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Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by volkk »

zozbot234 wrote: post #8

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this always gets brought up, but realistically no one ever cares or brings this up from the perspective of celebrating American origins, but rather just a reminder to be thankful for things in your life that matter to you. I don't see the problem with this

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by mettamage »

zozbot234 wrote: post #8

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Wasn't Thanksgiving a practice before people came to the US? The US now does it, but they didn't start it. I only know it because I'm Dutch and I wanted to see if the Dutchies were somehow involved (because they are way more often than they should be). Here's a source I quickly found but there are many sources on it [1].

There's more to Thanksgiving than only the US.

[1] https://www.iamexpat.nl/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/how-netherl...

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by mettamage »

mindcrime wrote: post #4

Seems weird to say, but I've been posting here for seventeen years now. And in that time, can I say that the quality of the discourse has slipped some? Well... if I'm being honest, probably yeah. A little. But at the same time, I can still honestly say that HN is still easily the best community of this sort on the 'net, at least that I'm aware of. OK, Lobste.rs has some merit, but the problem there is that the commun…

17 years? Damn, that's a mindcrime!

Relatable by the way. Though, not 17 years, haha, "just" 10 :')

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by unkulunkulu »

Hey, community! Thank you for this opportunity to connect and feel closeness to the best parts and people in our industry.

Thank you for your open mindedness, smarts, stupid fun and lovable nerdiness.

I feel at home here.

One thing that makes me sad are dystopian fears. Not sure if this is warranted or not, but certainly get my dose of dread from HN. But thank you for being so sensitive and caring in this.

Happy thanksgiving.

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