JoeSmithson

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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
If anyone stumbles across this thread in future... RCMP have again directly denied the suggestions in this story that he worked for them and said the money was his own; > "What I can confirm at this point is that it appears that the
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I used to be a programmer but left because I wanted, basically, to collect cool stories to tell my grandchildren. Don't regret it at all, plus having coding skills gives you superpowers in some situations (like xkcd 208 but actually).
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I'm not sure I would say I am an expert, but I am a real detective, not an armchair one, and I have previously worked with RCMP. This thread [0] from a former CSIS officer and illicit finance expert has some criticisms. I notice as wel
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
They seem to just be the payment processor that works with Brink's as an end point [0] > "Streamline cash management systems, improve security and loss prevention with the ability to work with any remote safe provider." Th
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The most obvious explanation seems to be that no-one sent him the money - it was his own savings. From what I can tell, there is no actual evidence linking this to RCMP at the moment, except an anonymous source's opinion. I'm with
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What's the logic here? How does police brutality and 2A relate? Police are aggressive and corrupt, so you get a gun, so...?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What causes it is people have a gnawing sense of inadequacy, and conspiracies give them a sense of superiority. It's incredibly seductive to be in on a secret. It makes you feel special and boosts your self esteem.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The government had already basically eaten the bad press on the privacy aspects of their design vs the Google/Apple API... I wonder what prompted this. I know that the app used a kind of hack to allow for Bluetooth during sleep (someth
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Covid has been curtailed mainly with extremely expensive lockdowns. The purpose of the apps is to control the spread going forward, without lockdown.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
If you can see what data is leaving your phone, and you don't trust the author, then I don't see what difference the server side code being OS makes...? There's not really anything they can do to comprehensively prove what th
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I think GP's point was more that it's just shitty tactics. Compare the MPS de-escalating the protest in London today; https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1269315641217073152 Officers move in a clear way,
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The most popular mod teams are almost universally the ones with the most aggressive moderation policies. This include /r/the_donald. The subreddits with laissez-faire moderation policies invariably get taken over by nasty interact
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Steve Bannon has spoken about specifically targeting Gamergate for political recruitment, I think the role of Reddit in radicalizing young men is quite important, actually. I don't think you could write a reasonable history of the last
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I believe it's also the case that there is no word for "uncle" in Swedish. This makes more sense to me because your relationship to your mother's brother is actually meaningfully different to your mother's sister&#x
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "carte blanche to be evil" Is this a good faith interpretation of what you honestly think they were saying?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Do you have the links for the second two (damaging own car, unloading bricks)?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
It's impossible to know the specifics of your passenger's case, obviously, but claiming things like "the search was probably illegal" is fairly common. Did they provide any reason for the supposedly illegality? A polic
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> a large percentage of people who become police, and an even larger portion of people who remain police are those who enjoy wielding power over others. What's your source for this? It seems to be contradicted by e.g. - https:&#x2F
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to say you are lying, I meant that in the sense people say stuff like "Unless you're writing this from beyond the grave then...". Reading it back I can see how it read. I was trying to say that you
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Yes it absolutely is evidence that means something. You have direct first hand evidence of racism. Even if it's not sufficient for action on its own it is still incredibly valuable evidence that may well be strengthened by other people
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What do you mean you have no evidence? I thought they said this directly to you?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "The ones in London like to regale others with tales of how much they enjoy donning their riot gear and using any excuse to batter people, especially if they are black" If this is true then you need to immediately report it t
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What's an example of a claim that you think was considered a conspiracy theory pre-Snowden, that now isn't? The existence of "NSA spying" I don't believe was ever considered a conspiracy theory.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Yes, I agree with you completely that there was significant prior evidence. I would go as far to say as a very large amount of what Snowden revealed was in fact already known. This seems to be the opposite of it being a conspiracy theory -
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Yes sorry, I meant outside the non-conspiracy community. For example (apologies if this is rude to ask, I don't know!) which of these would you subscribe to; - Neil Armstrong did not walk on the moon - JFK was not killed by Lee Harvey
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> NSA spying was believed by many long before snowden, because the coincidences were piling up even though intent was not proven What were the inexpiable coincidences that were piling up?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What do you think is the theory you believe that is most outside the mainstream?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "Point of Information: the phrase "conspiracy theorist" was developed and fielded by the CIA as a counterintelligence effort." Why do you think this? I had never heard this before, and to be honest it immediately ga
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Making a large financial incentive to catch Covid19 would be a net benefit to the world, in your opinion?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
The perverse incentives created by a lucrative market in covid19 blood - and the potentially diasterous consequences - should be fairly easy to see.

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