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On 29/01/2024 at 12:07, Haironyourchest said:
China cracked the chip problem last year. Did you see the phone thing in the news? They can make chips as good as U.S and Taiwan now.
Who knows what the red lines really are in the halls of power, behind the guff? Europe has half a billion people and we need their oil, and the middle east's oil. We're still dependant on it. If we or they do something that turns off the tap for real, its game over for us.
China haven't solved the chip problem. That was blown out of proportion. They don't have access to ASML's most up to date machines so can't produce the most advanced chips.
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On 02/10/2022 at 22:29, Haironyourchest said:
The USA blew the pipeline.
Biden promised to "Bring an end to it" if Russia invaded. Not hard to read between the lines.
Payback/escalation for the referenda and annexation of the 4 regions.
Keeps Germany on a short leash. USA want Germany to be their bitch in the EU. Trump told Merkel not to build NS2 back in 2018, remember? He warned Germany about being dependant on Russian gas. They fobbed him off.
The EU will have to increase imports of US gas now.
The US did it??! Jesus bud take the tinfoil hat off!
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On 10/09/2022 at 17:00, Mick Dempsey said:
Depends who you follow I guess.
Michael Kofman and Rob Lee are worth following.
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Joshua is like a big baby having a hissy fit. Pathetic display at the end.
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More problems with the zigzag? What a bag of sh*te. 🤣
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He seems like a tool. He's whinging about a snaplock yet he peddles any bit of new tat that Petzl bring out.
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29 minutes ago, Stere said:
The NLAW Missiles The U.K. Rushed To Ukraine May Only Be Useful In Desperate Circumstances
The airlift of anti-tank missiles demonstrate London’s support for Kyiv. But NLAWs' short range means they'd aid Ukrainian...More on NLAWS and russian tactics:
Can see Putin repeating this tactic......
I don't think so. Kyiv is origin of the Rus. Its alao way bigger than Grozny. It seems like he hasnt sent in the majority of his forces. China aren't happy with the Russian support for the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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On 13/02/2022 at 21:22, peds said:
Back in the Alps (my home for 15 years) I'd not think twice about strolling through a field of cows, public footpaths cross them like spiderwebs. I'd often go over and chat to them, see if I could get a tune out of their little bells. Friendly fellows, despite the massive horns. Sometimes I'd sit down among them and crack open my flask of tea.
Here in Ireland, I'd not go near the f*ckers. Absolutely mental, the lot of them. They'd eat you for breakfast.
The continental breeds most farmers want now are highly strung bastards. My brother-in-law breeds limousins, mad compared to the angus and shorthorns we had.
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20 hours ago, trigger_andy said:
I’m glad I was not the first to say this!
From my admittedly limited exposure to Social Workers they’ve been either Hippies or Hitler. They all where from Council Estate backgrounds and generally not overly bright SNP types. Telling you they where a Social Worker or in training then pausing just long enough for you to give the expected oooooh.
Not surprising that you would have dealings with social workers.
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14 minutes ago, doobin said:
Or indeed the scum themselves who abuse the kids?
Definitely. The main town most of her cases are in(Rhyl) lives up to its reputation as a scum filled hole.
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12 minutes ago, maybelateron said:
One of my men is married to a social worker. These are exactly the sentiments she expresses. Let's face reality - people who go into social work are highly likely to be of a caring disposition, who want to give something back to society. When working in child protection issues every day is a bed of nails - they risk being accused of being heavy handed and accusatory as well as negligent every single day.
I couldn't do her job. The shit she has to deal with daily is ridiculous. It's always social workers that are blamed. What about the schools/nurseries/health visitors?
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9 hours ago, Mull said:
Horrendous, something fundamentally wrong with social care/workers in this country. As usual all the signs were there.My wife is a social worker and she has 30 cases when she should only have 12. She works in child services as well. Its easy to blame social workers but they are short staffed and underfunded.
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Done a basic hedgelaying course with the HOEHLG near Tamworth last weekend. Never done any hedgelaying before but really enjoyed it. Hopefully I can get some hedges to practice on. Thanks to graham, alex, giles and bill for running such a great course especially in the crappy weather. Feel as excited about hedgelaying as how I used to feel about climbing when i started!
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Great news! The wife can tow the chipper now!🤣
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5 hours ago, agg221 said:
I wasn't sure whether to dip a toe in this thread or not, but obviously I have decided I will.
It's a nice idea to say that wind turbines should be built in the UK, but if you take that statement apart rationally, it's not obvious where you would draw the lines.
Breaking down the turbines into their major units - foundations (jackets, legs etc), towers, blades and hub/gearbox you have different materials and processing requirements. Start with the simple ones - foundations and towers. How far down the supply chain do you want to go? We don't really have any high grade iron ore remaining, so that means either refining scrap or importing ore. We would then need to build a plant to do that, and in the current circumstances that would have an enormous level of emissions controls. Once you could make the steel, you would need a mill capable of rolling the right sections. Fabrication is going to be largely automated, as is the inspection, so a lot of capital investment but not that many jobs. Once you have built all of these facilities, given that it is running in a high labour cost environment and there is other, cheaper, global supply, it is only going to serve the domestic market, so the utilisation is going to be pretty poor. That means with high capital investment, high running costs and poor utilisation it will add astronomically to the cost of the steel components.
Blades can be (and already are) made cost-effectively in the UK (see Vestas on the IoW).
The hub and gearbox are large machined parts. If somebody wants to develop a new one from scratch which lies outside the intellectual property protection of the people who have invested in this so far, great, but it will probably take a decade of development before it can be launched. The alternative would be to use an old design where the IP has expired and accept the reduced reliability and efficiency. The capability to make these is still just about there in the UK with suitable capital investment, but I note that Sheffield Forgemasters has just had to be bought out by the government to save it from collapse, so clearly it isn't a very economically attractive proposition.
So, once we have had the huge government investment programme, the timeframe to procure, install, commission and optimise, the UK should be able to produce massively expensive wind turbine parts for domestic use. The additional cost will of course have to be passed on to the consumer. It's hard to predict exactly how much it would add but something around 50% is probably about right to recover the investment in a reasonable timeframe. Increasing electricity costs by 50% in parallel with the net-zero decarbonising agenda may not be ideal? It would probably snarl up the economy quite well if people could no longer afford to travel to work in their electric cars, the price of delivery went up so all goods became more expensive etc. Of course, that could be overcome by increasing wages, but then you have an inflationary spiral.
Fundamentally, what the UK is good at is selling services. It is also good at inventing things. Developing new innovative technology and selling it internationally as a service is the government plan around net-zero, and it at least has a ring of credibility about it. I could go on at great length about mis-placed investment and social engineering experiments are hugely reducing the effectiveness of that plan, but I won't.
Alec
Yet Germany and to a lesser extent Italy, still manage to have competitive manufacturing industries including toolmaking and machining. Due to the tighter environmental controls here surely emissions overall would be lower compared to places like China?
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4 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:
Always thought of it as a made up event so that posh twats that are a little bit good at several disciplines, but entirely mediocre in any single one, have something to do rather than being left out completely.
I mean, if you can ride, shoot, fence and swim at even as low as a county level, and you can just about hold your own in the other elements, you’re just about guaranteed a punt at the UK team simply on the basis that East Ham comprehensive school probably doesn’t have fencing and rifle shooting on the syllabus (if it were opened up to stabbing with a shank and popping a cap in ur ass with a moody shooter.....) Well then you might see a more diverse selection pool 😂I feel bad. I assumed you were a posh twat. Apologies if not. 👍
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9 hours ago, gand said:
Is the battery itself in working order? Get a lot of machines in that say there not working, put one of our batteries in and they work a treat. Have you tried another battery? Otherwise it could be the motor.
Ye I've tried 4 batteries in total. No luck. Is there anything I could do if it's the motor or should I just bring it to a dealer?
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Has anyone had an issue with the Stihl MSA 161T not running? I've cleaned the battery contacts and stripped it down and cleaned it but it's no joy.
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23 hours ago, Rob Thompson said:
I have my side strop/lanyard set as a double ender 🤐. One side I keep long for extended work positioning, the other side I keep short for standard stuff. The whole line is 8m, I rarely use the long side, so it stays daisy chained with the end clipped to a wire gate. The short end is very easy to manage, like my old side strop that was not so long as to be a stowing problem.
That harness looks good for the insta crowd but christ it must be a bag of balls when in a busy crown!
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If it was made by dmm it would cost even more!
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29 minutes ago, skyhuck said:
Mainstream media bias for all to see!! Rashford ballsed it up, he completely missed the target, but he is the golden boy, so his penalty gets no replays after the result. Instead Saka, who did a good job, but was unlucky, is the scapegoat!!
Saka was poor tonight. Young lad though so he'll be back.
Seen Rashford's penalty at least twice afterwards so don't know what you mean.
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1 hour ago, Khriss said:
Clown
Labourer felled tree containing active goshawk nest
The man "unknowingly destroyed" the nest on an estate but the RSPB says nests are "obvious".K
I am shocked.
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3 hours ago, David Cropper said:
Excellent! Someone else who likes Big Birds. Good man, I'm not alone.
Hips and big arses all the way!
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1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:
Decent shape on her there!
Making the news today....
in The Lounge
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The SNP types want everyone to live in nice apartments in the city.