Steven P

Being active does help your brain work better, so yes, anything to help his brain getting any worse is a good thing (but at millions of $$ through the next 4 years while he is sacking everyone, he could pick a cheaper hobby or pick up the tab himself)

So wind farms are bad this morning then? Not payday till Friday and working away from the family to sell your sole to the devil getting at you? Don't worry, they'll be brilliant again when you get that shiny shilling in your hand Friday afternoon. but... on topic... I see there is no hell let loose in Gaza after another weekend of hostages being hostages The Great Trump has effectively said "Only kidding" on his much repeated claims that he would stop the Ukraine war within 24 hours - it is now just a goal to do sometime He has also been exaggerating his golfing claims again - as hurricanes rip through the communities, not a peep except "I did brilliant at golf, me". He is still tearing into the media and trying to limit free speech in the US - and worldwide Stock market... still tanking this morning Trying to find a news story where he has started to achieve any of his election promises really, but failing Great start.

I've got these you can have, a little bit of camp YMCA dancing

Oooh, a nasty windfarm. Ouch that burns the eyes. Hope you scrub yourself well clean this evening working to keep that horrible green energy flowing, get rid of the stench of hypocrisy. But on topic, I see The Huge Trump is turning, accepting that electric cars are the way forward (perhaps only the Swasticars though?), he'll soon be on target for windmills too. You'll soon be the only dinosaur left on the planet

? You're going to have to explain that one, I'm confused.

I see that as another example of Trumps administration of censorship and rewriting the world according to their viewpoint. Similar techniques used by the old soviet empire, China, North Korea (in fact name a restrictive regime and the parallels are there).

I'd be guessing that reading inside your head, the voice you read with is a reflection of the inside of your head (think that was like 3rd year psychology - 3rd year at school before you get confused again.). Read the words in an angry voice, good chance that the inner voice is angry. Read the words in a calm way chances are the inner voice is calm and collected. Who is the angry one? Though... this is tricky to read in any other way than the way it was written: "You know what SP post up what you want wherever you want on the forum, Be anonymous and put zero about yourself anywhere if you want. If you don’t want to say what you do 🤷‍♂️**************** it 🙋I guess only you knows why. Ain’t no fun in kicking a dog relentlessly. The sites your fantasy land playground 👍crack on. "

I'd concur with that, left wing antics all the way. You do all the work, chip in your time (and no doubt with conservation work, money) and those f'king Red Kites... take take take. What use do they bring to society? They should pay their own way, feck em, keep your efforts and money for yourself, it is the only way to enrich anything. By the way, since you are here, I lost some irony earlier, seen it around here?

I tend to find wicking fabrics start smelling sooner than cotton... but tend to change out of them as soon as I can so its never usually an issue

True to life though, usually Dads fault here also. ps. On topic, brilliant and excellent that the local community have recognised all he does.

Off by a factor of 1000 but that's small change. Many of Trumps announcements are the same, small change compared to the amount he wants to save to buy Greenland. Revert the tax cuts for the richest and he needs to do no more to bring down the budget deficit. He could also stop playing golf every weekend will also cut about 140 million of the budget. We all have to suffer, so should our leaders.

Not heard that one for ages. On the worls laptop, perhaps not one to youtube just now, later

Criticism of The Massive Trump and you are straight in to defend him, The radio thing is just more evidence of Trump walking away from the traditional European allies of the US, and playing into Communist Putins hand.. again...

Here is a recent map of the US that I found, the blue areas are where the population lives. The red areas are pretty much unpopulated. Only saying.

Don't know yet.

Microsoft have just released a quantum chip as well haven't they? or was that with Google (and a side offering of Chinese scientists looking over their shoulders)

I use old pallets, the ones with the three 2x5" (whatever they are) stringers underneath. Cut the 3 stringers in half, 15mm hole centred about 1' from the end, with a piece of 15mm plumbing pipe each joining 2 pieces. Bolted together to make an 'X'. Pipe makes a decent enough bearing and stops the bolts pinching the wood closed. Sides are the top boards of the pallet, mine are cut to about 750mm long, nailed / screwed on so it is all square and the pivots line up. Set it up as a saw horse with the angles you want and then another thick stringer is screwed on each side just under the cross - as it opens up the top of the cross sits on this to stop it opening more. Portable, sits low to the ground so heavy lifting isn't too bad. Can do a bigger version at twice the height too but not protable.

Yes, it was something like Rockefeller, can't remember exactly now. It is all legal but not right when the 'profit' of a sale in one country is seen in another country (coffee being a great example). Close off that loop hole and you'd get a lot of profits taxed - a worldwide problem (however the flip side is that the big insurance firms 'own' the big corporations, get them paying more tax and our pension pots will be smaller... but our tax burden could be reduced to compensate (it wouldn't be) )

Not sure how much that would bring in, usually a lot of small amounts brings bigger returns than a few larger amounts... but the lots of small stuff is usually from the lower rungs of the ladder... his base support so perhaps not the best option (and one I wouldn't do either) Yup, though a lot of loop holes could be plugged... though that will of course affect the wealthy who can afford the accountant to tell them what to do. I'd also look at plugging companies off shore rules (example, Starbucks? I think HQ is in the Bahamas? zero corporation tax and all their shops pay a license fee to them there... equal pretty much to each stores annual profit... same with googles and so on.. that is worth few billion too So far then, plug the loopholes and don't do the tax cuts? Actually that just might be enough. Still don't buy Greenland though.

But if you were in his position, what would you be doing? Easing the taxes on the rich to pass the taxes onto poor, a blanket tax rise? Tax corporations? What do you think the best way to balance the books are?

4 years, 2 months.... And to quote another rip roaring successful politician, The Giant Trump has been telling us for 2 or 3 years that he has oven ready solutions to it all. He's been carefully thinking about this, 2 months in power - this time round - yes, but planning what to do for 2 more years before that... and still not doing a great job yet despite all his considerations. His current policies are predicted that their debt mountain will rise... even with all his thinking. My thinking is based on history and the leopard not changing his spots.

Without getting into it and to try keeping the adult theme, but read back at any negative comment about The Trump and you are leaping to his defence. He cannot do a thing wrong if we believe the words you type. Anyway, back to the finances, 105 billion is a small amount saved compared to the tax cuts I mentioned and this 105 billion is coming from the working man - the sacking and on. He's harming his voter base with that and soon enough I think they are going to realise in greater and greater numbers. Trump was already rich, that is true, but his motivation here isn't his personal wealth - those around him advising him are though - but his motivation is vengeance on all the slights he perceives have been done to him - can be seen with his obsession with Biden, Harris, Clinton and more recently Zelensky, and also for validation. He wants to be popular, to be seen to be popular and when that popularity dips he is not going to be a happy bunny. Which takes me back to the finances, the more he switches the tax from the rich to the poor the quicker his fan base will realise that they have been had. This is why there is no income tax increases to speak of but the tax increase is in the form of tariffs, still a tax and one that the poorer half of society will pay disproportionally compared to their wealth - it is a flat rate tax, it if a millionaire buys a tomato, or if the poorest buys a tomato, they are both taxed at the same rate. Switching income tax rises to tariff taxes is a tax cut for the rich and a hike for the poorest. But that is OK, tariffs are being sold to the US as 'other nations will pay' and not a tax increase

Can do this for a starter. Adultery conversation it is then, promise no insults and an aldulty reply? Save trillions of dollars. So he has implemented 4.5 trillion in tax cuts, aimed at the richest. Do nothing and there will be cash flowing in. How is that for starters? He could forget about buying Greenland, that must be a bit of a saving there? He could shut his face for a while, noting the daily news stories around the world boycotting US goods, that can't be a good thing and must be worth a few millions in tax revenue. While I am at it, he could take a lead in supporting The Ukraine - there are many billions out there in the rebuilding that at the moment look to be heading to Europe... the tax and the new jobs from that must be worth a fair bit too. Slow down the sacking of employees, when they need to get rehired that is also going to cost - redundancy pay and then back to their salary, must also be worth about a billion. I might have mentioned this before but The Great Trump (as you see him) inherited a fortune... and if he had done nothing with it history shows he would now be richer. The Great Trump has now inherited tax rates that will be pouring cash into government if he sits and does nothing, but true to form he acted and will be poorer for it. Looking at history, he has no aptitude to reduce the debt either, his track record last time around was the debt rose at exactly the same rate as it did under Obama and excluding Covid, continued at exactly the same rate afterwards under Biden - anything he did before had no effect. Doubt it will now either apart from his mates will get richer. End of it the finances are there, he just has to stop being Donald Trump essentially.

Not sure the going rate but I don't think you are being unreasonable to ask for something - incidental expenses you wouldn't have if you went home every night. Simple things like the option to make a lunch at home for say £1, or a Greggs for £5, a morning paper - get one delivered at home as usual for the family, but you might still want to be keep up to date, a pint in the bar at £7, or a tin at home for £1.50 (or whatever the hotel bar is - might be cheaper some of the dives we stayed in), all adds up as an extra expense to you. Not done weeks on site for a while but I guess mobile data should be added in too opposed to home wifies. Don't forget either the option to do laundry either so you don't go home a minger. So, not unreasonable but the amount might depend on what they are offering on the hotel expenses.

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