Steven P

'very online right wingers' steering politics, as opposed to right wing printed newspaper moguls perhaps?

There is nothing wrong with being content in life, and if pottering around grafting on the ground is it, then go for it.

Seeing the results, I am assuming you are just drawing over the background from maps to get the landscape, buildings and so on - would have to double check that there is no licensing issues if you use other data sources. We get the DWG file or the PDF file after payment?

Anyway, the orange muppet is getting more and more dictatorial: The homeless have to move out of Washington immediately. So away from any support mechanisms they might have - family, colleagues, support services, religious groups, away from any family they might have, spouses, ex spouses, children, probably with no choice of end location just deported from the capitol - so no chance of going to any other support they might have in the country and with no finances to make the trip themselves. Like a lot of his policies, no cure, not dealing with the problem, just move the problem out of his sight and out of his tiny dementia ridden mind. I can see this move will precede an increase in suicides. Blood on his hands. Again. Being homeless though, and not the rich middle classes, that will be swept under the carpet. Trump demands homeless ‘immediately’ move out of Washington DC to make nation’s capital ‘more beautiful’ UK.YAHOO.COM ‘We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,’ president tells Washington’s homeless

Couldn't see that one Mark, behind a paywall I think?

Assuming not a bot, what equipment do you have? Plowing the land suggests a tractor at least which might be able to pull the roots up / dig them out

As much as I can tell, yes, AI I just a fancy google search - it doesn't have any intelligence, just able to take all the results and work out the most common

Normally, yes, but the one you quoted was following the natural flow of the conversation. I could have written it less succinctly but made the same point: "those that voted for Brexit, the Brexiteers, would never accept a solution involving 'making a deal' with the French and the EU, it would mean breaking that sacred vow that all things EU are evil, should not be tolerated. All trade and world diplomacy should be directed away from the continent. Rwanda is a case in point where a civilised country, like the UK, actively supports sending the desperate to a country renowned for its genocide and human rights abuses"...but I think my original way was better and more to the point.

Thy will also bankrupt you! Need twice as many wet logs for the same heat and at double the price

Said before... they can have some of our rain... Quite scary if they are talking about the UK as well - 'wild fires' always reported as a thing far far away (Spain, Australia, California) - the UK isn't set up to deal with wild fires.

For your first season it is unlikely that they will be dried suitably (or at least for the beginning of the winter), so you might want to buy some in... for this year... Get some this summer, split, stacked to dry ready for next winter (2026-27), and you should be away. Similar to Stubby, put a listing on the tip sites, and click the button 'Happy to pay' - it might make your site stand out from others around you... That doesn't mean you'll be paying for all your logs though, some people are happy to tip for free (the finances can make that work, less driving for them, perhaps a shorter day, or no second day on the job with local tipping, no council tip fees and so on). If you are new to wood burners don't get hung up about 'kiln dried oak' only - all wood burns, even softwoods. Back to the local firms - the more you can do yourself, the less they need to do, the happier they will be to tip. Some people are set up at home with saws, axes, splitters (plus safety kit), some don't - if you are happy to cut and split wood (can be therapeutic hitting things with an axe) - you'll get more. For the tip sites, note that anyone local to you will probably have tip arrangements in place, people they know, a yard or whatever, but those working locally to you but from outside their usual area are more likely to look for a tip site... but there will will fewer working in your are - so don't expect your drive to be full of logs 52 weeks of the year (I reckon I get 1 or 2 loads a year). One good thing about tree surgeons is they typically have a liveried van with a phone number on, are not quiet when they are working, you can spot them driving about - take a note of the number and give them a call direct (try to avoid times they are up a tree!) - that can work, or at least make an introduction. Likewise a lunchtime / morning cuppa walk can locate any chainsaws working within earshot (not quiet things)... divert your walk in their direction - can see who it is from their van, and if you get a chance a friendly "do you have somewhere to tip that" might also get results.

Exactly that if you measure intelligence by a spreadsheet you will fail if your intelligence is knowing what roots, berries and animals will kill you. Can't say either is better than the other, just applied to different skills.

On topic then... “I watched Bill Clinton yesterday give a little speech and people do like Bill Clinton, there is no question about it .... And I play golf with him and I like him. I mean what’s not to like?” but then the other week Clinton criticised Trump... so Trump is spitting out his dummy. At the time Epstein was running riot, Clinton and Trump were pally, and again, I suspect Trump knows more than he is saying, but is also complicit in crimes for not speaking up and saving other children from abuse and rapes. Trump knows well who is on 'the list' and will drop them into conversation as and when they upset him... any disapproval from some of the rich and powerful has been silenced. As we saw this week.

To be honest I haven't read this research, in the back of my mind it sounds half like I knew it existed - so passed by it somewhere (I do remember Watson and Crick from school days and fruit flies) Anyway... just a passing musing... I am wondering if the intelligence tests were western or European based? Couple of examples from past lives, one company was doing tests to see if we fitted our roles well (really working out redundancies... but will go official line) - standard test for us all, my day to day work fitted the test perfectly, girl from another department - accounts or something - had never done anything similar - so I was marked down as better where it was just experience. Second one goes back to school days - maths - I could do sums, some kids couldn't... until they were asked to work out the premier league table.. and they could do it instantly - no less clever, just less interested. So going back again, I wonder if the Africans are just as clever, but the tests were asking the wrong things?

Hmmm, wonder what JD Vance has been doing this week... Probably learning how to drive steam trains, stoking fires I think

Just to note and with extreme venom of course, London has millions of migrants, 100+ years of small boat crossings full of them - for a phenomenon that has only been occurring since Brexit. If you read this thread you would persuaded that all these small boat crossings are responsible for 100% of the UKs crime. No, say 150%. Got to ask, is it the crime that winds you up, or the nationality of the criminal. I think you have it all topsy-turvy, the actual crime regardless of the criminal is what you need to look at. Not the small portion of all crimes committed by a small portion of small boat crossers, and a tiny portion of all immigrants. Todays excitement appears to be sexual assaults.. in the UK predominantly carried out by white men.

Yup, as above, something like 85% of rapes and sexual abuse in the UK is committed by White Men. Once that figure is grasped, appreciated, and understood then you can look objectively at the problem. Until then just shouting that 'only foreigners' as the incessant posts on here do, commit rapes are just from a position of ignorance and a racial bias.

There are a couple of ex-solders on here, maybe they might chip in with any advice using your background that might make you more employable - perhaps give general hints and tips about transitioning from soldiering to tree work.

That's because there was no deal before. Starmer had to swallow the Brexit pride and talk to the French, should be hung for that I reckon.

Hush now, he is only knarky that this government has gone behind the Brexiteers backs and actually talked nice to the EU, and the French

What is brown probably won't grow back again satisfactorily if at all, if that helps you. (Your neighbour might like you a bit more too if they are replaced with something more manageable, kept to fence height unless you want privacy from the overlooking window)

Paypal is safe and easy to use - as a business and as a customer, protections on both sides - not really a question on that though, more business management. I guess the plus sides are the customers are used to paying for stuff with their phones - click a paypal link, job done where bank transfer - a slight extra hassle putting in all the account numbers. On the other side though, for a one off it is probably a few evenings work setting it all up as a business account, working out the transfer from paypal to business account - stuff like that. I'd be polite and say sorry, your business isn't able to accept paypal payments but the options are.... Air miles.... I've never bothered but what is the saving in £1400 worth of airmiles? £15 maybe? They might go for the next quote, a higher one no doubt, to collect the air miles but will be paying far more for that than any savings in ticket prices.

That's intriguing, not much use but intriguing.

But in this case, the OP has been working on a farm for the last 10 years, reckon that gives him a step up from a 30 year old accountant of course. Be giving different advice if the background was different.

You see it all over, as we age we are fitter better than similar aged 20 years ago - might have been the rule then and that has carried over despite the evidence. Regardless, 'best years are gone' - but that never means throw onto the scrap heap, pointless - even if they are past, I'd be putting in a fair bet that most of us on here (and we are predominantly grumpy older men), we could still put in a fair shift when we need to.