It’s normal in Ireland. I can always get one same day or next day.

I feel like this infographic is full of shite on the GP part tbh.

I miss having hair

Same. I nearly never wore the pony and only just noticed it after posting this pic. It was peak Nirvana days (and I saw them later that year in Dublin or maybe the next year) and we called that hairstyle an “undercut”. Here’s a pic from the same trip where it was my usual. I am pretty sure this is on the overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

You just reminded me of passport control! In those days Ireland issued 10 year passports to kids. I had gotten mine at 7 or 8 so it was nearly out of date and obviously I looked nothing like my passport photo with my 1980’s “bowl” haircut. This is pre-laminated passport days where they literally glued your picture to your passport.

Anyway… we all got a good looking over but the passport control guy must have looked at me, then passport, then me, for what felt like five minutes. No words were spoken. It was very intimidating.

Oh, the other thing that really is burned into my memory is that there was a wedding party in the McDonald’s when we went there. Bunch of Western kids absolutely inhaling big mac’s and they were having hamburger and small fries. They were so happy and I felt like such a glutton.

It was one of those uncomfortable life changing moments where you are forced to look at how good you have it.

Thank you! I was wondering if I’d made some unspoken mistake.

I honestly feel so privileged to have been there at that time in history. My folks had to scrape the money together for the trip and it was such an incredible experience. I saw first hand the poverty suffered there. It was pretty grim. We were told to bring US dollars (pre-Euro days) and we exchanged them daily because the USD to Ruble rate was changing so fast.

The biggest story from the trip was that one guy got mugged by the police at gunpoint at a Spartak Moscow football game.

The other big one was that we went to the circus one night. Well it involved some fairly hefty animal cruelty so myself and a few others walked out (teachers didn’t notice), tried to catch a cab, eventually paid the bus driver that was supposed to bring us back to the hotel to organise one for us and headed in to central Moscow unsupervised and went to the only Pizza Hut in the country (which was near the only McDonalds in the country).

We got back before the teachers noticed. I honestly do not know to this day how that happened.

I dont have a dog in this fight.

Of course you do. Allowing borders to be redrawn by force isn’t good for stability anywhere.

Agreed. I think a huge part of it is down to how many kids are vaping here too. Saw an interview with the Taoiseach (prime minister) and he said 13% of 12-17 year olds had vaped in the last 30 days. Pretty crazy number.

Well I am delighted. €13.1B + the 1.2 in interest represents what will be a bump of 16% of total tax revenue compared to 2023 (€88B total). There are lots of things that money can be used for.

Are you using a VPN maybe?

Wow. That’s fascinating, thanks for the details. Interesting that you’re mostly seeing pro-Trump stuff as from the article the dems are outspending the Trump campaign.

Total ad spend so far by both parties comes to $16.61 per person in the state. DAMN.

Apparently they were googling “time in moscow” when following up on an invoice per Ryan McBeth so they are guilty as fuck.

We don’t really have that whole active shooter thing here tbh.

He doesn’t strike me as violent, just a self important cunt.

Nailed it.

In the early days of ransomware I helped a small business of a friend that was attacked. They got in and waited months, creating garbage backups until they were confident then sprang the trap.

Tbh I was impressed with how thorough they’d been.

Our small company paid a prominent (of that specific driver) open source driver writer for prioritisation of some work more than once. All the code was GPL.

I know it’s only one data point but it’s one way.

Some days, I even think maybe I might be a good person too

You sound like a good person to me. That level of self reflection rarely / never leads to being a shithead in my experience.

Crazy story but a very interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

The mods were actually very clear about it in the thread. Pinned comment.

Fingers crossed!