Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson: Taxation No Tyranny (1775)

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@wziants @prodnose Aussie rules football is played on an oval pitch.

Primitive Mob or village football generally lacks a defined pitch. There are about fifteen towns where annual matches occur, for example Workington.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@TBG49972762 @GailSimone Analysing the literally centuries of detailed maritime data in Lloyd's List show (collected for insurance purposes) that there was never anything to explain. It's no more dangerous than any other comparable area of sea.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@fuller_sean @mrddmia That's _a_ circumstance which would result in a mistrial. The phrasing doesn't exclude there being _other_ circumstances where a mistrial has occurred. Such as jury intimidation, inadmissible evidence &c.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@fuller_sean @Phin_48 @mrddmia In this case it's inadmissible prejudicial evidence being presented to the jury. The convictions would therefore be unsafe.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@mrddmia Trump is currently a convicted felon. Even if the convictions are later quashed his current status is convicted felon.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@dthroat @StewartNoNumber @Gabriel_Pogrund Only if he used an enrolled deed poll.

If he used an unenrolled deed poll or simply started using a new name there wouldn't be any public records.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@dthroat @Gabriel_Pogrund Your name is whatever you are known by. You can call yourself anything you like provided that you don't have fraudulent intent.

He's done everything necessary to change his name.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@logicpolice45 @davidsirota Bank bailouts are normally profitable.

The central bank uses its unique status as the monetary sovereign to provide short term loans at high interest to solvent but illiquid banks.

The taxpayer benefits directly.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@FrogOfPond @HatokTalk At least three alternatives immediately spring to mind.

1 Home schooling your own children.
2 Teaching magic through a personal apprenticeship system.
3 The other magic schools are far larger. Hogwarts has a tiny catchment area for historical reasons.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@Gerashchenko_en Ukraine isn't the first. Argentina occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, British Overseas Territories, 2 April - 14 June 1982. Britain has had nuclear weapons since 1952.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@Vern_76 @acoyne With an immediate guilty plea to a summary offence the Magistrates Court can sentence immediately.

Murder will get a jury trial before the Crown Court. It's a much more through, complex and time consuming process.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@FredSchwaibold @amyspitalnick @WajahatAli The Palestinian authority recognised Israel more than thirty years ago.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @SquizzRadical @AthopeMarie @KUHoopes @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 The statue itself has never been found but based on the illustration it would have weighed about 58 tonnes.

Experimental archaeology demonstrated that the use of water in this way is far more effective than we expected.

We don't need to posit any unknown technologies.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @SquizzRadical @AthopeMarie @KUHoopes @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 The Egyptians rather helpfully drew pictures showing how they did it.

There is an illustration in the tomb of Djehutihotep showing 172 workers moving a 6.8 m statue with one man pouring water on the sand in front. This seems to reduce the force needed by about 50%.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 Utter balderdash.

Getting straight lines isn't exactly difficult. There are things like string, rulers and marking out where the cuts need to go.

Stone working scales up when working with bigger rocks. It just takes longer.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 The Romans were far less sophisticated than us at literally everything. We can do everything they could do and innumerable things they couldn't.

Granite is hard but hardly unworkable with hand tools. It's a fairly common building stones and has been for thousands of years.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 It's a big unfinished piece of worked stone with numerous entirely inexplicable tool marks showing how it was being worked before the stone cracked.

The Romans took a 400 tonne obelix and erected it in Rome. It's possible to move big rocks with ancient technology.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 We still use similar tools to work stone sometimes. They work.

The quarry at Aswan is near the Nile. This gives a very obvious means of transporting a really big rock. Put it on a barge.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 The tools we know they had are perfectly capable of carving the rock. We know because we have used reproductions of the tools to do similar things.

It's not done on a whim, it's a religious monument.

Stonemasons today use similar tools. They work.

[Brett Dunbar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @Brett_Dunbar]

@anarcotruth @TheLastNatufian @BrightInsight6 It's a big block of stone that cracked at a fairly late stage and was abandoned. As it was unfinished tool marks and ochre lines used by the workers survive.

It's not especially mysterious. As the tool marks remain it's quite informative about ancient stone working.