Veen

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by Veen 4y ago
1) Hundreds of thousands of British citizens live and work in the EU. 2) The EU is not Europe. Leaving the EU did not stop British citizens from being European.
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by Veen 4y ago
It shows a desire to take advantage of the U.S.'s economic benefits. It has very little to do with the constitution.
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by Veen 4y ago
Functional for whom? Most websites exist to make money for the people who make them, including news sites. All that crap serves the publisher's functional goals.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that they are slurs in the U.S., not globally. One is a type of meatball where I'm from.
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by Veen 4y ago
I agree with your position, but it is no less polemical and ideological than the comment you are responding to. > an embryo is not a child and you cannot murder an embryo It is not obviously and axiomatically true that embryos are not hu
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by Veen 4y ago
I think that overstates things and it’s a blinkered “developer” perspective. Many professionals use iPads to create and do real work every day: writers, artists, designers, lawyers, etc.iPads aren’t useful for developers, but developers are
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by Veen 4y ago
Many people are quite attached to their cliches of nationalist historiography. In fact, they find it quite annoying when they are called chauvinists for believing them.
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by Veen 4y ago
> patriarchal grievance culture revanchism That's a new one for the left-wing academia bingo card.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, it would probably be better if this linked to the National Geographic article [0] or the original study [1]. The current Greek Reporter link is a rewrite of the NG article. [0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cultur
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by Veen 4y ago
He didn't go to university, but his background wasn't all that humble. His father was an alderman and successful glover and his mother came from a well-off land-owning family. It's usually thought he had a grammar school edu
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by Veen 4y ago
> Criticising the UK royals feels like criticising a religion For the Queen and some Anglican believers that's literally true. She's an anointed monarch [0] and supreme leader of the Church of England. During the coronation, t
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by Veen 4y ago
Queen Elizabeth II has served her people for the last 70 years—in fact, since she was born 96 years ago. The constitutional monarchy requires that she and her heirs devote essentially their entire lives to service of the country. She has be
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by Veen 4y ago
It has not. Following the prorogation there was a general election. The Tories won a large majority and put forward the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. It, in part emphasized that relevant Royal Prerogative powers are non-ju
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by Veen 4y ago
Charles isn't very popular, but William is.
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by Veen 4y ago
The abolition of the monarchy is extremely unlikely to happen. There's no appetite for it among the general populace. No major political party supports it. If we had a referendum about it today, it would be rejected by a massive majori
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by Veen 4y ago
Maybe take a look at some of the streaming versions made available by theaters. The Globe has an excellent (although expensive) streaming service. https://player.shakespearesglobe.com
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by Veen 4y ago
How do you think Google knows which pages are helpful when someone searches for “[something] in [location]”? Anchor text in links plays a key role, but with search listings on sites like TripAdvisor, it’s tricky to naturally insert those li
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by Veen 4y ago
That's really quite worrying. You'd have been screwed without HN, but not everyone has that recourse. How many other domains have been affected by "false positives" announced with a "we've banned you and we ar
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by Veen 4y ago
I had a quick look at your scoring tool. It looks quite useful. Couple of issues I spotted: - You're recommending a maximum meta description length of 320. That's no longer what Google recommends. - I got all green ticks for mobil
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by Veen 4y ago
> Leave aside the rush of nicotine. Forget the ritual of opening a pack of unfiltered Luckies, Camels, Chesterfields, Pall Malls, tamping them down, pulling one out, lighting it, discarding the match, taking the first, satisfying long dr
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by Veen 4y ago
That page leads down an unpleasant Wikipedia rabbit hole. It's amazing to me that people thought "Goose pulling" was a pleasant pastime—tie a goose to a frame, ride towards it at a gallop, and grab it by the neck so its head
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by Veen 4y ago
A shift that the vast majority of human beings who have ever lived have not made and will not make. Even if that shift were desirable, it's not going to happen. If you tell people that their nation is an irrelevant construct, most of t
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by Veen 4y ago
> You know countries are just made up right? So are flags, programming languages, natural languages, genders, political parties, ideologies, religions, racial categories, and about a million other things people care deeply about. Dismiss
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by Veen 4y ago
Part of the disjointedness comes from the writer's apparent obsession with over-simple language and very short sentences made by chopping up longer sentences. It's a good example of what happens when inexperienced writers rely on
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by Veen 4y ago
In my experience, it tends to be used more often by left-wing critics accusing conservatives of engaging in a culture war. The conservative advances a position, and the left-wing person responds that the position is chosen not on its merits
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by Veen 4y ago
I once stayed in an AirBNB in Crete where the lower floors of the building were occupied and the upper floors hadn't been built. If you carried on up the stairs past our apartment, you ended up at what looked like an building site with
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by Veen 4y ago
Sickening is an odd word to choose. People have aesthetic preferences about all sorts of things, and they're often prepared to pay more to satisfy their tastes. What's bad about that?
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It's a tradeoff. Close-knit families limit your freedom, but they also provide stability, companionship, emotional and financial support, etc. On the other hand, you can have total independence from family and community, but then you a
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps a contentious question, but why shouldn't an English university teach a western-dominated curriculum? I'm English, and that's my culture. I want to learn about it. I also want to learn about other cultures, but I see
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, the concrete manufacturing process emits more CO2 than aging concrete absorbs.

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