Ben Aveling

I was wondering about that too. Like you, I remembered newpaper headlines a bit like, for e.g. "[i]n the 2022 census the population of the Republic of Ireland eclipsed five million for the first time since the 1851 census." Which is technically true. But 1851 was more or less the end of the great famine. (It didn't start all at once, and it didn't end all at once either.) Before the famine the population was something over 8 million. It wasn't just the famine, the population kept dropping, through emigration, until about 1931, or so, and didn't really start to grow again until the 1970s. Ireland still hasn't really made the transition from being a nation of emigration to a nation of immigration, and there are those who seem to be working hard to turn Ireland back into being a nation of emigration. @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @anthropology@sciences.social

No, thank you for helping me realise I believed two conflicting things. A further and regular complication is that people tend to use the word Ireland to mean the Republic of Ireland but also to mean the island of Ireland. @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai

The population of Ireland is still below what it was before the great famine. @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @anthropology@sciences.social

That's going to depend on this bit: "I signed an agreement with MasterCard and Visa saying that if they ever had to come collect on the debt, that I would pay them a certain amount of interest on the debt for the next 100 years." From an accounting point of view, this would need to be declared as a liability if and when it becomes "reasonably likely" that Lana#1 is going to have to make the payments. That said, and memory may fail me here, but IIRC, it is the size of the repayments that needs to be declared, not the debt itself, and maybe fair enough. Because Lana#1's exposure is the repayments, not the capital. @tassiedi@urbanists.social @Lana@beige.party

With so many zombies wandering around above ground, there's a few you could charge with that. @cstross@wandering.shop

This relationship she didn't have, did she not have it a long time ago, or did she not have it, like, really really recently? @cstross

It was always an imperfect democracy. It still is. Possibly not for much longer, but this isn’t quite over yet. @hiphopheaven@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop

One serious thing does spring to mind. There might have been something she wanted to say and she was worried that the upcoming court would rule that "you are not allowed to to repeat such and such a claim in public" If so, then that might explain why she wants to put out her side to the public now. @cstross

@gsuberland@chaos.social @Kimota94@mas.to losing the list where it will never be found by you or anyone else only makes it even more secure.

I am reminded of a similar set up, (no AI though) in which the punchline is the frog prince is indeed Prince of all the frogs. @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

@gsuberland@chaos.social @loganer@mastodon.social @idiot@mastodonapp.uk notepad didn’t need copilot to have a CVE. MS managed to make a mess of markdown.

@RickiTarr@beige.party When I was young, a mixed marriage was a Catholic marrying a Protestant.

The pineapple is the cherry on top. As it were. @cstross@wandering.shop

Well congratulations. You finally got the president you wanted. @DukeDuke @DrALJONES