So you’re in Ireland and you want to order contact lenses, you say? You might stumble upon Feel Good Contacts through a search engine like DuckDuckGo as they seem to have the cheapest prices. Nice…

Until the time comes to reorder. If you’re not careful, your reorder will cost considerably more.

So what do you do?

Go back to the search engine, search for your specific brand of lenses + “cheapest” and follow the link to get the lower price.

Oh how I hate capitalism.

#contactLenses #ireland

A warning about FeelGood Contacts (feelgoodcontacts.ie) if you’re in Ireland and wear contact lenses: do NOT turn on their “auto-replenish” feature.

Just got a notification that they were about to charge me €148.05 for two 90-day boxes of lenses. That felt steep. So I opened an incognito browser and checked their site via an ad on Google. Lo and behold, I was offered 30-day boxes at €19.20 (so €115.20 for the equivalent amount… or €32.85 cheaper).

Goodness I fucking hate capitalism.

#ireland

“EU GDPR enforcement against Big Tech is paralysed by Ireland’s failure to deliver draft decisions on cross-border cases. Ireland’s failure to uphold the GDPR has allowed surveillance to remain the default business model of the digital world.”

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#gdpr #ireland #enforcement #privacy #facialRecognition #humanRights

UN Human Rights Committee expected to question Ireland’s plans for facial recognition

Civil rights group states that the Data Protection Commission failings have allowed surveillance as a default business model.

^{Frank Hersey (BiometricUpdate.com)}

Ryanair, the worst of Ireland.

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#ryanair #ireland

Ryanair Asks Travelers to Prove South African Nationality, in Afrikaans

Before he could board a recent Ryanair flight to London, Dinesh Joseph, a 45-year-old South African leadership and management trainer,…

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So how’s the rental market going in Ireland, then?

(Kilkenny, where we live, is a city with a population of ~22,000. Daft is basically the only property app/site in Ireland.)

#kilkenny #ireland #renting #daft

One of my little morning joys: a little local Purple Cloud lavender honey in my porridge.

One of the tastiest honeys I’ve had and made right here in Kilkenny in Ireland.

#kilkenny #ireland #food #local