The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

Probably not a direct link of Irish in Jamaica, but wider story of empire (perhaps) - warning I found this interesting, other people may find it sucking the fun out of the internet. So be warned
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/04/viral-speech-ireland-thomas-gould-colonial-history-caribbean-english

[HVC]

A few months ago youtube though it was important to let me know that the most Irish sounding people outside of Ireland lived in newfoundland. Kept recommending videos.

[Grey Fox]

Everyone else getting videos about what the lion King Zulu chant means?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Or more to the point, the menu team could generate better ideas on their own.

Maybe the menu team could use the ai to generate a ceo?

[crazy canuck]

Or more to the point, the menu team could generate better ideas on their own.

Maybe the menu team could use the a to generate a ceo?

 

[Valmy]

Or more to the point, the menu team could generate better ideas on their own.

Maybe the menu team could use the a to generate a ceo?

Firing CEOs and replacing them with AI would be an amazing cost cutting measure.

[Sheilbh]

Not sure where else to put this, I think it's been going since the autumn - but just worth noting there are apparently worrying signs in the private credit market. Not saying it looks "pre-financial crisis" but....Apparently market watchers and commentators are looking at it with increasing concern right now.

[Valmy]

Not sure where else to put this, I think it's been going since the autumn - but just worth noting there are apparently worrying signs in the private credit market. Not saying it looks "pre-financial crisis" but....Apparently market watchers and commentators are looking at it with increasing concern right now.

You can say it.

But now we are looking to combine it with an energy crises.

I have never seen a US government more determined to intentionally cause a world wide economic crisis as this one.

[mongers]

Not sure where else to put this, I think it's been going since the autumn - but just worth noting there are apparently worrying signs in the private credit market. Not saying it looks "pre-financial crisis" but....Apparently market watchers and commentators are looking at it with increasing concern right now.

You could give it it's own thread, something like "2026 - Global Economic Meltdown" 

[viper37]

Spousal Loss Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia, Mortality among Men, but Not Women 

That one is interesting.

Tl;Dr: women live happily ever after...

[Sheilbh]

That does not surprise me looking at elderly relatives and neighbours over the years.

I feel like widows tend to basically be fine/keep on going for a very long time after they've been bereaved. With men it's a very different picture.

[viper37]

That does not surprise me looking at elderly relatives and neighbours over the years.

I feel like widows tend to basically be fine/keep on going for a very long time after they've been bereaved. With men it's a very different picture.

Yeah, I did not connect the dots before reading this.

It's all non scientific observation of course.

On my mother's side, my elderly grandfather died less than a year after my grandma passed away, cardiac arrest.  He had Parkinson, but no heart disease prior to that.

My father likely had the beginning of dementia shortly after mom passed away, as apparently, the disease established itself somewhere around 20 years prior to the first symptoms.  My aunt is widowed, but aside some problems she always had, she lived a happy life.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah - same I hadn't actually made the connection but reading it it absolutely tallies with what I've seen with elderly men. As you say, pure anecdata but that finding makes sense to me.

[HVC]

My experience is that older men are kind of broken physically, and without care they deteriorate quickly. But that's a different generation, now with two working parents being the norm maybe both genders are screwed :shrug:

[Sheilbh]

My experience is that older men are kind of broken physically, and without care they deteriorate quickly. But that's a different generation, now with two working parents being the norm maybe both genders are screwed :shrug:

I was just thinking actually about my great uncle who is the exception, because he's going really strong and in his 90s and twenty years after the loss of his wife. He is now showing dementia and is in a care home - but he's doing really well there.

But I wonder if part of it is that actually he's always been quite institutionalised. He was given up as a kid and raised in an orphanage, then national service, then the Merchant Navy (followed by a union factory job), then marrying my aunty who was wonderful but quite strict and with very particular standards. But I think he's basically always lived with quite fixed, settled routines - as I say very institutionalised in a way - and I wonder if that has helped him keep going so strongly for so long - as well as why he's now adapting really well to care home life.