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Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of hor
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Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?
- n4r9 2y agoWall Street eat your heart out; London has a proud and lengthy history of producing corporate psychopaths.
- hermitcrab 2y agoI imagine the people behind this furiously knocking one off while watching the "Greed is good" bit from Wallstreet on loop.
- acadapter 2y agoThe things people say in the era where comment fields have been removed from news websites (in the name of "avoiding misinformation")...
- vegetablepotpie 2y agoI’m not sure the comment fields are considered by media organizations or public figures… like, at all. I remember talking to a journalist about a series they were working on, they said the feedback they’ve gotten has been overwhelmingly positive and no one had anything bad to say about it. The comments on their articles were absolutely negative and vitriolic. I don’t think anyone with a shred of influence or responsibility in western society reads them.
- asveikau 2y agoTo be fair, a lot of comment sections are garbage, and they can be trolled and brigaded.
- hyeonwho4 2y agoFor an article like this, the negative comments would be aimed at the people in the article, not the journalist. So the article can be a great (muckraking) article, and the comments might also be vitriolic, and everything is good if the rage is well-aimed.
- lmm 2y ago> I remember talking to a journalist about a series they were working on, they said the feedback they’ve gotten has been overwhelmingly positive and no one had anything bad to say about it. The comments on their articles were absolutely negative and vitriolic. There are two quite different possible interpretations for that fact pattern.
- lazide 2y agoIf you knew, you’d likely never be able to leave the house. Or could never go home again.
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- gyomu 2y agoMaybe we shouldn’t be casting stones from the HN glass house, because literally every other startup here has a mission statement that sounds as ridiculous as this
- boingo 2y agoThe C-Suite coming up with this garbage is in every industry. You notice it more with tech companies on HN because that's the industry we usually focus on
- seizethecheese 2y agoArguably, startups should have absurd mission statements, while managers of the city of London should be more sober.
- dylan604 2y agoA sober Englishman? Is there such a thing?
- no_wizard 2y agoWait why should startups have absurd mission statements? That doesn’t make sense to me
- pmontra 2y agoThey shouldn't but they do. Making the world a better place is not what founders have in mind. What they have in mind is "we are looking for an exit and retire young", for nearly all of them. Unfortunately those words are not something they can write in a mission statement so they must be creative.
- nf3 2y agoGo to business school?
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- Symbiote 2y agoThis is completely incorrect, please don't spread culture-war lies on HN. The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars. Petrol cars made since around 2005 are exempt, and diesel cars since 2015. Vans from ~2006 and 2016 respectively. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/cars https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/car...
- richardjennings 2y ago> The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars. It can apply to cars with a £0 VED that were built less than 10 years ago.
- robertlagrant 2y agoA 2015 car is not old in a world of reduce, reuse, recycle.
- fecal_henge 2y agoSo reuse them with the caveat you have to pay a little when you drive in a certain 0.6% of the uk.
- FredPret 2y agoThe most economically valuable 0.6%
- fecal_henge 2y agoThat value buys excellent public transport, and generally wages that let you trade in £1000 banger for £3000 one.
- fakedang 2y agoI mean, other countries would kill to preserve such long-lasting heritage, especially one that's in active use and very much a part of the city. But the English of late are exceptionally good at bending over and showing their rear-ends to new foreign overlords for paltry sums of coin.
- hermitcrab 2y agoIndeed. It is shocking how little money it takes to buy influence in the UK. I reckon I could afford my own MP.
- fakedang 2y agoYou can afford the PM for 50k pounds and the chancellor of the exchequer for 20k if they're Tories.
- madaxe_again 2y agoYou can get yourself a seat in lords for about £80k of donation, still - the threshold is surprisingly low.
- lmm 2y ago> I mean, other countries would kill to preserve such long-lasting heritage, especially one that's in active use and very much a part of the city. Nah. In China there wouldn't even be an announcement, you'd just turn up one day and it would be gone. Tokyo famously redeveloped their fish market, and that was far more of a piece of popular heritage than either of the markets mentioned here. This is no different from what happened to Covent Garden 40 years ago, and no-one sane wishes we'd kept that as a fruit and veg market.
- Fnoord 2y agoQuite simple for the psychopath is nothing, nada, zilch, nil, nix. Sociopath, well. The world is cruel, including for children.
- elphinstone 2y agoSounds like an AI trained on decades of lies.
- DocTomoe 2y agoFive weeks in any major corporation outside of IT, and you will be spewing that kind of talk like a machine gun. It's mind-numbing. Avoid the suits as if they were spreaders of the plague, because their brain-rot is not much better.
- rasz 2y agoIm sure schools like Eton have special courses just for this.