sime42
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Everything posted by sime42
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Hang on a minute, hold it right there! Are we saying that beards have been consigned to Room 101 as well now? I had no idea that shaving is a basic of modern society. Gutted. 😪 Is that because only Socialists don't shave every morning?
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Probably time to start seriously investigating the feasibility of a degrowth economy. The relentless pursuit of growth isn't working out for our Rachel, or anyone else, given that we live on a very much finite planet. Disregarding Musk and Bezos's crazy ideas to colonise Mars, or whatever they are thinking today.
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"the most irresponsible announcement from any government I have seen since the Liz Truss budget" Condemnations don't come much worse than that.
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It looks almost like regenerative farming might be the answer. Who'd have thought, nature knows best?
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It'll be just like cars. Or squirrel cnuts. We'll just end up with 6 instead of 4 stacks in a few years. And then we'll "need" a fourth runway...............
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What would you hope to find in little chainsaw shop?hop?
sime42 replied to peds's topic in General chat
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Hopefully not, it'd be one thing that would tempt me to sample their fare.
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I know, that why I said remove sufficient of it. I'm not convinced that the nylon will not just move out the way of the tap thread, as it does with the bolt. Rather than the locking effect getting used up. Just chewing the fat.
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Are you sure that'll work though? I've a feeling that the nylon would be too soft to remove sufficient of it to allow the bolt to run freely in the nut thread.
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I'm looking forward to being able to get a McMealworm Stack. Probably tastier than the shite they serve now.
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Nought wrong with eating insects, people have been doing it for millennia. I'll wager that they'll be on the menu at McDonald's in twenty years time.
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Wordle 1,320 3/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Didn't have to milk that one today.
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Agreed. Though I'm not sure how much hope there is, in light of today's announcements by Reeves and co. They don't seem to care much more than the previous crooks about the climate and biodiversity crises. There are some glimmers of light. Campaign success as UK government upholds ban on emergency use of bee-killing pesticide WWW.RSPB.ORG.UK Quickly dimmed however High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds | Bees | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects .
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She hasn't got a clue. "Green"? Increasing consumption ain't going to lead to growth ultimately, sustainable or otherwise.
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I like to keep a healthy thickness of cash on me as well, but more of a just in case of a technology absence or failure. I prefer card due to ease. I always offer the merchant the choice of cash or card, if it's a small company or trader, sod them if it's a big company. I'm often surprised how many choose card over cash, roughly half i'd estimate. Even the weekly fish delivery man wants card, he's got one of those mobile readers. I'm starting to feel out-of-date even by using a card. A lot of people around me just use their phones these days. That's a step too far for now.
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Nice. Always good to find decent places like that. In a similar vein, these lot are good to deal with. Probably half the price of a chandlers or arb supplier. Stainless Steel Chain, Wire Rope & Marine Fittings | GS Products WWW.GSPRODUCTS.CO.UK GS Products has over 80 years of experience supplying quality steel chain, wire rope & marine fittings; including eye... On the B Side. The nicest way would be to use a plain nut. Presumably there's a reason behind this though. I've never tried to remove the nyloc insert. How are they fixed in? A screw extractor maybe but that would probably just embed itself. Freeze it, see if it gets brittle enough to crack out.
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Wordle 1,319 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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What are Z Bugs?
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I was listening to some guy last night talking about economic growth. He was saying that it comes mainly from technological progress, and that comes from scientific innovation and creativity. Not from things like building houses, airports and other infrastructure projects. If Rachel Reeves does want to stimulate growth she should be looking to boost the intangibles like ideas and innovation, technological progress. Like China is doing. They've almost gone off the scale in the last 15 years. China is the largest contributor to global patent applications, substantially ahead of other countries OURWORLDINDATA.ORG China’s patent applications have grown rapidly in recent decades, as shown in the chart. Chinese applications surpassed US... There is the separate argument to be had about whether we do actually need economic growth.
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I think the consensus was Willow. I'd still go with that. Maybe Poplar. I don't see any Oak or Sycamore in those photos I'm afraid. Though as has been said before; good firewood is just any wood that's dry. Even better if it's free! They all have pros and cons.
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I think that the idea that China only makes shit is a couple of decades out of date now. Sure, they do make masses of shit tat, but only because they can get away with it, because we are stupid enough to buy it from them. (As do their domestic middle class consumers.) They can also make some proper high end quality stuff as well when they want to. Just look at mobile phones and other electronic wizardry, renewable energy infrastructure, and now AI. They're already world leaders in the first two markets, and probably the third this year as well I expect. There's no turning back the tide now I'd suggest.
