Public and civil servants should by law be liable and responsible for decisions and conduct exercised in the name of their authority or office.
The Shinkansen trains in Japan have detachable seats. Relatively lightweight and robust, they make excellent shields against edged weapons. Other choices of improved defensive weapons are belts, briefcases, laptop computers, bottles and rolled up newspapers. Conductors and security guards also have access to sasumata, a sort of polearm to immobilize attackers while keeping them away. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b507fed5d078e1fc253113f9669a01476c39c499ac80aad54a28b5511d13ab45.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ffcc98fdec383961d0797c66ae2cb6810f3eb40a19f7c0afe8d8d32376916b03.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4f9fd176b34a77eb16651e52dd726221cf9cde6b79260792490aca7ba2537e46.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0830b535be654a40aa8c0ee6e380c787b5e0b355edf41cb65b3fae6b512b5503.file
Chris (@Prep4Disasters) has written a book about how different people prepare for disasters. The text is more of a long form qualitative study and less pop-science. The subject he knows well, academically and practically. I read this a few months ago in pre-print and offered an endorsement (he might have used it): “Dr. Ellis does us remarkable service in reminding us of the paradox of disasters: awareness will likely inspire us into becoming better people, more courageous, more skilled, more confident, more grounded into the landscapes and cultures we inhabit, and ultimately the need for the long perspective. Preparation becomes stewardship of the cultures and places we love.”
RT @SCP_Hughes@twitter.com: This probably isn't what you imagine when someone says '1950s council offices', but that is what this is. Bristol City Hall, by the great civic architect Vincent Harris. The style is loosely Neo-Georgian, but the sweeping curve gives it some Baroque vitality, and the arched and domed portico has an ancient form ultimately related to Zoroastrian fire temples. Vincent Harris was regarded as contemptibly backwards by this period, and crowds of architecture students protested outside some of his later buildings, outraged by his use of non-modernist styles. On the other hand, in a visual preference survey we commissioned a few years ago, the British public rated Bristol City Hall higher than any other civic building in the sample. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2adec941773d28fcc09bfcb5519012ebf6353f8c44c414f0b7d7e3ad0c738dd0.file
When is enough, actually enough? What is the price we are willing to pay for something, imposed from above, unwanted and unasked for? What sacrifice will we suffer others to bear, and what sacrifices will we accept upon our own shoulders? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f31021a5c231c188be809b0bbe6c1e98ed645ce0e7c288dd253891ed96f31f8c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5826352d9f3b1a9078e678ed5a5737d810b31dd10d92b5ab382efada94a87f54.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/bbc9fb1b4ed25a67a9e6dc112e57c99a023472cb4c61a4127fb7556eb7cc9bbd.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8877e63a4ff3a121f96901742f07ad4b478546bb64f4d3b8d49b0885cc963087.file
All children deserve a mother and a father — their own. While chance, wickedness, and misfortune makes this impossible in some cases, it is beyond evil to purposefully suffer children to be born without their mother and father. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f71740ba4eeed8009d10431c5fd39eda39876a8e361fe17877bf7b34dcc46b14.file