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Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.

There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....

I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:

Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters
West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work
Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years
North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population
Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,

The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.

I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.

Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.

Which sounds as if it disappoints you.

I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.

As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.

The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.

Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….

Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.

The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?

@Malmesbury has been quite consistent about his/her view on 'community leaders' in the Province.

You've got Jewish Community leaders and their own quasi-police. There has been a kerfuffle about Chinese police stations in the UK. There are Muslim ones, and perhaps some Albanian ones (though I have no evidence of this). So perhaps the questions is the state withdrawing from certain communities by passing over policing to such leaders. And is it acceptable due to the reported successes.

Before the Peace Process, the elected MPs were more listened to.

When the government wanted to talk to “Community Leaders” they talked to people like David Hume. The very model of a decent human being.

Then the Peace Process became “Give the Men Of Violence whatever they want. Tell the Men Of Peace to shut the fuck up.”

As the man said, people backed the Strong Horse.

So now we have a system where power resides with the drug dealers, the extorters. The owners of the vape shops and the empty barbers. Who are Tommy Lots of Names dream come true.

Strangely, these are not nice people. Many of them haven’t done a DEI course. Quite a few discriminate in hiring. Some even don’t celebrate Pride* week.

Last night was how you instructed the people to get what they want in Northern Ireland. It was taught in the schools. It was preached by the state.

Note that the violence was modulated. It is a performance. Instead of going to the courts about where asylum seekers etc are housed, they went to the streets.

Within a week, all the people they want out will be housed elsewhere.

And Tommy will be watching.

*some of them are more gay than Liberace, but that isn’t Done in Men Of Violence circles.

Good morning. Today’s good news about Russia being on fire starts with the military electronics plant in Cheboksary, which had a visit early this morning from a pair of flying Flamingos.

https://x.com/osinttechnical/status/2064569145245503919

Edit: and an oil refinery in Samara.

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2064570360972861800

Do we have a sense of by what percentage Russian oil output has been reduced by cumulatively? Appreciate there is a constant push and pull between fires and repairs.

What would be great would be a deal to open the Strait of Humurz and free flowing oil from the Gulf so prices can drop another $20 a barrel and dent revenues on what reduced exports Russia has.

I’ve heard various numbers from 30% to 50% of Russian capacity being out.

Iran wants to keep Hormuz closed, it’s going to take a while to get them to the table. In the meantime, watch for the US reducing O&G exports in the run up to the mid-terms, which will make it more expensive for everyone else!

Vanilla having as bad a morning as a Russian refinery or weapons factory!

It was an overnight maintenance updates and being based on the West Coast they do it at midnight PST which is a stupid time in Europe.

Equally downtime is a very 2000 era concept, don't think I've done that in 20 years. You take a single server offline while keeping the other servers up and upgrade them one at a time.

Indeed, anything public facing will have at least two or three servers on it, so you upgrade them one at a time.

Even in an office, there’s very little that requires actual downtime of more than a few minutes, and that’s mostly infrastructure stuff like firewalls and switches rather than servers. Most servers can be told to reboot at midnight if they need security patches, and anything that’s over multiple time zones is likely replicated att different sites anyway.

Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.

There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....

I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:

Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters
West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work
Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years
North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population
Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,

The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.

I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.

Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.

Which sounds as if it disappoints you.

I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.

As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.

The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.

Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….

Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.

The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?

A peace process that is built on giving the gangsters whatever they want?

You can see the success on TV.

The decent politicians (such as the ones who got some Nobel Prizes for the actual peace) have been sidelined. It’s all about how close you can get to violence and pretend it’s not you. 71 people in one toilet….

It’s been very successful at creating an Acceptable Level Of Violence.

You need to understand that this success includes the riots you just saw.

Modest of you not to reveal your doubtless impressive alternative approach.

We perhaps could start by treating crime as crime, and provide the resources to detect and prosecute it more effectively ?

Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.

There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....

I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:

Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters
West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work
Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years
North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population
Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,

The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.

I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.

Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.

Which sounds as if it disappoints you.

I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.

As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.

The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.

Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….

Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.

The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?

Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.

There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....

I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:

Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters
West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work
Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years
North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population
Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,

The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.

I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.

Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.

Which sounds as if it disappoints you.

I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.

As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.

The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.

Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….

Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.

The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?

Let’s start with not dragging British soldiers through the courts three or four decades later, having already forgiven all the terrorists involved.

Fans of "World War Z" and "Greyhound" may be pleased to know that sequels may be happening:

• "World War Z 2": https://youtu.be/2BdAbRsTIok?si=lJHekyCCZP8k25jA&t=45
  
• "Greyhound 2": https://youtu.be/2BdAbRsTIok?si=00xo1g4uVSPDzyUb&t=946
  

At least people won't be able to moan that WWZ 2 is nothing at all like the book, as with the first film.

It's like "Foundation": they bought the rights, threw away the book, kept the title, did a whole new film. I actually like the WWZ film despite owning (and loving) the book. But they are two different things.

I've deliberately not read any of the Silo books as I'm enjoy the TV version too much to risk it. Maybe once the TV version wraps up I'll give the books a go (which is what I did with The Expanse). S3 of Silo is just a few weeks away.

That's probably a good call. For what it is worth I have read the books and I do like the TV show.

I read the books, as I couldn’t be arsed to wait. Once you get past the significant reveal, I didn’t find the last book as intriguing as the first, partly because the writing style is fairly straightforward and unstimulating. There are some significant plot deviations between the series and the books, so (ONN) don’t necessarily count on everything playing out the same.