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by growlist 6y ago
Let's not forget there are still deeply embittered anti-Brexit forces prevalent throughout the public sector.
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by growlist 6y ago
So then by this logic, we should be attempting to have every person on earth living in the UK, since all migration is positive, right? Or is there an upper limit to the desirable population of the UK before life becomes intolerable?
153.
by growlist 6y ago
Attempting to spread the blame like that is frankly a ridiculous stunt to try to pull - the Tory MPs weren't party to the execrable backroom shenanigans that we are now all very well aware went on.
154.
by growlist 6y ago
Downvotes for stating the truth. Sad.
155.
by growlist 6y ago
> And actually, to me it looks like the EU is content with a no deal as a starting point. If they get anything else, nice. If not, shrug. Sure, the EU are so completely insouciant about the UK leaving that they didn't wage a several
156.
by growlist 6y ago
'culture'
157.
by growlist 6y ago
You forgot at least a couple of big ones e.g. the indefensible calamity that is the destruction of millions of young people's life chances due to the Euro, the near-collapse of unity and immediate reversion to national self-interest in
158.
by growlist 6y ago
> and the terms of any trade agreement we make with the EU will be adjudicated by the ECJ, as they are for any other country So the ECJ makes it judgement and the US for example has to abide? Please.
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by growlist 6y ago
The UK has a world-leading satellite industry, and could just launch them on Falcon 9 or Starship when operational - likely at drastically lower cost than Ariane. In fact I suspect that due to technological advance and lower cost of launchi
160.
by growlist 6y ago
I seem to recall Tony Blair's Labour government making one significant foreign policy decision that rather outweighs anything the Tories have done since, but if you'd prefer I stick to Labour's financial incompetence I could
161.
by growlist 6y ago
> "We're a small unimportant island so that's fine" 5th or 6th biggest economy in the world, population of 70m+, nuclear weapons, globally influential in various different ways, in London has one of world's top c
162.
by growlist 6y ago
I knew a really nice guy that ended up working in forestry in the US, and tragically died after backing into a powerline whilst up a tree in a harness cutting branches. Working with trees is so dangerous.
163.
by growlist 6y ago
A good while back Esri rearchitected their whole software suite into a COM based technology known as ArcObjects, with the aim of providing developers a single environment in which to code across all Esri SDKs. I remember a couple of things
164.
by growlist 6y ago
I've been around a fair bit including a few trips across borders at which you'd expect a bit of a grilling, such as the Eastern Bloc before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Israel; but nothing prepared me for the absolute aggressi
165.
by growlist 6y ago
How many of said academics do you honestly, seriously, truly think don't have leftist political tendencies? You seriously expect to get a completely unbiased opinion out of them? Come on. No matter your political leanings, surely you
166.
by growlist 6y ago
Outside NL there are these things called hills. Sorry couldn't resist :)
167.
by growlist 6y ago
Take a look at what OGC are working on.
168.
by growlist 6y ago
You know nothing about my life.
169.
by growlist 6y ago
Aha! And so we stumble across the Orwellian redefinition of language: if you don't like a word, just change it's meaning until it suits your agenda.
170.
by growlist 6y ago
I assume you include anti-white racism? Because there seems to be a lot of it about at the moment.
171.
by growlist 6y ago
Rest assured, I'm doing everything in my power to hold on to what I have, despite the efforts of those that want something for nothing to take it from me.
172.
by growlist 6y ago
A couple of generations back my grandfather's working life involved digging coal in miserable conditions underground for decades, and he died a slow and painful death as a consequence. My father was stunted from malnutrition growing up
173.
by growlist 6y ago
I worked for a global oil company a few years back. I had then and have now no misgivings whatsoever about that work. I think the average anti-oil person living in a developed country drastically underestimates the centrality of hydrocarbon
174.
by growlist 6y ago
I think the level of irony here is so off the scale that it threatens to tear a rip in the fabric of space itself.
175.
by growlist 6y ago
Despite your sarcasm, there's evidence for both.
176.
by growlist 6y ago
No, I'm sure hostile forces would never take advantage of such a situation /s 'Russia and China target US protests on social media Both countries have flooded Twitter with hashtags and other content experts say is aimed at so
177.
by growlist 6y ago
But then plenty of the same people that seek to police speech online and to claim the moral high ground are capable of and comfortable with quite horrible and unjustified forms of harassment, e.g. extreme levels of doxxing, getting people s
178.
by growlist 6y ago
I dislike anti-aliasing, and far prefer a pixel font (or whatever the correct term is) like Terminus: https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/
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by growlist 6y ago
No worries, I'm happy to keep investing in the most profitable companies regardless of the current misandrist prejudice that seems to be everywhere.
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by growlist 6y ago
This is textbook globalism. If we don't fight it, it will end up making the whole world a horrible place to live.

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