Joe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇯🇵

Welsh guy. Musings on life and anything that takes my interest. All views are mine alone. 如露亦如電。

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@Staymares @dmoonglampers_ @financedystop It's simultaneously philosophical and economic illiteracy. Takes a strong dose of delusion to maintain all these incoherent beliefs at once, fair play.

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@Lamnyg @ReggieChatman Morocco reached the semis last world cup, surely that counts?

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@Ty_Dyfrdwy @_midori_me_ @ackermel_ https://t.co/zjlFoWqblm

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@AlwoodNoBrains @ackermel_ ... Bro

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@SuiseiMeiyo @ich_conor 6th - 14th

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@EvaLangwin I mean you got lucky genetically to be fair.

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@immy_jpeg @mikromangorine @proletharryat It's not ignorance, just lies. He had to scroll past the truth to cherry pick that misleading screenshot.

[Lee Broadbent @leembroad]

The death of Henry Nowak is a tragedy in every sense, and the public reaction to the body‑worn video is completely understandable. It is painful to watch. It is painful for officers to watch. And it is painful for Henry’s family to know that his final moments were chaotic, confused and shaped by a lie told by the man who killed him.

But if we are going to talk about this case, and especially where/if politicians make highly charged statements, I believe it’s important to stay anchored to what was actually established in court.

The judge was clear that the responsibility for Henry’s death lies solely with the man who stabbed him. The fatal wound to his chest was described as “catastrophic” and “unsurvivable”, and the pathologist confirmed that no medical intervention, immediate or otherwise, could have saved Henry. That does not erase the distressing nature of the footage, it does not mitigate the seemingly dispassionate response of the officers in attendance, but it does matter when we are trying to understand what happened and what could or could not have changed the outcome.

It is also a matter of record that the officers were responding to a 999 call in which the offender falsely claimed he had been the victim of a racist attack and insisted no weapon had been used. That deception shaped the first few minutes on scene.

The IOPC has been involved from the outset, and the officers have remained as witnesses throughout. This is an important distinction, as those familiar with post incident procedures can tell you. If there was a shred of doubt or suspicion that the officers actions at the time, when balanced against the information known at the time and their reasonable held beliefs, amounted to potential misconduct, the IOPC must at the earliest opportunity review their status. The IOPC have confirmed that the officers status remains unchanged. That indicates that the officers initial decisions/actions have already been assessed against the information known at the time and is unlikely to now change and amount to misconduct.

None of this means the initial assessment was correct. It wasn’t. The officers misread the situation, and the body‑worn video shows that plainly. But policing is full of moments where decisions are made in seconds, under pressure, with incomplete or misleading information. Sometimes those decisions are right. Sometimes they are not. And sometimes…as in this case…the consequences are unbearably tragic even when the mistake does not change the final outcome.

What we cannot/should not do is turn this into a proxy battle in a wider culture war. Henry’s family have asked that his death is not used to fuel division, hate or to propagate political agendas.

It is possible to hold two truths at once:
that the initial response was flawed, sloppy even…and the investigation needs to establish how policy, procedure and relied information impacted those decisions and events; and that despite the officers clear mistakes and compassion fatigue, they did not cause Henry’s death, nor could they have prevented it.

Policing is at its worst when it becomes defensive, but it is also at its worst when it becomes a canvas onto which people project their own political battles and/or bitterness. This case, if it is to be a turning point, deserves better than that.

We can demand accountability without abandoning fairness. We can acknowledge mistakes without inventing motives. And we can talk honestly about the pressures and imperfections of frontline policing without turning every tragedy into a referendum on the entire profession.

That balance is difficult. But, to my mind, it is the only way we avoid repeating the same cycles of outrage, distortion, division and defensiveness that have done so much damage to public trust… and to the people who still turn up, every day, to do a job that is getting harder by the day.

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@sibbsbutemo @spinningjoe Soss

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@MiffedScientist @cix_stormrage Mayhaps a reading comprehension issue but no, our windows open just fine. One issue is that they aren't sliding windows and aren't built to easily accommodate portable a/c units. Nobody has any idea where the hell this idea that we can't open our windows has come from.

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@GovernorAnne You can probably lift that TV and you can definitely climb that ladder.

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@FagoFuru @DKrunks It's still a fact that it's much easier to get good food in Japan than Norway, for example. Or in French Switzerland than in German Switzerland. But the UK food scene is extremely strong these days, so it's just a dumb stereotype.

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@FagoFuru @DKrunks Kinda, but I don't think it's generally about inherent capacity, just about reality. The truth is that some cultures have better food than others. Postwar UK had a real, severe shortage, hence the enduring stereotype. Modern UK has great food in abundance. 1/2

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@bitcoinpanda69 No, plenty of issues but they range from general Anglo nonsense (nimbyism) to UK-flavoured nonsense (have to pay for a VPN). The stuff about 1984 SM arrests and all that is mostly nonsense.

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@justalexoki The attraction to muscle is obvious. I think the preference for some bodyfat probably signals a healthy, resilient body type that can cope with eg metabolic stress and combat, and has strong access to food and nutrition. Maybe very low bodyfat additionally signals neuroticism.

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@thomasforth The data and graphs are really good and honestly deserving of a bit more analysis. Most of your regular readers can guess, and that's probably why you omitted it, but it's not exactly clear what you think Thatcher should have done differently.

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@totidoki @TheIshikawaRin People don't pull the same dumb complaint with Fortnite or Valorant or whatever. It's a live service game, the old versions are saved and/or replicable but obviously the games will change over time.

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@mythical_meier @KemalOnor To its credit, it spawned perhaps the greatest parody of all fiction: https://t.co/7I0TN6wrWg

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@AugustStarlight @KemalOnor I didn't remember the prose so I went back and checked and I still feel this is unfair. It's often a bit cliché, with plenty of purple prose and the book as a whole is very derivative, but honestly the first chapter doesn't reek of thesaurus and is about average for YA imo.

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@runaway_vol ... What is the x axis exactly?