Irish police to be given powers over passwords

Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by prepend on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:04PM (#27504268)

I’ve wondered the same thing but chalked it up to some sort of selection bias.

I always remember Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 [0] and the story of how authoritarian British schools were. I guess there some sort of contingent for making lots of rules and demanding adherence.

There’s a pretty great book called Albion’s Seed [1] by Fischer that goes into the four groups of British people that founded America. The “border” peoples of Scotland/north England were pretty anarchistic and moved to the colonies fleeing British rule. And I think there was quite a bit of rule that resulted in the people who don’t follow rules leaving Britain for the US/Australia/other colonies. So after a few hundred years, that perhaps had an effect on the type of people who stayed.

[0] https://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by astrange on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:34PM (#27510988)

> The “border” peoples of Scotland/north England were pretty anarchistic and moved to the colonies fleeing British rule.

And they ended up in Appalachia because even the other colonies couldn't stand them and kicked them out.

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