Nigel Mountford

Buddhist, seeking ordination ☸ ཨེ་མ་ཧོཿ
MVS*, RNLI & Brownsea island volunteer ⚓

*(Maritime Volunteer Service)

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Someone asked me on Quora how the UK can raise the money to boost defence spending.
https://t.co/U9i2HsKwhM
(tldr; end tax evasion and tax avoidance)

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@Jason_R_Burt Rest in Peace, Corporal Hayes.
We will remember you.

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@ayojoestar I'm People too! My oldest unanswered WhatsApp from a friend is from March of last year. I'll answer him tomorrow, or so.

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@saniyafatma1278 Happy birthday, Sara Mary! 🎂

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@freerangemegz I am so sorry for your great loss.
I send you, and your aunt, boundless compassion. 🙏

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@BCPCouncil Are this Thursday's Poole Quay fireworks going ahead?

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@EmmaHoyes1 Fabulous photo and doesn't look awkward to me!

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@tanyawoz4 Answer to "how can you take a vacation when your family is at war" via my late grandparents who survived WW2:
You have to keep your spirits up, and look after your own soul.
Firstly because you matter, and secondly because it's hard to support others when your soul is drained.

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@davidpbernie I am so sorry, David. Beautiful photographs, such warmth and spirit in her face. May she Rest in Peace. 🙏

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@MacaronmanHull I am sorry for your great loss. 🙏
As long as *someone* is witnessing your grief, even if it's just us strangers on this benighted site, it can be a useful safety valve.

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@KateClanchy1 Samreen has been heard by 25,000 people in a day.
She wins; her voice is unsilenced.

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@wake_up_girl_3 That level of nuance and empathy makes me follow you.
Compassion is in much shorter supply than opinions, but is much more useful.

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@simonmaechling Natural isn’t automatically safe?
My asbestos cloak will protect me from such heresy!

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@lotta_love43 @Justadutchguy I am so sorry for your loss.
May he Rest in Peace and perpetual light. 🙏

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@DerekManton Congratulations, Mr & Mrs Manton!
Wonderful photographs - what a beautiful bride.

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@Klitschko My heart breaks for this family.
May Hayden know eternal peace.
May Kaya know a life of love and safety. 🙏

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@PiedViper Every day, another data breach.
"Why can't networks just be secure?", they ask.
They can.
Why can't companies just stop cutting corners?
Employ competent techs, and make them demonstrate their competence, don't just accept some garbage certificate or junk degree.

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@David310734 @breeonikeon It literally is not.
An actual psychiatrist wouldn't throw around a diagnosis based on a comment.
The DSM on my shelf may be old (III-R) but I doubt 5-TR has suddenly cut the list of NPD traits down to... a mean tweet. 😂

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@David310734 @breeonikeon Dr DN Walton (1998) argues that that ad hominem is valid when used as a dialectical tool to hold an opponent to account for their own previously stated premises.
Woods (2020) represents this visually.

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@breeonikeon I read the whole thing and had to chant a purification mantra afterwards because I felt so unclean by having her words enter my brain.

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@drchrisnewton Lost amid the 'culture war' is the fact The Guardian also stuck the boot into Professor Arday.
Left vs. Right isn't the only element; intellectual snobbery is dearer to the Graun than politics.