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I know you would do that in good faith. The thing that everyone needs to be aware of in this is in your bias using the "minimise" angle. Minimise suggest that something can be reduced to zero at some point. I don't think the word minimise is appropriate. What they are doing is dilution of the bias problem. Dilution infers that the influence is reduced but never eradicated completely mean it could flair up at any time. And DNA or genetic dilution regularly "throws back" strong attributes given certain other influencing factors meaning for as long as we start with bias, we will never be rid of bias, and we can never project when that bias will surface and with what strength.

@KevinsAcct @h34j3j8j @AceRedBand1t It fits as well tbh

@h34j3j8j @AceRedBand1t Don’t think that’s what she meant, like at all

When you go back and watch old shows/movies you’ll be sick at how much Mossad propaganda was just everywhere.

@Feargal_Sharkey You're a good man and thank you for the music and for your efforts with clean waterways.

Who knew? 😎

On the evening of 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin erupted in flames, an event that would serve as the pretext for one of the most consequential acts of legal destruction in modern history. Adolf Hitler, appointed Chancellor of Germany just weeks earlier on 30 January 1933, immediately blamed the Communist Party of Germany for the fire and declared it the opening signal of a revolutionary uprising. Within hours of the blaze, dozens of Communists had been arrested across Germany, with the regime publicly framing the fire as justification for sweeping emergency action. The very next day, on 28 February 1933, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg signed the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State, countersigned by Hitler and key ministers. The decree was issued under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, a provision designed for genuine national emergencies that had already been normalized through years of governing by presidential decree. In a single stroke, the decree suspended personal liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the privacy of mail and telephone communications, and protections against house searches and property confiscation. It also empowered the Reich government to intervene directly in state governments deemed to have failed in restoring public order, effectively dismantling German federalism overnight. Severe criminal penalties were introduced for resistance to the decree, and the death penalty was expanded to cover offenses the regime linked to arson, sabotage, and threats to the state. The decree was not a distant legal abstraction — it was enforced immediately and ruthlessly, with thousands of Communists and Social Democrats arrested within days. In Prussia, where Hermann Göring commanded the largest police force in the country, the arrests were especially sweeping, with KPD officials and activists rounded up in mass operations. Communist Party leader Ernst Thälmann was among the first prominent figures detained, while others such as Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht escaped into exile. The 5 March 1933 Reichstag elections were held under these conditions of state repression, with opposition publications banned, meetings outlawed, and the Nazi campaign running entirely uncontested in the public sphere. Even so, the Nazi Party captured only 43.9 percent of the vote and still required its coalition partner, the German National People's Party, to hold a parliamentary majority. The decree's deeper purpose, however, was not electoral — it was to clear the field for the Enabling Act of 23 March 1933, which transferred legislative authority from the Reichstag directly to Hitler's cabinet. Because Communist deputies had been arrested or driven underground, and many Social Democrats were imprisoned or intimidated into absence, the parliamentary conditions necessary to pass the Enabling Act were achieved through state violence, not democratic persuasion. Although the Enabling Act is often cited as the legal birth of the Nazi dictatorship, the Reichstag Fire Decree remained the living instrument through which dissent was suppressed, communications monitored, and opponents imprisoned without ordinary legal protection. The decree was never revoked and remained in force until the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, making it not a temporary emergency measure but a permanent pillar of the police state. Historians have since identified the decree as one of the clearest examples in history of a constitutional emergency clause being weaponized to destroy the very constitution it was meant to protect. The architects of postwar West Germany's Basic Law drew direct lessons from this experience, sharply limiting the emergency powers of the federal president to prevent any future ruler from repeating the same legal maneuver. #archaeohistories

Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, with thirty found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging. One man, Giles Corey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five others perished in disease-ridden jails without ever facing trial. Although hysteria began in Salem Village, now known as Danvers, accusations and arrests spread across numerous towns, including Andover and Topsfield. Salem Village was already a fractious community, plagued by property disputes, religious tensions, and a revolving door of ministers who rarely lasted more than a few years. The political situation in colony was equally unstable, as Massachusetts was operating without a clear legal charter, and war with French-backed Native American tribes was driving refugees into settled areas like Essex County. First accusers were a group of young girls, including nine-year-old Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, who began experiencing fits that no doctor could explain. They accused three women first: Sarah Good, a destitute outcast; Sarah Osborne, who rarely attended church; and Tituba, an enslaved woman from West Indies whose ethnic background made her an easy target. The accusations spread rapidly as confessing suspects named additional accomplices, and growing list of the accused soon included respected church members, which terrified community into thinking anyone could be a witch. A Special Court of Oyer and Terminer was established on May 27, 1692, to handle overwhelming number of people filling the jails. The court relied heavily on spectral evidence, meaning the testimony of the afflicted who claimed to see spirit or shape of the accused tormenting them in visions. Bridget Bishop was the first to be tried and executed, hanged on June 10, 1692, largely because of her unconventional lifestyle and manner of dress. Five more women were hanged on July 19, 1692, followed by five more on August 19, and eight more on September 22. Giles Corey, an 81-year-old farmer, refused to enter a plea and was slowly crushed to death under heavy stones over the course of two days, an act historians believe was his protest against the court's methods. As number of accused grew to include prominent citizens and even the governor's own wife, serious doubts began to emerge about the reliability of spectral evidence. Cotton Mather, the influential Boston minister who had publicly supported the prosecutions, privately cautioned against placing too much weight on spectral testimony alone. Increase Mather and other ministers eventually urged the court not to convict on spectral evidence, and the new Superior Court of Judicature, which replaced the Oyer and Terminer court in 1693, refused to allow it. With spectral evidence banned, acquittals became the norm, and Governor Phips issued pardons for those remaining under death sentence. In the years after the trials, several of the young accusers admitted they had fabricated their charges. In 1702, the General Court declared the trials unlawful, and by 1711 the colonial legislature had reversed the convictions of twenty-two named individuals and authorized financial compensation totaling £578 to survivors and families of the condemned. The last convicted Salem witch, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., was not officially exonerated until 2022, some 329 years after her conviction, after schoolchildren discovered her case had been overlooked in prior legislative reversals. In 2016, researchers from University of Virginia identified the true execution site as Proctor's Ledge, at base of Gallows Hill, and a memorial was dedicated there in 2017. Trials have since become one of the most powerful cautionary tales in American history, a symbol of what can happen when fear, superstition and collapse of due process combine. #archaeohistories

@LeadClearly1 @SamaHoole What's extreme is how far removed the products are from nature. We should be informed precisely what "treatment" has been used in its production ie what's the chicken been injected with or the crop sprayed with. and what that means for human health and the rest of nature.

@SamaHoole This is a bit extreme, there's a difference between processing and something being harmful at normal use levels.

Actual slogans used for seed oil products and their honest alternatives. "Heart-healthy sunflower oil" → "Oxidatively unstable at cooking temperatures, but we conducted the deodorisation very thoroughly" "Light and mild flavour" → "Bleached and stripped of any remaining character during industrial refinement" "Rich in polyunsaturated fats" → "High in the precise category of fat that oxidises in cell membranes and accumulates for two years" "Made from natural seeds" → "Natural seeds, plus hexane, plus sodium hydroxide, plus bleaching clay, plus vacuum deodorisation" "No cholesterol" → "Correct. Neither does drain cleaner." "Recommended by leading health organisations" → "Recommended by health organisations whose funding includes contributions from seed oil manufacturers" The original slogans are on the bottle. The honest versions are in the literature. Nobody puts the literature on the bottle.

@seaningle Did Seb Coe miss out on leading the IOC because of his related views?

Guardian piece by me - From Laurel Hubbard to sex testing in five years: why the Olympics U-turned on transgender rules Spoke to several people about this ... quite a few mentioned Paris, others the IOC election, science, Coventry's drive and Trump too! theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar…

@DannyWxo @jk_rowling They were misleading everyone and stole rewards that were meant for biological females and you're just as complicit as you perpetuate the ruse.

@jk_rowling I don’t understand why this issue matters to you, but I think it’s important to keep the conversation respectful and grounded. The situation around Paris 2024 was complex, and people were often trying to balance fairness, inclusion, and safety in good faith.

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.

@HasItSunkIn @astrolamont @jk_rowling If it looks like a troll, acts like a troll, and posts like a troll, then it's............ @astrolamont

@astrolamont @jk_rowling You're a liar.

@WayneSBarton Salah is a great player worthy of winning so much more than what he did with Liverpool. I'm sure he'd swap all those awards for a couple more PL or CL winners medals. Arne's ruined his last season, up to now anyway.

Well yes. Quite. You’re catching on. Is it illegal to compare him to Rush and Hunt?

@JournalismSEEN Look at this clown x.com/i/status/20364…

You *must* make clear they’re boys. They’re nothing to do with girls at all.

@Fight_Club_Lad Yeah, fairly easy run in. No telling the damage this might do. Sporting could do them. Barca or Athleti could do a Citeh on them in CL semis. FA Cup is pot luck. So yeah, maybe the PL. Hard to believe that gooners were talking sh!te about a quadruple up to about an hour ago.

@Obscurity4Life We'll win the Prem, little hope for anything else if he continues this bollocks selections I need more liquor and bad decision lol

This ref bro... Absurd shite #UTA 🔴⚪

@Fight_Club_Lad Bottle job again. Season to implode.

@Obscurity4Life Bruv he's be awful... Even the units saying it and that's something. Still will win us. #UTA

@Fight_Club_Lad Yeah, blame the ref.

@Obscurity4Life Fckn ref is a cunt. They're all battered ... FFS

@jt_stamford Nothing like when JT got caught playing offside, then done a security guard, then had to bail family for shoplifting, and slipped when taking the single most important kick in his and Chelsea's history.

What were you feeling when you were cheating on your dying wife?

@dariusimperator @BenGrahamUK Dickwit

every fucking year like clockwork at easter and christmas, you fucking conservatives have a 'war on easter/xmas' meltdown. finding something to be wildly offended by. every year since i can remember and somehow both still exist and celebrated and enjoyed despite the best efforts of miserable, culture war warriors like this fuckwit. always whining and sulking. never fucking happy unless being a hateful cunts. conservatives are pathetic. grow the fuck up and take a break from sowing division, dickhead.

Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

@BenGrahamUK Simple answer..... Don't buy Cadbury's. Me, I don't care so much for either of these fantasies but I'll still enjoy my chocolate.

@BriannaWu What are a lot of these thoughts that make you uncomfortable?

@PaddysRed @dirk7890 Lol probably a little hopeful for 6 strings too

@Obscurity4Life @dirk7890 Yeah but 3 chords is stretching it a bit😂

CRASS live at The Moonlight Club, London in 1978. 📸Johnathan Crabb

@NewWaveAndPunk Such awareness. Never played at gigs I went to in early 80s. Never really understood why. Some said they were told to drop it.

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