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Agreed I think those are the standard US connectors (SAE) so should be very compatible.

You have to understand those with bad Trump Derangement Syndrome will never be happy, regardless of the local population’s reaction. The particular individual you replied to has it real bad to the point it’s having an effect on his mental health.

Morning all, Snowing a bit here with more predicted by 10. Only a couple of inches on the ground. I don’t fancy slipping and damaging my knee replacement or anything else, so no site work until it clears. Might look at a couple of jobs though. Stay safe

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I do think that car manufacturing employs less people due to robots and automation. When you analyse it on a per car basis. It takes a lot less people to make a car than it used to in 1960. When AGVs, aided and abetted by AI, get fully adopted, there won't even be people driving forklifts around. If there's more people overall, it's because there are more car plants, because there are more cars being (over)consumed now. I don't think that you can extrapolate car manufacturing employment prospects to the impact of AI on the wider jobs market. Creating jobs just to satisfy our expectations and desires, (but not needs), for overconsumption isn't going to be a sustainable model to follow. We're already screwed on that front. We can't just make-more-stuff our way out of the hole we're digging. As I understand it, manufacturing and practical jobs aren't the ones that are most at risk from AI anyway. Though I see they're quite high, but as a percentage of total employment, manufacturing isn't much these days. You're remarkably optimistic about AI in general, are you the 3.85%? I'm more concerned about the meteoric rise in dis&misinformation, rather than mass unemployment. Too many people are falling foul of it already. The fact that it's getting increasingly hard to trust information and "news" deeply unsettles me. It's a sad, bleak world that we're moving into; where so much around us is unnatural and unreal. Progress? No sir.

Sorry for the delay. I got a new one at a very reasonable price from those nice folks at Global Machinery Solutions who were very helpful. Replaced it but found I needed to take a round file to the slot in the guard to stop it fouling, no issues so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCEbLrtovtE&list=LL&index=10 and a much better version .

Ok Les, bit out of the blue.

Depends on what crank they choose to use .

Yeahhhh, climbing gear is something I'm ok with spending a bit more on, and getting from a reputable sources, like I don't know, skyland or buxtons or take your pick of places. Just not temu or ali express tvm😁🤣

I will text him and see what gives. He has retired and I don't think it is really him🙄...bored to feck or something similar.

Would anyone on here have a Timberwolf 18/100 chipper for sale do many scammers on Facebook

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Hello. Looking for rounds in Glasgow. Could anyone provide me a price for a van load of uncut logs? Will be cutting them myself. Thank you

I think this is real. Nice idea, but probably wouldn't work that well in practice.

Thanks mate, appreciate it.

Burning a lot of it at the moment. It's fun identifying the different species and I'm almost tempted to ration it as it's so good.

Is it this, for 28 quid? Edit, nope it is not..sorry. The review is not good..

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