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Matt Ashby
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Matt Ashby
@LessCrime
I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor at @UCLCrimeScience. Former police officer.
Nottingham and London, UK Katılım Nisan 2009
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@LessCrime @rjohnston4 @listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick There is not a specific rule, but rather a UEFA Regulation (UEFA Article 48), which is enforced at the request of the English, Scottish and Northern Irish Football Associations.
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Absurdly unhinged to claim that the FCC could invoke "public interest obligations" of broadcasters to force them not to broadcast other football games the same day as the Army/Navy game. Truly tinpot dictatorship stuff.
Ed O'Keefe@edokeefe
Unclear about the legality here, but the executive order adds: Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) shall coordinate with the CFP Committee, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, related organizations, other appropriate Government agencies, and the playoffs' broadcast and media rights partners with the goal of establishing an exclusive window for the Army-Navy Game, during which no other college football game is broadcast. (b) The Chairman of the FCC shall consider reviewing the public interest obligations of broadcast licensees to determine whether those obligations would require that the Army-Navy Game remain a national service event.
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@humantransit The obvious example of where that worked in the US is the NYC Subway in the late 1980s. But we saw the same with the creation of London Overground, where TfL managed to drastically improve (perceptions of) security in the late 2000s, leading to an explosion in ridership.
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@humantransit I don’t think the trade-off is that clear cut. There are agencies that have managed to quite substantially increase ridership by improving perceptions of security, where poor perceptions were driving away potential riders. Obviously that won’t work in every case, though.
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If you're not a transit manager, it sounds so easy to fix the problem of crime and bad behavior on public transit. Even worse, it's easy to accuse transit managers of not caring if they don't solve it.
That's not fair. They do care. 1/🧵
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
Every transit nerd — the urbanist who tell us over and over how much they love public transportation— has to realize until you stop this sort of crap, and make stopping it your number one goal, you and all your train love are doing nothing but annoying everyone else.
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@GrainFinger @MouseHunter99 @AO1865 As I said, the only conclusion I can come to is that you’ve never been to Beeston, or any of the other places you are complaining about. It’s weird how some people only ever want to talk our country down.
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@LessCrime @MouseHunter99 @AO1865 I didn’t say it was empty. Nowhere in the UK is empty now. We are full, everywhere.
I said it’s a shit hole. And it is.
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@GrainFinger @MouseHunter99 @AO1865 I can only assume you haven’t been to any of the places you’ve listed. I was on Beeston High Road yesterday and it was full (as it usually is on Saturdays) of people shopping or going out for lunch.
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@LessCrime @MouseHunter99 @AO1865 That’s all fine but go to Ashbourne, Matlock, Buxton, Beeston, Sheffield etc - it’s all run down shite.
Taxpayers money is not being spent on maintaining these old towns. It’s all decaying because corruption is off the charts in local and national government.
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@rjohnston4 @listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick That doesn’t really answer my question of what law you had in mind. If there really was a specific law that enforced the 3pm blackout (rather than just the contracts the leagues have with the broadcasters) it would be fairly easy to link to it.
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@DOROTHYBADRICK1 @gaiashining @FA03082 @terrybnd @Cumbriapolice @lakedistrictnpa The Lake District National Park Authority doesn’t ban wild camping (because they have no powers to do so). Whether to allow wild camping is up to the land owner. @nationaltrust for example allows wild camping on its land in the Lakes in some circumstances: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/lake-dis…
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@gaiashining @FA03082 @terrybnd @Cumbriapolice @lakedistrictnpa Its also a National Park. Wild camping and fires banned by them as well.
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Look at these irresponsible a******s fly camping atop Newlands Pass this morning #lakedistrict Drove vehicles up onto the moor and got a fire barrel up there! 🤯🤯💔😢 They verbally abused locals who told em what they’re doing is wrong 🙄 @Cumbriapolice @lakedistrictnpa @PeterW_Lakes
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@MouseHunter99 @AO1865 Top left: near Ashbourne
Top right: Attenborough Nature Reserve
Bottom left: Cromford
Bottom right: near Worksop
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@LessCrime @AO1865 Where is this? The peaks?
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@rjohnston4 @listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick Which law do you have in mind? Or do you just mean the general law against copyright infringement, which obviously isn’t specific to the Saturday afternoon blackout?
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@LessCrime @listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick Except there are laws on the books enforcing it, specifically ones that preclude pubs from circumventing the blackout using live streams.
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@MallyB30725 @royllovians @bouguereau_stan “The family tree of humanity is much more interconnected than we tend to think. … Genealogists can only focus on one branch of a family tree at a time, making it easy to forget how many forebears each of us has.”
scientificamerican.com/article/humans…
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@royllovians @bouguereau_stan The vast majority of the population were agricultural labourers. They wouldn't come into contact with those people
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The actual truth, which people have repeatedly refused when I explain it, is that roughly 25–35 generations back, you are descended from ***every single*** person who was alive in your ancestors' entire region of the world so long as they have any surviving descendants today.
Wanderer@wood_eater_
"Your medieval ancestors were based warrior-pilled aristocrats" and "your medieval ancestors worked 18 hours a day and all died before 30" are both locked in an endless struggle to determine who got their brain the most fried up
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@rjohnston4 @listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick It’s part of the contract between the leagues and the broadcasters, but the government has nothing to do with it (and the leagues occasionally agree on exceptions). bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
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@listenherefat @ReichlinMelnick It started that way, yes, but it’s now enforced by law (pubs can’t legally show live streams in that window, etc).
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@AngellinaBrady @StagecoachCNL Surely if you go by bus to Windermere Station, you can then go by train to anywhere else in Great Britain with a train station?
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All societal groups (🏴) are victims less often due to the global crime drop. But the drop wasn't equal across groups, so people who are not White, are disabled or who are in poverty are now more likely to be victims, **relative to the rest of society**.
doi.org/10.1177/147737…
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@O_TTravels @mark395625 Although in-effect they’re running two separate stations: Connect services every 30 minutes from Platform 1 (where boarding seems to very often be open reasonably early) and 4tph intercity from Platforms 2–4. It’s the intercity services where the problem seems to lie.
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@mark395625 @LessCrime LNER are good at this, they have really long turnaround times usually so their services are almost always boarding 20 mins before. Bit tricky at London St Pancras though for EMR with 6tph and only 4 platforms
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@mark395625 @O_TTravels Sadly, EMR routinely do this at St Pancras. EMR have some great staff across their network, but the dateline staff at St Pancras seem to have this deep-seated need to keep passengers off the platforms for as long as possible.
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@O_TTravels More concerning is the fact that the 1802.isnt showing a platform so close to departure
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@DonWeatherburn @robertgraham I think she might have missed the joke there.
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@robertgraham Let me get this straight. You wage war on Iran and Iran responds by trying to block the Strait of Hormuz, but it’s every other country’s job to clean up the mess you made.
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We did our part, destroying 200% of Iran's military.
It's now other country's job to make the Strait of Hormuz safe for shipping. They are the ones to blame for the closing of the straight, not us, after all, we destroyed 300% of Iran's military.
The White House@WhiteHouse
"One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE!" - President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@RogerthePolice @BladeoftheS Section 1(2) of the 1997 act prohibits “any firearm which either has a barrel less than 30 centimetres in length or is less than 60 centimetres in length overall” with certain exceptions. So it was, and was intended to be, a de-facto ban on handguns.
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@BladeoftheS The ban was not on handguns. It extended an existing ban on any weapon that can be fired repeatedly without the need to reload. Many handguns are still legal to purchase and own.
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Nigel Farage said the ban on handguns brought in after Dunblane was “ludicrous” and should be lifted, arguing handguns ought to be legalised and licensed again.
The man is deranged, he won't be happy until school shootings are happening in the UK again.
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@Zachariahskylab @RyzardL @markyzaguirre @IterIntellectus You could also look just at the number of shootings in NYC, which went down from about 5,200 in 1993 to about 700 in 2035. And that’s despite the population having increased by about a million people over the same period.
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