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Being from the ROI I call NI a third world country.
lol, parts of Dublin are worse than anything I've seen in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is far from a third world Country, don't believe everything you see on TV, come up and visit us and see for yourself :)
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Being from the ROI I call NI a third world country.
lol, parts of Dublin are worse than anything I've seen in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is far from a third world Country, don't believe everything you see on TV, come up and visit us and see for yourself :)
Hah, if that isn't the perfect illustration of the folly selecting your data to support your argument.
No doubt N Ireland is lovely. Dublin is too. A lot of people of the world be thrilled at the opportunity to live in either place.
And I'm sure both have worse parts, since every sizable settlement needs a less desirable part to concentrate it's less desired residents.
Remember when buildings complexes had multiple entrances ? It is increasingly rare nowadays. Using private but publicly accessible ground as thoroughfare is on the way out too. Fences go up everywhere - though 9/11 is only one part of that security paranoia... My apartment building in La Defense is the only one left on our street with a single layer of access control - two is most common and three is the standard now…
This artery has multiple splinter-off points after a point, but there is a choke point where if things go bad you have no choice but to wait or fight for your chance of which escape into the wider//bigger world of roads you want.
I'm not sure why I noticed this whilst I live here yet I did.
Perhaps reading "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why" had something to do with it.
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ATF is likely more concerned by a domestic terror attack.
And as usual they're fighting the last war. The (western) world has moved on from the fairly indiscriminate bombings of the 70s-90s. Targeted attacks either against specific persons (e.g. 2017 baseball shooting) or against members of groups (e.g. Summer 2020 street violence) are the New Hotness(TM). I'm not sure what tractable measures they could take (that's not my job to figure out and if it was I wouldn't do it fo…