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# '''Supernature & the occult''': [[Acts of God]] (monotheistic or polytheistic, including actions of prophets, seers, spirits, shamen, demigods and those claiming supernatural powers as a result of illegitimate divine involvement in their procreation including in each case their earthly or heavenly instruments of torment, temptation [[and/or]] confusion whether real, virtual, animate, inanimate, automatic, alive, dead, undead or having any other intermediate or indeterminate state of expiry, which such instruments shall include, and be deemed to include, any and all angels, devils, dæmons, cherubim, seraphim, incubi, succubi, chimæræ, banshees, basilisks, boggarts, bunyips, færies, phoenices, sprites, sphinxes, harpies, nymphs (aqueous or otherwise), dryads, elves, imps, ogres, genies, gargoyles, gnomes, gremlins, golems, gorgons, goblins, hobgoblins, titans, tricksters, ferrymen, trolls (whether mythical or internet-based), satyrs, fauns, centaurs, sirens, mermaids, mermen, merpersons and any other being prefixed with mer~ and having legal personality ()including without limitation mercorporations) and regardless of gender age or sense of perspective, griffins, dragons of any type, kind or variety, minotaurs, unicorns, leprechauns, wild men, first men, last men, green men or bogey-men (in each case regardless of age, gender or decrepitude), valkyries, vampires, werewolves, hellhounds, will ’o’ the wisps, wraiths, witches, warlocks, wizards, white-walkers, bigfeet, yeti, or snowmen (howsoever abominable);  
# '''Supernature & the occult''': [[Acts of God]] (monotheistic or polytheistic, including actions of prophets, seers, spirits, shamen, demigods and those claiming supernatural powers as a result of illegitimate divine involvement in their procreation including in each case their earthly or heavenly instruments of torment, temptation [[and/or]] confusion whether real, virtual, animate, inanimate, automatic, alive, dead, undead or having any other intermediate or indeterminate state of expiry, which such instruments shall include, and be deemed to include, any and all angels, devils, dæmons, cherubim, seraphim, incubi, succubi, chimæræ, banshees, basilisks, boggarts, bunyips, færies, phoenices, sprites, sphinxes, harpies, nymphs (aqueous or otherwise), dryads, elves, imps, ogres, genies, gargoyles, gnomes, gremlins, golems, gorgons, goblins, hobgoblins, titans, tricksters, ferrymen, trolls (whether mythical or internet-based), satyrs, fauns, centaurs, sirens, mermaids, mermen, merpersons and any other being prefixed with mer~ and having legal personality ()including without limitation mercorporations) and regardless of gender age or sense of perspective, griffins, dragons of any type, kind or variety, minotaurs, unicorns, leprechauns, wild men, first men, last men, green men or bogey-men (in each case regardless of age, gender or decrepitude), valkyries, vampires, werewolves, hellhounds, will ’o’ the wisps, wraiths, witches, warlocks, wizards, white-walkers, bigfeet, yeti, or snowmen (howsoever abominable);  
#'''Skynet, [[singularity]] etc''': the malign, tiresome or inadvertently irritating interference of any form, database, network, [[Distributed ledger|distributed ledger]] or other [[technology]] however intelligent (whether naturally, artificially or generally artificially intelligent [[and/or]] stupid) including any file, document, template, macro, mail-merge, form field, snippet, cascading style-sheet, [[dialog box]], [[chatbot]], Turing or other learning or symbol-processing machine, robot vacuum-cleaner and/or lawnmower (whether or not LIDAR equipped), [[Zero-day vulnerability|zero-day vulnerability]], [[natural language processing]], unnatural language processing, language bullying, language torture, language extraordinary rendition, [[neural network]], self-administering electronic contract (however [[smart contract|smart]], dull, hackable, virus-laden, annoying or plodding and unimaginative in nature), any autonomous organisation (whether centralised or decentralised), any crypto-currency, crypto-token, crypto-security or other crypto-asset (fungible or [[Non-fungible|non-fungible]] and however trustless or intermediated in nature), any stablecoin, unstablecoin, unity settlement coin, or other achingly fashionable web3 initiative notwithstanding the presence or (frankly far more likely) lack of any demonstrable reason, justification, need for it or other use-case, however economically plausible;
#'''Skynet, [[singularity]] etc''': the malign, tiresome or inadvertently irritating interference of any form, database, network, [[Distributed ledger|distributed ledger]] or other [[technology]] however intelligent (whether naturally, artificially or generally artificially intelligent [[and/or]] stupid) including any file, document, template, macro, mail-merge, form field, snippet, cascading style-sheet, [[dialog box]], [[chatbot]], Turing or other learning or symbol-processing machine, robot vacuum-cleaner and/or lawnmower (whether or not LIDAR equipped), [[Zero-day vulnerability|zero-day vulnerability]], [[natural language processing]], unnatural language processing, language bullying, language torture, language extraordinary rendition, [[neural network]], self-administering electronic contract (however [[smart contract|smart]], dull, hackable, virus-laden, annoying or plodding and unimaginative in nature), any autonomous organisation (whether centralised or decentralised), any crypto-currency, crypto-token, crypto-security or other crypto-asset (fungible or [[Non-fungible|non-fungible]] and however trustless or intermediated in nature), any stablecoin, unstablecoin, unity settlement coin, or other achingly fashionable web3 initiative notwithstanding the presence or (frankly far more likely) abject lack of any demonstrable point, reason, justification, need for it or other business or social use-case, however economically plausible;
#'''Metereology''': any hurricane, cyclone, tempest, storm, shower, intermittent drizzle or other meteorological phenomenon; the operation or failure to operate when expected of any jet stream, trade wind, doldrum, el Niño, la Niña, Artic Dipole, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or other recognised wind or weather pattern;  
#'''Metereology''': any hurricane, cyclone, tempest, storm, shower, intermittent drizzle or other meteorological phenomenon; the operation or failure to operate when expected of any jet stream, trade wind, doldrum, el Niño, la Niña, Artic Dipole, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or other recognised wind or weather pattern;  
#'''Hydration''': any deluge, flood, leak, dousing, unreasonable dampness or other unexpected aqueous invasion ([[whether or not]] having, or intended by supernatural power to have, remedial or punitive effect); any peril, danger, accident or vicissitude occurring on, in, under, above or courtesy of any ocean, sea, inlet, fjord, estuary, inland lake, lagoon, lido, pond, puddle, river, stream, brook, concourse, storm-water drain, firth, burn, loch, lochán, or other body of water  having menacing aspect (however Roman, Saxon, Norse, Goth, Visigoth, Gallic Celtic or Iberian in etymological nature and [[whether]] fresh, brackish or saline) including for the avoidance of the doubt the unanticipated contents therein and thereof, whether in existence, plausibly hypothesised, suspected or plainly the product of public delusion or paranoid fantasy and whether by nature a reptile, lizard, giant squid, kraken, leviathan, mollusc, unusually shaped duck or other appalling creature of the deep howsoever described or such flotsam, jetsam, fly-tipped car tyres or other unidentified debris which may for the time being be reasonably mistaken for one or more of the foregoing;  
#'''Hydration''': any deluge, flood, leak, dousing, unreasonable dampness or other unexpected aqueous invasion ([[whether or not]] having, or intended by supernatural power to have, remedial or punitive effect); any peril, danger, accident or vicissitude occurring on, in, under, above or courtesy of any ocean, sea, inlet, fjord, estuary, inland lake, lagoon, lido, pond, puddle, river, stream, brook, concourse, storm-water drain, firth, burn, loch, lochán, or other body of water  having menacing aspect (however Roman, Saxon, Norse, Goth, Visigoth, Gallic Celtic or Iberian in etymological nature and [[whether]] fresh, brackish or saline) including for the avoidance of the doubt the unanticipated contents therein and thereof, whether in existence, plausibly hypothesised, suspected or plainly the product of public delusion or paranoid fantasy and whether by nature a reptile, lizard, giant squid, kraken, leviathan, mollusc, unusually shaped duck or other appalling creature of the deep howsoever described or such flotsam, jetsam, fly-tipped car tyres or other unidentified debris which may for the time being be reasonably mistaken for one or more of the foregoing;