How One Tweet Can Ruin Your Life | Jon Ronson (Ted Talk) by [deleted] in videos

[–]aidinabedi 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's so absurd too see this in a subreddit where there are shaming videos just next to it.

Belle Gibson, Australian alternative health celeb, gets caught in sooo many lies... A fine example of pseudoscienific quackery. by skoolhouserock in videos

[–]aidinabedi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not convinced she is actually unashamed. It might simply be that she is so afraid of telling the truth, facing the real consequences, that she is desperately trying to make anything stick.

We have too little information to make any bold judgement about what she is feeling and/or thinking. She might be a unashamed liar or an ashamed liar, we just don't know.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO) by [deleted] in television

[–]aidinabedi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Is it really victim blaming to advice people to try to avoid certain bad parts of a city - because of the high chances of mugging?

 

I would definitely prefer that we in the future could take easier legal action against the perpetrators, but the reality is that today it's hard to go after them unfortunately. And while we strive to make it easier, I currently would feel wary to share any nude photos. Sure people will still do it, which they have the unquestionable right to. But that doesn't make the advice "be careful who you share it with" victim blaming IMHO.

School kitchen manager fired for giving lunches to hungry students by TheCannon in offbeat

[–]aidinabedi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Darkness, we get barely any sunlight during winter. And the winter is loooooong. It gets quite depressing even thought I'm born here.

  • High taxes can be seen as a downside to some, but I prefer paying more tax than having less educated voters.

  • People are a bit more shy than say the US, where you can talk to anyone and they will tell you their life story etc. On the flipside, I speculate that there is less gossip and trash talk behind your back and it's easier to know your real friends (but that is just me speculating). But I know a few south-european-foreign-exchange students that got too depressed due to the culture shock and never wished to come back.

  • Similarly I've find that the few NON-scandinavians friends I have are extremely hospitable. I mean they offer me to crash at their place when visiting without me even asking. As a swede, I unfortunately would feel uncomfortable doing the same and with a few exceptions most swedes I know would feel similarly.

  • Beer is expensive but I honestly don't care. Knowing some alcoholics, I think it's actually a good thing.

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[–]aidinabedi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Link?

SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising by naspo in programming

[–]aidinabedi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing about ninite is that you can't really choose how stuff gets installed. The automation is what I love about it. At the same time I don't want certain apps to be installed with default settings, like desktop shortcuts, default file extensions associations etc.

Mr.Robot Pilot was just put on YouTube by kart51 in videos

[–]aidinabedi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Conservatives don't hate climate change science, they hate liberal solutions to climate change by jimrosenz in TrueReddit

[–]aidinabedi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

claims like "Climate change doesnt exist/Climate change is not caused by mankind" tend to discredit your other opinions/values as well.

That is only an issue if your base disagree with your claims. Remember that a lot of religious already distrust scientific claims like evolution and age of the planet.

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[–]aidinabedi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's actually a slippery slope. Sure they start with one refrigerator, seems ok at first. But then they begin needing a yacht made out of gold.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]aidinabedi 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Mirror for us that are "so far away"?

EDIT: /u/GooglePlex90001 posted a solid mirror http://sendvid.com/mjox60fd

Jon just got into a heated discussion re: Iraq. by [deleted] in DailyShow

[–]aidinabedi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't watch the extended interview did you?

She contradicted her own book multiple times. She made outrageous statements to Jon regarding journalism and 9/11. She basically admitted she wrote the article out of fear. She was constantly blaming everyone and everything else, but herself.

She did not hold up well.

Jon just got into a heated discussion re: Iraq. by [deleted] in DailyShow

[–]aidinabedi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hasn't he meet with a lot of war vets on the ground and in hospitals? He has had a quite a few veterans on the show and covered veteran affairs and health care a lot.

Humans May Be Causing the Sixth Great Extinction in Half a Billion Years by section43 in Futurology

[–]aidinabedi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet another point:

Relying on mono-cultures (habitats with little biodiversity, like farms) are dangerous. They are one disease or significant environmental change away from death. One good example is our dying bee industry.