davesmith1983

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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Why are you trying to play the oppression olympics? We can care about multiple things at the same time. Right I am no longer interested in talking to you. Pretending something is whataboutism when I am trying to bring some perspective
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Citation needed - at this point you're denying misrepresentation of minorities in popular media, which is such a well-documented problem and so obviously observable that your unsupported assertions would be laughable if the issue
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> The effects of American slavery linger to this day. Do they? How? > has a more direct impact on their lives than foreign labor exploitation. Apparently slavery that happened over 100 years ago in a first world country where there is
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Clearly everyone has had it equally difficult and there is no grouping of peoples that get systemic mistreatment, evidence and statistics be damned. Never claimed that. > Yes, people can have it hard. And people can have it hard out
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> ??? What does that have anything to do with the comment you replied to? Absolutely everything. This myth there hasn't been representation of minorities or women completely neglecting the fact that there has been plenty going back
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
My grandmother cries when describing the poverty they lived in when she was a child (1930s) in Newcastle (Northern England). Nobody had it easy in the past. Well done for falling for the propaganda that racially divides people and is freque
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I did not cherry-pick, I took some examples off of duck duck go to prove a point that everywhere has their problems and you probably shouldn't be criticising my country (which is quite rude) while completely ignoring the point I was ma
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I didn't quote mine. I literally put in "Japanese Train Attack" and pulled some links off the first page to prove that it isn't quite as perfect as it was claimed. I don't like the fact that the UK is demonised cons
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Except these problems don't seem to exist at all on Japanese or German trains. Lets see if that is true: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/18/german-train-axe... https://www.t
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Public transit is publicly funded. For improvements in safety, cleanliness etc to happen, the systems need (public) money. All you are admitting here is that the Government can't provide a compelling alternative to a more expensiv
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Yeh well I gave catching the train a chance (I was riding trains for about 10 years before I could afford a car) and driving is much easier.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
It is an overly broad definition.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Virgin trains wants basically another 10-15 a month on top of your journey for internet and you can't take a bike on their trains without phoning ahead first. Cross country aren't much better. Phone internet doesn't work on t
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Interesting tbh if it was the same amount of time I would just drive in. Outside of London the train is always slower. I used to live in Manchester and get the train into Stoke. Driving was always faster without exception. Generally it was
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Most people are coming from outside of London and what you find is that it is usually quicker to drive in and just sit in the traffic than mess about doing park and rides and then travelling in.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Well that is up to other people. It doesn't make the company inherently political. This logic as previously stated is a horrible mind worm that infests everything and ruins a great many things that are just useful (razor blades) or f
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
No it should be secure by default and people will have to enable insecure features. It doesn't stop old software from working as the person will be able to simply re-enable whatever the insecure feature is. However they will now be awa
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
This is nonsense. This is the same warped view of the world along the lines of "the person is political" and is a thought worm that has to be binned. I don't buy bog roll as a political decision, I buy it so I can wipe my ars
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Generally I agree however > Companies are inherently political I am fed up of everything be political. I know someone is going to make Doom Eternal political somehow when the game is about a man that is too angry to die taking on the leg
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> And it will come back much worse, and you won't know how to recognize it or fight it. Yep. > Liberals like to make off-color jokes too, they're just in denial about it. The logic is "it is okay when we do it".
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
With extremists that grew up in the west, possibly. I did work with some Somali guys (they weren't extremists) but a few of them said they didn't feel British and they didn't feel Somalian. So there is a schism there, I'
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
The "bad guys" just went somewhere else. This doesn't fix the problem it just pushed the problem away from reddit. > And it's up to us to pressure these private businesses to do that. No it isn't. I am fed up of
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
reCAPTCHA on a site forces me to use Google and quite a few sites now use it. There are other ways of detecting bots that aren't as intrusive nor require you to allow Google everywhere.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Well with someone such as that you aren't trying to convince him you are trying to convince the audience of your position.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I am talking about whoever is packaging PHP for the OS, there is a default php.ini that comes with PHP on CentOS is insecure by default (I can't remember off the top of my head which settings were set to something insecure). We are tal
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
He got absolutely mullered on Question time so I find that hard to believe.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Nope it isn't. De-platforming happens to more politically moderate such as libertarians and conservatives. It is normally done by a small number of people with a harassment campaign. Any sort of soft censorship occurs it gives people a
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Are we? Because articles such as this seem to blame 8chan and 4chan (they never mention the rest of the site which has stuff from /g which is GNU stuff and the transexual and gay communities on there). Back in the 90s they blamed Doom,
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
“It's right to learn, even from the enemy.” - Ovid. If you do not learn what motivates an extremist you will not be able to prevent other extremists from committing similar acts.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
The french military parade with Macron had me laughing my head off when I saw the clip. If anyone wanted to defend against this type of aerial soldier other than them sticking out like a sore thumb to shoot people would could put up some th

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