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CorbenDallas • today at 9:50 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

"safe and boring holiday park" sounds like a sentence for a country.


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ShinyLeftPad • today at 10:17 AM

> sentence for a country

Sure... It's a developed productive high tech country with agricultural exports leaving Russia in the dust despite 400 times smaller land size, but let's condemn it because it's "safe"

Also ask the farmers, fishers, ASML employees, the police dealing with gang killings and Netherlands being the biggest exporter of ecstasy and European gateway for coke how it's a "holiday park";)

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Muromec • today at 10:32 AM

I very much like the safe and boring part of it.

homarp • today at 9:53 AM

there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...

Disneyland with the Death Penalty" is a 4,500-word article about Singapore written by William Gibson. It wad his first major piece of non-fiction.

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