Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius

Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by bpodgursky on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#24494232)

Unless you have personally unexpectedly spent six months on a tanker, cut off from contact with family and friends, knowing that there's a pandemic which could be affecting any of them, I think a charitable reading is the appropriate one.

Some people have harder lives than you, and when not set up for success, make bad choices.

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Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by withinboredom on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:55PM (#24494544)

I think the personal attack is why you’re being downvoted, but fwiw, I agree with the first part. From being in Afghanistan, I have first hand experience of some of the shenanigans some people will go through to make a phone call.

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Re:Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauri... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:01PM (#24494618)

He's being down-voted because it's a personal attack that could apply to 99% of people here and people just gotta defend the tribe.

If it had been the lines of "clearly you've never worked for a business that wrote software" or some other thing that applies to some small minority here nobody would have thought twice about it.

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