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Might want to change your username if you're looking for work. 😜 Good luck anyway.

Very ****************ing late, but hopefully not too ****************ing late.

A brief derail into Faces in Figs.

I wonder if this'll work? Starmer and his crew finally seem to be growing a pair. So maybe. Seems like Israel is getting increasingly isolated now, with more countries breaking cover to issue pretty stark condemnations. Hell, even best mate Trump swerved them last week, you know it's getting serious. UK steps up action against Israel over Gaza offensive WWW.BBC.CO.UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy summons the Israeli ambassador and suspends talks on a trade deal.

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Chorizo and pepper pizza. Garnished with rocket and basil out the garden.

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Interesting. Maybe you can just chuck some Laburnum logs on the fire if you're trying to quit smoking! Cytisine - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

It's toxic when inhaled. I've not looked into it but probably the Cytisine as previously mentioned. I was thinking from a woodworking perspective though. I wouldn't be at all worried about burning it in a wood burner. I think I have done so in the past. It's good dense timber so lots of calories there.

PLUMS?

Shit. I missed this yesterday, sorry to hear the bad news Peds. I hope they get you all stuck back together again today. All the best for the recovery.

Good prompt, thanks. I need to check mine carefully again.

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Agree with what? You clearly don't agree with the sentiment that I expressed there. It's nice that you're showing willing and all that, but you've failed to comprehend at least a couple of the concepts. Not sure if that was intentional or not. The untenable position I speak of is that the current Potus is good for the world, the US or even the MAGA fans. Though it doesn't much matter, that was just a case in point. Your only response to any kind of adversity or difference of opinion, in any discussion of any topic, is always to fire out insult and abuse. Rather than even attempt to engage in meaningful discussion.

I had a similar issue with one of our trees. I brutally cut every last bit of infected wood off over a couple of years. This year it looks to be okay so far.

So, this story is some kind of crazy nexus of several themes in this thread. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/the-tick-borne-disease-turning-maga-supporters-vegan/#:~:text=The syndrome%2C mainly caused by,strict%2C plant-based die

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It's pretty toxic stuff I think, a bit like a slightly more friendly version of Creosote. (It smells lovely similarly!) So fungi probably don't like it, as well as the viruses and bacteria that it was developed to kill. I'm sure it's been reformulated for modern times, but still quite potent.

Several hundreds of years. What is it?

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Yeah, I value some things above money, (providing I have enough to live on). Quite a few things actually. I've nothing against undeserved wealth being realistically revalued. A lot of stuff is far too cheap nowadays, artificially so. Someone somewhere, and in most cases the planet, is paying the real price. That is unjust. Although, why should we, (the commoners, and the truly poor struggling to put decent food on the table), get poorer to allow the ultra rich few to get even more obscenely rich? That is also unjust. I can't see Trump doing anything else except expediting that process. Indeed, the momentum of cultural power is steadily going "Right". I for one consider that to be cause for concern rather than celebration. History tells us that the shift won't stop at a convenient point that is mutually beneficial for society and culture. The parallels with previous world events have already been drawn plenty of times on here. Again, Trump is doing nothing but expediting that shift. By propagating and cultivating complete falsehoods and "alternative" facts, whilst suppressing as much expression of counter opinion as possible. All in the name of Free Speech - the irony.

No. It's got to be said though; at least your surreal obfuscation and distraction is normally amusing. (Those talents are wasted on an arb forum, go into script writing or something.) Much better than the abuse and insult that's thrown out as the only other response in the face of the adversity of trying to defend the untenable position.

To be fair it's not really about sides, there's so much more at stake with this Potus. However, if it has to be framed within the very narrow, and restrictive viewpoint of sides; then there are no winners amongst the common people, only losers. There's countless MAGA voters who are now worse off than they were 12 months ago. The only winners in any of this are the small number of rich elite, the tech oligarchs and social media barons etc. The very people that the MAGA ideal is meant to target. That's a failure, not a win.