently in a housing deficit. Which is where we've been over the last 20 years.

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@PandemicRiskMan

1 month

When the tap is on full blast, and the sink is overflowing... You don't need a bigger sink. You don't need more towels for the soakage either. The only thing you need... is a grown-up to turn off the tap. Ireland's housing crisis really is that simple. #IrelandisFull

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7 months

Warren Buffett on success and luck - a salutory lesson for the aspiring tech bros out there! 😁 "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the

Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️

@alexandrosM

7 months

Elon may have started twice as many billion dollar companies as the second on the leaderboard, but, you see, he was "lucky". Let's see: Zip2 (not a unicorn), PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, Boring, Neuralink, xAI. And of course he's bought and rebooted X. (People challenge the

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Dermot Dorgan

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1 month

@Telegraph What is "whiteness"? Did you mean 'Europeans'? It's odd for you to be complaining about anti-racism & critical race theory while also promoting their language and ideas.

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2 months

@SenatorMcDowell @IrishTimes Is it because the Brits were in charge back then?

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Dermot Dorgan

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7 months

@nntaleb You can have quality or quantity, but not both. The last 40 years of Western society have been about quantity. It's high time we headed back in the other direction.

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2 months

@John_Kavanagh So, nothing has changed since 2008 then?

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2 months

@CaulfieldTim She was given the privilege of representing her country at the Olympics. She was supposed to be doing her best to win gold for the people who had given her that opportunity. But instead of living up to that responsibility, she made it all about herself. She's a selfish person,

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6 months

@eyeslasho 1 One year over year decline is not a trend. 2 Murder rates seemed to increase sharply coming into 22/23, so declines from there can be large while still remaining elevated relative to long term trend.

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@PandemicRiskMan

7 months

@alexandrosM If Elon Musk had been born in a slum in Delhi, or as a woman in the Arab world, or 300 years ago, or maybe just to different parents, then none of that would have happened. That's luck. He got to work with Peter Thiel too - more luck! Once he had the first win, he had a

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

8 months

@mattwridley Poorer countries at the top, richer countries at the bottom. I think this tells us more about the quality of health care systems than it does about any Covid-19 policies. Let's be honest, there's no way you can identify and separate the effects of lockdowns vs other policy

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@PandemicRiskMan

1 month

@o_mcpartlin @ProgressIreland You could build 350k homes in the next 5 years, but if net migration is 500k+ over the same period, then you're back to where you started. The problem is on the demand side of the equation. We can't solve the housing crisis without addressing migration.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

13 days

@angryfermion L = 0. I studied finance and even I can work that one out 😎

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2 months

@Jklunden A couple of American tourists asked me for directions to Moore St the other day. They wanted to see the markets. 😬 I tried to be as nice to them as I could, because our conversation was probably going to be the highlight of their day.

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2 months

@EoinLenihan You beat me to the Kylie reference! I was going to tweet that tonight. Totally characteristic of the chap.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

7 months

@PaulSkallas Yeah, this is a problem for nerds. They got the best grades in school, but the jocks got all the status (and the girls). It's only their 40s that they get the celebrity they always felt they deserved. But by then, the rules have changed.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

@jim_demps It's not Nucifora's fault. It's the inevitable consequence of an unbalanced society. Dublin won 6 in a row for the same reason. These are symptoms of a deeper problem that needs political solutions.

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7 months

@adamjkucharski Related: governments posted Covid updates on the same sit/app/URL (🤷‍♂️) so when they changed a policy, they wiped the old text and replaced it. So there are no links to the old announcements, just a single link showing the current one. That might make sense from an IT

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

3 months

@thesidonian @nntaleb Does a PhD signify education or ignorance? (Bearing in mind that a PhD requires you to separate yourself from society for several years and focus on one narrow theoretical question at the exclusion of everything else.)

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

@jentleone1 @Globalbiosec It's not just money, it's also the time and effort needed to get people in the same room to brainstorm risks and work through different scenarios. These exercises help us develop plans so that when the event happens, we already know what to do & can hit the ground running.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

20 days

@RoryHearneGaffs @RebootPod Fact check: you're wrong. Immigration is clearly the cause of our housing and homelessness crises. When we control immigration, these crises will end. The real question is why you continue to deny this clear and obvious fact.

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22 days

@ronanlyons The only period over which homelessness fell over the last decade was also the only period where global travel was restricted. When travel resumed, homelessness started climbing again. The natural experiment of Covid-19 proved the (common sense) point. #IrelandisFull

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22 days

@ronanlyons @ArnseIos What does this chart show? A moving average of observations will always be less volatile than the original time series. That's an innate mathematical result. I don't see how it supports your argument that long-term migration is less volatile or more predictable.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

6 months

@kevinnbass The WHO have a track record of recommending masks despite the lack of RCT data supporting it. And they are right - although they should have distinguished between N95s (which are very effective) and surgical masks (which are not). This is from their 2019 paper on NPIs:

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil 1 They don't define 'white'. 2 They avoid capitalising 'white' wherever possible. These results are consistent with the authors being racist too.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan You might find this useful. It's a database of LC results going back to 2011. Lots of interesting data. Good layout too.

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23 days

@fellawrites We need to separate nationalism from migration. Nationalist parties must have a policy manifesto for the whole nation, not just a set of policies to reduce immigration, otherwise they will not speak to the majority of Irish people.

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1 month

@realBobbyHealy @davidmcw @Keyes Great! I like having a big garden and loads of green space. Most people do. So we should be aiming to build high quality houses, not knocking them down to build low quality apartment blocks.

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2 months

@EoinLenihan Perhaps this a bit of a stretch, but I'll note that the people who wanted to 'lock it down' during the Covid crisis seem to be the same people who want to 'let it rip' in response to the immigration crisis. More shallow, inconsistent policy-making, I think.

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@PandemicRiskMan

7 months

@sudha_lakshmi @DellAnnaLuca The initial SARS outbreak killed 750+ people before it was ended. However, the same virus subsequently leaked at least 4 times from labs in Asia. Why didn't each one of those leaks cause 750+ deaths? Because they reacted quicker and traced the outbreaks.

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4 months

@MartinKulldorff No, you guys in the Great Barrington Declaration were way more wrong about contact tracing and masks. And what happened to the herd immunity you promised us? Is that going to happen, or did the reinfection you didn't anticipate put an end to it?

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@EoinLenihan It came to me during the Zappone affair. Coveney was explaining the situation and he said “we were thinking of doing something with LGBT…” and I thought, this guy sounds like he’s publishing a magazine, and they hadn’t done any LGBT stuff in a while - not running a country!

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2 months

@sweatystartup Nope. It's time dependent. When your son is young, you want him to be the youngest. That will raise his standards and toughen him up. When he's 20+ (and everything starts to even out) then you want him to be the oldest. That's when his relative maturity will start to pay off.

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2 months

@EoinLenihan Some comments on LC 2024... 1) Only 309 students took Physics, and the subject had the lowest rate of H1s and the 2nd highest rate of H8s. That's not good 😬 2) What is Physics and Chemistry? It sounds like a fudge to make up for poor performance in Physics. We should get rid.

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7 months

@histforall @IrishTimes The Irish Times is the worst opinions from the worst people in Ireland. It's the NYT's D-team. It's also going bankrupt, and the only thing that can save it government hand-outs.

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@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

On Stupidity and Authoritarianism Stupidity and authoritarianism are natural bedfellows. Stupid people aren’t curious or open-minded. They don’t read seriously. They don't engage in intellectual conversations. They aren't moved by evidence or consistent logic, and they have a

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@_PeterRyan 1 The MNCs want multilingual graduates - not English speakers - but Ireland does not produce them. That's why the MNCs hire from continental Europe. 2 The MNCs also want coders, but Ireland doesn't produce them either! In both cases, the Irish are failing to communicate - with

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7 months

Engineers are responsible for, like, 100% of everything - good and bad - that isn't nature. You know when you turn on the tap and water comes out? Engineers did that. You know that building you live in, with a roof and walls that keep you safe from the elements? You couldn't

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@meghaverma_art I noticed something similar a while ago. I was reading my mate's daughter a bedtime story - Cinderella. There were only a couple of short sentences on each page, and it didn't explain the key events, like why she had to suddenly leave the ball at midnight. There was no 'story'.

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7 months

@Bryce_Nickels "Discussion is fine". As if she'll allow it, on her terms, when it suits her. Discussion is essential, so those who avoid it or try to silence it have some explaining to do, and should otherwise be treated with suspicion.

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2 months

@Nick_Delehanty No. This is irrelevant nonsense. The USA was built on settler immigration. They invaded, genocided the natives, then invited the whole world to join them. This had no relevance to Ireland. Friedman says 'everyone benefited', but this is patently untrue. The natives lost, as did

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@PaulSkallas We have roads worth driving because our societies grew organically. We also build the best cars to drive them. That's why we created F1 (not the other way around). In North America, everything is at right angle and the cars are either big or fast in straight lines.

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2 months

@RMcGreevy1301 It's mostly statistical noise. There are an infinite number of statistics and many of them are bound to look positive at any one time, but they tell you little about the true health of the society. The fact that he only reports positives stats further damages his credibility.

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If there were any risk managers were in charge, then the Covid-19 outbreak would have been identified and sniffed out in late 2019 - long before lockdowns and other sever restrictions were necessary. Risk Management is about managing risks WHILE THEY'RE STILL RISKS. That way the

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Right here is the root problem... The pandemic risk managers thought since there was uncertainty, closing schools, snitch lines, sending covid infected into nursing homes, toddler masking, authoritarian government & censorship of dissident voices were justified.

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@shelbyboring "she should never stop doing whatever it is she’s trying to do" 👌😂

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7 months

@Bryce_Nickels 2. Because JH has probably increased the risk through complacency and misrepresentation (eg JH GHS Index), whereas the paper bag has not.

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6 months

@Bryce_Nickels But it's OK for them to put literally every human being on this planet in physical danger??

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In the 1960s, the Irish establishment was Catholic. So when priests were caught raping children, it was covered up. Today, the Irish establishment is Woke. So when Africans/Muslims are caught abducting children, it is covered up. The Irish have learned nothing from their past.

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A male- who cannot be named due to a Garda application because of “the current climate in the country” - has appeared before the courts accused of attempting to abduct a 5-year-old child from a party “under his arm”.

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@john_mcguirk @VillageMagIRE Yeah but you're happy to produce your own sewer journalism when it suits you. #Zeroleaks broke 5 principles: 1 − Truth and Accuracy 3 − Fair Procedures and Honesty 4 − Respect for Rights 5 − Privacy 6 − Protection of Sources But you were lucky, so you got away with it.

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@ZubyMusic @meghaverma_art You can’t have entrepreneurship when the banks aren’t lending, taxes are prohibitive, there’s no rule of law, and the state becomes Marxist. We need men leading in industry, in the courts, and in security services. Entrepreneurship can’t fix radical feminism & Wokism.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

17 days

@243_cal @irishexaminer Palestine, I presume. Either way it'll be another fat ministerial pension for one of her cronies.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

15 days

@RachelMoiselle No matter how low your estimation of the Irish media, it isn't low enough.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

22 days

@ronanlyons The only period over which homelessness fell over the last decade was also the only period where global travel was restricted. When travel resumed, homelessness started climbing again. The natural experiment of Covid-19 proved the (common sense) point. #IrelandisFull

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@francisobeirne By "natural enemy" do you mean the 'enemy' in our Junior Cert history classes?

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

16 days

@PaulSkallas The amount of data available increased exponentially, but our ability to search & filter it didn't improve accordingly. Look at YouTube's search function. It's like something from the '90s. It's just not possible to search massive datasets with such limited options.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

3 months

@golchha_J @nntaleb 'all-you-can-eat tourism'

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

5 months

@jburnmurdoch It doesn't matter how many homes you build. If more people arrive while you are building them, then you dig yourself further into housing debt. Building more homes = walking around in circles, wasting resources, achieving nothing. The only solution is to regulate demand.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

1 month

@overideology @lukeming Right. But also idiocy. Authoritarianism and extreme idiocy are common to both.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@EoinLenihan I hear they're calling it The Great Displacement. (It's The Great Replacement, but without the conspiracy theories.)

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

7 months

My 2 cents: 80% Lab leak 20% Everything else That's where I've been for the last year or so, and that's where I'll be until the facts change. #OriginOfCovid #LabLeak #PandemicAccord

Richard H. Ebright

@R_H_Ebright

7 months

"The fact that the first cluster of cases were in the vicinity of a world leading coronavirus laboratory, known to be experimenting on SARS-like viruses, as well as a second lab which was also working on coronaviruses, points to an unnatural origin."

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

21 days

@EoinLenihan 100%. Community is an essential part of nationalism. It permeates everything. Homes, neighbourhoods, workplaces, sports clubs... all the way up to the nation itself. They're all communities. Community is a lens through which we can understand nationalist policy-making.

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Dermot Dorgan

@PandemicRiskMan

2 months

@DellAnnaLuca One of the things I love about the people who quote ‘Sweden’, is that they like to think of themselves as logical and scientific. Sweden is ‘the real science’, they tell themselves. In fact, it’s almost the exact opposite. 1 It’s a sample of n = 1, so it can only tell us about

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