@XplodingCabbage

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Joined December 2018
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @AlertesInfos @AnthoDepe
Is this a difference in actual definitions (in which case what is the proper literal translation of LYNCHÉ here) or do French people just routinely use hilariously OTT hyperbole of a sort that people in the English-speaking world would find embarrassing and perhaps offensive?
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @MerrynSW
FWIW these are supposedly Mahmood's exact words, per the Guardian. Does any of this sound credible to you? Does saying you can "virtually guarantee" that "every woman" has "probably" been raped even really make sense? IMO no; this is thoughtless speculative mouthing off.
She said: “We’re not in control of this border. The sifting of the people that end up in the north of France and are about to get on a dinghy is done by criminal gangs who are also, by the way, people traffickers. “You can almost guarantee that every woman that’s in the north of France has probably been raped along the journey. Some of the men too, they’ve certainly been abused and threatened. That is not the model that should decide whether somebody gets to come to the UK, make this their place of sanctuary and ultimately become one of us.”

ALT She said: “We’re not in control of this border. The sifting of the people that end up in the north of France and are about to get on a dinghy is done by criminal gangs who are also, by the way, people traffickers. “You can almost guarantee that every woman that’s in the north of France has probably been raped along the journey. Some of the men too, they’ve certainly been abused and threatened. That is not the model that should decide whether somebody gets to come to the UK, make this their place of sanctuary and ultimately become one of us.”

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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @AldenWhitfeld
(See here, for instance, for a definition)
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @AldenWhitfeld
Can't make sense of this either. Second highlight reads like you're saying that, of the accusations the study counts as false, close to zero of them were ones the police had said seemed false. But that contradicts the first highlight, so can't be right.
"in another 43% of cases they did so because the accusation appeared to be false" vs "the category of seemingly false accusations is close to zero"

ALT "in another 43% of cases they did so because the accusation appeared to be false" vs "the category of seemingly false accusations is close to zero"

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Replying to @AldenWhitfeld
I've read this paragraph several times and I cannot understand it. Multiple things seem self-contradictory. Pretty sure it simply doesn't make sense at all.
[Para starting "A study by Grace et al. of 302 British rape cases reported in a three month period in 1985 was the next citation." from the linked post.]

ALT [Para starting "A study by Grace et al. of 302 British rape cases reported in a three month period in 1985 was the next citation." from the linked post.]

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Replying to @RezaC1
Show your data source & arithmetic? I have not investigated beyond chucking the question into Claude but it suggests cars kill 2-3x more peds per mile. I've never previously heard anyone claim cyclists kill more pedestrians per mile than cars in any city, anywhere in the world.
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @DuncanStott
FWIW, I think this is what the graph would look like (per the STATS19 data from gov.uk) if it were really showing what Duncan presented his graph above as showing. (Vibe-coded and only lazily skim-reviewed by me, but surely closer to the truth than above.)
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Replying to @DuncanStott
You are seriously misrepresenting the graph (as would be obvious had you included the title in the image). It counts how often drivers are themselves serious casualties, not how often they are involved in serious-casuality-causing crashes. Killing OTHER people doesn't count!
Same graph including title: "Chart 1: KSI car driver casualties per billion miles driven, by age and sex, Great Britain:2025"

ALT Same graph including title: "Chart 1: KSI car driver casualties per billion miles driven, by age and sex, Great Britain:2025"

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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @HUChrisLL @ThinkLicence
@ThinkLicence FYI. Weird!
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Replying to @XplodingCabbage @mk270 @CptHastings1916
(Since fraud offences require intent to make a gain or to cause another a loss, and "gain" and "loss" are defined narrowly. See CPS guidance in screenshot.)
Gain and loss extends only to gain and loss in money or other property

ALT Gain and loss extends only to gain and loss in money or other property

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