Mark J
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We need to talk about extremism and its links to Christian fundamentalism | Josh Roose | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM The revelation that the Wieambilla shootings were a ‘religiously motivated terror attack’ should prompt deep introspection Sacred violence: the enduring role of ideology in terrorism and radicalisation (accessible version) - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Christian Nationalism and Political Violence: Victimhood, Racial Identity, Conspiracy, and Support for the Capitol Attacks PMC.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV What explains popular support for political violence in the contemporary United States, particularly the anti-institutional mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in January 2021? Recent... Fill your boots, you will get the gist of it. Or, perhaps you won't.
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Lol.
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I think that if we didn't have to worry about a roof over our head and a secure food source, people would still choose to do useful things. Something is going to have to be done. There is member on here, @Welshfred who put me onto an excellent book called "The Ministry For The Future" - in that there is a section that describes how we used to think that everyone would ultimately have a better quality of life, then at some point the billionaires decided that they would just hoard their wealth instead. AI is going to change things and the people running the show have no intention of sharing their sweets.
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That is not my problem. If I was in charge of things I would have a Universal Basic Income, which allowed everyone to thrive, but I am not in charge, and wouldn't want to be.
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Nigel Farage backtracks on Reform UK’s promise to cut £90bn of taxes claiming proposal had been an ‘aspiration’. Nigel Farage backtracks on Reform UK’s promise to cut £90bn of taxes | Reform UK | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Party leader says proposal had been an ‘aspiration’ and accuses Tories and Labour of ‘wrecking the public finances’
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Dent, as in The Late Dent, Arthur Dent?
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Okay, I will slightly venture there. If you have a dataset, it used to be the case that you needed to hire people to interpret that data. Now you don't need to. You can prompt an AI to do the work. AI programs such as Perplexity - for research, Chat GPT - for realtime image recognition, and Claude - for creating bespoke AI agents, means that things are rapidly changing. With a bit of thought you could have an architectural company on your telephone. No staff, no offices, just tech doing whatever you tell it to. Building information modeling - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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I won't go into detail here, but the implications and adoption of AI in the world of civil engineering are mind boggling.
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I shouted at a traffic warden who gave me a ticket next to the hospital, yesterday. I reckon his surname was "20 goto 10". AI is a seemingly a useful tool. I was a little on the fence as I had thought it mostly useful for admin based jobs. Caught up with some old friends over the weekend and one of them is now making a living advising construction/architectural sector on AI.
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Grow up.
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Having worked with trees for the best part of 20 years, I think I'm good. Thanks for the concern.
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Two cheeks of the same arse.
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Not at all. If anything you have grassed yourself up by spewing the bile you do. I'm not a grass, and I take it as an insult. I'm reasonably confident that you and I would have polite discourse in real life, but your online persona suggests otherwise. You are pulling the wool over the eyes of nobody. And you're making a mug of yourself by doing so.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Mark J replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
I have a friend with a forest in Wales and she's been planting coastal redwoods. The idea is to coppice them. -
Your are transparent in your hatred. It is plain to see, and squirming around with half-truths just makes you look like a dick. I wouldn't want to meet you in real life, a 6'6" unit of snidey anger, with guns. But, I stand by what I said. I think you know exactly what you are doing.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Mark J replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Nice tree, where's that? -
Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Mark J replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Lime tree in the local park. I can only assume it's fasciation on steroids. Clipper lighter for scale.
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Yup, it's a bit disconcerting.
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Ha ha, Dave, you have shown your true colours on here. You can't expect to be able to claim that you have no agenda.You stir the racial pot at any given opportunity. That is no coincidence. That's a coward's way to do business.
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Fell them all.
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"In the UK, an estimated five to six people per year are killed by tree-related injuries from falling trees or branches. This results in an estimated total of approximately 100 to 120 deaths from the general public over the last 20 years. " So, by your logic, terrorists are no more of a threat to us than trees are. Perhaps you're overreacting.
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Ha ha. No, that's clearly not what I mean.
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Indeed. Christian Nationalism is one to watch. Have you heard of "The King's Army"? Trump was, after all, saved by God: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/president-trump-speech-inauguration Lambs to the slaughter... The King's Army | Training Soldiers with the Weapon of the Gospel THEKINGSARMY.COM We believe the day we surrendered our lives to Christ, pledging allegiance to the King, was the day we were enlisted to fight in His army.
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I'm glad that nobody showed their cards by jumping to the conclusion that it was a preventable, terror-related, attack. It does show that we probably need more funding in the NHS to treat people with mental disorders.
