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from the above article Tensions rose sharply and quickly after two members of Hamas's elite forces were shot dead by gunmen from the powerful Dughmush clan in Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood. One of them was the son of a senior commander in Hamas's armed wing, Imad Aqel, who now heads the group's military intelligence. Their bodies were left in the street, triggering anger and raising the prospect of a major armed response by Hamas. Hamas members later surrounded a large area where more than 300 Dughmush gunmen were believed to be holed up, armed with machine guns and improvised explosives. made me remember this - Israel covertly trying to arm clans to kill off Hamas Netanyahu confirms Israel arming clans opposed to Hamas in Gaza WWW.BBC.CO.UK Israel has been criticised for giving weapons to a group of "criminals and felons".

still an attractive tree - and it's not as if you can get the nice thick silver birch trunks like that by replanting any time soon re the decay in pruning wounds - half way down France it's warmer, maybe they fare better than in UK

nice colour - euonymous alatus?

no such tree as betulina pendula, or is there?

I would be saying that in my opinion decay will spread into the trunk, may be safe for years, decades even, but for reasons you state will be expensive to fell if left till no one wants to climb it. The top cuts on reductions often rot down inside to form rot pockets a foot deep. With the limb I would have suggested leaving a 6ft or more stub, contary to arb and BS practice, but that way the rot would take years to reach the trunk. Only on birch. Ash, sycamore etc that cut would probably occlude within say 5 to 7 years. Birch is diffuse porous v most UK hardwoods that are ring porous. Not a decay expert, but from memory the books do talk about the differences in susceptibility to decay of the two structures

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more pervy than biblical

"the men beat on their drums and the women beat the men"

no dole then, so work or workhouse magic mushrooms had evolved by Victorian times, they used to neck a load then go mad to heavy techno of the day

In Victorian times it was fine to get whacked right out of your skull Sherlock Holmes, the most famous consulting detective in literature, used occasionally cocaine and morphine to escape, as he said, from “the dull routine of existence.” This was nothing unusual in Victorian times because sale of opium, laudanum, cocaine and morphine was legal. Victorian users took these dangerous drugs as self-medication and as recreation.

now that is quite well articulated 'problematic if someone is trying to weaponise the Manchester attack to silence protest against the genocide' Well done Zack - only problem is they are only projected to win 5 seats last time I looked. Maybe you can boost them up to 7. That support of Palestine when everyone is railing against antisemitism is commendable in my view. The IDF killed hundreds of Palestinians this week, not just two

Ask the Indians forced onto reservations - immigrants always cause trouble. There is no future without war and suffering - it's already baked in. We just have to learn to take the rough with the rougher

if the Green Party under Zak get in we can do enough drugs to imagine that's the case

philosophical stance - not a fact it's possible the future is already written into the fabric of the universe, just we can't see it in advance

the green party have the right idea - get everyone so wasted they are incapable of stabbing anyone Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs WWW.BBC.COM Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.

wow - it's your lucky day - some guys have written a whole 50 page booklet 'weed control in Christmas tree plantations'. Merry Christmas https://cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/2022/04/fcfb015.pdf

what's wrong with glyphosate around saplings and small trees if you use something to control drift?

its nearly 100% right, those 2 you know are in the minority, only paye tend to dramatise. Work or starve should be the only choice

ah yeah, but without money you can't buy health - health needs paying for with hard currency. Good food and good medical care all cost money. Money is the most important thing. The Beatles sang 'money can't buy me love', but love can't exist inside a dead body and it's money that keeps the body alive

so he could have said maybe 'hey Rich - interesting post, am really interested to hear what the guys on here think myself'

this is a politics thread right - real politicians do hatchet jobs on each other all the time - so at least let us get nasty with our keyboards (we may even dream about training up for the real thing) so online nastiness can help build resilience, toughen us up for the real world, just in case any of us ever dare to try to enter public life. Could end up a mess Prince Philip named in FBI files about Profumo affair sex scandal | The Independent

I don't have crypto, but was interested to see if your query was googlable

I remember talking with you on here about investments in March or April 2020 - just after oil had hit negative $40! I had bought some Royal Dutch Shell for my ISA, but then bottled it and swapped it into BT - you said 'that kinda sucks' and were obviously much more of an optimist than me. the two charts of RDSA and BT are below also, at the time RR was bombed out due to aviation stopped. You said about employer shares at the time - I remember you doing some tech job for an oil services firm, those pandemic shares must have gone up fourfold. Totally jealous valuations seem stretched to me now, most of my ISA is in 30 year gilts yielding about 5.4%, never gonna get rich staying out of the market, but there hasn't been a crash since the pandemic. Would be good for me if there was a crash on Trump's watch, while I'm all bonds. (so they cut rates to the floor and bond prices go up) Here's hoping for the biggest crash of all time

all the power used by cloud data centres to store everyone's old emails that they will never read again. I'm doing my bit towards total destruction with 6000 stored. Corporations must have just loads