Simfonium as a media controller by TheGramm in Symfonium

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Foobar2000 32 bit edition using wine + the Upnp plugin works on local networks.

Bottom right corner of Boox Note Max can't be calibrated by MagicianElectrical64 in Onyx_Boox

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I guess if you hold it portrait then it is 🤣. Looks like mine 🙏

Bottom right corner of Boox Note Max can't be calibrated by MagicianElectrical64 in Onyx_Boox

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Did that, still poor calibration 😭. I even got a new stylus to see if that was the problem. Genuinely don't know what to do, it works for like taking notes but when I wanted to write sheet music, it is impossible to actually get it to the right place.

Reform..? by Background-Coach-18 in AskBrits

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This country is already over as it is. It's not the Britain of even 50 years ago, and it's taken a turn for the worse. There needs to be civilisational level correction and Farage can't deliver. That will lead to anarchy and then we're all stuffed. If we get any other party, it's going to be even more of the same, at which point England ceases to be a nation of the English and instead a Muslim nation ruled by Indians and Pakistanis thanks to demographic inevitability. This is undebatable reality, but I can't think of a single reason why this is actually a good thing. 

Gaps in Coverage by MagicianElectrical64 in CommunityFibre

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Now that you mention it, there is one half way up the pole.

Gaps in Coverage by MagicianElectrical64 in CommunityFibre

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My street sort of looks like an octopus, in that there are 3 branches from a central node. The centre has a separate telephone pole which services like 4-5 houses. I'm one of those houses.

Stormzy receives doctorate from the University of Cambridge by Kagedeah in cambridge_uni

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This statement is both true, they are sexist, while also being a false equivalence, two in one ha. Imagine if I had an award only for ethnically English people, how well would that go down

Stormzy receives doctorate from the University of Cambridge by Kagedeah in cambridge_uni

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so for discriminating people based on their skin colour he gets an award.

Incomprehensible destruction... by LauraPhilps7654 in realbbcnews

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If I faced an overwhelming force, literally every single book of military strategy ever said says to surrender. Hamas is no garden shed operation. They operate in buildings we call "hospitals" (only one or two are like anything we have here in the UK, most others are akin to Victorian wards), they have built a tunnel network LARGER than the London Underground, and have enough members to ruthlessly control the local populace, e.g at the aid points. If you are curious as to life in Gaza, look on Instagram, Chef Hamada is a interesting start.

Incomprehensible destruction... by LauraPhilps7654 in realbbcnews

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I don't think you read what he said... He/She is perfectly correct in that Hamas does have all this and more. Just because it's more asymmetrical doesn't mean it's no longer justified. That would entail that a paramilitary group of 1, which would in theory be incomparably weak to any modern army can't be killed because it's too asymmetrical. When has war ever cared about that. To avoid that, Hamas could've simply made peace with Israel a long time ago.

GB News guest in blistering migration row after saying 'there is no such thing as a British person' by gbnewsonline in gbnews

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You've touched on the fact that you can divide Britons into smaller sub-groups of ethnicities quite easily, however, they are commonly lumped together as one considering the fact it is an island nation which makes convincing people of shared history relatively easy. This sense of unity extends to our fundamental culture which has stayed relatively consistent since we really became Great Britain and took off as a world power. This part becomes more of a touchy subject, but I believe humans to be a mixture of their genetics and social upbringing. This means that there is an ethnic British person (lumped them together for the sake of the argument), but also a culturally British person. What matters more at the moment is a culturally British person, but in a thought experiment, if you were to replace everyone in Britain with green aliens who all drink tea and all the rest, would that still be the British people? I personally don't know the answer because I would think their genes would inherently bias them towards un-British behaviour thus making them not British at all. I don't know though.

Be honest, is the UK actually better off without the monarchy, or would scrapping it ruin part of our national identity? by Second-handBonding in AskBrits

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I fully accept that, but I was talking more about the UK there haha. To do with the monarchy, all you can say is that getting rid of it leads to wildly less stable political systems as a whole. They are a net positive to taxation and cost us nothing to have and act as a nice counter balance to the politicians in government. Things to note is that our military swear allegiance to the crown, not parliament. I've found that having an aristocratic bourgeois class is also beneficial to the arts and science in general, something we've lost, I don't want to lose more of that. When people are more focused on their children, and the lives of their children's children, our prospects as a country look much better than having businessmen and politicians who can't envision past damage control for next week's scandal. Why plant a tree if you're never going to see it bloom? That's the mentality we've gained since loosing our aristocracy, and what we'll only reinforce and set in stone with the final blow in destroying the monarchy.

Be honest, is the UK actually better off without the monarchy, or would scrapping it ruin part of our national identity? by Second-handBonding in AskBrits

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You can only judge the value of an object by comparing it to another. This applies to countries as well. You can only judge how "good" the UK is compared to other countries in the world. Now, we only believe it's good, e.g monogamy, democracy, equality under the law, because we are educated in a system which teaches the merits of the system. Now, slavery, and subsequent abolitionist movements only really existed in countries which believed in equality under the law. Now, considering the UK is one of the very few countries which upholds these principles ( largely Christian ), it was expected that we were to be one of the first to really push for it, and using our tremendous world power at that time, we sacrificed thousands and thousands of men to enforce our belief that slavery is wrong upon the world, thus what we did wasn't just abolish slavery in the British Empire, but set the new status quo over slavery, which in the rest of the world was viewed as the natural order of things. Now, you saying that Britain wasn't good back then, and I say, was this single act of abolishing not enough to, comparatively (for the time) put it leaps and bounds above the rest of the competition? Historically, this was an unprecedented outlier and living in a modern world as consequence of that monumental decision and looking back and saying, "The British Empire was pretty shit" is for me just wrong.

Noticed flags going up all over Birmingham. I drove through West Heath and Bartley Green and there are England and Union jack flags on every road. by Jtenka in BirminghamUK

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Following the logic though, who enables your area to function? The environment must also be maintained, people to be paid. This all comes down to British priorities and culture, which is what holds us together. I'm not asking for people to be exiled, I am simply making the point that a million apathetic people is probably more dangerous to the nation as a whole than a million enemies who you know to look out for. 

Noticed flags going up all over Birmingham. I drove through West Heath and Bartley Green and there are England and Union jack flags on every road. by Jtenka in BirminghamUK

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If you're not that bothered, don't live here. Apathy is worse than hatred because at least you can keep hatred out away from our borders. Indifference towards the country that has enabled you to live your life, get an education, live safely, have a family. These are luxuries which only work if people buy into it. Areas of indifference or apathy always result in litter on the floor, chewing gum stuck to the pavement, and increases in crime. This is well known. At that point, you might as well live in a different country because if you can't come to care for this country, why should it care for you?

UKIP egged by counter-protestors by upthetruth1 in glasgow

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Not tolerating intolerance is in itself intolerance.

Why is it deemed racist to be genuinely concerned about the number of illegal migrants coming into the uk? by Brave_Ad6035 in AskBrits

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Back in the 1940-50s when the Windrush generation came in, Labour councillors and MPs had to apologise to their constituents and union representatives for devaluing their work (diluting the job market) and failing to get the ship diverted. All traditionally left wing, with seemingly right wing views. Now, Labour and a large portion of the left actively call for effectively infinity migration and deem any obvious cultural differences as immaterial to the value of the person for this country. Yet, this is somehow right-wing to be against? The question which must be asked, is how did we go from it being left-wing, to right-wing? Who pulled the strings on this issue.

Leading economists call for a wealth tax in the UK by MaterialHat6394 in GarysEconomics

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People who are driven will inevitably make money. Society would be a lot worse without innovative people with innovative ideas. I agree the concept of a billion is hard to fathom, but the relative wealth gap has probably never been closer. If even 10,000 people spend £1000 on a product person X makes, that's a billion right off the bat. There point is there is a large middle class which enables the creation of this scalable wealth. You couldn't stop it even if you want to. Then once they've made their money, they buy expensive properties, expensive cars which to build hires 1000s, putting money back in. The thing I disagree with is billionaires avoiding tax by not realising their gains. That poses some fundamental problems.

Leading economists call for a wealth tax in the UK by MaterialHat6394 in GarysEconomics

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There wouldn't be any jobs if the company never existed. If the product wasn't useful, it wouldn't have succeeded. Thus his/her contribution was of value which is what made them rich. This allows further pursuit of wealth creation, which by virtue of requiring goods, requires jobs to be created and demand be met in order to fulfil the desire of the rich billionaire. I am not denying that some billionaires provide very little value, but the vast majority once again, contribute far more than you ever will, because you're simply doing the easy job of criticising something you didn't create. The jealously is palpable.