Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File: CIA nominee supervised detainee torture at Thailand black site; Drafted cable to destroy videotape evidence; Helped feed repeated lies about effectiveness of torture to CIA superiors, Congress, two Presidents nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefin…
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Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File: CIA nominee supervised detainee torture at Thailand black site; Drafted cable to destroy videotape evidence; Helped feed repeated lies about effectiveness of torture to CIA superiors, Congress, two Presidents nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefin…
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Torture prevalent and portrayed as effective in popular movies, study finds. 60% of popular films (n=200), including those for children, have at least one torture scene, and the scenes are usually depicted as achieving the torturer’s goal. ua.edu/news/2020/01/tortu…
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Most effective form of torture in 2020..

Placing bluetooth headphones on the subject, putting them just out of range of the the device that's playing a podcast so all they hear are choppy sentences and incomplete words.

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The Traumatizing Effect of the Trump Era on Women: β€˜It’s Like a Form of Torture’ thedailybeast.com/the-tra…
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What is the most effective but harmless torture method you can think of?
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I looked up this quest to figure out what I was doing wrong, only to realize the commenters are essentially trading tips on how to more effectively torture. Thanks for the advice! Only use one of the hot pokers, or they die too fast! Got it! wowhead.com/quest=12720/h…
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Torture prevalent and portrayed as effective in popular movies, study finds. 60% of popular films (n=200), including those for children, have at least one torture scene, and the scenes are usually depicted as achieving the torturer’s goal. ua.edu/news/2020/01/tortu…
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Tweezing beard hairs one by one could be the most effective form of torture if implemented

If anyone has contact with the FBI lemme know so I can pitch this

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Can Any1 recommend a Good curser or any1 who can inflict a lots of torture effects

Needed to find a curser to Balance my team

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A demonstration showing the effectiveness of chainsaw protective trousers
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What is the most effective method of torture you can come up with that doesn't involve any pain or lethality?
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A new study found that 44 percent of medical cannabis users stopped taking a pharmaceutical drug, or used less of one, or both, in favor of cannabis. They rated marijuana better than pharmaceutical drugs on effectiveness, side effects, availability and cost. news.umich.edu/many-users…
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The effectiveness of suppressors is simply baffling. imgur.com/mVpbrEC
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Does the prevalence of privately-owned weapons affect the effectiveness of a resistance movement?

I am visiting my cousin's house and he is a fan of The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime. In short, the story is set in a USA that lost World War II and got split between a Greater Nazi Reich in the east (with New York City as its regional capital), the Japanese Pacific States to the west (with San Francisco as the capital) and separated by a neutral zone that encompasses the Rocky Mountains.

However, that series reminds me of this quote:

>You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

That quote is often attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto, but after searching it up today, I learned that it is likely a fabrication.

Have there been historical cases where the high prevalence of privately-owned weapons have made a resistance movement very effective? Likewise, have there been historical cases where the low prevalence of privately-owned weapons have made a resistance movement very ineffective? Would it be fair to say that high prevalence of privately-owned weapons matters more if these privately owned weapons are firearms?

On a similar note, since resistance movements have weapons such as firearms, what happens to all the civilian-owned firearms once the war is over? For example, Poland and Vietnam both had very large armed resistance movements, but once the communist governments took hold and instituted strict gun control laws, how did they go about getting rid of all the guns owned by all these battle-hardened former resistance fighters?

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Book: "when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve of it." barnesandnoble.com/w/tort…
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AskScience AMA Series: Hi! We're experts from the National Institutes of Health, the National Toxicology Program, and the American Botanical Council studying the quality, safety, and effectiveness of botanical dietary supplements and essential oils. Ask us anything!

Botanical dietary supplements, sometimes called herbals or herbal dietary supplements, and essential oils are products made from plants, plant parts, or plant extracts. One study found that natural products, including botanical dietary supplements, are used by approximately 15% of adults and are widely available in the United States. In fact, according to the American Botanical Council, Americans spent a total of $8.8 billion on botanical dietary supplements in 2018.

But, just because a product is from a plant source and sold in stores or online, doesntt mean it's safe. The safety of a botanical or essential oil depends on many things, such as its chemical makeup, how it works in the body, how it is prepared, and the dose used.

The amount of scientific evidence available for various botanical supplement ingredients varies widely, in part, because product safety is not tested by FDA and federal law does not require dietary supplements be tested for effectiveness before they are marketed.

Studying the potential effects of botanical dietary supplements has several unique challenges. For example, all botanical dietary supplements contain a complex mixture of ingredients, making it difficult to identify and link active ingredients to health effects. Growing, harvesting, and processing conditions can also affect the chemical makeup of a botanical supplement, leading to challenges in manufacturing identical products batch after batch. Possible contaminants - either accidental or intentional via adulteration - in botanical dietary supplements (e.g. heavy metals, microbes, undeclared ingredients, or pesticides) needs to be determined as part of routine quality control since these can affect its safety.

Our hosts today are all experts on studying the quality, safety, and/or efficacy of botanical dietary supplements and essential oils to better understand how to use them more safely and effectively.

  • Stefan Gafner, Ph.D., is the Chief Science Officer at the American Botanical Council (ABC). He answers many of the inquiries from ABC members, in particular those relating to quality control and analytical methods. As technical director of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), he writes and/or edits the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program publications and ensures the accu
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POP study: "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies" - Across films, the messages sent about torture are fairly consistent: (i) torture is effective, (ii) protagonists torture for instrumental reasons, (iii) baddies resort to torture as punishment. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape…
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Homeopathic products now come with a warning in Quebec - "The effectiveness of homeopathic products is generally not supported by scientific evidence based on data,” the signs read. montreal.ctvnews.ca/homeo…
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The effectiveness of this camouflage
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/…
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in terms of effectiveness
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Human rights group: Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019 β€” On April 23, Saudi Arabia executed 37 people, including 3 people who were children at time of alleged offenses. "A country that tortures and executes children should be a pariah state not preparing to host the next meeting of the G20." upi.com/Top_News/World-Ne…
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Giving people and threatening them with a 'brain freeze' is an effective method of torture.

Brain freeze from eating ice cream, popsicles, or any delicious frozen delight too quickly.

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Remember to make full effectiveness of your bench for Championships

TLDR

- Drop players on Friday who are playing on Saturday, then pick up flexible/streamers on Saturday and drop your bench players you 100% know you aren't playing.

-Don't drop handcuffs until you 100% know your main RB is playing if you're in a Dalvin Cook/Jacobs etc type of situation.

-If your opponent has a Monday player, wait until Sunday to drop your better bench players so they can't be flexed on Monday.

-Target players/positions that your opponent needs. If they've been streaming QB's or Defenses, pick up the best streaming options this week.

You're essentially doubling the effectiveness of your bench by blocking 6+ players from your opponent instead of only your bench.

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Forget water or sticks under the fingernails I think I found the most brutal and effective form of torture youtu.be/UQq7MAmL0ak
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New Ebola vaccine shows 100% effectiveness in a study of nearly 6,000 patients (p-value 0.0033) thelancet.com/journals/la…
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Analyzing what individual stats influence effectiveness of a striker the most using machine learning

Hello everyone, since people on here liked my earlier post about analyzing the value per coin of top players, I thought why not do another similar post. In this one I wanted to look at the goal contributions of top strikers in the game and try to figure out what stats contribute the most to it.

The Results

Top 5 most important attributes before I bore you with the rest of the post.

https://preview.redd.it/iryugazdser31.png?width=2718&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cb4c3ebefabe3ecc89d14791561cd00cfe85790

  1. Finishing
  2. Aggression
  3. Positioning
  4. Heading Accuracy
  5. Strength

I calculated the importance of each of those attributes by training a bunch of random forest models (more on that below). Higher importance deosn't mean having a high value in that category is good, it just means certain ranges of that attribute tend to lead to better goal contribution.

Aggression Distribution of Top Strikers vs. Aggression Distribution for Everyone

Aggression was what stood out the most to me to be honest. So I decided to take a deeper look at it by filtering for top goal contributors (with more than 1.5 per game goal contribution).

Top Goal Scorers Aggression Box Plot

Non Top Goal Scorers Aggression Box Plot

Interestingly, lower aggression correlates with better goal scoring contribution even though aggression is one of the stand out attributes!

Is Composure Placebo?

This is why I was looking at the data in the first place. I wanted to figure out if composure does actually influence goal scoring or not.

Top Goal Scorers Composure Box Plot

Non Top Goal Scorers Composure Box Plot

The distributions seem more or less the same. I'd say composure is mostly placebo when it comes to goal scoring.

The Data

I used Python to pull the data. You can use the following code to pull the same data that I did.

import pandas
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Representation of various caste in the corridors of Power A reality check on the effectiveness of Reservation in Govt jobs
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300 men and boys are freed from 'house of torture' Islamic boarding school where they were chained up, raped by staff and starved 'in the name of teaching them the Koran' in Nigeria dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…
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"Prescription" fruits and vegetables would work: The β€œcost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid” provides compelling evidence for the distribution of food prescriptions and subsidies, say researchers inverse.com/article/54182…
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Effectiveness of home made mask relative to N95 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
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Medical effects of Scavenger's daughter (torture used in Europe)?

The Scavenger’s Daughter

I just want to hear from medical professionals (in particular) why people being subjected to this would bleed from these areas. Like, what damage would be caused and WHY?

β€œThe prisoner was forced into a kneeling posture on the floor, and told to draw his body and limbs together so as to compress himself into the smallest possible space. The executioner, having passed one of the iron hoops under the prisoner’s legs, knelt upon his shoulders, forcing his body downwards until it was possible to fasten the two hoops together over the small of the back. ... It is stated that long before [a confession] the blood was spurting from the nostrils, the mouth, and the anus, and even, on occasion, from the hands and the feet”.

On December 10th 1580, two priests had it done for some reason (not explained). One called Tomas Cottam was tortured in the Scavenger’s Daughter for over an hour and, β€œbled profusely from the nose”.

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Using a pendulum to speak to ones subconscious mind using it to increase effectiveness of hypnotherapy

I've read about how one can communicate with their subconscious mind using pendulums. I've been seeing a hypnotherapist to address anxiety, and although they've greatly reduced anxious feelings, i still get that tightness/heavy feeling in my stomach at times. I'm not sure if the source of these feelings is physical or mental. I'm about 20 lbs over weight and for all know, that feeling could be indigestion instead of true anxiety. It would be nice to get the answer from my subconscious. Would love to get your thoughts on how using a pendulum can help and best practices/books/general guidance.

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Torture prevalent and portrayed as effective in popular movies, study finds | The Land by Aleron Kong is pretty pro-torture, have you noticed this in other litrpg? ua.edu/news/2020/01/tortu…
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A big discrepancy exists between cannabis enthusiasts' beliefs about health uses of marijuana and empirical evidence, new study shows. The results highlight the need for more scientific research to provide guidance about the use and effectiveness of cannabis for a wide range of medical conditions. buffalo.edu/news/releases…
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I wish that every Monkey’s Paw wish that has widespread effect (effects more than .1% of the population) takes place in a branch reality, as to only torture the wisher, and not fuck up the rest of humanity.

EDIT: .1% of the global population of planet earth

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TIL that Alois Brunner, commander of the Darcy camp and responsible of train logistics during the Holocaust, was given asylum in Syria in exchange of consultancy for effective torture methods, and llived there until his death in 2010. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alo…
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