And Canadians will continue to boycott us made shit!

It was gonna happen regardless of the trade war or not.

Line must always go up, not down.

I touched on this more in my other comment, Ireland has too many disadvantages to prosper. Mainland Europe has cheaper labour, doesn’t got to cross the Irish sea then the English channel to get goods in and with tax rates this high? Not much left on the table.

I do feel like there’s no “out” in this.

Those IT jobs are being culled now. There were news of Rapid7 closing down their Dublin office few weeks ago.

Intel has still decent presence, but without investment into infrastructure, where does that leave us? Not everyone can (nor should) work in IT or biotech.

How do you compete with mainland Europe when you got to ship things likely through UK and then to mainland while having one of the highest tax rates and wages in EU? Ireland hasn’t got any benefits in manufacturing. There’s only so much Irish beef and salmon you can sell to fuel the economy.

It became the whole, you can still commute to Dublin, so prices krept outwards.

The number of houses was very low, 2008 killed a lot of these housing plans and they never really restarted. Houses kept going up and up due to lack of supply. 3 generations living under the same roof is common.

But even places like Cork or Limerick have seen a big raise in price. Remote work or even hybrid allowed people to go further and prices obviously followed…

Then Ireland fucking dies.

People really do not understand without Irrland being a tax heaven, there is no money in that country.

There’s handful of decent jobs in Ireland because of it, other than that, people have no future and are forever riding on benefits. I know enough people who basically haven’t held a job in 25 years. While the state shouldn’t let people starve, they did get complicit and simply gave up.

I’m sure I’ll get downvoted into oblivion for saying it here, lemmy loves to think everyone gets to just do nothing and get money for existing… but reality is, Ireland is fucked. Has been fucked for 20 years. They spiralled into one of the most expensive places to live with no prospects, people can’t afford to start new businesses so there’s less jobs going around. All the talent fucks off to UK (guess where I am?) Because we as a couple + an extra person couldn’t find a place to rent after 3 months of searching. People drop year’s worth of rent day 1 to secure a place (it doesn’t sound like this has changed much) so we moved.

I miss home, but I’d seriously have to downgrade our lives to move back. I couldn’t even dream to be able to do single income and maintain family of 3 in Ireland, even in my high paying field.

It cpuld be 3 mile journey for all you know. Fares are calculated by the distance.

Ah, so that’s why you’re known as the cum farter, you were the sloppy seconds.

When price and supply are in the hands of the company with currently infinite demand, why wpuld you kill the gold rush?

And I’d argue reporting of crime has also plummeted because police doesn’t give a fuck anymore and no one will even come out… or so I’m told.

My one encounter with police in the past 5 years was positive.

Binface got a quarter of the votes, no? That’s not nothing.

With these barrel prices? Yeah no wonder!

I’d love to see their metrics for arrests vs people they had to release.

Immigration is tough, this is the worst way to go about it, but they probably get some right, MY morbid curiosity would love to know the %.

So if it was intel or amd… what then? Is nvidia supposed to do what?

Not sure what this is meant to be about. Nvidia isn’t selling these chips directly to them, are they?

If something happens to me, I’d expect the country i fuelled my tax money into to look after me.

You don’t just get to decide I’m worthless once i stop contributing if i spent decades being here.

There needs to be automatic “nationalisation” of sorts… and not behind a paywall. Citizenship in uk is £1400-1600 per person. That’s a lot for a family to pay, child could be born here and never leave UK for 15 years, they still got to pay it.

The question was to the guy above. I’m not accusing Ukraine of targetting a hostel, but the guy went on a rant anyway.

You got to poke holes at their pittiful attempts and watch them crumble. Or like in this case, spiral into nonsense.

Tough crowd I see. Just wanted to post a random factoid. Yeah, it’s not even half a % difference but still a useless fact.

Why was a civilian building targeted deliberately?

Two wrongs don’t make a right and all that… but this is the classic holding one to a higher standard IF this was accidental. There sure as fuck is a lot of anti Ukraine stuff in the past couple of weeks popping up in my feed and I’m starting to get suspicious of it.

Sex split isn’t actually 50:50, there’s more men than women.

Point being? People aren’t allowed to be wrong?

He is doing somethong for UK farming. If it amounts to anything is up for debate. But if you’re going to dismiss him now because he has changed his stance? You’re the cunt, not him (on this occasion).