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  1. Comment on How do you pick what sources of news you listen to? in ~news

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    The economist and the financial times are quite high on my list. I'm using two local (dutch) resources for the rest.

    The economist and the financial times are quite high on my list. I'm using two local (dutch) resources for the rest.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Men going their own way: The rise of a toxic male separatist movement in ~tech

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    i understand the reasoning, however keep in mind that most religious texts have been the instigator for far worse. Computer games have been accused of causing school shooting accidents. And there...

    i understand the reasoning, however keep in mind that most religious texts have been the instigator for far worse. Computer games have been accused of causing school shooting accidents. And there are more examples but the point is it's not the message, it's receiver.
    Curbing free speech is usually not the solution.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Men going their own way: The rise of a toxic male separatist movement in ~tech

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    Never heard of these ideas before, so had to google some. This should get more exposure from mainstream so these people could get help early before they are sucked in to the crazy. But why get the...

    Never heard of these ideas before, so had to google some. This should get more exposure from mainstream so these people could get help early before they are sucked in to the crazy.
    But why get the reddit's banned? Sure it's offensive but everything is offensive to someone out there, that should not be the measure to censure something.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on What are your thoughts on more nuanced sexuality labels and their relationship with lgbt? in ~lgbt

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    Sorry for the late reply, but am on vacation and spent most of my time offline. The reason I don’t think labels are constructive is because they feed the us vs them, they highlight the differences...

    Sorry for the late reply, but am on vacation and spent most of my time offline.
    The reason I don’t think labels are constructive is because they feed the us vs them, they highlight the differences instead of the commonality. I understand a common label can give strength and give clarity but at the end of the day minority groups have been taking a lot of shit because they could be identified by a label. By using more fine grained labeling the minority is getting divided and thus smaller making it easier to target.

    And no you shouldn’t hide it, but I would rather have that the reason we need labels, ie bigot asshats,
    disappear then that we get more labels.

    So yeah I would call you a woman and be done with it, but I realize reality is not there yet. In the Netherlands the rights situation is mostly ok, we still have bigotry unfortunately.

    As a side note this teaches me to not respond to threads on my mobile phone because I tend to omit information.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on What are your thoughts on more nuanced sexuality labels and their relationship with lgbt? in ~lgbt

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    Personally I think all the labels over the top. Just as I don’t need 20 words for snow I don’t need to have shorthand about what someone’s biological gender, perceived gender and preferred sexual...

    Personally I think all the labels over the top. Just as I don’t need 20 words for snow I don’t need to have shorthand about what someone’s biological gender, perceived gender and preferred sexual partner may be. The whole mess starts and ends with personal freedom and not judging others, which is not exclusive to the lgbt discussion.
    Refocus is what I guess I’m saying, all the labels in the world don’t help against closed mind people.

    16 votes

  6. Comment on Jihadist plots used to be US and Europe's biggest terrorist threat. Now it's the far right in ~society

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    I could be biased. In the last major terror attack in the Netherlands a collegue of mine was killed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht_tram_shooting). That was a religious nutjob. The ones...

    I could be biased. In the last major terror attack in the Netherlands a collegue of mine was killed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht_tram_shooting). That was a religious nutjob.
    The ones that stand out in my mind are:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks
    the 2016 christmas market attack (https://www.theguardian.com/world/berlin-christmas-market-attack).

    I forgot about the the attack in Germany tbh. In hindsight the article could be right and I stand corrected. Although again not seeing this on my local level.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Jihadist plots used to be US and Europe's biggest terrorist threat. Now it's the far right in ~society

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    So in Europe we had several bombing and shooting incidents from jihadists the past years, we had no bombing incidents from the far right. To be fair in the Netherlands it's the left that's more...

    So in Europe we had several bombing and shooting incidents from jihadists the past years, we had no bombing incidents from the far right. To be fair in the Netherlands it's the left that's more troubling. In the years past the left wing extremists caused a lot of material damage. Again this pales in comparison to the deaths from bombs and bullets by jihadists.
    To me it sounds like someone needs a new revenue stream or tries to generate value.... Or to put it more to the point: I call BS

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Are there any good tools for "one-off" file encryption? in ~comp

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    You could try aescrypt (https://www.aescrypt.com/). I used it in the past for exactly this

    You could try aescrypt (https://www.aescrypt.com/). I used it in the past for exactly this

    1 vote

  9. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Seriously a godwin? Let's agree to disagree, I still think it's a non issue as it's corrected, happened for a small time, affected a very small subset of people. And by that I mean people who...

    Seriously a godwin?
    Let's agree to disagree, I still think it's a non issue as it's corrected, happened for a small time, affected a very small subset of people. And by that I mean people who actually used the service for the hours that it was live and were affected by it.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    So why is this a abysmal issue? I'm not a big fan of filtering of anything other than malware and or spyware, but if anyone chooses too block porn, do you really think they care? Even then when...

    So why is this a abysmal issue? I'm not a big fan of filtering of anything other than malware and or spyware, but if anyone chooses too block porn, do you really think they care? Even then when we're talking about lgtbq it's a very small (if extremely vocal) percent of the population. On top of that it got fixed quite quick.
    So seriously abysmal?
    I think it's abysmal what's happening with corona. I think it's abysmal that there are people with not enough resources to feed their childeren. The cloudflare issue? Not abysmal, annoying it may be for some but for most just a shrug.

    1 vote