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A pair of Long Island Trump voters visited Ireland recently. I think they were in their late 60s / early 70s. It looks like the current administration will be downsizing or disbanding the organisation their daughter works at and she'll likely lose her job.

Some other changes made by this administration mean that several of their investments are losing value. So they're very unhappy about him being in power now, although apparently the rape thing and being an overall creep was never an issue.

Anyway, Id' read that people like this exist and never actually saw / heard them before. It's real folks. They don't seem particularly bright but it seems they've done well for themselves in life.

Well worth reading. A lot of aid was misattributed to European settlers but was actually from First Nations (who themselves had very little). They have scans of original letters sent with the aid.

I'm looking everywhere* but small fridges tend to have an energy rating of E or lower. Has anyone. come across a brand that manufactures them?

• Amazon.de, darty.fr, mediamarkt.de, and locally here in Ireland.

The 1989 movie created a wonderful world, but the sequel (Batman Returns) was in some ways a reboot because it changed the tone so much. If you were to cut scenes or elements of the sequel to make it feel more like the original 1989 movie, what changes would you make? I'm working on a fan edit.

My own thoughts are to remove the more fantastical and slapstick elements by cutting down on screen time of Max Schreck and the Penguin (due to the Adam West style gags). I'm thinking of delaying the intro of the Penguin until the ballroom scene between Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle.

What would you do?

Full quote: "The ability to be in each others lives with responsibility and kindness and shared vulnerability is what it's all about. That isn't utopia. That's capable of being achieved and can be achieved." - President Michael D. Higgins.

I find the colours really distracting. I've tried using those Greasemonky / user scripts but I suspect Safari doesn't permit them to address the favicons, because they don't work.

I also would like the extension icons to be monochrome. Anybody knowledgeable enough to say whether there's an API that allows this kind of thing?

After spending most of the day trying to add chapters to my own mp3 file, I eventually found this web-based version that works perfectly: https://mp3chapters.github.io

What's good about it is it takes timestamps in the simple format that you see on YouTube: eg 00:01:45.00 Chaptername.

I tried with: ffmpeg, atomic parsley, mp4chaps, mp3splt and for one reason or another the result would fail to add chapters correctly. I've been on stackoverflow, blogs, DeepSeek and ChatGPT. A paid option I tested out was good but cost about EUR 50. In other words: you can save yourself some hours by just going to the link above.

I ask because we had a situation in Ireland just like this many years ago. It was for welfare fraud specifically and faced criticism for a few reasons. One was that the suspected levels of fraud may have been much lower than the politician was claiming. The other reason was that the cost of tackling it could likely outweigh any savings.

"In a letter seen by The Irish News sent to campaigners, Secretary of State Hilary Benn confirmed he will commence Section 4 of the 2022 legislation to repeal the law this week."

Alternative link: http://archive.today/2025.02.25-105227/https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/300-year-old-ban-on-irish-language-use-in-courts-to-be-repealed-by-uk-government-EZ44MNTASFGRHMT6YCH6CV7BZM/

iTunes, Rhythmbox, Quodlibet, Navidrome and the iPod are all good at organising albums. But for singles, I find it pretty tedious. They add a lot of clutter to the album art view with entries that only have one song attached to them. They also clutter the artist browser with entries with just one song attached.

At the moment I use music managers like those mentioned above for albums, but for singles I just have them all in one folder on my desktop that I drag into a simple music player (reAmp, a classic Winamp clone). I find it works well for easy listening. As a result, my music manager is clutter free with albums I can choose when I want to just "press play". But I don't have access when I'm away from my computer.

Has anyone else struggled with this?