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by williamgrant 6y ago
HN has truly been scraping the bottom of the barrel for news sources this week. Please, continue posting news articles unrelated to HN from single-issue, hyper-partisan news publications.
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Sir Ken Robinson Obituary(theguardian.com)
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by williamgrant 6y ago
I second this! Sabah, Serawak and just about the entirety of MY is on my travel itinerary post-covid. I did not appreciate the country nearly enough when I lived there a few years ago.
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> Instead, you have a situation where the police to abandon a precinct all at once and not long after, far-right groups start showing up at night to stoke violence. Do you have any references to support that? It flies in the face of ever
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by williamgrant 6y ago
The referendum certainly gave a voice to a demographic of nationalists, amongst them some quite insidious people, that's absolutely true. However, it's simply incorrect to characterise the larger Brexit demographic as people who,
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents. This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia and classism. This warped, cartoonish portrayal of "
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by williamgrant 6y ago
Thanks for posting this, I had not previously read the declarations.
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by williamgrant 6y ago
Of course it's not about picking political sides. I certainly did not intend to do so, if that's the impression you have taken. The sentiment is universally contemptible.
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by williamgrant 6y ago
Sure, here are some DDG results. You'll find the phrase used in various contexts. - https://www.facebook.com/theonlygoodtoryisadeadtory/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comment
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> You certainly won't hear it from any left-leaning MPs or in Labour constituency meetings. And if that weren't true, recordings would be all over the media. I didn't/wouldn' claim we would hear it from left-lean
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> It is a common sentiment there that the only good Democrat is a dead one. A similar sentiment is commonly expressed by far left individuals and groups on Twitter, Facebook and other mediums. "the only good Tory is a dead Tory&quot
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> Don't use slang, especially if it could be considered cultural appropriation, such as spirit animal Yes, please do omit slang terms and inappropriate phrasing from official documentation. Still, I'd like to request someone ex
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by williamgrant 6y ago
> White people in ths United States riot to get haircuts. This is both misleading and racist, for a start.
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by williamgrant 7y ago
> The UK now fines firms for "damaging online content" Does Germany not do the same through NetzDG?
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by williamgrant 7y ago
> But hey, if they were stupid enough to leave the EU then they're capable of doing anything. Why do you believe they are stupid to leave the EU?
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by williamgrant 7y ago
Hi all. Sharing with you a rudimentary webapp I had been running locally until now. It's an aggregation of several podcast feeds I follow which are related to software engineering and web development, nothing more.
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Show HN: A curated archive for software related podcast episodes(dailypodcasts.site)
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