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Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com)
"On Friday, four people were killed and about 15 more were injured when a truck plowed through a shopping area in the heart of Sweden's capital," reports Variety. One of the four victims was Chris Bevington, an executive at Spotify. An anonymous reader writes:
"The British 41-year-old had served as Spotify's director of global partnerships/business development, working from Stockholm," reports Variety. The streaming service's founder, Daniel Ek, confirmed the news with a Facebook post on Sunday. "Chris has been a member of our band for over five years. He has had a great impact on not just the business but on everyone who had the privilege to know and work with him. There are no words for how missed he will be or for how sad we all are to have lost him like this."
He'd be safe in his basement, covered in Cheeto dust.
Damn you society! Why must you hate on Rust!?! Another life taken!!!!
if only we could do something about these trucks driving into crowds by themselves for no reason
oh well guess its hopeless
You have been visited by the islamic truck of tolerance!
Honk Honk!
Now hold on. I'm a Rust programmer and I need to clear this up. We don't eat only Cheetos.
We eat from the whole "'tos" family. Doritos, Fritos, Oreotos( ok I cheated on that one). So stop saying we're covered in just Cheeto dust. We're covered in all sorts of dusts.
make the refugees police and let them enforce sharia law?
Muslim is not a race.
The current party is the one that put the breaks on letting refugees in and making the asylum process stricter. The guy who committed the attack was denied asylum. The previous party that was in power, which was center-right, was the one that was turning a blind eye towards unskilled immigrants arriving for years. I suspect they will try to speed up the process of deported failed asylum seekers and keeping a closer watch on them going forward.
Some shitty people took advantage of the Syrian refugee crisis expecting they'd make it into a top European country and either be accepted despite not being Syrian or be able to get away with lying about it, and live the good life on welfare and a few extremists as well for the purpose of carrying out attacks. Europe really wasn't ready for it, did not have a strong defense on its outer border (and still doesn't, it's likely impossible to guard all possible entry points), the laws they had in place were built around handling a much smaller number of refugees in a more controlled manner. Most countries have since adapted, the number of refugees arriving has dropped dramatically, but they're still trying to figure out what to do with the ones they have and deporting the failed asylum seekers. Once the war is over in Syria, the refugees will be sent back as European countries have done with refugees from other countries that are now safe. Yeah, I'm sure some will slip through the cracks for awhile until they're caught, same shit happens in almost every major country though.
Europe has never been heaven. There are often some difficult issues going on, countries adapt to them through the normal political process and don't need to go apeshit fourth reich like the far right thinks is the only way to handle things.
People are claiming this to justify their anti-Islam positions. Talking about this is racist.
No, it's not. Liberals need to stop name calling and get a clue:
RACISM IS NOT DEFINED AS "SOMETHING THAT DISAGREES WITH THE LEFT!"
We CAN talk about issues without being racist, holding racist beliefs, or being prejudiced.
Grow the fuck up and have adult conversations.
It seems that many terrorist attacks in recent years have come from Muslims. This might be a false perception because of media bias, so
1) Does anyone have strong statistical evidence that the problem is Islam, and not a different common feature?
2) Would it make sense to bar entry to the US from certain world areas?
3) Would it make sense to put Muslims under enhanced scrutiny domestically?
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
Discuss. None of these questions is racist, or indicate inherent racism to an intelligent person. (But it might to liberals.)
Ex-USSR uneducated, radicalized, revanshistic scum is killing people producing innovations in the heart of progressive, liberal Europe.
Islam is not a race.
Muslim is not a race.
Religion is a choice, of course, and we should all be held to account for the choices and affiliations we make.
However, I do take issue with your statement, because it implies that there are multiple human "races" when there aren't. There is only one race capable of reading this message: the human race. Skin pigment, country of origin, sex, hair/eye colour, etc., are not determinants. If we can breed, then we're the same race.
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Given the tragedy that occurred comments like yours are juts appalling!
People died here!
The only purpose of solemnity is control.
Once you get people to be solemn in extreme cases, over time you can slowly get people to agree in less compelling situations.
Eventually, everything becomes serious, everything is "not a joking matter".
DOES THIS SEEM FUNNY TO YOU? HUH? HUH? DOES IT?
Well... yes it does, actually.
"Comedy is tragedy plus time".
Rust is still a raw wound, don't pour salt in it.
lucm, indeed.
Do care more for this guy than the others because he worked for a tech company? The other three had hobbies, relationships, careers (except the eleven year-old).
I get that this is a tech news site, but the fact that he worked for a company we've heard of (or that he made a lot of money) does not seem like sufficient cause to care about his death so much more than the other victims.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
You don't need to be born in the middle east to explode yourself for allah.
No, Homo Sapiens is a species. There are multiple races, that is, various biological adaptations to different environments etc. Claiming anything else is just ideological indoctrination, no matter if you claim that there's only one race, or that some race is worth more than others.
There's plenty of evidence for it, like how some races are more or less susceptible to certain health issues, like say being less likely to suffer from Malaria but instead having an 8 times higher risk of contracting diabetes. Or, for another race, increased susceptibility to Malaria and more likely to suffer from clinical depression, but less susceptible to diabetes. There is plenty of biological evidence that proves your ideological imperative wrong.
As for your statement regarding breeding, you clearly show that you are quite ignorant about biology: Races can interbreed and produce viable offspring. Hell, in some families, you can even have cross-species breeding, though the offspring becomes either completely(Liger, male Mules), or mostly sterile(female mules).
Presumably, they did not work for companies fighting tooth and nail to keep the borders open.
It sucks that he died, sucks that they all died. It was, however, predictable (and predicted) and preventable. The last one was too, and the next one will be, and the next, etc.
So, the red pills will flow. And when one of the victims was not spared despite working for a company that thinks that "diversity is our strength", well, like it or not, but that sort of thing makes the red pills flow that much faster.
See that "Preview" button?
Some people here are sick of the far right shit
By "far right shit", you mean what, people saying that Trump was a better choice than Clinton? Or that taking in boatloads of Syrian refugees is a bad idea? Nowadays that's what pass as "far right" because the leftist activists have moved the axis with their constant SJW crap.
lucm, indeed.
Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist. Just states the facts of the case as I understand them. If anything this makes him burrowing in that embassy even more ridiculous.
The main point was to explain why the statics is so skewed.
You are right, so to reduce the rape stats, we should look at the countries with the lowest amount of rapes per capita, and learn from them. The bottom three are Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt.
Sweden's high stats are because everything counts as rape, even things that in some countries aren't even crimes. Also, if the act is repeated, then it's counted twice. There have been cases where the same person (often in couples or married) where charged with 50 counts of rape. Finally, in Sweden, everything possible is done to make sure rapes are reported.
Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist.
It's not a simple case of "condom disappearance".
He insisted a lot (apparently it's a thing with him) but the girl said she didn't want sex without a condom. A couple hours later she wakes up with him inside her, fucking her and not wearing a condom. Of course the Assange apologists focus on the condom thing to spin it as some kind of pathetic argument. But can you please explain how someone can give consent in their sleep?
When it comes to determining if something is rape or not, here's a simple test: ask yourself how you'd feel about it if it was your daughter or sister. If your daughter had woken up with that guy's dick inside her, would you chalk it off as skewed statistics and give her a stern talk about making wild accusations?
We're not talking about switch rape, or mental rape, or some other bullshit rape. We're talking about non-consensual sex with a sleeping partner, and going at it without a condom to add insult to injury.
lucm, indeed.
Suddenly you seem well versed in the details of swedish rape cases, yet only a few posts ago you were parroting the well-trodden shit about the "rape capital" of the world. If all countries had sweden's level of reporting and definition of multiple offences then it is unlikely they would continue to have the highest stats. Either you suffer from "selective understanding" or you really need to troll harder.
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There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
There are plenty of evidence that some genetic marker are present in certain population, marking certain population to a greater weakness (or sometime strength) against some sickness. But it is disputable that they mark what you would call biological race, as they lack the physical isolation, do not have very specific karyotyp (even the melanine one) in human it is only a more likelyness to have such karyotyp or even a continuum of various karyotyp. The only subset you may do is possibly morphological, but even for that and for the karyotyp, you do not have specific identifier you can assign 100%, you have a continuum. That is why even if you look at various biological book or source, they usually sidestep the issue of human race, not because of the sociological indication, but simply because there is no easy way to separate and quantify those. And no, even skin color do not work that well (morphological races - would put for example part of india with africa).
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Was never meant as an insult but rather to point out differences, as I don't think everything possible is being done in Saudi to get women to report rape, and since most things considered rape in Sweden aren't even crimes in Saudi, it wouldn't matter anyway.
Sweden is extreme in the other direction, which results in high rape stats, but this is a good thing imho (that they are being reported and that the laws are the way they are).
to find any link between "news for nerds" and "Your daily news of terror".
These people are promised 72 virgins and the ability to designate a couple people to go straight into heaven WITHOUT judgment after death if they die a "martyr's" death while killing infidels.
What the ad brochure doesn't tell you is the gender of the virgins.
In other words, they're stuck for eternity in a Star Trek convention.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"diversity is our strength"
I hate this saying. It is such a clear and obvious lie. Diversity is not, at all, a strength, but an exploitable weakness. At best, it is a challenge that requires enormous effort to overcome. If your neighborhood goes from having one culture to having ten, it is not stronger. Your neighborhood that used to agree on lots of things now has hundreds of potential conflicts, and it becomes very easy to exploit these differences to pit people against each other. The only reason to tell people that "diversity is a strength" is because you're trying to divide and conquer.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
In practice, 90% of what people mean when they say "race" is purely artificial social division.
But everyone knows what you're talking about when you say "a black guy" or "an asian guy" or "a white guy." Having to say "this collection of human haplogroups" or "individuals of recent European descent" is just a type of tone policing. The "race is just as social construct" talk only comes out when it's a right winger speaking about race. You'll never find the leftists chanting "The Social Construct of 'Black' Describing Human Haplogroups Common to Peoples of Recent African Descent's Lives Matter!"
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
What the honest fuck are you even talking about?
If we're going to start prattling off "races" based on minor genetic variations, we're going to have to start inventing the "ginger race" (sunburn easily), the "albino race" (predisposed to a bunch of specific diseases), the "blonde race" (yuh know, tend to be wild in bed or something), the "race of people with webbed toes" (tend to be better swimmers), ...
Seriously. Your response is utter contrived horseshit.
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