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by Veen 4y ago
That makes no sense. If a person is an expert or has earned influence in a particular field, they don't lose that because they are awarded a life peerage. (And Americans in fact fought a war because they didn't want to pay taxes t
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by Veen 4y ago
Holyrood derives its power from Westminster and Westminster can remove it. The UK Parliament is still supreme, but it refrains from making laws in areas that are devolved to local Parliaments (the Sewell convention). It could overturn the S
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by Veen 4y ago
That's a misrepresentation. The UK government merely wants to make the UK supreme court the final authority on some human rights cases in the UK, which seems perfectly reasonable to me. The UK is not abandoning the convention, and ther
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by Veen 4y ago
I have trouble figuring out what you mean by the last sentence. There was no legitimate (and non-Catholic) female heir who had priority over James IV and I when Elizabeth I died. Even if female primogeniture was accepted at the time, the cr
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by Veen 4y ago
As opposed to other online dictionaries that are still updated.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not an anti-LGBT organization. It is an organization concerned that the police have embraced trans ideologies that don't have the support of most of the UK population. It is in many ways similar to the LGB Alliance, which has
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by Veen 4y ago
Nothing that you have said, all of which I agree with, justifies police involvement. The tweeter is a moron and he is being used by right-wing ideologues like Fox to promote their agenda. But so what? Being a right-wing fool shouldn't
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by Veen 4y ago
> so why even mention it To emphasize and focus the reader's attention on a particular property of money the writer would like to highlight. Money has many properties, and emphasizing the relevant one helps the writer to communicate
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Do you think your analysis is undermined by the fact that most Orange walks take place in Northern Ireland and are conducted by Northern Irish people? There are even Orange walks that take place in the Republic of Ireland. Only a handful ta
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by Veen 4y ago
What exactly do you mean by anti-Irish marches? There are no such marches so far as I am aware. If, as another commenter has speculated, you are talking about Orange Order marches, these are not anti-Irish. They are pro-Unionist and anti-Ir
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Only GitHub for the time being.
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How many people you are serving those static files and images to and how much bandwidth does that consume. The fact that they are static sites reveals little about whether the charges are absurd.
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One reason The Guardian etc don’t include references to authoritative sources is because they believe they are the authoritative source for their readers. They expect readers to implicitly trust their writing.
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I use Apple's Scheduled Summary for most notifications (Android may have something similar, but I don't know the platform). Scheduled summary collects notifications and then delivers a summary at a time of my choosing. You can cho
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One of the cats in our neighborhood likes to sit in front of our glass doors to antagonize our dog. The dog goes nuts and the cat sits there washing itself.
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Same. My Springer Spaniel puppy would roll over and pee with excitement.
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> How does his compassion to Ukranians, or lack thereof, change that? Surely you can understand why it matters to Ukrainians?
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But a marketplace is a classic example of a middle man. They facilitate sales between one group (the farmers) and another group (the buyers). The alternative is every buyer visiting every farm they want to make a purchase from. Farmers mark
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It's horrendous what breeders have done to the English Bulldog. Two centuries ago they were beautiful healthy working dogs (although unfortunately used for cruel sports). Today they are deformed and unhealthy. Last week I saw someone w
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by Veen 4y ago
You're not going to get a useful answer to that question, just lots of people from both sides of the argument caricaturing and insulting their opponents (as you will see if you peruse the responses).
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The main benefit of exchanges is that they generate market liquidity. It's certainly possible to trade crypto without an exchange, but it's much more difficult to find buyers and sellers. I suspect that something akin to an exchan
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by Veen 4y ago
I had a medical doctor describe the benefits of SSRIs with: "these pills will increase the happy chemicals in your brain".
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And how do the people who pay you to code make the money to pay you?
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> art that people make because they feel compelled to make art, not because they've done the math on the best return-on-investment How do you think such people buy food and heat their homes.
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It’s not surprising I didn’t get the reference: there was no slavery on the Ulster plantation. That was about Protestant colonisation. The local Gaelic Catholics were displaced by Scottish and English colonists, not enslaved. Plantation imp
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No one who lives in either place would consider it a distinction without a difference. Ireland abolished slavey in 1171, although, like the English, they were involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
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> Slavery existed in every region of the world. This is perhaps a provocative point, but legal slavery has not existed in England for about 900 years. The rest of your points are an irrelevant and inaccurate response to my comment, so I
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It's somewhat odd that the article addresses slavery without mentioning that Mansa Musa owned many thousands of slaves and that slavery was prevalent in West and Central Africa during the Medieval, pre-Colonial period.
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My understanding is that he believes people should be able to exert some level of control over the genetics of their offspring, but that he is strongly opposed to any type of coercive eugenics. Some people would consider him a eugenicist be
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by Veen 4y ago
> isn't he a eugenicist? No. Although the term is widely abused and misapplied, so he might fall within whatever definition of eugenicist you're working with.

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