Joe Smyth
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Centrist Dad, fond of Corrib Waterpolo, Mayo GAA & Connacht Rugby. Passionate about Galway Tech - all opinions my own. #andacyclist
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Joined April 2013
RE-TURN MADNESS When filling a press in my apartment with two big bags of bottles rather than putting them in my little kitchen green bin I felt mad at @EamonRyan and @greenparty_ie for the utter idiocy of the whole thing. When putting the two big bags of cans and bottles in the
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Reminder that this "inequality expert" denounced Milei's program as doomed to failure while the other "inequality expert" Joe Stiglitz endorsed Hugo Chavez's program in Venezuela.
Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗 https://t.co/R6mNpSUxMT
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HERE’S THE FUNNY PART ABOUT JIMMY CARR’S “CAPITALISM VS COMMUNISM” BIT Jimmy Carr gets asked about Ticketmaster and—without flinching—basically says: “If you don’t like the fees, don’t go see Taylor Swift. I’m a capitalist. You’re a capitalist. We ALL are.” Then somebody lobs
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This column is spot on. And the replies are also exactly as you would expect - “America bad..”. So predictable, sadly.
For years, I have found the Irish Left's chronic anti-Americanism hard to understand, particularly when you look at the cultural, familial, historical and economic ties between our countries. Here's a few thoughts from the US on Ireland's most significant relationship.
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Physics chipping away at the fabric of reality!
A CERN breakthrough may reveal why anything exists. In a landmark discovery at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists have detected subtle asymmetries in the decay of matter and antimatter. For the first time, CP violation—an imbalance in the behavior of particles and
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A CERN breakthrough may reveal why anything exists. In a landmark discovery at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists have detected subtle asymmetries in the decay of matter and antimatter. For the first time, CP violation—an imbalance in the behavior of particles and
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The dip in the middle of this chart was caused by trying to take profit out of farming.
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Atoms, captured in the highest resolution ever. What you’re looking at is praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO₃), magnified 100 million times. Each dot in the image represents a single atom, locked into a crystal lattice. It may look slightly blurry – but that’s not a flaw. Atoms
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Harsh but true…
A joke is circling on Chinese social media: Germany's Industry 4.0 is becoming Industry 404 (page not found error). It is so painful to watch Germany's green leap forward bares so much resemblance to China's Great Leap Forward. How bad will it be before there is a course
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A joke is circling on Chinese social media: Germany's Industry 4.0 is becoming Industry 404 (page not found error). It is so painful to watch Germany's green leap forward bares so much resemblance to China's Great Leap Forward. How bad will it be before there is a course
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The politics of the left is based on envy. Politics should be about enabling all people to improve their lot through application. Not take it off others because they have more.
If you earn £100,000 or above you are in the top 4% of earners out of the 65 million people in the UK. You are, by definition, rich.
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When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, it is believed Einstein said: «What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you�� «It's true», replied Chaplin, «but your fame is even greater. The world admires
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Leadership in engineering is not writing every single line of code, but knowing enough about all aspects of the system and problem space to make the right decisions on what features to really focus on. Performance-wise and market-wise.
This is why Elon is singular. He has recently spent many weekends working with the AI5 chip team to get the project on track. Designing this chip requires deep knowledge of leading edge process node chip design and leading edge AI algorithms, neither of which Elon has deep
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There are no low energy rich countries, yet we are heading there…
China's electricity is now 30% more than Europe's — PER CAPITA. More than double in total.
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Connolly's first official duty should be a foreign visit to Ukraine. Might teach her some humility.
Comrade Bowes has high hopes for Comrade Connolly....... Anti-Nato.... pro-palestinian is the new Fascist 🇷🇺 Mantra Haw Haw, Haw Haw
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Hi Mick, I'm travelling to #Bucha, #Irpin and #Kharkiv this weekend with @TheHALOTrust. Do you remember the Bucha massacre in 2022? It was documented by the @UN and by 'real journalism'. As a football guy, you must remember Kharkiv hosting #Euro2012? Well, people are
This scaremongering nonsense about Russia is total drivel that feeds the Military Industrial Complex for the benefit of a very small Elite at great expense to the many. This doesn't amount to real Journalism...
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Please tell me that Murphy had to pay his own legal fees??
A victory for the working class, who unfortunately have to work during working hours. TD Paul Murphy loses appeal against extended opening hours for NCT centre in his constituency https://t.co/blWg2itLS0 via @breakingnewsie
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Maybe if they focused on running their country for the good of their citizens instead of funding Hezbullah, Hamas & the Houthis plus trying to build nuclear weapons this would not have become a problem?
Iran is facing a crisis unlike any in its modern history. Water shortages, record heat, and failing infrastructure are forcing officials to plan something unthinkable - evacuating parts of the capital 1/5
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