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cal97g··on In U.K. Vote, Online Disinformation Is the New Normal
It’s not like they don’t deserve criticism, their policies are financial suicide. Additionally they’re lying about the NHS along with every left wing rag out there.

Tories wanting to sell the NHS is fake news. It’s fear-mongering. Labour already sold the NHS essentially, allowing provisions of services by private companies. The Tories haven’t made any cuts to the NHS while in power.

So why do labour and their supporters keep touting rubbish?

cal97g··on The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
'Populist jerks' meaning people who are democratic?
cal97g··on Show HN: A fair, simple and free alternative to freelancing platforms
What if the freelancer does excellent work and the work is still rejected by the client for whatever reason? The client may have changed their mind about the whole body of work or completely changed spec. Why should the freelancer not get the full amount?
cal97g··on America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
There's a lot of sugar in skimmed milk in the UK too. You are essentially making a trade off between sugar and fat when choosing between skimmed / full fat.
cal97g··on Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality
It generally just makes everybody else roll their eyes.
cal97g··on U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal
Often that wind is too strong for these turbines and they have to stop completely to save literally breaking themselves.
cal97g··on UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
Somebody let me know if they reach 17,400,000 signatures; because if they don't it's completely irrelevant. Not that signatures can't be faked; which seems much more likely.
cal97g··on UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
let me know when they get to 17.4 million signatures.
cal97g··on Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
What are you talking about?

Have you read the EU's no deal plan? Ireland's no deal plan?

Their plan is this: - Allow the UK to keep trading with the EU on WTO terms - Do not halt trade with the UK. No need to, damages both. - No border in Northern Ireland. They won't build it, we won't build it, empty threat. - Boats, Lorries, Ferries to continue as normal until agreements made. Guess what, this is what real independent nations do with eachother.

Ireland's agriculture industry sells 80% of its produce to the UK. It's in big trouble with no trade.

Germany sells lots of cars to the UK. It's in big trouble with no trade.

4 Million EU citizens live here, they are in big trouble with no reciprocal agreement.

French, German and Spanish fishermen rely on British waters to for fishing as they are rather lucrative - to great detriment of the British fishing industry. They are in trouble when we take them back.

Spain, France, Italy and Germany are all having economic issues the UK isn't particularly having right now. Look at jobs, youth unemployment etc.

18% of the EU's goods are exported to the UK. The whole EU is in trouble with no trade. The reverse figure is fake news thanks to the rotterdam effect.

That 8% GDP figure is ridiculous and proven to be wrong [https://capx.co/the-bank-of-englands-brexit-forecasts-arent-...]. The assumptions it makes are the worst possible and completely unrealistic. Those figures suggest that the effect on the UK economy would be worse than WW2 - a time where Europe was occupied by a hostile power and Britain was at war with trade convoys regularly being sunk.

Personally I'd be happy for Scotland to leave the Union. They are a net receiver of English taxes. Also, would never be granted EU membership thanks to our hypocritical friends in Spain and their own issue with certain parts of their country declaring independence.

The EU suits large corporations. It keeps wages for the least skilled in our society as low as possible, more workers means less pay.

All we are asking for is to be an independent nation state, just like more than 150 other countries.

cal97g··on Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?
Typora. Just a simple WYSIWYG markdown editor. I use it for anything from writing articles to notes to invoices. Has pretty PDF exports which look good and professional for documentation as well a nice selection of themes.