SecularDetective

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[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

Well I don’t even want to say how long it’s been, but here I am.

Studies are over (for now), and I’ve come out with a first!

Thanks to the @OpenUniversity for all the support.

I feel like I can start paying deeper attention to the rest of the world again.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@BrandonWarmke All else being equal, women will outlive men in aggregate across cultures.

There’s not necessarily an indication of policy being an issue here. Some disparities are just borne of nature.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

Any fans of ‘The Wire’ will be familiar with the scenario.

I’m stumped though. In England and Wales, would this be murder?

Would B’s robbery amount to an intervening act, breaking the chain of causation, even though A knew it would happen?

Does transferred malice apply to C?

[Lois McLatchie Miller @LoisMcLatch]

Remarkable to re-watch this interaction now Adam has been charged.

The officer asks if he is praying, then informs him that he is doing so in a "safe zone" and has to leave.

The implication here? Prayer is unsafe.

A bizarre inference on the streets of a democratic Britain.

[Mythinformed @MythinformedMKE]

“They are in this contrarian echo chamber”

Sam Harris claims that Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are captured by their audience and suggests people should listen to the mainstream media over podcasts.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@francisjfoster This acoustic cover, tragically apt now, of “nothing compares to you” is magnificent.

https://t.co/pNXbPqAh7I

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

Correlation ≠ causation.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Evidence shows children excluded from school are at higher risk of being affected by violence.

I’m pleased to announce @LDN_VRU has brought in educational expert Maureen McKenna—responsible for a 90% fall in Glasgow school exclusions—to help support its work on Inclusion.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

Surely more illegal immigrants/overstayers making applications is a good thing, so the merits of their human rights claims (I don’t see the need for inverted commas; they’re real, after all) can be assessed.

If found lacking they’re back in the system and more likely traceable.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@Miss_Snuffy I saw an ad pop up on YouTube years ago for a collar that sends an alert when submerged for 20 seconds, to be worn by kids playing in the pool while the adults are nearby around the barbecue etc.

That didn’t seem like a terrible idea.

This though… just terrible.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@hemantmehta Surely you can appreciate the slippery slope that comes with societal—or even legal—enforcement of speech codes.

It’s not about respect, which is given freely, but about freedom.

[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

I'm always baffled when I see comments like this.

For those of us who have read up on Churchill, you just come across as arrogant and historically illiterate - its rather embarrassing.

I've covered these topics in depth before, you can easily find them across my timeline.

But I'll address the idiotic claim of using 'poisonous gas' as I haven't gone over that in a while.

To put it simply, Churchill was advocating for the use of lachrymatory gas against rioters - in other words, tear gas (which the police still use today).

Had you read the full war office memorandum written on May 12th 1919, you would have known this.

Here, read it yourself:

"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@mattjj89 @PitchstoneBooks Really looking forward to this. I’ve often thought about what he’d have made of all these goings-on.

Thank you.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

What sounded to many ears like “Islamophobia” was actually Hitchens’s refusal to treat Muslims as somehow less than rational.
Paraphrased from Matt Johnson’s book, How Hitchens can Save the Left: Rediscovering fearless liberalism in an age of counter-enlightenment. @mattjj89

[Bugman Hegel @FedPoasting]

Punitive societal enforcement of mandatory white lies lol

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

The reason leadership requires not minding being disliked is because it allows you to do what is right.

Leaders who try to please those who shout the loudest are pulled in different directions and don’t believe in anything.

Stand strong.

Believe in something. ✊🏾

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Sometimes I wonder whether alien space vessels are inherently fuzzy & out-of-focus (that would be terrifying). And whether they love the @USNavy (that would be charming).

If so, it would explain a lot.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

A policy stipulating two years off antidepressant medication prior to applying for the job, regardless of how a candidate might function on the medication, seems arbitrary and on its face discriminatory.

[Constable Chaos @ConstableChaos]

Is now a good time to point out a fair number of serving police officers, myself included, have at one time been prescribed antidepressants as a direct result of the toll the job takes on you ... ☹️🤬

Woman denied Police job over antidepressant policy
https://t.co/WubRwK0wq7

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

@UKCopHumour @JDKirkBooks https://t.co/9urnKMActu

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

I’ve been looking for a new fantasy series to get stuck into, and Joe Abercrombie’s ‘First Law’ series kept getting recommended, so I’ve started ‘The Blade Itself’ just in time for our week away.

Can’t wait to get lost in it.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

This is what the bookshelf looks like these days.

I sense a time soon approaching, when I’m going to have to persuade my wife to let me get rid of that radiator to the left.

[SecularDetective @SecDetective]

I’ve been looking for a new fantasy series to get stuck into, and Joe Abercrombie’s ‘First Law’ series kept getting recommended, so I’ve started ‘The Blade Itself’ just in time for our week away.

Can’t wait to get lost in it.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Apparently, the New Statesman wouldn't publish Dawkins' essay on why sex is binary until they found a woke counterargument to publish alongside it. Naturally, the best they could come up with is this ahistorical garbage:
https://t.co/XWFBQdojcg