@BridgetPhetasy "Rap is not American" is a particularly dumb discourse as these things go.

@MattBoxer94 Audience capture. Many such cases.

@8020dichotomy @MattBoxer94 Not a credible position given that Trump has promised not to touch the biggest expense items ie social security and medicare.

@Ayaan There is absolutely no way that you could know if what Musk is doing is worthwhile or not. Contrast with what Milei did in Argentina: as well as firing employees, he made significant changes to big public spending & tax headings like pensions, subsidies and tariffs.

@Archidub1 @davidmcw @IrishTimes Practically nobody who walks on the footpath directly outside this building is actively or even passively interested in going shopping so the building is not suitable for retail. Blocking me isn't going to change that basic fact.

@TheLouPerez I still watch the games but I take a knee in front of the TV.

@laflammerouge16 Ah ffs Pogi of all people should be able to keep it upright on a training spin on a fine day.

@Archidub1 @davidmcw @IrishTimes There's very little footfall on that street so retail wouldn't make any sense.

@FinnEoghan Nothing in any of the recent GE manifestos suggests that the Irish left wants to significantly beef up our defence capability. Sinn Fein's main priority was implementing the working time directive which would likely erode our capability rather than enhance it.

@BenjiNaesen I were one of those rouleurs I'd be nervous about being made look like a fool missing a split that Poggie makes easily himself.

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@Kirsty_Mo @theneonrequiem Agreed and Kendrick Lamar is maybe the best to ever do it.

@theneonrequiem I'd bet my house that the music he likes is absolute slop.

@francesweetman Does that knife have a rounded tip or am I imagining things?

@dad_21st Agreed re neutrality. Also the Irish state needs to introduce mandatory military service for all men like they have in Switzerland.

@Senecaarendt @davidmcw @IrishTimes I don't think the developers wanted to change the shop front: it was the internal changes that planners objected to.

@Archidub1 @davidmcw @IrishTimes Is there some obvious use to which this building could be adapted without major redevelopment?

@davidmcw @IrishTimes It's really not at all clear that the local authorities responsible for most of the planning decisions that caused these buildings to remain vacant for so long can be brought into line by the government. The entire planning system needs to be scrapped.