A quotation from Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)]

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A quotation from Peters, Ellis:

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“God does indeed forbid,” said Radulfus dryly, “that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame.”
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/peters-ellis/3131/

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A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/19198/

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British nuclear site Sellafield to be prosecuted for cybersecurity failures

The United Kingdom’s independent nuclear safety regulator has announced that it will be 🔸prosecuting the company managing the Sellafield nuclear site🔸 over💥 “alleged information technology security offenses during a four year period between 2019 and early 2023.”💥

It is not clear whether senior managers at the state-owned Sellafield Ltd. will face charges.

Under the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003, individuals convicted of an offense can face up to two years imprisonment.

“There is no suggestion that public safety has been compromised as a result of these issues,” the regulator announced on Thursday,
adding that the decision to begin legal proceedings followed an investigation.

“Details of the first court hearing will be announced when available,” stated the ONR.

#Sellafield had previously been the focus of enhanced regulatory attention over its #cybersecurity #failings, as the U.K. chief nuclear inspector’s annual report revealed last year.

At the same time, #EDF, the company operating several nuclear power plants in Britain, was placed under similar measures.

https://therecord.media/sellafield-site-prosecution-nuclear-facility-cybersecurity

A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered morally wrong in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit. Vices are usually associated with a fault in a person’s character or temperament rather than their morality.

Vice, Wikipedia

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#AntiSuella #Braverman #rally to #protest #Tory #government’s continued #LGBTQ+ #failings.

The #UK government has #doubleddown on its #antiLGBTQ+ #agenda.

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https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/29/suella-braverman-lgbtq-asylum-refugee-protest/

This is a video that has so much about the #failings of #Neoclassical #Economic #Theory while informing #students that are going to follow #Economics101 about what they are going to learn and why they should #question it.

https://youtu.be/EC11UQD9q3w?feature=shared

#Newly #Appointed #Gay #MetPolice #LGBT+ #liaison #officer ‘not afraid’ to hold #force to #account over #failings.

#TheMet #announced last month that it was restoring a #fulltime #LGBT+ #liaison #officers as a “#crucial part of the #mission for more #trust” within the #queer #community.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #London #Police

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/met-police-lgbtq-community-liaison-officer-failings/