This is not being discussed by anyone, except like two dozen guys in the UK MoD who have a colonial mindset about the whole thing, and maybe twice that number in Dublin - most Fine Gael-adjacent desperate for the big boy countries to like Ireland and/or them personally

Would they marginally prefer Ireland were not neutral? I don't doubt it at all. But if this is some massive strategic vulnerability, it's super weird that it's never discussed as such by the people in charge of worrying about massive strategic vulnerabilities

I've said this before and I'll say it again: almost all of the arguments deployed in favour of Ireland joining European military structures are based on obfuscation, made-up threats, and scaremongering

This is particularly stupid given *there are good arguments in favour of it*. They're never used

It’s frightening and immoral what is being charged now. Small, poor quality flats near me are now more expensive to rent than where I used to live in Dartry.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Yeah, you do suddenly realize that your Gmail (or whatever you use as your main personal email) basically contains your entire life and must be protected at all costs

I have 2FA on all of them also, so am not too worried but it’s spooky to get all the emails.