sime42
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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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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 I'm starting to feel out-of-date even by using a card.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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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.
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Hats off to you, you beat me hands down. I couldn't see the wood for the trees.
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Nah ND. You've failed to understand as per usual. Guess you're on about Covid yet again. Either you've misunderstood history or you're seeking to make political capital again by equating the horrors of the Holocaust with your own little bugbears. Seriously? I'm sure you stated recently that you were compassionate beyond belief. If you still think that Covid, (the world's response to it specifically), is the greatest existential threat that we face then I'm afraid that you are very much mistaken. Again. You should look back over your reams and reams of "contributions" on your threads. Much of it is perceived very much as "othering", of the unsubtle variety no less. That way lies horror.
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I'd Ashume that was Ash.
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That's proper shit. Extermination by stealth. If the cats themselves don't get the birdies, then their fur will. Great. They were feeling optimistic.
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Well worth reminding the MAGA, especially on this of all days. I imagine that if LGBT people were around in such numbers at that time they would definitely have been on the list. Before or after gay folk or Roma? Not sure. Probably green folk and "Climate Zealots" and Wokers wouldn't have stood a chance either. It all started with "othering" of groups of people they didn't like/understand/envied/felt threatened by, etc. Subtle othering at first and then less and less subtle. Just like we're seeing again these days. I think we do actually need to be very careful at this juncture, people need to wake up to what's going on in the Western World.
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I'd have to disagree with the mighty Google in this case SP. In my experience serious aphid infestations are always aided and abetted by ants. Always. The little buggers farm them rather than eating them. They eat the sugary stuff that they excrete, and nurture and protect the aphids from predators in return. A fascinating partnership, just not on my beans/apples/roses! Not sure if ants also work with wooly aphids, probably.
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Does look like wooly aphids. I suspect you will have a long tedious battle on your hands to eliminate them, even if you can enlist the help of an army of ladybirds. I've used methylated spirits on mealy bugs plenty off times in the past, it's highly effective at cutting through the protective wooly stuff, which makes them so hard to get rid of. I've not tried it on Wooly aphids but it might work also as the wooly stuff looks quite similar. I'm not sure the scale of the tree but if it's reasonably small you could buy a litre or two of meths, (or similar:- ethanol, rubbing alcohol etc), and go at all the fluffy white crap with a small stiff paint brush. Repeat every few months until it doesn't come back. Just an idea.
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Or could it be the other way around? Keir Starmer praises Donald Trump's role in Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal WWW.BBC.CO.UK The conversation comes after the president praised Sir Keir for doing a "very good job" as prime minister.
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Osier matting?
