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yes I do - but you can't have it as it's staying on my saw it's only £130 on back order, think of how much wood you can cut for such a small outlay, although it is a bit annoying that a Chinese copy can be had for around £50 for the older 044 here is a thread with a teardown of MS441C , apparently fuel tank takes some doing to get off https://opeforum.com/threads/a-dummy-and-the-stihl-ms441c.25651/page-4

the european settlers moved native americans out the way, now one of the settlers descendents wants to clear some arabs off a piece of land. Trump doesnt like it when its not the whites doing the land clearing - threatening to stop funding South Africa. The whites knew how to dominate by force during apartheid. In a fair world the Africans and Arabs could join forces, take the fight to Trump and invade Mar a Lago, level the site and grow crops. But this isnt a fair world - its the natural world

The U.S. contributes about one-sixth of NATO’s annual budget, not two-thirds, as claimed in social media posts. Washington finances 15.8% of the military alliance’s yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. It’s the joint largest share, alongside Germany’s, according to a NATO breakdown for 2024

The Wall St Journal are not impressed with Trumps latest decisions The Dumbest Trade War in History Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason. President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it can be fatal to be its friend. Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it.

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thanks for that horticultural insight - is this a discovery made through years of observation, or did you read it in a book?

even though it's still winter, here are some flowers that have come up, why can't people just wait till the official time for posting in this thread? They don't want a 'flowers in winter' thread when spring can be put to use out of season.

if FR Jones can go under, a little local shop can too, so maybe they won't want my suggestion of stocking something like these pruners with claimed safety feature of not working if your finger touches the blades expensive compared to the cheapy Amazon ones, and I'm sure the Bluebird ones are probably available cheaper in Europe, although they are still cheaper than the pro Bahco version Bluebird PS 22-32C Battery Pruner 16V WWW.TRACMASTER.CO.UK DESCRIPTION The PS 22-32C is an extremely well built and powerful pruner that is more than capable of tackling the toughest of jobs. The build quality is second to none with the...

^Banyard they have probably updated this book now, at the time it came out the new devices were still being developed, maybe worth buying and going through before paying out for a course Edit - can't see a newer edition on sale, so over 10 years old and probably a bit dated now

it doesn't matter what ideas the humans have, or what their actions are - too many of them trying to live on one land mass will mean even more sewage Net migration to push UK population to 72.5m, ONS projects WWW.BBC.CO.UK Projections suggest the UK population could grow by almost five million over the next decade.

for cutting back hard I use single sided HS86R (now HS87R), will cut about an inch thick bay, cherry laurel, griselinia, privet etc, but not inch thick hawthorn, beech etc

Trump is clever enough to sort Gaza and basically the whole world eventually "You’re talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing," Trump said.

Trump is so evil he won't even tell the truth about Starmer being evil Donald Trump has raised hopes in London that he could have a constructive relationship with the UK, telling reporters he liked Sir Keir Starmer “a lot” and that he could travel to Britain on his first foreign trip since returning to the White House. Trump, who said he would speak to the UK prime minister “in the next 24 hours”, said of Starmer: “He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far.”

It was a nightmare trying to get those pirated games to load - usually because it was a copy of another pirated copy courtesy of a twin cassette player. Anyone who had a Spectrum or similar wants a trip down memory lane - I've wasted even more time on the online emulators - the whole tiny programs run flawlessly in a web browser, no cassette tape required. The only way I could complete Manic Miner as a kid was when someone threw me a bone in the form of a poke code, stop the tape during loading, type a simple code line, and then load with unlimited lives. Manic Miner (DOS) - online game | RetroGames.cz WWW.RETROGAMES.CZ Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in...

found an example to illustrate the point In 2010, a U.K. hedge fund manager spent around $1 billion to acquire the legal rights to about seven percent of the world’s annual production of cocoa – enough beans to make over 5 billion bars of chocolate. This cocoa trader, dubbed “Chocolate Finger” as a nod to the Bond villain Goldfinger, never intended to actually use his hoard of cocoa for anything. He was a financial speculator, an investor who made millions of dollars when the world cocoa supply did not meet the demands of chocolate makers, the price of cocoa went up, and the chocolate companies came to Chocolate Finger for desperately needed cocoa. The condemnation of Chocolate Finger was universal, with the loudest objections coming from European chocolate companies and transnational cocoa suppliers. The London Exchange investigated Chocolate Finger’s purchases but found “no evidence of abusive behavior”. By the standards of commodity trading, that is probably true. But when the real-world impacts of cocoa commodity trading are investigated, the evidence shows that traders such as Chocolate Finger are hurting the farmers, who risk everything to grow cocoa, in two major ways. First, they take money from the total revenue generated by cocoa products despite not adding any value to the cocoa economy. Second, the commodity market amalgamates the world’s cocoa supply into one giant pool of identical goods, with no differentiations between high-quality, sustainable, ethically produced beans and the low-quality beans grown by trafficked children.

of course there is an underlying cause of disruption to the supply - but the markets are still used as instruments of speculation - not sure about cocoa, but sometimes with oil there are far more paper contracts than there is oil to deliver on them - you probably remember during covid the crazy moment in march 2020 when for a few hours oil was at minus $40 a barrel (because there was no storage to take physical delivery) I reckon that cocoa chart has been bid up by financial buyers as well as Cadburys

it's still winter, I don't get it, I know bulb flowers are associated with spring, but you need a separate thread surely ' flowers in winter'

commodities markets are the new bitcoin -

me - I'm a gardener who does a bit of tree work. They failed me first time on CS39 - cutting too close to my legs the main reason. I suspect poverty is your main problem - and why you are lashing out at anything to do with authority

oh well White supremacist and members of neo-fascist group among ‘January 6 patriots’ pardoned by Trump WWW.THEJC.COM Another rioter who had their conviction quashed wore an antisemitic sweatshirt to the Capitol, while clemency was also extended...

Trump probably will get some sort of deal to end the killing in Ukraine done, but what he was saying during the election was just bluster. Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On. - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Donald J. Trump’s promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be untrue.

in terms of noxious fumes though I'd be interested in a proper academic study alkylate fuels v 2t supermarket unleaded, not some 'research' funded by suppliers it's all combustion - there may be harmful fumes from combustion of the dear stuff that don't give off a whiff.

I'm not planing on entering politics, so my answer will have no bearing on anything. I just think that the state is part of evolution and part of nature, it's not some evil controlling thing. If a person gets cancer - that's nature being evil and controlling - a state educated radiographer may help find the lump so it can be zapped or removed, but a privately educated radiographer would do just as good a job without ripping off hard working tax payers?

It seems the Stainless Steel Association came into being after a discovery made during state funded warfare - that doesn't mean that unbridled free marketeers (not necessarily anarchists) couldn't have made the same discovery under different circumstances In 1913, Harry Brearley of Sheffield, UK discovered ‘rustless’ steel. Although there had been many prior attempts, Brearley has been credited with inventing the first true stainless steel, which had a 12.8% chromium content. He had added chromium to molten iron to produce a metal that did not rust. Chromium is a key ingredient, as it provides the resistance to corrosion. After this discovery, Sheffield itself became synonymous with steel and metallurgy. Brearley stumbled upon this discovery while trying to solve the problem of erosion of the internal surfaces of gun barrels for the British army during the onset of the First World War.

So with a state, there is at least a chance some kids from poor backgrounds can get an education, but without a state only those kids whose parents can make enough down the liberated mines can go to private Uni